Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-09-07
When seen at the Broadway Central hotel,
Mr.. Martin said:

| 81 think Bryan's election sure. There
appears to be no doubt of his trium phal
success in November. There is no sig
nlfcance in the election returns from
Vermont. Both parties there declared
for the gold standard in their state plat
forms. The stone trust, of Vermont, of
which Senator Proctor, the Republican
national committeeman of that state, is
the president, and the banks holding the
farmers mortgages left nothing undone
to increase the Republican majority. The
quarry owners compelled their workmen
to vote the Republican ticket by threaten
ing them with dismissal, and the banks
forced many of the farmers to support
Grout, the Republican candidate for gov
ernor, under threats to foreclose on their
loans.
"In all the stone quarries of Ohio the
men are wearing Bryan buttons in def
ance of their employers. The city of
Cleveland is hot-bed of Democracy,
and laboring men there are for Bryan to
| man.
'The Knights of Labor are fighting
Hanna tooth and nail, because the first
organization that he destroyed was the
X. of l.. organization of seamen in the
lower lake regions. The Central Labor
union of Cleveland has repeatedly de-
nounced Hanna as a labor crusher. Han
ma has attempted several times to open
| negotiations with the leaders of the union,
but our people will have nothing to do
with him.
sit is fact worth recalling" con-
tinued Mr.. Martin, sin connection with
the Republican claim that this govern
ment can not maintain bimetallic sys-
tenn of currency that in 1892 the Republi-
can party published text book, show
ing that the purchase of 100000 ounces
of silver under the Sherman law had
raised the bullion value of silver to 81 81
an ounce and averted a panic through the
failure Of Barring Bros, of London"
conference of the leaders of the
Knights of Labor will be held in this city
during the week to discuss the political
situation. The fact that T. V. Powderly
has offered his services to Chairman Han
ha as speaker for Mckinley and the
gold standard has angered his former as.
sociates, and it is probable that steps
will be taken to oppose him on the
stump. General Worthy Foreman Bish-
op, OF the Knights of Labor, has issued
the following circular to the members of
the organization regarding the apostasy
of Powderly, who only few years ago
declared in an article in the North Amerl-
can Review that the free coinage of silver
was the salvation Of the toiling masses:
"WashiDgton, Aug. 31.-To the Order
Wherever Found, Greeting-Terencs Vim
cent Powderly, who for fourteen years
prior to November, 1898, was the chief
officer in the Knights of Labor, has been
recently quoted as stating authoritatively
that the free coinage of silver is no por-
tion of the preamble or creed of the
Knights of Labor.
81 have claimed now for three years
that Mr.. Powderly was a monomaniac
upon the one subject of T. V. Powderly
however sane be might be considered
upon matters not effecting his personal
ity, and can not at this time refrain
from entering into short retrospect of
the career of the man whose unexampled
egotism was one of the chief causes that
brought strife and dissension for a time
into our sanctuaries.
"The free and unlimited coinage of sill
yer has been one of the main demands OF
the Knights of Labor since the Atlantic
session of the general assembly, in 1889.
1t has been re-enforced specifically since
that time, at Denver, in 1890, at Toledo
in 1891, and at st. Louis in 1892, and our
Legislative committees have been instruct
cd to make that, with the land and trans.
portation planks, their chief care.
"Mr. Powderly, as chairman of dele
CATION representing this order, attended
conferences and conventions of the
Farmers Alliance and the Peoples party
at Ocala, Omaha, Washington and st. |
Louis, where the Knights of Labor were
again pledged to the support of this
measure, with his active cooperation and
consent. He is on record in more thar
one of his official speeches as being per-
sonally warm adherent of these doc
trines, and his present attitude is simply
a discarding of the mask.
"All he has and knows he owes to the
Knights of Labor; all he is he is himself
for. Let us permit T. V.
Powderly to pass quietly into deserved
oblivion. IN. j. BISHOP,
General Worthy Foreman"