Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-08-06
NATIONAL POLITICS.
STONE TO PRESIDE.

New 4Ork.-dOV. stone, OF MlssOurly
will preside at the Bryan notification
ceremonies in Madison Square garden on
August ~, and will deliver the principal
address of the evening.
Chairman White has prepared the usual
formal notification which will be read to
Mr.. Bryan, and when this document is
signed by all the members Of the notifca-
tion committee, it will be turned over to
Gov. Stone. The governor will present
the paper in Madison Square garden
ana supplemynt it with spaanh suitable
to the occasion.
AS TO ILLINOIS.
Chicago.-"No matter what combina-
tion is made, Bryan will get more than
half the votes cast in Illinois in Novem-
ber," said Chairman Hinrichsen. ut is
immaterial whether the opposition divides
its minority report into two sections by
having gold Democratic ticket in the
field besides the Mckinley ticket, or
whether it punches It's strength. The re-
suit will be the same-Bryan will be
elected. It is surprising the tide that is
setting in for free silver in this state. We
will lose few Democratic votes, but in
third of the counties the defections will
not be noticeable. Our gains more than
Offset losses. For instance, received a
letter yesterday from j. M. Lange, of
Athens, Menard comfy, showing that two
years ago there we're in that townshi p
seventy.six Democrats, 109 Republicans,
forty five Populists and ten Prohibition
ists. He says that Bryan and Sewall
club has been organized there with $50
members, sixty of whom will vote the
Democratic ticket this year for the first
time. Two years ago Henry Wulff got a
plurality of 100 in that township. This
year Altgeld's and Bryan's majorities will
be between seventy-6ve and 100.
"There is no doubt in my mind that the
Democratic ticket will win in Illinois.
What we lose IN the towns we more than
make up by gains made in the country.
Gov. Altgeld's popularity is greatest
among the class that is demanding free
silver, and Bryan is strong in central and
southern Illinois. Two of the bankers in
Morgan are Republicans, but are for free
silver. The richest man in Sangamon
county, Ben Caldwell, president of the
Farmers bank at Springfield, is an en-
thusiastic silver man and is the Demo
cratic nominee for congress. Mr.. Cald-
we'll said that he would beat Major Con-
molly, the Republican nominee. The
Prohibitionists and Populists are all for
the Democratic ticket" said he. "Con-
molly carried the district by 2,93S votes IN
1894, but we hope to reverse the Repub-
lican majority of 1888 py 1856 in favor OF
the Democratic nominee"
COLORADO REPUBLICANS.
Denver.-There will be Republican
state ticket in the field that can be aup.
ported by all members of the party which
has led the fight for silver in Colorado
for the past twenty years. Sufficient sig
natures of regular members Of the state
and central committees have been OBJ.
tanned to insure the holding of another
meeting, the date of which will be an
nounced In few days. While the pie eat
ers who are following the lead of Senator
Wolcott are plotting to disfranchise 81
DER cent of the party, the great major.
ity Of Republicans, who are still loyal to
the principles from which the national
organization was lured by Hanna,
are preparing to demonstrate this
fall that silver is and has been
paramount principle with Repub'
licans Of the west. This can best be
shown by turning down the spoil seek
ers within the party. There are thou.
sands Of Republicans in Colorado who
decline to be driven within the Demo
cratic or Populist ranks. They are fol
Bryan and Sewall because these are can.
didatss upon platform pledging them
to use all honorable efforts to secure the
rem onitixation of silver. Should the
McKtnlsy people control the Republican
organization, every man nominated
would be pledged to help defeat Senator
Teller.
The Republicans of COLORADO have mo-
been lying to the people on this ques
tion for the past twenty years. They ar
still for silver. Itis Senator Wolcott WHIT
has changed.