Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-02-05
PRESIDENCY AND SILVER.
Party Leaders Doing a Great Deal O
Talking-MOrris0n and Flower
Suggested.

Washington, Feb. 5.--Three of the -four
delegates at large from Missouri to the
Democratic national convention have
been practically agreed upon. They are
Senator Vest, GOV. Stone and ex-Con-
gressman Bland. Senator Vest will be
Missouri's member of the platform COM
mittee. He believes that it is possible to
frame platform that will avert bolt
He has recently discussed with some of
his free silver colleagues in the senate the
idea of coupling liberal and general
declaration in favor of silver with an as
sertion of party policy that the constitu-
tional veto power of the president is
limited and does not warrant veto of a
financial measure approved by the delib-
crate judgment of both house and senate.
MORRISON AND FLOWER.
New York.--The Empire state Democ-
racy is already shouting for Morrison
and Flower. 1t is stated here among
Democratic leaders that such ticket
would be pretty sure in carrying New
York and this, is the all important con-
sideration with the eastern Dem ocrats.
However, some of the more conservative
members of the party are looking anx-
iously forward to action by the Illinois
Dem ocrats, and Morrison's full strength
can not be gauged until Illinois, Indiana
and Missouri are definitely heard from.
The Democratic program here is to urge
Flower for vice president against the
western idea of southern man 10 matter
whom the party may select as its presi-
Dental candidate.
JONES ON TILLMAN.
Washington.-Senato Tillman, strange
as it may seem, is receiving letters and
kilograms from all parts of the south and
west, congratulating him upon his recent
speech. His mail from his own state is
very heavy. Senator Jones, of Arkansas,
handed him telegram in which an AR
kansas farmer said:
81 don't know Senator Tillman, but
please give him my compliments and
thank him for his speech"
"There is no doubt, said Senator Jones,
"that Senator Tillman's speech will find
an echo in the hearts of hundreds and
thousands of people. There is no appre-
citation here in the great cities of the east
of the universal distress which prevails
among the agricultural and laboring
classes of the south and west. This con-
stant, unfailing, and never ending decline
of the prices of agricultural products IS
working ruin and bankruptcy to an ex-
tent which is alarming, and if something
is not done in the way of remedy there
will be an uprising. l hope and believe
that the revolution will come peacefully,
through ballots, but SO general is the feel
ing of unrest and uncertainty that if the
Democratic party nominated man who
stood for the free coinage of silver upon
platform which it was known he would
not repudiate, verify believe he would
be elected. The man who does not see
the discomfort among the masses is will
fully blind. If the Democrats nominate
an eastern gold standard man, we haven't
the ghost of show, for our people will
vote for Popullsts or anybody else in the
hope of taking step nearer to the eman-
cipation which is now their great desire.'
SILVER IN KANSAS.
Topeka, Kas.-David Overmeyer, the
Kansas member of the national Demo-
cratic bimetallic committee, has issued
an address to the Democrats of his state,
in which he urges organization in every
preclnct in the interest of silver as stand
ard money. Mr.. Overmyer has appoint
ed committee Of prominent Democrats
to assist in securing thorough organiza.
ton of the state on the lines indicated.