Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1896-07-11

I time something must De uOHe.
That something they are beginning 10
believe is free silver, and this belief has,
| he writer says. become so deep-seated
! tina that section of the state has been
verified to free silver. Three free silver
leagues have been organized in ST. Lawr-
ence county alone, and others are being
rapidly organized in various counties of
the state. Sena or Malby of Ogdensbarg
IS quoted as admitting that the free silver
sentiment is unusually strong.
From WatertoWn comes the word that
the spread of the free silver sentiment is
astonishing and bids fair to crystalize
unless something is done to counterfeit
it, The editor of the WatertoWn Times,
W. d. Mckinstry formerly one Of the
civil service commissioners, went over
the county, and afterward stated that
what he had learned about free silver
in that part of the state astounded him.
If the silver men only organized he
thought the result would be doubtful for
the republicans. The HeraIds cores
pendent further said that he discovered
the farmers were no longer thinking of
the tariff but of the benefits to be de-
rived from free silver; one republican
candidate for sheriff and Two for treas
urer were making canvass on an out
and-out free silver platform; the cashier
o. the leading financial institution of
WatertoWn was for free silver, and re-
publican farmers were pouring into
WatertoWn's book stores for free silver
literature; that the one great topic of
conversation, in fact the only topic, is
20 free coinage Of silver and the bene-
n n h1 n
have on prices
AS the correspondent writing from OS-
wego puts it, that county has gone
daft on the question Of free silver to-
gether with the other northern counties
of that state. The movement does no,
appear to be confined strictly TO either
party. free silver league of 100 mem
bers has been organized and is spread
Ing free silver literature and pledging
farmers to support no candidate for the
presidency unless he pledges himself TO
the free coinage Of silver at 10 to /. The
free silver men have swallowed up what
is left of the democratic organization ana
the Palladium, the democratic organ,
preparing to accept free silver in it's last
issue, publishes this editorial:
"A compromise or a straddle would be
disa strous. 1t would be cOWardly We
want no such thing in the platform. Wln
or lose at Chicago, let US accept the result
and take the issue honestly to the Amer
lean people for final settlement. There
must be no boiling, no trucking, no de-
ception, no bargains. Let us have either
a free silver platform or else one declar-
ing for the gold standard. There is no
middle ground to take. New York
should put up her fight and acQuiesce IN
the outcome, whatever it may be
The correspondent concludes with the
significant statement: The thing one
most notices in talking to the farmers in
this country is a growing antipathy to
Wall street 1t is simply a sign, but it
is a portent of sectional prejudice that
bids fair to run wild soon. One hears
farmers say on every hand that what
Wall street wants they are opposed TO.
This feeling has travelled rapidly east
from the wheat fields of the west"
From LoWVille, another section of the
state, the Herald gets the word that party
lines are badly broken by the free silver
sentiment. At the democratic county
convention, held June Is, resolutions ia
Vorng free coinage at a ratio of IL to |
were adopted.
From Syracuse. n. Y, the Herald
prints the following dispatch:
Syracuse, n. Y, June 27, 1851 am
told by reliable persons who have spent
much time lately among the farmers OF
Onondaga Madison and Oneida counties
that the free silver sentiment among the
republican farmers has developed won
derfuuy since the St. Louis convention.
The section is being flooded with John
r. McLeans Cincinnati newspaper The
republican leaders are Immersed in the
quarrel between II. c. Plat and Warner
Miller, and are not taking up the issue