The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-06-21
The Single StandardlD emocrats
Organizing.
WHITNEY TO BE LEADER
While Senator German will Fur
nish the Tact.
PLANS OF THE CONSIDERATIONS
Their Purpose is to Fight for the Con-
testing Delegations and Claim
That Compromise Candi-
date can be Elected.
date can be Elected.

Your correspondent has been talk
ing with men of different views and
| reading papers representing every
shade of opinion. 1t is an open secret
that the most adroit managers in the
Democratic party are organizing for
supreme effort to turn the free sill
yer victory in the primaries into a de-
feat in the convention.
German is to furnish the tact and do
the man-euvering, Whitney is to foot
the bills and it is no longer to be doub-
ted that Ransom will be an active back
er of Whitney and German, at last in
so far as their efforts are legitimate.
Germans purpose is to fight with the
zeal, energy and shift of an unscupu-
lous attorney for the contestingdelega
tons. That plan failing, the next ruse
will be by concerted effort all along
the line of leading gold organs to pro-
duce the impression that a gold plat
form and compromise candidate will
still carry New York, Delaware, Mary
land, New Jersey, and Connecticut, as
if the Southern Democrats had forgot
ten how the New York Democrats
used Cleveland as a tool of the gold
bugs and then at the polls turned a
deaf ear to appeals both from him and
Hill.
The city papers say that the average
Southern politician cares more for sue
cess than for principle. Convince them,
say some of the big papers, that a gold
platform will bring New York back
into the Democratic column and they
will fling silver to the four winds. Our
safety lies in closing our ears to the
songs of such sirens and forming an
alliance offensive and defensive with
the thousands of agriculturalists in the
Northwest whose interests are identi-
cal in almost all respects with our own.
This course is demanded by principle
as well as by political policy founded
upon a considerable and wise forecast
of the future.
1t is well for us now to contemplate
the contingency of revolt on the part
of Northeastern Democrats. Your
friends up here have wondered that
you have not addressed the pertinent
inquiry to the gold standard organs
in North Carolina: ''What will you do
if Cleveland, German, Whitney and
Ransom had bolt of the minority
when the silver majority repeats the
two-thirds ruler"
The last resort of the Clevelandites.
il is an open secret, will be to leave the
convention and deny the right Of the
majority TO nominate a free silver
Democrat. The calculation of the gold
men is that administration influence
can defeat the free silver electoral
ticket in the South though supported
by over half the Populists if they adj
here to the gold ticket as the true ex-
ponent of Cleveland Democracy.
David B. Hill it is thought will bow to
the will Of the majority,
Hon James g. Blaine had the best
memory of any public man in Amer
lea, said Hon. w. 4. Guthrie, of North
Carolina, TO a Post reporter. Il never
had the pleasure Of meteing him, but
once, and no sooner had / announced
my name and State, than be
said: Were you not a Pres
idential elector on the Republic
can ticket in North Carolina four years
ago? There was man of your name in
the list" 1t was true, and l regard it
as a most wonderful thing that he
should have remembered one elector
out of hundreds, and one whom he had
never seen or heard Of.
This incident occurred at the inaug
uration of President Harrison, and L
remarked to Mr. Blaine that | regret
ted deeply that he was not the man
in whose honor the ceremonies were
being held His face lit up with a brief
smile, and, thanking me in his elegant
way, he said: Yes, but it was not to
be so written in the book Of fate
Senator Stewart is quoted as saying:
''Fhe Presidents communication on
the gold question goes to show his ex-
treme modesty. He frankly admits
that he is the only man in the Demo
cratic party, and that whatever he
says or thinks is right. Well, in the
West we think differently. There is
no room in the West or South for two
gold parties. The Republicans have
stolen a march on the Democrats in
this respect, and it will lose them the
election. There is no use for the Dem
ocrats to come out for gold standard
now Free coinage of silver is all that
is left to them. Then the party will
sweep the West and South and leave
Mckinley SO far behind that he will
not know that he was in the race"
II am pretty sanguine that New
York will go Democratic this year, it
matters not what the Chicago conven-
ton does on the financial question"
said Hon. Amos Cummings at Cham
berlain's 1.-THE people of New York
State are thoroughly Disguised with
reform administrations that have pro-
| duced the Raines bill and other mon
strosities of legislation. They are mad
all the way through and 80 per cent
of them are more interested in turn
| ing down a party that encroaches on
their liberties and brings back an era
| of blue laws and Puritanism, than in
| the platform Of "a National conven-
! ton"
Mike Doran will obey the administra-
ton request Before his departure for
New York he said that if, after con-
sultation with eX-Secretary Whitney
and others of the party leaders, it was
deemed advisable that he remain for
the Chicago convention, he would
abandon his European trip, and use
his very best efforts to keep the Demo
cratic party in the straight and golden
way at the convention. Before his de
parture, Mr.. Doran had a long talk
with President Cleveland. The Presi-
dent urged him to attend the conven-
ton and do his utmost to stem. the
rising tide of free silver sentiment