The record-union., 1896-07-08
IRISH ON THE SITUATION.
All the Lice Getting on the Democratic
Party.
The Men Who Control Its Destiny
To-Day Compared With Those
of the Past.

VI all the correspondents now at Chi
cago John 2. Irish is sending home the
most terse and readable dispatches for
the cali. Here is one that appeared
in the Call yesterday:
Until Saturday night the area of the
political storm pressure was over Iowa
and Missouri. The Boies and Bland pick
cts boarded all incoming Western trains
at Omaha to pick off struggling dele
gates. Nebraska was never so divided
since the Ogalallas and Omaha tribes
! scalped each other before the Nebraska
bin turned the land over to their white
successors.
On Saturday the Boies pickets in
formed all political pilgrims that Bland
was good man, but being a Catholic
could never be President. The same
day Altgeld's organ scratched Bland out
of the race because he was Southerner.
Then rose cyclonic yen chat Altgeld
and Boies had combined, while thought
ful men wondered Il out of this gather
ms OF the tribes that knew not Israel
would issue twin furies Of sectionaisn
and religious Intolerance, against which
Jeffersonlan Democracy has canonized
for near d hundred years.
The scene in Chicago s wild beyond
description. Feud runs high. The rul-
ing spirits are the syndicate Of Senator'S,
mostly Southern men, who are in charge
of the free silver fight. Eighteen years
ago Samue! J. Tilden said to me that the
Democratic party would rally and elect
one man to the Presidency and pass
away, because that victory would bring
the South to the front and the public
men Of that section could neither lead
nor follow wisely Was it prophecy and
are these Southern Senators responsible
for the revival Of secti3nalism even in
the silver RANKS?
\ listener in these crowds hears dis
quietng and impudent talk of the poetic
justice OF historic revenge of the West
allied to the South against the North
and East, as should have been in 1861,
and thoughtful men reflect upon what
would lave happened then and what
may come now. But the leaders Of the
South in 1861 lead here now and ride
down all opposition with hard hoof-
In constant consultation with Harris,
Vest Morgan, Tillman ana Daniel,
Cockrel, Jones and Berry are Stewart,
Newlands, Duboise and Hartman, who
formerly rode in the Republican palace
car, but have recently been kicked of
the brake beam of that train, and here
are political tIamps declaring Teller to
be the logical candidate of the Democ-
racy.
Everybody asks, Whats the matter
with the South"
The spirit OF betrayal is so rampant
there that the National Committeeman
from Missouri who is Assistant At
torney-General at Washington, pro-
posed to join the silver force on the com
mittee to deprive Michigan of her chosen
delegation Just such an offense was
committed at the Baltimore convention
of 1S4S which caused Tilden, Church
and William L. Marcy to bolt the nomi-
na ton of Cass, and call the Buffalo con-
vention But it is not written that any
Of Polk's appojntees turned traitor to
the Administration.
The platform is sufficiently fore
shadowed 1t will call for free coinage
at 16 to /, and by direction or indirec-
ton demand the Reputation Of all exist
ing gold contracts. Listening to the
wild talk one is impressed that some
thing like this would fitly express the
sentiment of the convention:
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free paper and a liberal circulation of
well-executed counterfeit money"
One delegate wants Cleveland and
Queen Victoria personally denounced in
the platform. When I said to him:
Victoria is an old woman, has raised a
large family and was always q lady
he answered: Il don't know about that;
I've heard stories about her" So these
crowds chew and spit broadcast and
propose that the industrial desert shall
blossom as the rose on denuncia ton of
Cleveland, Victoria and Rothschild. The
city is full of soundmoney men, some
of them eminent in the party, but they
are jeered and joshed by raw youths
who sing:
Ny name is Silver Richard.
have no brother Ike
But / come from. old Missouri,
Yes all the way from Pike.
An old Iowa farmer to-day looked over
the field Seeing the bolting Republi-
cans and Populists here taken into the
councils which are to control the con-
vention, he said: "On the farm when
crit fer oets RIM down and likely - die