Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-09-16
RATORS RELEASE D
Speaker Reed Free to Go to the Country
Since the Maine Election.
Secretary Carlisle VIII Also stump
for Sound MOney-Mr. Bryau's
Course Discussed.

Now that Maine has voted, Speaker Reed
will be released to the country at large,
and is certain to prove a very strong card
on the stump. There will be lively de-
mGnd for his services from all sections.
In all probability. however. he will be
heard principally in the middle and debat-
able western states. Personally he Is very
popular in the west. When young man
he yielded to the impulse of the day. and
went west seeking mis- fortune Subse-
quenty he returned to Maine, but not
to forget his western experience or the
new friends he had made In the commit
tee assignments of the House Mr.. Reed
has as Speaker treated the western men
with marked consideration, and this is re-
membered cordially by them and their con-
stituents. In Illinois, in Iowa, in Michi-
gan, in Kansas and in California, where
he lived for awhile the sound money
cause, If he car find the time to travel
far, will greatly benefit by his participation
in the campaign.
Secretary Carlisle.
Another strong speaker for sound money
sotn to be heard in the debatable terri
tory is Secretary Carlisle The demand for
him also is very great. In Illinois, in In
diana and in his own state of Kentucky
he is expected to speak, and large audi
erces are certain to greet him wherever
he may appear. Chicago. Indianapolis,
Louis Vile and Lexington are mentioned
| likely TO be remembered in the arranging
of his itinerary, and even Nashville and
Menrhis are suggested. Mr.. Carlisle,
while r OF all orator in the sense that Mr..
Bryan and Mr. Cochran are orators, is yet
| one of the most convincing OF men on the
| stump, and is always in request when the
i::res are important and the contest is
| spirited.
silver Men Depressed.
While the sound money men are thus
fel!citatiug themselves on the growing
| strength of their stumping force, the silver
| men on that subject correspondingly
| depressed. They have nobody to send after
men like Mr.. Reed and Mr.. Carlisle. Their
embarrassment Is only fully to be measured
| when it is considered that Senator Gray,
| Senator Villas, Senator Lindsay, eX-Goyer-
rcr Waller and z. j. Phelps haze all been
driven into opposition. Ex-Governor Camp
| bell is silent. Senator Hill can he of no
| service, no matter what the Buffalo con-
| vention may do. These men are all capital
| speakers. and without them the democracy,
| which ordinarily would command their best
efforts, goes begging. Their places cannot
| be filled.
Mr.. Bryan's Course.
| Mr.. Bryan is really bearing the heat and
burden of his partys stumping day. And
| yet there is serious difference of opinion
| among the silver leaders as to the wisdom
| of his course. Some of TIE most sagacious
| o. them would greatly have preferred a
| different course on hs part. They recall
| the swinging around the circle of An
| drew Johnson, and the railroad tours of
| Horace Greeley and Mr.. Blaine. and how
| profitless the whole of that activity was.
| Can Mr.. Bryan hope for a different result
| from his? The people will always crowd
| to see and if possible to hear a presidential
candidate, but they are not necessarily won
| to mis- support by the few words of compli-
| Tent he addresses to them.
| But Mr. Bryan is on the stump, and Is
| greatly enjoying his journey. He has both
| taste and talent for that sort of thing, and
| Pre- resumably he will carry out all of his
| program There is nobody with nerve
| erougn TO undertake to stop him, although
| ikere are those among his supporters who
| wish it done.