The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-09
DOESN'T TRUST THEM.
Mrs. Diggs Says the Fight of
Gold Democrats Is Sham.
They Want to Elect Mckinley
on Gold Platform.
Mrs. Diggs Will Speak in the Popu-
list Campaign in Kansas-Favors
Harris for ACKNOWLEDGMENT
See How PopuIists Can
Help Winning.

See How Popul1s6s Gan
Help Winning.
Little Annie" Digga was in Topeka
again yesterday for the first time IN
many months.
A reception was given for her at
Judge Webb's residence on Quincy
street yesterday afternoon and she ad-
dressed the several women assembled
there as the Woman's Progressive 70
She viii be here the rest of this week
and is stopping at DR.. McLall1n'S nome
on West Eighth street.
A Journal reporter found her there
last evening. She was in her usual
good humor and was looking well. She
talked about silver, POpulism and SUI
frage.
I presume I know, through my con-
nectiOn with the National -Bimetallic
league she said, more about the
Democratic party and the silver stu
alton than is generally known Ihe
gold bugs of the Democratic party want
the Chicago convention to declare for
silver. It is their plan that it shall.
The fight they are making for gold is
a sham.''
And when it does. what do the Dem
ocratic oddities intend to do?" asked
the reporter.
Vote for Mckinley, of course. They
saw months ago that the Democratic
party was fOredoomed to defeat in this
campaign and the only hope of gold
they had left was to elect Mckinley
on a gold platform.
You remember that some time ago
Mr. Whitney announced that he was
going to Europe to spend the summer
You remem Der also that a short time
ago he announced with a flourish of
trumpets that since the silver senti-
ment has become so strong he would
stay at home and help fight it at the
Chicago convention. That was part
of the sham. He never intended to
go to Europe"
do you think there is any probable
ity now that the POpuliSts will allow
national fusion with the Democrats on
d silver PLATFORM"
That would depend greatly on who
was nominated. am sure they would
not indOrse Mr.. Bland, and certainly
not Mr.. BOies.
If Mr.. Teller were nominated. or
Mr.. Sibley, I think it possible the Pop
ulists would take them up, but they
are both out of the question now, and
don't think the POpulists would indOrse
any man who has never until this year
stepped out of either of the old par
ties"
How about suffrage?"
oh it is growing rapidly. Tt is
only question of a little time until
with Colorado, Utah and Wyoming as
a fulcrum we will have suffrage in
every state in the Union
"Of course you will make some
speeches in this PopuHst campaign"
"Of. course L will
n~KansaS?'
Yes, [ think I shall spend most of
my time here. I don't see how the
Popuists can help winning in Kansas
this year
OF course you will nominate Har-
ris?"
I hope so"
Mrs Lease says a wall for Lewelling
is arising from the Kansas farmers"
Does she? 1t hasn't reached my
ears
Mrs. Diggs spent the winter in Wash
ingtOn until the adjournment of con-
gress. Since that time she has been
resting at Perry, Jefferson county,
where her son and husband are.
Mr. Digs junior is druggist and
his father is a boOxleeper. Mrs Discs
goes back to Perry Saturday, and from
there to the st. Louis conventions.
There viii be a world of things go
ing on in st. Louis this month";" she
said. our national convention and
! the Bimetallic league meet there on the
same day. the 21st, and the co-operativ
congress meets two days before.
Speaking of bimetaIlists, did you
know that the Democrats of the BIZ
metallic league had their minds made
UP that If the Chicago convention
should declare for gold they would
leave the party, join the POpulists and
free silver Democrats and sweep the
sOuntry? That was the plan, but the
gold Democrats have spiked the game. -
Have you any choice for a POpulist
presidential nominee"
Il don't know that 7 have. Any
! broad. good man will suit me"
win the Populist convention reiter-
ate in full the Omaha PLATFORM"
Undoubtedly it will, with the initia-
| tive and referendum plank added. 1t
| will be broad platform. and there will
| be no tampering to narrow down the
| old one"
DO you hear many probable candi-
dates mentioned in your paFty?"
''Oh, of course we can always talk
! about Ignatius DOnnelly and Thomas
| V. Gator of California. both grand men,
| and many Others-Allen, PETER and
| Watson among the number.
I'VE don't go much on candidates in
| our party. It's what we want to do
! that comes first. There is no dearth
/ of good. strong men.
But if I had my choice, my ideal
| candidate is Henry D. Lloyd of Chi
! cagO. There is no better man.
! I should have been glad to see Mr.
! Sibley nominated, but he is no longer a
/ pOssib ility. The POpulistS are hardly in
| the temper to take up any man who has
| been named in either of the old par
/ ties"
How is your Colorado colony getting
| on?"
We'll the irrigation ditch is rapidly
| being finished and in a few months
! perhaps, we may go out there, 200 OF
/ 900 of US"
JOSE MACEO WOUNDED.