Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-08-01
NATIONAL POLITICS.
FALLING INTO LINE.

Washington, Aug. There are some
evidences that the ''gold craze" is abat-
ing in the east. The eastern "gold luna
tics" are still noisy and aggressive,
but they are not as numerous as they
thought they we're. The Democratic
boilers seem to be confined exclusively
to the kind of gentlemen whom Bourke
Cochran described in his great speech at
the Chicago convention in '92 as men
who always insist on having seat on the
platform. There are several of them in
Boston, Baltimore, Philadelphia and New
York. They are not numerous in the
country regions, according to all ac-
counts. Many old Democrats who were
angry on the spur of the moment with
the action at Chicago are falling into
line.
Senator Faulkner, of West Virginia,
the chairman of the Democratic national
congressional committee, whose hand is
at the present time on the pulse of tina
public sentiment, of the country, is san
guine that theirs @ill be Democratic
tidal wave. Conversing with cor
respondent on the trend of the contest,
Senator Faulkner said:
"Many Democrats observe with graft
fioation the fact that eastern bankers are
restoring the gold reserve and obviating
tho necessity of bond issue, but at the
same time they are asking the question
why such action was not taken upon
former occasions when a crisis occurred
and past issues thus prevented. They
realize the fact that the eastern bankers
are coming nobly to the rescue of the
treasury, but it is from consciousness
that if they did not, and another bond
issue should be necessary, Mr.. Bryan
would be placed in the White house with
out the slightest offort and By crushing
ma jority. They also ask the question,
will these banks come to the rescue Of
the treasury again if Mr.. Bryan is not
elected? The answer that suggests itself
is that they probably will not.
"The fact is, the question of bond is
sues by the government in time of peace
is having more force in this campaign
than anything else. The people are
aroused upon that subject. The financial
question is to be the issue between the
two parties. It is no use to try to dodge
this fact, and any man proposing to talk
II ulO va" RdlkuS uPOh uhO cbuh1P
or in committee work, who takes the
tariff as his subject will not receive an
audience. The people want to talk about
money; they want to hear about it, and
those who have not already made up
their minds desire to be instructed.
"Ex-President Harrison realized this
when he said few days ago that the tariff
was on the side track. The Democratic
party has not made the issue between
aggregate wealth, corporate influence and
the masses of the people. That issue has
been made by thirty years of legislation
in the interests of capital and wealth and
influence, which is controlled
by wealth. Neither should it be said that
the Democratic party is arrayed against
wealth and capital. 1t only takes the
position that wealth and capital should
be placed upon the same plane as the in
terests of the people, and should share
with them without advantage or without
prejudice the benefits of legislation"
Senator Faulkner continues to receive
great quantities of applications from the
eastern states for free silver literature.
He says that the free silver sentiment is
sweeping+hrough the laboring GLASSES in
the east. Up to this time the congress
sional committee has confined itself to
sending out documents and campaign
literature to individual applicants. In
few days the committee will take up the
task of supplying the state central COM
mittees with literature in bulk. Orders
are now being placed with the printers
for this class of matter and the commit
tee will commence in short time distri-
button.
Senator Faulkner is confident that Del
aware will support the Democratic ticket
and platform. He says that two out of
three counties in that state are permeated
with silver. Moreover, it is likely that
the factional fight among the Repnbli-
cans in Delaware, the contest between the
Higgins and Addicks factions, will put
the finishing blow to Republican pros
pect of success.
Senator Faulkner has advices from re-
liable sonrces in Michigan which lead him
to believe that the state will be carried by
the Dem ocrats by an overwhelming ma
joritv in November. He will not be sur
prised if every congressional district in
Michigan is represented by Democrat
in the next congress. The Republicans
are badly split up over the money ques.
tion, about half Of them being in favor
of free coinage. There is gold senti-
ment among the Democrats of Michigan,
but there is no hint of bolt.
CONCNPI WORK