The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-07-12
FOR VICE-PRESIDENT.

Bryan; Sewall and silver
That means this from the South:
Maine and Nebraska may take the
glory, if only the South be permitted
TO watch and work to the end that
their calling and election may be sure.
The National Convention closed its
labors at Chicago yesterday by nomi-
mating for the Vice-Presidency, Hon.
Arthur Sewan, of Maine.
This choice came like coffin-nail to
the absurd claim that had essayed to
put forward the silver movement as a
sectional one.
Moreover, let there be laid aside
at the same time the spectre OF the
Confederate brigadier that has seemed
gaseous meteor across the otherwise
1ameless sky.
Here is one of those shooting stars
that has happily by reason ef this
Maine selection fallen with a duh dig
and buried itself in the earth. 1t is
from the Detroit Tribune and is as
follows;
Senator John Warwick Daniel, Of
Lvnchburg, Va, the temporary chair
man of the convention, served in the
rebel army of North Virginia, and be-
came Adiutant General on Gen. Early's
staff. Senator Isham G. Harris, of
Memphis, Tenn, slated for permanent
cairman of the convention, was a rebel
officer on the staff of the commanding
General of the Army of Tennessee.
Not only is the South in the saddle"
but the saddle is branded C. S. A. in
big, bold letters. 1t is to be a fight be-
tween Republicanism and reputation
this year. The South still dominates
the Democratic party, and the ex-Ge-
cessionists still dominate the South.
If this is waving the bloody Shirt
whose fault is it?'
Only one voice in the convention
one, by the bye, that does not carry in
it the tone of Southern feeling. made
any reference TO sctionalism. That
voice was Tillman's But it was
promptly smothered by Senator Jones
who repudiated all the wild talk of
the South Carolina freak.
And on the heels of the speech of
Senator Jones comes the nomination
of Sewall.
But the naming of an Eastern man
only gave official notice of the fact
that New York and Pennsylvania and
Maryland were alive with the new
crusaders.
Delegates from each of these States
said yesterday that, if Mr.. Bryan could
make three speeches in each, they
could be carried for silver.
From Texas to Nebraska; from
Nebraska to Maine, and from Maine
to Texas. That is a triangle, the sill
YER triangle, the strokes upon which
come with a common music to the adj
vocates of the white metal all over the
country.
North Carolina took pride in hav-
ing named the President, and may
therefore, bear with some degree of
fortitude tn disappointment in having
failed to get the Vice-Presidential
nomination for her favorite son, JUS
tice Walter Clark.
North Carolina is grateful to the Old
Dominion for her "a votes given with
her usual chiyalry, and to other States
who gave scattering votes. Nor 6,es
it remember unkindly the Shortcomings
of Nebraska because 1t did not choose
to cast its vote Tor Clark, though many
wonder ut the cause thereof.
But North Carolina is mindful of
the honors bestowed upon her and will
try to prove worthy of them.
Mr.. Sewali has lived in Maine all his
| life where he has amassed wealth IN
| che ship-building interest.
| He is a staunch Democrat and his
| loyalty to silver caused him to lose his
| place as National committeeman from
| his State.
His nomination means that the
| hand Of Democracy has felt it's way in
to to the very Den of Goldbugism for
| the purpose of getting good hold upon
the whiskers of the Lion of Republi-
| canism.
California, Nebraska, Maine, Virgi-
MIA, Florida. Texas-these are the SEN
| tinels in the picket-line of independ-
ent silver coinage for this country.
The great army is camped within
close up to the line.
Does this mean fight OF section
against section
The answer to this is Bryan, of Ne.
braska, and Sewall, of Maine. with
| North Carolina as the manner of Bry.
an.
1t means America against the res
, of the world!