The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-08-19
SKIRT CAMPAIGN
IS UNPOPULAR
Leading Democrats Are Disguised at the
Activity Of Mrs. Bryan.
SHE IS A NEW WOMAN IN EARNEST
And Runs the Campaign to Suit Her.
self..The Reason Of Senator Cor.
mans Refusal to Act on the Com.
mittee..HOn. Richard Parks Bland
Has Hopes Of yivania..S Sena.
tor CamerOn's Course.
Bureau of The Tribune.
sol Fourteenth street. n. W.,

Washington, Aug. IS.
Nobody can blame Senator Gorman
for declining to accept n place ON the
Bryan campaign committee, especially
since it has been decided to establish
the headquarters of the national COM
mittee in Chicago instead of in New
York or Washington. Gorman's ex-
cuse for not accepting the preferred
place is that Chicago is too far away
from Maryland for him to give much
of his time to the work which would
be assigned him by Chairman Jones.
IL is doubtful If German would have
accepted the job if headquarters had
been established in Washington, or.
for that matter, in Baltimore. lie Is
not heart and soul either for the plat
form Or the ticket named at Chicago.
He Is not Il free silver man, neither is
he much OF u free trader, either. For
those reasons he was glad to nave
good excuse to get out Of nauseating
job.
Then MIR. Gorman will have more
than he can attend to In political
way in Maryland. His fences and
those of his party are badly shaken In
that state, and it will require all of his
attention to fix them up. OF course,
Senator GormanS term does not expire
until March 3. 1899, but he is anxious
about the state patronage which he
and his party lost two years ago.
Without the state machinery at his
back Senator German is in an almost
helpless condition. and unless he can
retrieve his lost political fortunes to
L..
retire to the quiet of private life. Cor
man has been feeding at the public
crib since boyhood. He first entered
Uncle Sans service as u page in the
senate, when he was thirteen years
of age, and with the exception of ten
years-frOn 1870 to 1SSO-during which
time he held office under the state of
Maryland-Mr. German has had "a firm
hold on the government seat. 1t is u
pretty good record for u man who is
only 81 years old to have held office A
years. From present indications he
Will DE forced into retirement at the
end of his present term unless the
people Of Maryland change their minds
nightly in the next two years.
The Hon. Richard Parks Bland. the
man who didn't get the presidential
nomination ON the Democratic Popu-
listic ticket. but who had his heart and
soul dead sot ON it, drifted into Wash
ington Monday from New York. where
he left Brother Bryan and his wife
manager. In speaking of the Bryan
party's trip through Pennsylvania last
week. Mr.. Bland said it was "'rhc most
and that he wouldn't be- surprised if
that state was found ia tn" silver col
umn this year Mr.. Bland might not
be surprised but there are several thou
sand people in Pennsylvania who will
lee if their state doesn't give Mckin-
ley and Hobart upwards of 200 900 ma
jority. Great crowds do not mean any
thing. Take. for instance. the Singerly
campaign for governor two years ago.
Did any candidate ever have larger or
apparently more enthusiastic crowds at
his meetings that had Mr.. Singerly. or
was any candidate showed under by
such an avalanche of votes than the
commodore? y defeat by 2450OO major
ity is crushing, but ii is nothing com
pared tU the licking Bryan and his free
silver fallacy will get in Pennsylvania
next November.
1t Is Mrs. Bryan and not Senator
Jones who Is conducting the Demo
cratic Populistic campaign. Ii was she
who insisted upon the headuuarters of
the committee being located at Chi
cago. She thinks Chicago is her hus-
bands mascot, because he happened to
be nominated for president In that city.
1t Is said that the members Of the ma
tional committee are very much dis
lusted in the skirt" end of the Bryan
outfit. They say that Il man who is
SO absolutely under the control of his
wife as Bryan is, ought not to be preSi-
dent. Mrs. Bryan is a very brilliant
and talented woman, but her place is
not On the STUMP in "a political cam
paign. A gentleman who attended the
Madison Square meeting is responsible
for the statement thar IL was with the
greatest difficulty that Mrs. Bryan was
persuaded to occupy box instead of
seat ON the platform along side her
husband when he was speaking. The
committee in charge Of the meeting had
to almost command Mrs. Bryan to take
a seat elsewhere than on the platform.
Candidate Bryan ought to protit by the
experience of one Mr.. Lease, of Kansas.
whose wife has driven him into political
as well as business and social obscurity.
While Senator Cameron has been
more or less identified with the cause
Of silver he cannot swallow either the
Chicago platform OF the ticket. Senator
Cameron is above all a Republican. If
his party does not agree with him in
all things he is not going to forsake it
like Teller. Dubois and others. He will
vote for Mckinley and Hobart because,
as he very aplty said TO our interviewer,
that he sis no fool" Thousands Of 9th
Ell Republicans who are claimed by the
silver people are in the same boat with
Senator Cameron. They may think
well of silver but they love party more.
w. X. Il.
Evstrr ~ Poisoned.