New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-09-16
ALL AT SKIES AND SEVENS.
D1sTRCsT AND JEALOUSY AMONG THE
POPOCRATIC LEADERS
ALARM AND DECENTRALIZATION PLAINLY MANIFEST
AT WASHINGTON HEADoUARTERs-wITH-
DRAwAL OF sEwAIl. NOT
DISCUSSED.
lHY TELfGRAPH To TILE Tn

Try TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE
washington. Sept l5.-If the rank and file Of the
fopocrauc forces throughout the country were half
as badly demoralized as the leaders IN Washing
ton there would be little or no reason for Ren,hcans
TO ieel anxious or doubtful about the result of the
PRESIDENTIAL campaign In any of the States which
together VIII cast large majority OF the electoral
votes. The indications Of Popocratic alarm and
concentration here are too plain not to be seen
and needed by every careful observer Only seven
weeks remain OF the campaign and the leaders OF
the Bryan-Sewall Watson forces are stil unsettled
as TO their plans. and expanding their efforts
ana energies mainly to weld their ll-dlsciplined
and unsteady battalions into coherent organiza-
ton. There seems to be absolutely no effective
leadership, or rather a sad lack Of constancy of
purpose and heartiness Of cooperation among those
who are nominally at the head Of the Popocratc
hosts. Everywhere are discovered signs Of discord
and mutual disrust
Chairman Jones does not know in whose sincerity
and judgment to trust That he suspects the single
ness OF purpose and devotion Of Chairman Butler
and some other prominent leaders of the Populist
contingent is secret here. That the silver party
leaders. with a few exceptions. regard Chairman
Butler and his followers and of their opinions
with disgust and adherence and that they dstrus.
II they do not fear the leaders OF the Chicago
crusade. is also not secret in Washington. No
evidence IS furnished Of any close cooperation BE-
tween the three divisions Of silver men in the
shown for the expectation that the combination
can operate effectively. Apparently the managers
are as much in the dark TO which way sentiment
is tending is any else.
II anything accomplished at the conference
here ii was probably with relation TO the situation
in Idaho but those present carefully refrain from
saying what said and done TO that matter.
The committee must have decided 70 do something
10 upset the combination against Senator Dubois,
otherwise it would not have been announced ihat
Dubois was 10 take charge OF the coast campaign.
is 1t likely that Senator Teller would have re-
NAMED at the East. The Western Senators and
Jones had another brief conference with Butler
this morning, and II Is understood that he Is CO.
operating in whatever they are trying 10 90.
The result in Maine led to the starting of a story
that the withdrawal of Sewall was discussed last
night and this morning This assumption is not
warranted The question OF the withdrawal or
Sewal was not discussed between them. senator
Butler said this morning that he had not written
TO any one tina. Il agreed that Sewall should
be taken from the ticket, and he did not believe
that any such declaration that alleged 70 be
made in letter TO Representative Howard had
been written by any at the Populist headquar-
ters. No such letter has been written by him or
with his authority. "I had no warrant 10 make
such statement as alleged" he said. MT. Sewaii
is the only man who act In that matter l
know nothing about his intentions and nave no au-
thority make suggestions TO him ! might detn
II a patriotic act for him 10 wiihdraw from the
ticket, but he has to decide that for himself