Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-07-20

action or utterance. The words poure
from him in rhythmical volume, burnish
ing his ideas and facts until they shon
like diamonds.
HIS tropes, SMILES and metaphors wer
marvellous. The whole speech was iri
descent. The delegates sat as if enchant
ed, breaking into applause at odd mo
ments as though touched by electric
wires. 1t was display of eloquence
pure and undefled, something that re
! called the DAY of Sergeant s. Prentiss o
of David Paul Brown. Henry Clay himsel
could not have created 80 great Juror.
shall not attempt to describe it. Pal
and exhausted, but with flashing eyes ant
smiling face, he was raised to the sho uld
ers Of the Nebraska delegation, while thu
guldons of three-fourth of the states were
dancing around him.
There was an ocean of applause while i
lasted. Those bearing the guidonl
marched in proc ession around the dele
gates, shouting chorus of satisfaction.
was tribute ne yer before paid to liv
ing orator.
The vote was taken and the fight wal
won. The gold men had made their fina
stand and hsen defeated.-Am j. Cum
mings In Boston Herald.
NOT A SECTIONAL CAMPAIGN.
Washington.-The Post says editorial
ly: The St. Louis Globe-D Democrat vigor
orously contrasts the claim that the fret
silver issue 1s a sectional rather than 6
political one, arraying the south and the
west against the east, regardless of ordi'
nary partisan considerations. 1t states
and no one will deny the substantial ac'
curacy of the assertion-that, 80 far az
the Republican party is concerned, the
free silver forces have never gained any
hold upon it outside of the few silver
producing states. It is true that there
are free silver Republicans in many other
states, and that some of them have bolt.
ed and others threaten to bolt the st.
Louis platform and candidates. But up
to this date the Republican party has
been little troubled with silver outside of
the states which produce that metal. An
analysis of the 1861 votes of the silver
faction in the st. Louis convention shows
that sixty-two came from such states and
thirty three and one-half came from
southern states that are Democratic, the
rest being contributed in scattering
way from other quarters.
Although some of the Republican
states, notably Ohio and Kansas, have
displayed timidity and an inclination to
do the grand straddling act, the Globe
Democrat is justified I'M the assertion
that not single Republican state con-
vention has declared for free silver ex-
cept in the comparatively narrow region
where silver mines are located. There ls,
in fact, no sectional division in the Re-
publican party on the issue. What in.
the strength of the party during the cam
paign can not now be, estimated. But,
in view of the voting at st. Louis last
month the Globe-D Democrat may fairly
claim that the money plank of the plat
form represents Republican sentiment
throughout the whole country, exclusive
of the small cluster of states and territor-
les in which the white metal abounds and
the people are all for fres coinage.
Turning to the Democratic party, our
ST. Louis contemporary finds, as the free
coinage Democratic leaders have always
claimed, that the organization 10 thor
oughly impregnated with the free silver
sentiment, not merely in the silver-pro-
ducing states, but in the states where such
q thing as silver ore is utterly unknown.
II is pointed out that the Democratic
state conventions OF Missouri, Iowa, Illi-
nois, Indiana, Ohio and other important
states have adopted free silver platforms
and elected free silver delegates to the
Chicago convention. It is the same in
all of the southern states, and even in the
east the Globe Democrat shows that the
silver men have carried several districts
and caused the New York state convention
to wobble and temporize about the mat
ter.
II appears, therefore, that in a general
way the division is far more political than
sectional. It is not north against south.
nor east against west, but party against
party. The Democracy has been free
silver party for long time. The test
votes in congress are ample proof of that.
The Republican party has hesitated, dal-
lied and straddled in the pas., but has
been compelled at last to stand squarelY
for the gold standard and against free
coinage. 1t reached the forks of the roads
at st. Louis, and it took the gold road for
the same reason that the Democrats are
on the other road-because the time for
dodging was gone by and the majority
had determined to declare its faith.
TELLER WILL SPEAK FOR BRYAN.
Lincoln, Neb.--That William j. Bryan
will receive the support of Henry M. Tel
ler, of Colorado, there is no longer any
doubt. Bryan to-day received letter
from Senator Teller in which he told him
he would support him in the race for
president. The letter reads as follows:
Denver, July II, 1896.
Hon. W. ]. Bryan, Lincoln, Neb.:
Dear Sir-I congratulate you on your
nomination at Chicago. think the
country is to be congratulated also. l
need not assure You that your nomination
was more than satisfactory to me.
think we shall be able to consolidate the
friends Of free silver in your support and
If We do this believe you will be elected,
although do not overlook the tremen-
dous power that will be put against Us in
this campaign.
All the money power and organic ID
wealth, corporations and monopolies OF
all kinds will be against us. Justice is on
our side and this is the cause of the peo.
pie. It is contest for industrial inde'
pendence and for freedom from the dom
ination of foreign powers and capitalists
and IL does not seem possible in such q
contest before the American people that
Justice should fail and wrong prevail.
do not believe We shall fail. think
can promise you the cordial support Of
western silver men who have heretofore
acted with the Republican party, and il
you get that think all the western coast
and inter-mountain states will be will
you. I will not offer suggestions to yor
save to advise that you make no pledges
or promises so you may 60 into tie
great office Of president Of the United
States without the embarrassment tina,
follows pledges and promises, even o.
such 40 may be properly carried ont. I,
will afford me pleasure to place myself al
the disposal Of the national committe,