The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-07-17
CAMPAIGN

| The opening uuNoioP'houtp VI tne cam
raign are simply bewildering and il
r;l be weeks yet before men general
~ will be able to tell where they are
st The bolt from the Chicago nomi
nations. though it is yet only begin
ming to take organized form, is of
tremendous proportions. 1t is headed
by several cabinet officers, ex.Secre-
tary Fairchild, Senators Villas, Pal.
mer. Gray, Representative j. W.
Bailey of Texas, ex-Congressmen By
mum of Indiana. Lewis and Sperry of
Connecticut, City Controller Fitch
If New York and a number Of presi
Dental electors in various states, be-
sides the long list of distinguished
names given below.
Among the Democratic papers it is
almost sweep, in the west as well as
EAST. In Boston Lot a single Demo.
cratic daily sustains the ticket, the
Herald pronoupcing for McKinley.
while the Globe and Post seem to
want third ticket. In New York the
Sun. Herald, Times and Post all bolt
and the World also, practically, and
the only supporters of Bryan are the
News, a local sheet, and the journal
being built up to rivalry with the
World by Millionaire Hearst. In Phil
saelphia, both the Democratic papers,
tbe Record, owned by Col. W. W. Sin
gery, formerly candidate for governor
and the Times by Col. AK. Mcclure,
are out. In Chicago the only Dem
Ocratic paper, the Chronicle, fin Louis
yiIle all four of them, thrae of the
Ieading ones inIowa, theSun and News
| in Baltimore, othersRichmond. Charles
tOn Chattanooga, Mobile and New
Orleans. two in Illinois and one in
Minnesota and practically all the Ger.
man papers in the country are out.
So is the long time party organ in
New Hampshire, the Manchester
Union, and the New Haven Register
and the Hartford Times in Connecti-
cut The German vote, which is
50 strong in the west, is practically
solid against silver. The Irish Amer
lean in New York, for 80 years Demo
cratic also announces bolt.
Another convention and the nomi-
nation of sound money ticket may
be said to be certainty. The only
question is how much it will have
back of it. A great tactical mistake
vas made at Chicago that the anti
silver delegates didn't bolt at once
after the Michigan steal and issue
an address to the country while feel
inc was at it's highest tide. Every
days delay weakens the bolt That
this was not done at once was due
chiefly to the counsels of Hill, who
vas never at heart IN sympathy with
the side he led and who, according to
the latest reports, will end by support
ing the ticket. So will Murphy and
the Tammany gang generally.
But az organized bolt is started by
the gold Democracy of Illinois which
ISSUED circulars saying: 1.-THE sound
poney Democrats of Illinois hay e
fully made up their minds that new
Democratic convention should be
called for the earliest feasible day."
and calling upon the rest of the coun-
Try to unite in making arrangements.
Favorable reponses are being received
BY the thousand. The Missouri
Deovmracy is organizing to take hold
and the executive committee of the
New York state Democracy Wednes-
day adopted resolution favoring
the putting of third sticket in the
field. The names most considered for
the nomination are Secretary Carlisle,
Henry Watterson and Secretary Nor
Ion.
But in spite of it all Bryan is full OF
confidence. He says he is coming
east to take this fight into your fac
tories and among the masses. We are
bound to win because this is the
cause Of the people and of the under
hall" 1t is arranged that the official
Notification to him and Sewall shall
be given in Madison Square Garden,
New York. and Hill is to be asked to
preside.
Bryan has already announced that II
elected he will not be candidate for
second term and he has taken another
good stand in refusing all special cars
from railroad companies, but will ride
Ake common folks.
The American bimetalic union,
Ten Warner president, has issued an
address approving of the Chicago
Formations, and there is little doubt
mat it will carry the Populist con-
Fention with it next week.
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