The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1896-09-11

From our Regular Correspondent.

From our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, September Mot satisfied
that himself and every member of the cabinet
should oppose the regular Democratic ticket,
President Cleveland wants all of the other
Democratic officials to do likewise. and it has
been semi-officially stated that he intends to
ask for the resignation OF every government
official who publicly supported Bryan and
Sewell Ii ~ not likely, however. that this
would alter any Official VINO wishes 10 support
Bryan and sewall from doing So. There are a
few Democrats who will a. low few months OF
Office holding TO stand i'll the way of their eE-
erciSing the right OF every Amer lean, to talk
and vote for the principles he believes III, and
already several prominent officials, among
them Hon. Scott Wike, Assistant Secretary of
the Treasury; Deputy Pension Commissioner
Bell and Auditor Baldwin, ARE making speeches
for Bryan and SewalI.
The Interstate Democratic Association, of
Washington, held u rousing Bryan and Sewall
maSS-meeting, their second saturday night.
which was presided over by Capt. William
Bartlett, Department Commander of the G. a.
L., OF New York, a Republican who is support
ing Bryan and silver.
Representative SulZcr, OF New DIRK, says IN
Il letter to the Democratic Congressional Com
mittee: The campaign in the state is progress
ing quietly but energeticaly. IL is being
made by the clubs ana by labor organizations
and the friends of the plain people generally,
regardless of the attitude of prominent State
leaders. | have made several trips through
the State, and have had long talks with prOm
nent Democrats in all parts, and believe that
with the proper efforts, the State of New York
can be carried this fall After the State Con-
veuton, TO be held September l., no doubt the
campaign will assume more enthusiastic as
pect, and many who are now silent Will then
come to the front"
Representative Wheeler. of Alabama, thus
sizes up the Palmer and Buckner ticket
There isn't much to recommend il, and II Will
not stir the voters to enthusiasm. In the long
run il will do Mckinley more harm Than good,
because ii will get votes in the North that would
otherwise have gone to the Republican candI-
dates. In the South, Bryan will have too big a
margin to miss the handful Of voters that Will
go To Palmer. The South is once more solid
Mr.. Robert Is. Palmer, editor OF the MUe
Register, Washington, C.. H., Ohio, said while
visiting Washington: in my country, which
is splendid agricultural region, the feeling IS
strong tor free coinage, and it is by no means
confined to the Democrats. Any number OK
silver clubs have been formed, and every one
mas n i.f tb per Fepub
can ticket. This is not hearsay, for / know
| personally scores of such men. In addition to
this, Republican orators are taking the stump
for Bryan, and are doing excellent missionary
work. Boiling sound money Democrats are
extremely scarce with us.
The Democrats of Washington intend max
ing the Bryan and Sewall ratification meeting,
to be held on the afternoon of the 18th INST:
one of the biggest affairs of the kind ever held
at the National Capital Arrangements are
now being made to run special excursion trains
from Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia,
| and it will not be surprising If Mr.; Bryan shall
be greeted on that occasion by larger crowd
than he has spoken to at. any of the places he
has visited since his nomination.
A letter has been received at Democratic
Headquarters from II. A. Watkins, prominent
lawyer, of Lancaster Wis, which answers the
Republican assertion that silver sentiment is
dying out in that State. Mr.. Watkins writes:
The Situation in Wisconsin is very favorable,
and quite as good, if not better, for the Demo-
cracy than it was at this period of the CAM
paign of 1892, when we carried the State. The
so-callcd silver craze is not dying out here our
Republican friends to the contrary notwith-
standing"
Hon. Spencer Jones, Chairman of the Mary
land State Democratic Committee, says OF the
outlook in that State: II am more and more
convinced every day, as the campaign pro-
crosses, that Maryland will elect Bryan and
Sewall electors by q large majority. We are
gaining more Republicans than we shall lose
Democrats. The PaImor and Buckner cleo
toral ticket, if one is put up. will not cost Bry
an Il single vote. / should like to see the third
electoral ticket named, as we could then find
out how many Democrats bolt the ticket"
While Mr.. Jones didn't say so, it may be infer
red that the rank and file of the party, in Mary
land, AS well as i'll other States, will know what
future use TO make of a roster of the boiling
Democrats.