The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-04-29

Their than this. In recent issue of his
i paper he says:
1t has now become apparent that the
j silver Democrats are likely to have
much larger majority than the secret
investigation made by the agents of
! the Cleveland administration at first
indicated. A week ago the president
and his gold standard cabinet figured
/ the probable silver majority at Chi
/ cago as not far from 100. This they did
not consider too long a lead to overcome
'py Some bold move such as the en-
trance of Mr. Cleveland himself into
the field as the avowed apostle of the
single gold standard. But today the
! gold Democrats are more than ever Sc
| riously alarmed at the discovery that
their figures need further revision and
that the free silver men will have great
| er strength than has been calculated.
indeed, it is now question whether
the silver Democrats, with the unit
rule at their back, may not be able to
command, not only the majority vote
in the convention necessary to adopt
their platform, but the two-thirds vote
| required to name their candidate
All this will but render the efforts of
the administration more determined,
and already there are several things
which give evidence of great activity
on the part of the administration.
In the first place this Kentucky deal
is spoken of in other quarters than in
the Post-Dispatch editorial. A special
to the st, Louis Globe-Democrat on the
21st inst. said:
Senator Lindsay's mission to Ken
lucky is also said to have no other OBJ
ject in view than an arrangement with
the Blackburn forces in that state
whereby harmony is to be secured and
Blackburn returned to the senate if the
state Democratic convention will send
anti-silver men to the national con-
vention. Whether this compromise can
be effected, is, of course, an uncertain
problem. especially as Secretary Car
Isle is opposed to any deal with the
Kentucky silverites.
Second. there was Secretary Carlisle's
visit and speech at Chicago of which
the aforesaid dispatch says:
1t now appears that Secretary Car
isles trip to Chicago was not so much
to deliver speech as it was to organ
ize a campaign against the silver move
ment in that state, which up to that
time had been moving forward without
apparent let or hindrance. A commit
tee of 100 Democrats has been formed, :
with Mayor Hopkins, of Chicago, at
its head, and the committee is already
actively at work checking the silver
forces. 1t is understood that an agree /
ment has been entered into with Gov
ernor Altgeld, who is an aspirant for a
gubernatorial denomination, that his
canvass will not be interfered with If
he keeps his hands off national politics, /
and especially refrains from endeavor- /
ing to send a free silver delegation to !
the national convention. There is no /
doubt that the administration Demo- |
Gratis, who up to a few days ago had |
almost given up hopes of saving ILL [
nois from the silver men, are now talk !
ing quite confidently of sound money |
delegation from that state to Chicago. (
Third, there is q. sudden change in /
the course of Senator Brice of Ohio. /
1t has been his intention to go abroad /
this summer; but now, and it is under
stood that he makes the change at the /
request of the administration, he an
nounces his intention to go as dele
gate to the Chicago convention to work .
for the single gold standard. 1t is said,
too, that he will go full Of fight, de-
termined neither to give or take quar-
ter The dispatch to the Globe-Demo-
crat before quoted represents him as
saying:
Il would much rather go to Europe
with my family; in fact, 1 may say
that if my own wishes were consulted |,
I would certainly go abroad. Some pres
sure has been brought to bear upon
me- however, and 1 will go to Chicago.
~, 49, Tho IL
''In my opinion, there will be good
deal of talk about free coinage plat
form until about the middle of June
or the 1st of July, but after that it will
disappear. There will be no free coin
age plank in the Chicago platform, and 4
there will be no free silver candidate q
1t is possible that there
may be majority of silver men in the
but you mark my word,
there will be no free coinage plank.
The Democratic party will not commit
hari-kari this year"
It will be observed that Mr.. Brice ad-
mits that it is possible that there may
be a majority of silver men in the Chi
,ago convention, but with emphasis de-
clares that there will be no free silver
plank. If there is not, then it will be
because the IldJOIlty Va liiC OOii SAASA
will not have the courage OF their con-
yictions, but will permit themselves to
De over-awed by administration intiu-
.nce. Certainly enough appears in the
above to show that the administration
S especially active and the force of its
influence is one of the factors that silver t
Democrats must count as being against
hem in the impending Chif1-0 con- $
lict.