The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-07-10

From our regular Correspondents


gusted with the present attitude of a
majority of his party on the financia
question that he wants to be where hi
can commune with the wild waves oi
Buzzard's Bay when he hears the news
from the Chicago Convention, and he
is accordingly making his arrange
ments to leave Washington this week
1t took long time for him to get it
through his head that a big majority
of the democratic party was for free
silver, but now that all the delegates
to the Chicago Convention have been
selected, he is at last convinced, and
he is mad all the way through about
it, and is takingFit out on members of
his cabinet by accusing them of mis-
leading him in regard to democratic
sentiment in their states.
The best informed democrats now
accept it as practically settled fact
that the platform adopted by the
Chicago convention will declare for
the free coinage of silver, and the eff
forts of the anti-silver democrats are
now being directed towards getting
man whose opinions on that subject
are not radical nominated for Presi-
dent, and they haven't much hope of
accomplishing even that much. They
will not bolt if they fail. but it is an
open secret that none of them will
render any active help in the cam
paign for radical silver man on a
free coinage platform, and that many
of them who do not for reasons of
their own, care to openly repudiate
their party's ticket will quietly knife
it at the polls without the slightest
conjunction.
1t seems practically certain that
more than nine-tenths of the German
Americans will be found working and
voting for Mckinley and Hobart this
year. The Great American sound
money league, composed Of both re-
pnblicans and democrats, has served
notice upon each individual delegate
to the Chicago convention that the
German Americans will support no
platform which does not declare
against the independent free coinage
of silver under present circumstances.
In this notification were some inter-
esting figures gathered by the League.
OF the 581 German American news
papers in this country which discuss
politics 499 are in favor of the present
money standard, 80 are for the free
coinage of silver, and AZ have not
taken definite stand on either side.
A majority of these pepers are pub
lished west of the Allegheny noun
tains.
Mr.. j. X. Mcdonald, manager of
the Elyton Land Company of 3irm-
ingham, Ala, who has been demo-
crat all his life, is now visiting Wash
ington. He says he is inclined to vote
for Mckinley and Hobart, and that
many of his democratic friends and
business associates will do the same
because they consider free coinage,
which he calls as great delusion as
was the old greenback movement, to
be dead against the business interests
of Alabama.
Although the hardest work of the
campaign will not be on until all the
nominations for Congress have been
made, things are already quite brisk
at the rooms OF the Republican Con-
gressional Campaign Committee, and
much literature is being sent out. 1t
is the purpose of the committee to
concentrate its work upon those dis
sricts which may reasonably be con-
sidered doubtful. Chairman Babcock
hasn't the slightest doubt about the
republicans retaining control of the
House, but he will work just as hard
as though it were a matter of doubt
in order that the majority may be as
large as possible.
| Senator Gorman's friends make nc
bones of charging the responsibility
for the triumph Of the silver wing ol
the party upon Mr.. Cleveland. They
say that months ago, he was urged to
write letter saying that he was not
candidate for denomination and thai
he would not attempt to.control the
choice of the convention: This Mr.
Cleveland refused to do, until the sill
yer wing was in control, and ever
then heso mofded the letter that h
might still accept the nomination
should 7anyehance combination Of cir
cumstances bring him the opportunit.
Fi,ey say fnrthef~tlsat it would hav'
been easy to have defeated the silve
wing of the party had it not been TO
the fear on the part of many demo