The herald., 1896-06-19

ested in the fight against Blanchard and
l asked him what influences contributed
to Blanchard's defeat.
One great cause of my opposition
was that he was looked upon by many as
q tool of Huntington he said. In proof
of this his attitude on that California
harbor fight between Huntington anC
the people of Southern California was
often referred to, SO much So in fact,
that one of the New Orleans daily pa
pers which was opposing him common
ly called him the Santa Monica states
man.
I'm truth, the whole matter became
so we'll known all over the east through
the reports of the speeches of Senator
White AND those who were helping him
in the fight that the men upon whom Mr.
Huntington relied to put through his
scheme at last came to understand that
the rights of the people of Southern Cal
ifornia were not safe things to trfle with
and traffic on, Notwithstanding these
people were three thousand miles from
the homes of their eastern constituents.
Personally, have no fear of the out
come before a commission composed of
business men, and there is no doubt that
Mr.. Cleveland and the other officials
who are to appoint the commission are
fully alive to the necessity of secur-
ing men who can not be influenced by
any sinister means"
LII ltGdiu " DOlltlCS DIS IL dDDtdio eit
the national capital, Mr.. Gibbon says
that everything has silver tinge. you
may say" remarked Mr.. Gibbon, that
the Democratic convention so far as the
financial question is concerned has been
captured, horse, foot and dragons, by
the silver wing of the party. While in
Washington l talked with many people
from different parts of the country about
silver. The information which receiv-
ed from southern senators and congress-
men, many of whom l know personally,
indicates that the south is absolutely
solid in favor of silver. The recent tre-
mendous turning down given Mr.. Car
Isle in his own state of Kentucky, as
well as the failure of Hoke Smith to
make any sort of an impression in Geor-
gia, in his contest against silver as rep
resented by Crisp, is very strong addi-
tional proof of the southern silver senti-
ment. 1 was most surprised to learn in
conversation with men met from New
York and other eastern states that there
was among the masses in those states a
strong and rapidly growing silver SEN
timent 1t is certain that within the last
month the results in Kentucky and Ore
gon put the Republican politicians
around washington in q very anxious
frame of mind for the success of their
candidate winning on a solid gold plat
form, which they knew the east would
eXtort from them, as against man who
might be nominated by the Democrats
on silver platform, and encouraged the
Democrats to such hopes of success in
the national campaign, as none of them
two months ago expected to be able to
indulge in. The south may be counted
as solid for Democratic candidate on q
free-silver platform, and the silver peo-
pie expect to add to that enough
strength from the western states, with
such middle states as Illinois and Iowa,
as will elect their candidate. OF course,
campaign involvin as this does an
absolutely new issue, will cause many
changes in party affiliations, so that all
estimates of strength are more or less
guesswork, but on last Saturday. when
L was in St Louis, a number of promi-
nent Republicans, who were strong Nc
kinley men, admitted that in view of the
evident strong silver sentiment in the
country, the election of Mckinley was
causing them much more concern than
his nomination. AT that time many of
the Republicans did not believe that any
of the western silver states would carry
out their threats of seeding from the
convention in the event of the adoption
of gold plank, and the fact that several
of these states did secede today will
have its effect in discouraging the Re-
publicans, and be of great encourage
ment to the silver people"