Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-10
PENNSYLVANIA FOR SILVER.
The East Waking Up to the Importance Of the
Currency Question as the Leading
Issue.

Washington, March "a delegation of
fifty or sixty manufacturers from Penn
slyvania will arrive in this city tonight
to consult with Senator Teller and the
other western silver leaders as to the poll
Icy to be pursued during the coming cam
paign. These manufacturers are silver
men and will give the western republi-
cans their entire support. 1t is under
stood that they have notified the eastern
leaders that unless silver is recognized
in some way at st. Louis they will neither
support the republican ticket nor con-
tribute anything to the campaign fund.
The delegation will he headed by James
Dobson of Philadelphia. Mr.. Dobson was
president of the Manufacturers club of
Philadelphia for years, and is said to
have contributed and secured the contri-
button of hundreds of thousands of dol
lars to republican campaign funds in the
past. nA-.E
Heber Clark, the editor of several pa
pers devoted to manufacturing interests,
and secretary of the Manufacturers club,
has been preaching free silver in his pa
pers for some time. Now 1t Is said that
majority of the manufacturers of Phila-
delphia have decided that free silver ow-
ing to the encroachments of oriental
countries is best for them. So much the
best in fact, that they will support a new
party IL the old parties do not give some
consideration to the white metal
Report has it that Senator Quay is
somewhat alarmed over the growing sill
yer sentiment in his state. He is fully
posted, it is said, as to what is going on
among the manufacturers, who have al
ways been republicans, but he sees no
way to stop 1t.
The Manufacturers club of Philadel-
phia represent $500, ,000, 900 in different in
dustries in that city and Throughout the
country.
A. S. Dulin, formerly of Denver, but
now a resident of Philadelphia, and edi-
tor of the Philadelphia Item. who has al
ways been a close friend of Senator Tel
Ter, has been selected by the new silver
party to take charge of the silver forces
in Pennsylvania. He will begin the work
of organization at once, and will establish
headauarters In Philadelphia, and it is
stated on the best authority that the man.
ufacturers have fully supplied him with
funds to conduct the campaign and will
put up all that he needs in that line.
Ex-State Chairman W., H. Andrews of
Philadelphia, who has been in Washing
ton several days, says that 1t is reported
that Congressman Griswold Is to be sue
ceeded by-a silver man. 1t is Crawford
county's time to name the congressman
from that district this year, and as the
county is for silver, a man named Sturte-
want will be selected. Mr.. Andrews was
chairman of the "Lexow' committee, and
is one of the republican leaders of the
state. The district is the same which
Sibley represented. The reports received
at the silver party headquarters from
PHILADELPHIA are more than encouraging,
and Mr.. Quay must look out for his
laurels in that state. The silver cam
paign will be most aggressive one, and
a quorum of the executive committee
will be here permanently until after the
convention.