The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-14
NEW YORK BANKERS ACT.
They VIII GO En- Masse to the Nc
KinIey Ticket.

New York. July 14.-Within the past
day or two expressions have been Sc
cured from bankers and moneyed men
which show that those who have been
Democrats viii vote for Mckinley this
year. The poorer classes are, however,
not so ready to leave the party with
which they have been accustomed to
act. The fact that the wealthy classes
are going to Mckinley has reacted to
some extent on the Democratic work
ingmen who regard their interests as
separate from their employers.
President John P. Townsend Of the
Bowery Savings bank says:
The issues of today in their import
ance are hardly second to those which
prevailed in 1860. Then the northern
delegates were cried down, just as Mr.
Whitney and his coadJutors have been
in Chicago, and the result was three
tickets, although Mr.. Lincoln was elect
ed in the end. To my mind we are fac
ing a very grave crisis at this time.
1t is not a contest between gold and
silver so much as it is between gold on
one side and fence rails on the other
side, backed up by a combination of
elements and headed by the Populists
who would foist upon the country the
income tax"
John Harsen Rhoades, president Of
the Greenwich Savings bank, at Six
tenth street and Sixth avenue, was
asked the same question as affecting
the Democratic side of the question a
very grave mistake in my judgment"
he said at once and with emphasis.
land you cannot put my objection too
strongly. There is not new issue be
fore the convention in Chicago. There
has been a covert advocacy of it cover
ing the past ten years, and literature
has been secretly issued by the ton,
poisoning the minds of the American
people with false beliefs on the question
of money. The time has come 10
squarely draw the line, and 1t is not
to be drawn, to my mind between par
ties. The time has come for US all to
rise above party considera ton, and to
assume a patriotic attitude. AS I
wrote to a friend some time ago, it is
not a party issue, but the moment has
arrived when we should stand for pro-
lection, sound money and the honor of
the flag Why, you know, that part Of
the secret literature on this subject
which has gone abroad accused the
bankers of the east of coming into col
fusion to precipitate the panic of 1892
It has tainted the minds of men every
where"
Henry Clews said: "All that is known
about Bryan is through his speech,
which proved him to be a dealer in
words, and which is evidently the only
qualification that obtained for him the
nomination. He is certainly too young
to have had any experience in states
manship to equip him for the executive
Office. He is a good man to be easily
beaten by his opponent who has the ad-
vantage of having a platform to stand
on that commends itself to Democrats
and Republicans alike who feel an in
terest in perpetuating the government
and maintaining its high credit and the
solvency of the nation.
I'VE now have all there is to come
from the Chicago convention. the worst
anticipations of which have been more
than realized. The long expected has
come al last, and, as usual. it has been
discounted in advance in the stock
market. The only thing now left to
do is to begin to discount the utter
route and defeat of the political rebels
at the polls next November, which
shuold be to every sagaciOus thinker a
fOregOne conclusion"