The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-07-03
FROM THE CAPITOL.
Our Correspondent Talks in Sage
Manner of Things in General
About Washington.
Especial to the Citizen.l

WASHINGTON, June 20, 1895.
The delegates to the Chicago Con-
vention have been chosen, and even
President Cleveland now recognizes
that silver has won, and that free
coinage plank in the platform is as
near certainty as anything not yet
actually accomplished can be. There
is not half the kicking from the
anti-silver Democrats that might nat
urally have been expected. There is
general disposition to submit as grace
fully as possible to the old Democratic
idea that a majority rules. But the
contest for the head of the ticket is not
yet over, as it seems that the silver
Democrats will be few votes short
of the two-thirds necessary to nOmi-
nate. If that should turn OUT to be
the case there may be quite number
of ballots before the nomination is
made. Should the silver men have two
thirds it is the opinion of some we'll
Informed Democrats that Governor
Boies, of Iowa, If his friends can con-
vince the convention that he can carry
his own State, Will stand an excellent
chance for getting the nomination.
The work of the convention will
practically begin this week, when lead
ing representa- YES of both silver and
anti-silver Democrats will meet at
Chicago for the purpose of comforting
with their respective associates and
agreeing as far as it may be possible
upon a program for the convention.
While it is, of course, possible that
these gentlemen might reach some
sort of an agreement that would pre-
vent fight in the convention, it is not
considered probable that they will. 1t
seems impossible to avoid that fight.
Whatever the Chicago Convention
does" said an old-time Democrat, 81
hope that it will not repeat the Greedy
fool business by going outside the party
for Presidential candidate. The very
same talk about the great number of
Republican votes that might be cap
tured by nominating some Republic
can like Teller, of Colorado, or Senator
| Cameron, of Pennsylvania, was heard
just before the meeting of the Demo-
cratic National Convention of 1872, and
just look at the result. The Greedy
ticket received only Sc electoral votes
out of 352, or IA less than was cast for
Seymour and Blair, in 1868, when
Virginia, Texas and Mississippi had no
votes owing to their not having been
reconstructed at that time. The exper-
fence OF 1872 will be repeated this year,
if the Chicago Convention goes outside
the party for candidate. / am quite
fhat oil of hn nlI CHI l.
Democrats like myself, who will work
and vote for the ticket anyway Just be-
cause it is Democratic, would prefer de-
feat under candidate of our own to
victory under disgruntled Repubii-
eau. This is Just the way [ feel about
it, and just the way L shall talk to my
acknowledgements at the convention. [
am with them what ever they do, but
L would rather see them do right
Col. Isaac Hill, better known to
everybody around the House end of
the Capitol. where he has been the
Democratic whipper in for many years,
as "IkehilP', has just returned from
his Ohio home. He says Mckinley
cannot possibly carry that State. "The
people won't stand it," he continued,
they have got their hearts SET on All
American system of finance, and moth
Ing ouOAC vi IIOC COt0d&O at UL6 OlU EdIlO
will suit them. Why, drove 65 miles
through the country in a buggy and
met hundreds of my Republican per-
soDal friends who said, Ike, we are
with you against the gold bugs; Wall
street has run this country and has
about run it in the ground. We want
a change, and are going to vote for the
Chicago nominee and free silver. The
tariff is back number; give US the
money of the constitution and the dol
lar of our daddies' That's the way
they talk and as for the Democrats,
why there's no holding them down.
Your Uncle Isaac is not employing
metaphorical language nor yet trying
to jolly you along when he says that
the Democrats are going to win in
Ohio this year."
Mr.. Walter HI. Hammond, whose
home is at the Indiana town named
for his father, who was a member of
the fifty-third Congress- says of Demo-
cratic prospects in Indiana: "a ma
jority OF the Democratic voters of the
State are ardent believers in free coin
age, as was shown at the late conven-
ton, and great many Republicans
can also be counted on the silver side.
Another thing that will help the DEM
ocrats is the strong feeling that has de-
-veloped against the Nicholson law reg
ulating the sale of Intoxicating liquors.
The responsibility of that law rests on
the Republicans, and it is so obnoxious
to Large class that they will vote
against the party that enacted it. TAX
Ell altogether, think the Democrats
will carry the State.
Hon. q. A. Harding, of Kentucky,
says that State can be counted upon
with absolute certainty to roll up o big
majority for the ticket named at Chi
cogo, and he is equally positive that
West Va, where he has just been on
business, will do the same