The San Francisco call., 1896-06-09
MCKINLEY MUST NOT DODGE.

declaring that unless Mr.. Mckinley drops
the role of the sphinx and speaks his fealty
to the cause of free coinage they will hight
him, not only on the floor of the conven-
ton but on the stump during the campaign
and at the polls on election day. So much
at heart have they this subject that they
say they will bolt the Republican party, If
needs be, if that party should refuse or
neglect to rear aloft the banner of free
coinage, and will fight and vote with the
Democrats, the Populists or any other
party that will espouse with their cause.
Leading advocates of the silver cause are
saying hard things about the Ohio major.
They assert that he has been too long asso-
ciated with John Sherman to be expected
to be friend to the silver cause. They
add in corroboration that among Nc
Kinley's foremost backers is 6. w. Baker,
president of the First National Bank of
New York, a nephew of John Sherman,
and they insist that a politician should
always be Judged by bedfellows. One OF
these bedfellows is said to be Superintend-
ent Fricke of the Carnegie works, and the
other is ]. Pierpont Morgan OF the Ameri-
can Gold Trust.
If there be any truth in political rumor
current in Utah, Colorado and Nebraska,
the gold ring has unlocked its treasury
and has made arrangements to make its
fight in the st. Louis and Chicago conven-
tions on gold basis, the story going that
the hotel bills of the gold workers, amount
ing to 100000 per day, will be paid by
checks from Wall street. Stress is laid
upon the fact that within the last two
weeks several papers have become gold
advocates and that the Associated Press is,
under the guise of news, sending to the
newspapers served by it editorials boom
ing gold and Mckinley. Thus, in an &C.
count of battle between dog and coon
somewhere way down South, the Asso-
ciated Press makes drunken man shout
''Ho Ray for Mckinley" Instantly the
dog and the coon are forgotten, the air is
black with flying hats, and every welkin
in seventeen counties rings with cheers for
Mckinley.
Colonel Isaac Trumbo, who is on this
train on the way from San Francisco to
st. Louis, is making fight for Teller and
is ripping Mckinley down the back at
every stopping place all along the line.
Colonel Trumbo's grievance is that the
wool and lead trusts have domineered the
far East, and that they are attempting to
cripple the West and the South. He says
that the lead trust wants the duty on
manufactured lead to be as high as posi-
bic and raw lead to be imported into this
country free OF any duty whatever. This
is because of their cheap investments in
the peen labor OF Mexican lead mines.
"The silver question is not sectional"
said Colonel Trumbo this morning. ''It
belongs to the entire Nation. New York
is more vitally interested in silver than is
California, Main than Utah, Ohio than
Colorado. and so on through the entire
list, and it must be settled by the Nation.
When they speak of the silver miners being
the foremost advocates of this issue they
say that which is untrue, for they are in
reality the smallest losers in the game. The
loss of their entire product last year was
S19, 200, 900, while the loss sustained by cot
ton producers was over SS0,000,000. The
loss on wheat, corn and other grains was
$127, 1000. Dairy and other agricultural
products had losses correspondingly as
large! So you may see that the farmer
and the manufacturer are really more in
terested in free coinage than are the silver
miners. Outside of the silver producing
regions, however, everybody from the con-
ductor to the porter and men at the way
stations express the opinion that protec-
ton will bring back prosperity and that
the Republican party may be safely trusted
to wipe from the statute books the ruinous
Wilson tariff, which helps England and is
running America, and to inaugurate
measures for the protection of the Ameri-
can farmer and laborer. All admit that
the money question is the important issue,
but it is safe to say, leaving purely local
interest aside, that TIE first controlling
issue of the campaign will be Republican
tariff with a surplus against the Wilson
tariff and an increasing deficit"
The Californian excursionists have had
brilliant weather during the whole trip
since leaving the drizzling rain at Truckee
All along the route, wherever there were
cultivated lands, and particularly along
the green and rolling prairies of Nebraska,
the crop outlook is excellent, the grain
being exceptionally heavy and the young
corn thrifty. Farmers are therefore in a
hopeful mood, and are waiting for the
return of the party to power, when they
will obtain good prices for their products
The avant couriers of the California dele
cation on this train are in high spirits,
but regret to say that instead of admir-
ing the beauties of nature they are playing
pedro, George Heazleton and M. h. de
Young of the Chronicle being pitsed
against Samuel M. Shortridge and Colonel
Isaac Trumbo. Mrs. Clara Foltz of New
York is reading new work on constitu-
tional law and the remaining ladies of the
party are listening to the song of the
meadow-lark and watching the refreshing
prairie breeze ripple the fields of young
corn, aslant as with a woman's pen. We
will arrive in st. Louis tomorrow morning.
Thomas D. Riordan. who is a delegate
to the National Convention, being w. w.
Montague's alternate, expressed the opin-
ion that the regular delegates from the
San Francisco Fourth Congressional Dis
trict will be seated, as it is against all
precedents for a National Convention to
go behind the decision of a State Conven-
ton and inquire into the facts
JOHN PAUL CoseRAvE