The advocate., 1896-10-14

w. F. Porter, who Is a solid Bryan man.
He has accepted and will make the race.
Chicago Express: ''The bankers sav we
want more confidence. The laboring men
say we want more money. Suppose we
split the difference and let the bankers
have the confidence and let labor have the
money"
Mr.. Bynum, until recently Chairman Of
the gold Democratic National committee,
has given out an interview in which he
giveS the impression that he thinks the
chances are favorable to Bryan in Indiana
and Illinois.
George Fred. Williams has peremptOrily
declined 10 accept the nomination for Gov
ernOr Of Massachusetts rendered by the
Fanueil Hall Democratic convention. He
has been named by the silver Democrats
and Populists.
In the Florida election the vote fell off
considerably owing to the introduction for
the first time of an Australian ballot law.
The Democratic candidate for Governor
wins by something Ike 16, 600 out Of q total
Of about 5000 votes.
Sundays dispatches contain claims of
Republican victories in Maryland, West
Virginia and Iowa. Following these is a
statement from another prominent Repub-
lican that Missouri will probably be all
right. II the other estimates are as wild
as the Missouri claim then they amount to
nothing.
AT Charlottesville, Ind, while 7. II.
Patterson Of the Rocky Mountain News
was speaking, number Of college students
tried interrupting him as the Yale crowd
did. The country boys in the audience
took the matter in hand and when they got
through the college boys were a pretty
badly whipped crowd.
When Chinese exclusion bills were being
considered In 1879 and 1880, in order to pre-
vent the cheap Asiatic labor from flooding
the western half Of the United States, MIR.
Mckinley voted against all legislation tend
ing TO restrict immigration to any extent.
His friendship for labor did not seem to be
particularly strong even then.
The editor Of the Beatrice (Neb.) Tri-
bune (Pop.) Is having hard time in q
financial way, and the Republicans thought
It would be easy to line him up for the
'middle dle-0f-the-road" movement with a lit
tie cash. He needed the cash but had too
much regard for the common peoples inter-
eStS to accept it at their expense.
The Republicans are making great fuss
because Mr.. Talbot, who Is, or has been,
associated with Mr.. Bryan In the practice
Of law, has come out for Mckinley. Mr..
Talbot Is not only Republican but is
candidate for the State Senate on his party
ticket, and there is nothing remarkable
about his being favorable to other candi-
dates on the same ticket.
In 1873 the Iowa Republican State con-
vention declared: "The silver dollar hav-
ing been legal unit Of value from the foun-
daktOn OF the federal pOYAPnment until 1879
the law under which It's coinage was sus-
pended should be repealed at the earliest
possible day, and silver made, with gold, a
legal tender for the payment of all debt,
both public and private"
Cleveland Reporter: "Golden rod is the
emblem Of the bolting Democrats In their
convention at Indianapolis This Is the
most appropriate emblem that they could
possibly have chosen. Being gold maniacs,
the color Is very significant, but that Is not
all. Golden rod Is the most pernicious
weed with which the American farmer has
to contend. II takes possession of his field,
1t sucks the fertility from his soil, 1t chokes
out his crops, and causes him labor and
annoyance untold"
Henry George, writing to the New York
Journal Of q visit to Canton, SAYS that
Mckinley Is so careful about the speeches
that he makes and that are made to him
that 1.-The speaker who Is to make the ad-
dress 10 first called In, and II a copy has not
been furnished In advances the candidate
learns what Is to be said by him, In order
TO provide against such disaster as befeIl
Blaine Rt the hands Of the Rev. DR.. Bur-
chard. He then comes out, listens to the
address and reads his reply, which Is after.
ward revised before being sent "a the
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