Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-09-24
Democratic Perple1ities in Fusing
With the Popuhsts.
BRYAN THINKS he has 4 CHANCE
Sound Money Sentiment Growing
in Colleges and Other Institutions.
N E w 1 S S U E

CoiLC ONO, september Sf.-Shdii-
man McConville of the democratic state
executive committee has not yet an
nounced his colleagues on the committee.
ard. SO far as is known. he Is conducting
the campaign alone. Many democrats are
expressing dissatisfaction at this, and de-
clare that this Fabian policy is losing the
party votes every day. Mr.. McConville
promises each week that he will announce
his committee next week." The trouble
seems to be in arranging for representation
of the populiStS the committee. The
fusion has brought with it many perplexi-
ties, the solution of which falls to the
chairman of the state committee. At the
republican state executive committee head
quarters they affect 10 believe that Chair
man McConville has chosen his committee
and 1t is hard at work on a still hunt to
capture the state. If the democrats are
doing much through the state committee. it
is certainly not being done at the head
quarters here. Not to exceed four clerks
have been employed about these quarters
at any time. Chairman McConville himself
spends most Of his time at the national
headquarters at Chicago and the work
here seems to be for the most part in
charge of Col. w. A. Taylor.
Claim as to the Western Reserve.
Col. Taylor has been giving out some
exceedingly. Ordinarily they would be set
down as unwarranted. but in this year of
uncertainties they are not to be so dis
missed. He claims to have received reports
from Lake county to the effect that the ag-
gregate membership Of free silver clubs in
that county is over LOO. That is three
times the number of votes that Col. Taylor
received in that county four years ago,
when he came within less than l 100 votes
of carrying the state. If such change has
actually been made there, in the heart of
the western reserve, the stronghold of the
republicans In this state. 1t means trouble
for the preublcans this fall. 1t should be
stated. however. that Col. Taylor is the
Col Sellers of Ohio politics. But there are
reports from other sources to the effect
that the free silver sentiment Is quite
strong all through the western reserve,
especially among the farmers.
Bryan Thinks He Has n Chance.
The announcement that Mr.. Bryan will
spend part of the last week of the cam
paign in Ohio is Indication to the republic
cans that he really thinks he has a chance
to carry ttis state ard that Chairman
Jones Of the national committee shares thar
view with him. OF course the republicans
dc not concede that there is possibility of
this, and. indeed, If the republicans cannot
carry Ohio it will hardly be possible for
them to carry any state. Senator Teller is
also mere this week speaking for free sill
yer, and other prominent advocates of free
coinage are promised before the campaign
is eI ded.
The state committee of the national or
opening of their state campaign here next
Tuesday evening. The program has not
yet been published. but Executive Chair
man James Caren says it will be without
ostentation. Probably only local speakers
will be present. The committee does not
expect to do i. great deal of work OF
course it is without funds to carry on an
active campaign il all of the state, but
many in. portant meetings will be held I'M
der its auspices. 20 be addressed by dem
Ccrats who would not speak even for
solrd II oney under republican auspices.
Colleges for Sound Money.
A sound money movement is now spring
irg I'D in this state among the colleges
and other institutions that rest upon en-
dowments and have fixed incomes. The
managers of these concerns see, of course.
that their incomes will be Gu: in two by
such change in the money standard as is
proposed by the democrats. Most OF these
institutions religious in character and
the influence is likely to flow out through
the churches they represent to many thou
sand voters In the last week two of the
professors of the Ohio Wesleyan Univer-
sity at Delaware, one of the largest edu-
cdtional Institutions Of the Methodists in
the republican state committee for work
on the stump.
Locally, at least, there is noticeable a
subsistence of free silver agitation. The
democratic committee has secured a vacant
store room on the principal street here, in
which is being conducted a free silver
school" At first great crowds hung
around the school. and the takers were SO
many and so loud that the police were ap-
pealed to by neighboriny merchants to
make the people move on" But now the
crowds are small and quiet. The free sill
yer leaders say this is due to the &C ton of
the railways and other large employers in
forcing their employees to support the single
gold standard. They say it is riSkins, his
job for an employe to take part in a silver
meeting. They will vote for free silver,
however. because they can do it and not
let their employers know it. 1t seems to he
a fact that large majority Of The railway
men who are now employed are for sound
money. no matter what the cause of it is.
When j. Twin Brooks, vice president of the
Pennsylvania lines, addressed the Railway
Employees Sound Money Club of this city
a week ago, 2,1OO railway employees march
ed from the depot to the board OF trace
building to hear him, and the speaker was
most enthusiastically received by them.
Fear as to Cleveland.
Many Of the free silver advocates here
are now saying that the issue is no longer
free coinage alone but that the question OF
whether capital shall dictate how labor
| shall vote has come to be paramount in the
election. This matter is being urged with
great effect in the city of Cleveland, where
| on account of two bad strikes early in the
summer. which resulted in calling out the
state militia and some bloodshed, the la
| boring men are particularly wrought up
| 1t Is feared by some republicans that the
city of Cleveland will be carried by the
democrats as the result. If So this will be
| a great loss to the republicans, as the city
| is usually good for republican plurality
of about 1000. The city of Cincinnati is
sure to give greatly increased republican
| plurality. This is due to its enormous Ger
| man voting population. Last year Hamil.
| ton county gave republican plurality OF
| over $1,000. Good authority puts the pIu-
ralty this year at over $4,000.