People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1896-08-06
FREE COINAGE WAVE,
All tkG Eastern States Are BE.
lag Swept BY Il.
EVERYBODY INTERESTED.
Farmers, LabHrers and PrOfe $.
SIGNAL Wen Taking Up the
Cause Of Free Silver.
Special to The st. Louis Republic.

ItpDIIS TtCelhSu III dSuluBUOu, I'LL
silver movement is invading the East
ern States by leaps aud bounds. !
Maryland. PENNSYLVANIA, New Jersey
New York and New England the farm
ero and factory operatives are takin
to silver as eagerly as the people Z
The West.
Mr. Lawrence Gardiner, the Secrt
tary Of the Democratic Congressional
Committee receives hundred of letter
daily from old Republicans in Easter
States asking for campaign literature
They all announce themselves convert
to free coinage. The New York Her
aid has sent correspondents to North
ern New York State to look into tn,
situation. They reported that all TIT
Democrats and about half of the Re
publiCanS favor free coinage.
Senator Faulkner, Chairman of the
Democratic Congressional Committee
has returned to the city and resume.
hiSdeSk atCOmmittee headquarters to-
day. Representative BabcOck, Chair.
man Of the Republican Congressional
Committee, has gone to New York &c
be absent several days.
"The free silver sentiment is sweep
ing through the East like a tidal
wave, - said Senator Faulkner this af,
ternOOn, Il hear Of its rapid advance
all through the Eastern and New Eng
land States. In my mail today | find
a large number of letters from pro-
fesSiOnal men in Vermont, New Hamp-
shire, Maine and Massachusetts,.
They are doctors, lawyers and others
asking for free silver literature. In
many cases they specify the speeches
and the date of their deliverance in
Congress, showing that the people
have been reading up on this subject
and taking an interest in it. 1t also
shows that different class of people
are becoming interested in the fnan-
c!al question. Heretofore the farmers
have been looked upon as the especial
advocates of the silver idea, but mat
tiers are taking a different turn when
the professional classes begin tostudy
free silver"
1t is explained at Democratic head
quarters that they are not proceeding
upon the basis that the greatest vol
ume of matter sent out aCcOmplishcs
the maximum amount Of good. They
are rather inclined to pay more at
tentiOn to individual requests for
literature and to make up
Individual list of voters to be supplied
from the central office here.
1t is said that the volumes of matter
may be sent through the mails address.
ed to local committees and the bulk of
1t finally left nnCalled for undistribut-
ed In the local headquarters. Where
it is possible, however, to mail telling
documents direct to voters personally,
it is found that more attention is paid
to the matter and better results are
accomplished.
Mr.. Oscar A. Trippet OF California.
who was delegate to the Democratic
convention at Chicago, is in the CITY
for few days: aud talked to your cor.
respondent this afternoon upon the
situation in his State.
Bryan and free silver will carry
California said Mr.. Trippet. conf.
IDENTIFY, "for nothing else could be sue,
oeSSful in our State. California is
most emphatically opposed to the sin.
gle gold standard, and considers the
question of free coinage the issue that
leads all Others"
rs not California interested in pro-
lection for her fruits and wins. ?n
Mr.. Trippet was asked.
oh, yes, to a certain degree.
There are some Democrats who were
hurt by the Wilson bill, as they think
and who will vote for Mckinley and
protection, but they are nothing to
the Republicans throughout the State
who will vote for free silver and Bry-
an, There are some Democrats, per-
haps, who will vote for a, gold stand
ard, but their number is Insignificant
compared with the POpuliSts who will
rally to the support of the principles
enunciated by Mr.. Bryan"
As 40 illustration Of the class of let
tiers received at Democratic headQuar-
tiers from other New England Repub-
licauS, the following will be of inter-
est:
Wakefield, R. l., July 2, lS96.-Mr,
Lawrence Gardiner, Secretary Con-
gresSiOnal Committee: Dear Sir
Will you kindly forward me at your
earliest convenience all kind Of liter
allure relating to the silver question:
Also information regarding the for.
nation of free silver campaign club.
The craze, as the Eastern people call