Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1896-09-05
WASHINGTON LETTER
Bland Has Jumped the
Crowd.
Republicans Will PrOba-
bly, Sweep the Country.
Silver Boom on the Wave.
Silver Boom on the Wave.


WASHINGTON, Aug. 31st, 1895.
The harmony among the silver men
is of the fighting brand According to
democratic gossip. Silver Dies" Bland |
who started to accompany the boy |
talker on his swing around the Eas-
tern circle, was SO numerically snubb- /
ed by Bryan that he refused to remain |
with the party under any circumstan-
ces, although in leaving it, he sacritic-
ed a remunerative contract TO swap |
almighty bad English accounts of the /
tour for numerous One-hundred-cent |
dollars from the strong box of news |
paper publisher. The exact cause of
the snubbing is not given, but the |
foundation appears to have been Bry- |
ans belief that SILVER Dick" didn't |
know enough 10 make real-platfOrm
speeches. ] will not vouch for the
snubbing part, butt is certain that "Sil
yer Dick' left the Bryan party 10 days
or more ago and that he has since then
been staying with a friend in the
subui los of W ashlngton. This, coupled
with the rough shod manner in which
Bryan has walked over every demo-
crat who has opposed his slightest
within since the Chicago convention,
gives the snubbing story an air of
probability.
CONFIDENCE DISAPPEARS.
The confidence with which the PROM
inent free silver democrats started
in to rush Bryan into the White House
has all disappeared, and they are now
so timid that they are allowing them
selves TO be bOssed by the rad zeal pop
ulists of the Tom Watson stripe, and
they are running hither and thither,
seeking some evidence that Bryan has
even a lighting chance to win. Chair
man Faulkner, of the Congressional
committee, went TO Chicago last week
TO see whether Chairman Jones, of the
National Committee. was able TO cheer
him up, and since his return he has
found it harder than ever to keep up
bold front.
HEAVY VOTING APPARENT.
Secretary Mercer, of the Republican
Congressional Committee, thinks the
vote cast in November will be phe-
nomenally large. Speaking on the
subject he said: "There never was
such wide spread interest in a cam
paign. / know that in my own dis
trict in Nebraska, the votes poIled at
the primaries reached almost the total
of general election. Men who Were
sick braved relapses, in order to get TO
the polls, and i know of one instance
where man was rolled to his voting
place in an invalid's chair. With such
interest in primary, what will be the
vote when election day comes aroundY
TO BE A RECORD BREAKER.
Nobody in Washington took pitch
fork Tillman's absurd challenge of ex-
"a u for fnfr a 81, %
seriously any more than MIR. Harrison
did. 1t was merely an effort of Till
man TO keep himself before the public.
When Joint debates occur, they are
usually between men of the same
standing. Nothing but amusement
was caused by Tillman's installing the
curiosity which brought out big
crowds to hear him speak in the min
ing section of Pennsylvania, for en-
thusiasm for free silver. Pennsylvan-
la republicans are unanimously of the
opinion that the size of the majority
for Mckinley will break the record
and some of them express the opinion
that the Indianapolis ticket will poll
more votes in the state than Bryan
Will.
PROBABLY MISSOURI.
According to Hon. r G Kerens. who
knows a thing or two about Missouri
politics. that state is going -epubli-
san to dead certainty. Mr.. Kerens-
"Dick" is what every body around re-
publican headquarters calls him-made
a flying trip to Washington TO consult
with Chairman BabcOck, of the con-
gressional committee, and while in
the city he said: 1.-The republican par
ty is united and determined to win.
The democrats are hopelessly split and
with three parties in the field we are
going to succs ed and we ought to sue
coed. The democrats have held the
administration of Missouri for thirty
years, nearly n third of century, and
it is time for a change"
While the democrats have been max
ing their Eastern bluffs the republi
cans have been sending convincing lit
erature broadcast through the West
SILVER WAVE RECEDINe.
The result is now becoming appar
ent even to the most rabid Bryanite
Reports from nearly all the Western
states show that the silver wave which
followed the Chicago convention i
rapidly receding, and if things contin
ne to go as they are now going, wei
informed republicans will not be sur
prised if Mckinley and Hobart carr,
not only all the great agriculture
states of the middle West, but ais
some of the silver states.
Mckinley and Hobart are also rapid
gaining ground in tho South Yves
Virginia, Maryland and Kentucky ar
put into the Mckinley column b
some very conservative men.
FROM BOSTON.