Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-08-15
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence o. the Aiezsndra Gazette
WASHINGTON. AUGUST Is

WASHINGTON, August Is
x.Coneressmsn BrockshiTe, who
mas JUS. returned from visit to Iudi-
ans, says the chairman OF the demo
cratlc committee OF that State told him
ne had the names and address OF ten
thousand men who have heretofore
voted the republican ticket in that
State. who will vote the free silver
ticket next Novem Der, and that Indi-
ana is as sure for Bryan as anything
car be that has not already happened.
I is reported here that the negro re
publican politicians in the South, fear
ing that the money the national repub
licsn committee has promised 10 Nir-
sinis and other Southern States will
remain in the hands OF those 10 whom
il is first delivered, and that they, cor
sequentlv, will never get cent OF l.,
and surprising that Messrs. Mckinley
aud Hobart have good deal 10 Go
wiki the distribution OF that money, are
writing directly 10 them. and heseech
lug them to see to it that they may not
De forgotten in the distribution OF the
silver dollars, they love 80 well. but will
vote against.
New York CITY democrats here to-
day say that party lines il that city
IRE things OF the past, and that the
division there now is between the poor
ans the rich. and that as most OF the
small shop keepers make their living
by the trade OF the former, they are With
them in their opposition TO the gold
andard andlin favor OF the free coin
age OF silver, which, they say has al
~sys been the poor mans money.
Commissioner Morrison, OF the inter
state commerce commission. who ha>
Just returned from a trip to his Stat.
Illinois, says that most Of the people
he met there were democrats and that
all of them, OF course. were in favor OF
the national democratic ticket. Some.
BE says, did not admire the Chicago
platform, but the issue will be republi-
Can or democratic victory, and that 10
such condition there is only one thin z
for a democrat to do.
The second quedrenDial convention
OF democratic clubs was called this
evening to meet at St. Louis on Wed
nesday, September Both, each club.
league or society 10 be entitled to one
delegate for every hundred members.
Senator Jones and Faulkner and
Representative Richardson and Nc
Millin were at democratic headquar-
tiers this morning, but none OF them
nad anything new to tell. 1t is under
stood that while the national head
quarters OF the democratic party will
oe in Chicago, branch will be estab-
lished in this city. The intelligence
received at headquarters this morning
rom various parts Of the country was
the effect that instead of subsi1ing. the
silver tide is still rising.
Mr.. Edgerton Of Nebraska. secretary
of the national populist committee, VINO
has Just arrived mere. said this morning,
Mr.. Bryan will carry Nebraska by h
good, safe majority. l live but two
blocks from him in Lincoln. His per
sonal popularity will aid him at the
polls. A few gold democrats will, OF
course, bolt the ticket, but this will be
more than Offset by the large Dumher
of free silver republicans who will sup.
port Bryan. The silver republican
voters are organizing all over the State :"
The popuist party campaign hand
book for 1896 has just appeared. It is
devoted to the single subject of money,
and says that "by its careful reading
any intelligent person can become
thoroughly equipped to write, speak or
act upon the most vital subject now
connected with practical human vel
fare"