New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-07-20
THEY ARE FOR M'KINLEY.
a UfsUUF OF PROMINENT SOUTHERN DEMOCRATS
AT ROCKBRIDC- WHO DENOUNCE THE
CHICAGO PLATFORM


Rockbridge Alum Springs Va, July 10 tSpeciaD-
Among the prominent Southerners TO be seen at
this resort there Is group that is often seen TO-
Rether. consisting Of Charles F. Pencil bank presi-
dent and wholesale grocer Of Little Rock Ark
and head Of the Sound-Money Democratic Club OF
tina; State: Richard Maury. Of Darville Va head
OF the great Maury Tobacco Export Company; w
+. Summerell. of Winston Salem n. G., the largest
writer of life insurance in that State; J. Fred
Efinger bank president, Of Stauntor. Va and presi
dent Of half dozen coal and iron companies In
Northwestern West Virginia. and James A. Fra
Zier who owns large part of the neighboring
town of Clifton Forge and has long been logged
invinciblc leader In Bath and Rockbridac County
Va) politics All Of these men will vote for Nc
Kinley in preference TO any third candidate that
boiling Democrats may nominate
Mr.. Pencil feels very deeply the present polit-
zeal crisis and does not mince words when he dwells
on the certain terrors of possible Bryan and
Sewall regime He says that the question is not
of gold standard or Of fiat standard. but that
it is concerned with the very existence of the Gov
eminent. He regards the Issue clean-cut be-
tween the reputable, worthy honest business men
OF the United States and all the Socialists and Pop
ulists and Anarchists who flock to the standard OF
Tillman and Atgell. If the latter vote in their
youns and altogether untried Executive. it will
mean either terrorism Caesarism. He dwelt
with lingering emphasis upon the plank adroitly
inserted into the Chicago platform. denouncing the
interference of the Central Government with local
strikes and disorders.
Mr.. Pencil has wide acquaintance with the
farmers OF Arkansas Texas and contiguous States.
He says they all dupcs of the free-sver papers
they take and the ncendiaiy orators let loose upon
their assemblies. The papers tell them that free
silver will give them 81 10 a bushe for their wheat.
instead Of 80 cents they now receive and the walk
! ing delegates Anarchy, in the shape Of stump
orators all the State wave their umbrellas
over the heads of the tillers OF the soil and shrek
1t out that executive fiat can make those umbrellas
as good money as is gold and endow them with an
equal standard of value. He had even met south
when silver was free they could take one gold dol
dollars for IT, and that they would thus be made
Richmond Maury. whose business Is altogether
the thought of free silver was suggested TO him.
"Why, all my accounts are payable he said, IN
bills Of exchange. drawn at sixty days sight and
discounted by New-York brokers' These paid
in gold, and every gold dollar will lie worth about
two silver dollars the other side They would
be perfectly willing TO pay me In this way. And II
what the fiat money people assert IL true, the ad-
vent Of Bryan will just double my income and he
smiled again ut the idea II such flush times In
store for him
There IL a feeling among these men that Senator
David Il. Hill went through the ordeal OF the chi
cago Convention with great credit to himself and
issued from 1t with increased respect and dignity