The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-07-03
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Illus OI POSsiDIe UlS pOIItICdi
scandal in the near future have been
dropped this week by leading silver
men. No names are used and few
particulars are given, but 1t is whisp-
cred around Washington that some of
for silver in public are plotting in
private to prevent tile nomination by
the Chicago convention of Il ticket up
on which all of the silver voters would
be willing to unite, and 1t is further
whispered that some sensational de-
nouncements may follow the Chicago
convention, if these plotters succeed in
getting tie ticket put up that the pop
ulists and silver republicans will re-
fuse to support.
1t did not seem possible two months
ago that the Chicago convention could
attract the attention it is now receiv-
ing. 1t will be really decided whether
the Presidential campaign shall be
squarely fought between gold ticket
and q silver ticket, or whether there
shall he triangular fight, with all
the advantages on the side of the gold
ticket. It doesn't seem to make the
slightest difference to those who are
fighting to prevent the convention
adopting the free silver platform
and nominating free silver ticket
that nearly two-t thirds of the delegat-
es to the convention have already
declared themselves to be silver men.
This isn't complimentary to anybody
concerned, but it is strictly true.
President Cleveland is making a
personal attempt to get southern dee
gates to the platform convention to
abandon the voting for Il free coin
age platform. lie is sending out
large numbers of two personal letters.
| One of them is addressed to the south
ern men of prominence whom he has
met, appealing to them to give their in
fluence toward preventing the defeat
of the administration by its own party
convention. This letter gees in
strong OH southern sentiment and gra-
titude. and recites W hal the writer has
done during his two terms, mentioning
among other favors bestowed Oh the
! fun IN,L,i
sociate Justices of the Z. s. Supreme
Court, aud two Ambassadors. The
other letter is being sent to business
men III New York and other eastern
cities who have intimate financial relat-
ions with the south. In it these eastern
capitalists are urged to notify their
southern patrons that If the southern
delegation to Chicago persist i'll vot-
ing for free coinage of silver they need
not ask for further financial aid in
their business enterprises from eastern
capitalists, ana that when their out
standing obligations are due no furth-
er extension of time will be given them,
but they will be required to settle or
suffer the conseqnnces. 1t remains to
be seen what will be the effe ct of these
two remarkable letters.
The silver men are not allowing
their opponents to do all the fighing.
They are going to have their repre-.
sentative men to meet in Chicago next
week, d week ahead of the convention
for the express purpose of making HI
iron clad program for the convention
which cannot possibly be upset. The
ante-silver leaders are also going tt
Chicago next week, and the ante-con
ventiOn contest promises to be quite
rs interesting as that which will occur
in the convention itself, and may real
ly settle in advance inst what the con
|. vention will do. Everybody in Wash
lngton, republicans. democrats, an
populists, alike. are Ell gagged in dis
cussing the possibilities and probabilil
ties of the convention, and there il
the widest possible difference In op
ionions as to what tho outcome will be
That Secretary Carlisle will not be
the nominee seems to be Que Of thu
few certainties. 90
A new silver campaign button ha
made its appearance. 1t is a repro
:, duction in metal Of the ordinary GELD
daisy. with sixteen numbered whit,
petals and figure one or the yellow
center. This button. originated il
Washington and the designer has ap
; tplied for a patent. 1t has been indors
9 and adopted by the American Rime
tallic League.
Those who said before Congress ad
: journed that President Cleveland ha,
a war scare up his sleeve which, h
would produce whenever lie Thought i
expedient to do so are now more thai
ever convinced that they were right
The premature notification of IN