The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-04-17
CAMERON FOR PRESIDENT.
His Nomination by the Free silver Men
of Both Parties Likely.

His Nomination by the Free silver Men
of Both Parties Likely.
Washington Special to the Philadelphia
Times.
The nomination of Horace Greeley for
the presidency on the democratic ticket
in 1872 was no more surprising to the
country than would be the nomination OF
]. Donald Cameron on the democratic
ticket at Chicago in July. 1896. And yet
that is now in contemplation in certain
political conferences.
This statement was made to-day in
committee room in the senate and II
came from a former member of congress
from Pennsylvania. He was member OF
the republican national convention in
1856 and again in 1860. He said:
II was i'm Harrisburg in 1880 when ST.
mon Cameron was entertaining Senator
Thomas F. Bayard of Delaware. 1t was
reported to Mr.. Cameron that General
Garfield would pass through Harrisburg
that afternoon on the way to the Chi
cago convention, where he was to lead
the Sherman forces. General Cameron
said: L don't care to see him. l have no
interest in Ohio politicians. Bayard was
at that time Cameron's candidate for the
presidency on the democratic ticket
General Cameron had no use for Ohio
politicians after Hayes refused to take
his son Don into his cabinet as secretary
u,
and he was never far removed from his
democratic friends. remember well
when democratic members of the legisla-
ture were threatened with personal vio-
lence if they voted for Cameron for the
senate.
But that is ancient history At nres-
ent Don Cameron has as many demo-
cratic friends as republican friends. He
is strong with the silver men of the ex-
treme West and In the South. The sill
yer men have already bolted from the
republican party in the senate and IL IS
strange to me that the republican leaders
do not realize the extent of that bolt
The silver republicans will walk out of
the st. Louis convention hold another
convention of their own and nominate
Don Cameron for the presidency. Two
weeks later the silver democrats will de-
mand a silver plank in the Chicago plat
form. II they succeed they will then
nominate Don Cameron on the democrat
&c ticket II they fail they will hold a
convention of their own and nominate
Don Cameron on the silver democratic
ticket. In either event Don Cameron will
receive the presidential nomination of
the silver republicans and the silver DEM
ocrats. If the democrats at Chicago
should nominate Don Cameron in the
regular convention he would prove TO be
a strong candidate. believe that the
plan Is at present TO nominate a ticket
with Cameron and Blackburn as the
standard bearers of the silverites OF
course Joe Blackburn is popular with
democrats north and south. and particu-
larry with the silver democrats Of the
South"
Senator Stewart of Nevada. when told
of this proposition. said: This IL no time
to be disclosing political plans or specu-
lations. Nevertheless l am ready to sup
port Cameron and Blackburn. / told you
nearly two years ago that we silver men
have always relied on Cameron's wore
for silver. just as implicitly as we have
relied on the vote OF Teller or Jones
Blackburn is also a silver man. and has
recently suffered defeat in the cause Of
the white metal That makes him sails
factory TO Us. and the silver men VINO
have been republicans will cheerfully
vote for Blackburn, just as the silver