Santa Fe daily New Mexican., 1896-07-02
NATIONAL POLITICS.
GoLDBUGs IN CONFERENCE.

Chicago evening the golt
men will meet at the Auditorium hotel tc
outline plan of campaign against thu
advocates of free silver. Ex Secretary
Whitney will be the guiding spirit. In
vitations, signed by him, were received
by hundreds here. They reached promi
nent Chicago gold Democrats and all the
| national committeeman and delegates il
the city who are in favor of gold. The
gold men, who have been on the ground
since last week, have been industriousy
sounding the sentiment prevailing and
will report at this meeting on Friday
night.
| The silver men are not alarmed. Iu
fact they are anxious to have their op-
ponents get in line. Senator Cockrell be.
lieves that opposition strengthens the sil.
yer cause.
"Let them confer and make plans" he
SAID last night, "the more the merrier. We
have been going along too easy. good
fight will warm US up and warm the
country up. Mr.. Whitney knows abso-
lately nothing of the power of the free
silver sentiment, even in his own state"
The senator thinks that the financial
sue in the platform and that there will be
square declaration for the mintage of
silver on terms of equality with gold at
the ratio of 16 to l, and without awaiting
the cooperation of other nations. He
laughs at Mr.. Whitney's suggestion of a
compromise and says that it will not be
entertained.
He does not believe that an unequivo-
cal silver plank will drive many eastern
men out Of the party, and argues that. on
the contrary, it will bring many votes to
the party that can not be secured in any
other way.
"We shall gain immensely in the west"
he said, "and we shall not lose in the east.
The people have not yet come to full
realization of the strength of the silver
movement. 1t will sweep the country at
the polls as it has swept the Democratic
party at the primaries"
Senator Cockrell does not consider that
there is any danger of bolt by the New
York or other eastern delegates.
MARVELLOUS ACHIEVEMENT.
Chicago-Major T. 0. Towles, of Mis-
souri,, who is secretary of the national bi.
metallic Democratic committee, is here.
Major Towles has high idea of the work
which has been performed by the bime-
tallic committee.
"We have done what has never before
been done in the history of the country"
he said to-day. "We have reorganized the
party within the party on an economic
question. Heretofore, when number of
men have found themselves differing rad
ically from the leaders of their party on
questions Of principle, they have found
it necessary to organize new party. We
have revolutionized the Democratic
party on the question of the currency and
are still in the ranks. That 1 consider an
achievement worthy of note"
Mr.. Towles thinks that when the test
comes the silver men will be found to
have the necessary two-thirds to nominate
a presidential candidate. The bimetallic
committee has from the first studiously
eliminated the question of candidates
from its consideration, but they will take
the matter in hand later, if it appears
necessary, to secure the nomination of
desirable man.
PUSHING THE BLAND BOOM.
Chicago.-George Washington Allen, of
st. Louis, is at the Auditorium annex
preparing the way and making the paths
straight for Richard p. Bland. Mr.. Allen
is secretary of the Bland organization and
has rented parlor A in the big hotel for
adquarters. The Bland boomers are
aggressively pushing the claims of the old
cham pion OF silver.