Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-08-31
Mr.. Governs Emphatic Support of
Mr.. Mckinley.
SENDING DOCUMENTS TO employees
AMaority of Them Said to Oppose
Free Silver,
II E LIP ING THE CAMPAIGN

Ohio and Big Four Railroad Companies
| and approved of by many railway mag
mates throughout the country, has found
| most earnest advocate in the person of
Mr. John X. Cowen. president and one of
the receivers of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Company.
Mr.. Cowen has been for years a
close student of political affairs. He
has been democrat ever since he had a
vote. At the last congressional election
| Mr.. Cowen was chosen to repre- sent the
fourth district Of Mary land In Congress,
although he did not reside in the district,
| the democratic managers being convinced
that no other man they could put up would
nave the ghost of show against the
republican nominee, Mr.. Robert II. Smith,
who Is one Of the most popular men in
Baltimore.
Distributing CAMPAIGN Documents.
When Mr.. Cowen determined to actively
| enlist in the sound money cause his friends
expected that he would at once throw into
the movement all the energy and hearth
ness of his aggressive nature. They have
not been disappointed.
One of the largest rooms the second
| floor of the Baltimore and Ohio Central
building, in Baltimore, has been set apart
| for the work. and there men are employed
| inclos:ng in large envelopes for mailing to
each of the 1000 employees of the B. and
o., under Mr.. Governs frank. copies of
several speeches delivered in Congress:
AidridBe on Free Coinage Of silver"
Silver and Gold; Wages and Prices" ex-
tract from speech by Representative j.
I. McCieary of Minnesota; "A Talk of
Four Ncighpors About Money and Silver"
from the remarks of Representative Joseph
w. Babcock OF Wisconsin; also Secretary
Carlisle's famous speech before the work.
ingmen of Chicago April 10 last.
Mr.. Governs own Views.
Star reporter went 20 Baltimore TO in
terview Mr.. Cowen relative to the move
| ment here referred TO and to his reasons
Tor espousing the same. As result MIR.
Cowen prepared for The Star the following
statement:
me Chicago Platform, upon which Bry-
an was nominated, combines all the fiuan-
cial hsresies that could be crowded into IT,:
1t demands the free coinage of silver by
the United States government at the ratio
OF 10 to /; 1t demands that freedom of con-
tract be destroyed by legislation. prohibit
ing parties to n contract from agreeing as
to the kind of money which should be paid
or received: 1t proposes open reputation of
United States bonds, by providing for their
payment In silver coin instead of gold or
IFS equivalent it demands the reputation
OF the greenbacks and the treasury Ger
tlncates issued under the Sherman law by
opposing the issuance of bonds 10 be sold
Tor gold, to keep intact the reserve for The
redemption of the greenbacks and treasury
certificates; it demands that the mower to
issue notes be taken from national hanks
ana tnat the paper money be issued by the
treasury alone: 1t touches very lightly ,pon
the tariff-as is proper under The circ,Im-
stances-but makes an indirect attack up
on the Supreme Court of the United States
decision ha
offers an Insult to our foreign born cfti-
zens by designating them as foreisn-born
pauper labor, because II that term has any
meaning at all in the platform it means
that the great mass of foreign Immigrants
are to come under this opprobrious desig-
nation; it indorses Debs and his conspir-
acy to prevent the operation of railroads,
the tran sportation of interstate commerce.
and the United States mails by attacking
the decision of the federal courts in IL
linois. which was affirmed by the decision
OF the Supreme Court Of the United States
Free silver, fiat money and free riot are
the three prominent Fs of the Chica 30
platform. Further. it contains a covert at
tack upon civil service refcrm-carcfully
yelled, such attacks ALWAYS are in
mass Of verbiage.
1T is the most reactionary program that
has ever emanated from a party conven-
ticn in the United States and in my judy
ment. 1t is the duty of every good demo-
crat to denounce the platform in season
and out of season, and to vote against the
man who stands upon it.
'Altgeldism,' 'Populism, Greenback-
no democrat by his vote ought to sustain
the ticket which represents such issues.
Expects u Reaction.
Il think the reaction will set in when
the sober and conservative classes Of the
community appreciate the widespre III
panic and ruin which would follow the
success of the men who have stolen the
democratic livery. I think it is not only
the duty Of democrats to vote, but to work
against the ticket and the platform alopt-
ed at Chicago, and 1 shall do both.
speaking for myself alone. l think 1t
would be a grave mistake for the sound
money forces to divide their votes. The
republican convention boldly took position
for the gold standard, and the nominee of
that convention stands firmly on the plat
form there adopted.
Il shall unhesitatingly vote for William
mckinley, although 1 am an out-and-out
free trader, and I advise other democrats
to DO the same. ! do not believe it is wise
to have new third party movement 7
think the sound money democrats should
organize and work and vote for the re-
publican ticket, thereby making each sound
money vote count not one, but two, against
free silver and the other communists idea
adopted at Chicago.
The convention at Chicago itself recog-
nized that the tariff is not a practical is
until the money question shall have been
settled.
Il accept that position for myself and
say unhesitatingly that gold, the standard
Of the civilized world, must continue to
be our standard, and that all men in favor
of sound money should unite to oppose the
forces of misrule that were let loose at
Chicago"
Employees Favor Mckinley.
AS the Baltimore and Ohio officials have
received no written replies to the matter
sent out by Mr.. Cowen from those to whom
they were addressed. it is impossible for
them to state how far they have been in
fluenced by the arguments they were i'm
plledly requested to peruSe, but the expert
ence of Star reporter in talking with a
large number of B. and o. men on the subj
ject was similar to that found to he the
case with the railway men of Virginia
which, as stated in The Star, was that the
81 eat majority favor the single gold stand
ard.
Some of the B. and o. men went farther
than their Southern brethren and declared
1t to be their belief that the railway men
who vote in Maryland, and who are adyo-
Gates of the gold standard. would be able
to convince many of their fellow working
men and neighbors that it was against
their interest to vote for free silver. and
that the result would be that MCKINLEY