The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-08-24
The Watsoa.Sewall End Of the Ticket Is
Causing Trouble.
JONES CAUGHT IN HIS OWN TRAP
His Scheme to Film. Flam the POpu.
lists Is Already Bearing Bitter
Fruit..There Are No Roses in the
Western Pathway Of Billy Bryan.
Harritv Still Has Possession Of the
Democratic Cadaver in Penn.
Sv1vnnin
Bureau of The Tribune,

mering for the past week, but 1t will
soon come to the boiling point. All
parties are getting ready for the big
fight. The Republican managers seem
to be the best equipped for battle. They
have no side issues to bother them like
their Democratic-P -Populistic opponents
have. and who seem to be all at sea
everywhere. In the south, where they
are depending upon getting solid cleo
toral vote for Bryan. they are at skies
and sevens. The Populists, whom the
Democrats expect to catch by placing
Tom Watson on their vice presidential
ticket in the southern states only, are
up in arms against the deal, and threat
en- to bolt the entire outfit If Shipbuild-
err Sewall is not taken off the ticket.
Senator Jones, chairman Of the Demo-
cratic national committee, who set up
the job at the St. Louis Populist con-
vention, is very much disturbed over the
outlook. He set the trap. but he Is now
in danger of being caught In it himself
instead of ensnaring the Populists for
whom it was intended. Before he left
for Chicago early this week. Senator
Jones stated to his Democratic friends
here that he anticipated no end of
trouble with the "rantankerous Pops"
as he calls them.
Information comes from several of the
southern states, where Populism Is very
strong, that unless Mr.. Sewall Is with
drawn the Populists will fuse with the
Republicans on state and congressional
tickets, and thus endanger the election
of Bryan and Watson electors.
Tom Watson knows he is only being
used as a stool pigeon by the Demo-
Gratis, and that he stands no more
chance Of election than he does of go
ing to heaven in a balloon. Watson
was formerly a Democrat, but there Is
no person whom he hates worse than
a member of that party now. He Is
particularly bitter towards Mr.. Sewall,
and all other Democrats who are taint-
ed with plutocracy. He despises man
who has more money than he has. And
yet this Is the kind of a man the DEM
ocratic leaders are. trying to placate.
1t is said that Senator Jones is will
ing to promise him anything-a cabinet
job or a good foreign misson-if he
will only behave himself in this cam
paign. But Watson will accept no ver
bal contract, and as Candidate Bryan
refuses to make any promises In writ
ing, Chairman Jones finds it a mighty
job to shut Watson's mouth.
NO SOLID SOUTH.
The outlook for Democratic success
in the South is anything but promising
at this writing. There are at least half
n dozen states south of Mason and
DiXon's line which are more than like
1y to cast their electoral votes for Nc
Kinley and Hobart. They are Ken
lucky, Tennessee, North and South
Carolina, Florida and Virginia. Sem
ator Quay will have charge of the Re-
publican campaign in the south, and he
is expected to get down to hard work
upon his return from Florida. Senator
Quay Is probably the best posted north
ern politician on affairs in the south.
He knows the people down there. He
has made a study of southern politics
and the methods used at the polls in
those states. Then he has the coniid-
ence of the southern leaders. He
knows them intimately and will have
no trouble in getting them into work.
ing harness. If under Senator Quay's
guiding hand, the Republicans cannot
break into the solid South then they
might as we'll throw up the sponge.
Other leaders have tried their hand.
but with little or no success. 1t is now
for Senator Quay to see what he can
do with the South.
Candidate Bryan's path in the West
is not strewn with roses, as his man
ayers would have the people of the
East believe. He Will not carry his
own state, Nebraska; neither can he
carry Kansas, Oregon, Washington or
From the best information
received at Republican congressional
Headquarters those states will not only
go for Mckinley and Hobart, but they
will send a large majority of sound
money members to the next congress
All the talk about Bryan carrying
every state south of the Ohio and west
of the Mississippi rivers Is the merest
tWaddle. 1t Is only done for effect in
the East. Well. the East will have
none of it. Not only every eastern
state but every middle and western
state, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin and
Michigan, will cast their electoral votes
for Mckinley honest money and protec-
ton, all the blowing of the Altgelds,
j anu lAlC olhCA "i'Ny
free silverites to the contrary. The
defeat of poor old Horace Greeley in
1872 will be nothing compared to the
laying out Bryan and his outfit will get
next November. The tidal wave
which threatened a few weeks ago to
carry everything before it is rapidly
and by the time election
day rolls around there will be nothing
left of the Bryan boom but wind and
there won't be enough of 1t to blow
straw hat off your head.
HOKE SMITH IS SAD.
Secretary Hoke Smith, the only men,
ber Of the Cleveland cabinet who Is
the Chicago ticket. who went
down into North Carolina and Georgia
a week or so ago to feel the public pulse,
has returned sadder but much wiser
man. Instead of getting the "glad
hand" as he expected, he was given the
marble heart" He was given to un-
derstand that he would be under sus-
picion of not being loyal to the Chicago
ticket unless he came out squarely for
the platform, too. That is more than
E1oke can swallow at one gulp. To sup
port the ticket, he thinks, is enough to
ask of a man who stumped his state
against free silver. and to do that much
he will have to put clothes pin on
his nose when he goes to the polls
Secretary Smiths resignation is still in
the hands OF the president. but he is not
urging it's acceptance. This is another
thing which his new political bed-fel-
lows have against him. They say that
IL ne is sincere for the Chicago ticket
he ought to insist upon the president
his resignation. Secretary
Smith is, indeed, between wind and
water just at present. He is under sus-
picion with both factions of the Demo-
cratic party.
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