Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1896-08-13
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From Our Regular Correspondent.

what either side expects to gain
| by it. The silver managers start
ed it by a series of newspaper in
terviews speaking in glowing
terms of the tidal wave growth
Of silver sentiment in New Eng
land, New York, New Jersey and
Pennsylvania, and the gold man
ayers went back at them with in
terviews claiming that greatre-
action was going on, against Sill
yer in such states as Colorado,
Idaho, Utah, etc, and that this
reaction, together with the ex-
isting sentiment in favor of pro-
lection, would give Mckinley the
electoral votes of those states.
Now, every man who makes even
the slightest pretense of keeping
posted on the drift of political
sentiment knows that such state
meuts are mere bluffs, and that
the men who make them know
them to be such, and further, that
there is little probability that sill
yer will get any electoral votes
| from the eastern states, and not
hucl, if any, more that gold will
get any electoral votes from the
extreme west. It looks like the
managers on both sides are max
ing these statements for their eff
feet in the states which they know
to be doubtful. which includes a
considerable portion of what are
popularity known as the middle
western states. 1t is not f1atter-
ing to the intelligence of those
voters who are in doubt on the
subject to suppose that they are
more anxious to go with the Win
ming side than to be right. Yet
that supposition appears to be
held by the managers Of both the
gold and silver tickets.
There was considerable amuse-
ment among the politicians when
the report reached Washington
that the gold democrats of New
York had tried to make a dicker
with Mark Hanna, on the basis
of their voting for Mckinley and
Hobart and Hanna guaranteeing
that the next New York legisla-
ture, if controlled by the republi-
cans, or a combination of repub-
licans and gold democrats, would
elect a gold democrat to succeed
4 Senator Hill.
The relations between the dem
ocratic and the populist managers
are somewhat strained, owing tc
a number of things, including
that unusually big democratic ma.
iority in Alabama. Senator Jones
chairman of the democatic nation.
al committee, tried to pour oil or
| the troubled waters Of the politi.
cal partnership by giving out
Just before he left Washington
for New York, where he expects
to remain until after the Bryar
and Sewall notification meeting
which will be held next week, {
signed statement denying the cor
rectness of widely published in
terview in which he was made t.
speak very slightingly Of the
) southern popu1ists as class
Senator Butler, chairman of th'
populist national committee, ha
not been in Washington since th'
meeting Of the national conven
ton, but he is expected daily a
the headquarters which hav
been established. He is credite,
with a strong liking for Bryan
and a desire to aid in shelvin!
Tom Watson in favor of Sewall
but l am quite sure he has no
authorized anybody to say a
! much.
5 Speaking of Tom Watson, tn
: impression is general in Washing
r ton that the democrats intend t
throw him overheard withor
ceremony in the end, but tha
r they will postpone doing SO a
: long as possible, so as to get a
many populisfs committed to Br,