The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-07-14
SILVER DEMOCRATS APPALLED, AT
THE RESULT OF THEIR CON-
vENTIay.
THEIR WORK. REPUDIATED
DEMOCRATIC PRESS ALMOST UNAN-
IMOUs IN DENOUNCiNG TICKET
AND PLATFORM,
SOLID SOUTH SURE ITO BE SPLIT.
Gold Men Are Saying Nothing But
Are Conferring. Together
for Future, Action.

WASHINGTON, July 13.-While the
| representatives Of the administration
here and the sound money Democrats
| in general are silent, they are not idle.
Today has been busy day with them.
! There are consultations, careful stud
| les of the situation as reflected by the
| returning statesmen and politicians.
| and close reading Of the newspaper re-
ports from all directions.
These consultations are not by the
mere putting Of heads together. The
wires between New York and Washing
ton, as well as those to other cities.
and connecting with the delegates who
are returning by rail, are kept busy.
| What will be the conclusion cannot vet
| De determined. One thing is certain.
that the Democratic-Populis ticket
ana platform need expect no support
from the sound money element of the
East, whether it formerly trained I'M
der Democratic or Republican BAN
ners
1t is becoming apparent that the ex-
IRENE attitude Of the silverites and an
archlsts who managed the convention
and constructed the platform Is far
from acceptable to a considerable ele
ment of the section for which it was
especially framed-the South. Advices
| reach the leaders here to the effect
that fifteen leading newspapers In the
prominent cities of the South. which
have heretofore swallowed ANYTHING
offered by the Democracy. have re.
fused absolutely to support the ticket
or platform. These papers are located
in all the great cities of the South.
except New Orleans and their inf1u-
ence Is expected to be very strong in
favor of sound money.
SILVER MEN sAGHAsT.
This development in the very section
winch has so strongly supported the
free silver doctrine, and whose repre-
sentat1ves in the convention forced the
entire platform down the throats Of
the more conservative men of the North
ana the west, is surprising the silver
men mere, and proving extremely graf
Hylng 10 the friends Of sound money
Inc nIteen Southern Democratic pa
pers which have declared against the
platform and candidate are as follows.
BALTIMORE SUN.
BALTIMORE NEWS.
WILMINGTON EVERY EVENING.
RICHMOND STATE
| RICHMOND TIMES
PETERSBURG INDEX
CHARLESToN NEWS AND COURIER.
CHATTANOOGA TIMES.
NASHVILLE BANNER.
| GALVESTON NEWS.
| DALLAS NEWS.
LOUISVILLE COURIER-JOURNAI
LOUISVILLE TIMES. -
LOUISVILLE POST
/ LOUISVILLE ANZEIGER
These papers are, 1t will be seen.
| with possibly one or two executions I
the leading organs of their respective
states, and published at the leading
cities not only of their respective
states, but the leading cities of the
South. The only Southern cities of
consequence. not already represented
IN this list are Atlanta and New
Orleans, and there Is reason to believe
that the developments in those cities
will add to the above list, while ii ia
confidently expected that when the
smaller places are heard from the list
Will be greatly enlarged. This deyeloD-
| ment in the South is a surprise to the
silverites. They had looked upon that
section as practically solid for their pet
scheme, and ready to swallow ANYTHING
which might be associated with it. The
fact that nearly all the leading dailies
OF that section repudiate the platform.
however, throws them into a state of
alarm and shows that they have un-
aertaKen much greater task than
they mad supposed. Z
SEVENTY FIVE PAPERS SECEDE.
But it is not In the South alone that
they are finding the. press of the cities.
great and small, against them. Up
TO date no less than Seventy-fiye Demo-
cratic or Independent Democratic pa-
pers have declared against the plat
form and ticket. These are located in
all the great cities East. and as far
west as the Mississippi, and through
out the South. They include. as has
been already indicated, all the Demo-
cratic papers Of New York, Boston.
Philadelphia, Baltimore, Chicago, ST.
Paul, Detroit. Louisville, Richmond.
and other great Cities and many in
the smaller cities of the East and the
Mississippi Valley. These things en-
courage the friends Of sound money
and correspondingIy depress the sill
ver1tes, who now begin to feel that
they nave overdone the thing by the
extreme expressions Of the platform
and the outrageous treatment of the
men who did not agree with them.
what Will be the course Of the sound
money Democrats is not vet deter.
mined. This is the gist of the4consuI-
tations which are in progress by wire
dHu HAL ana Word or mouth today It
Will be several days before the matter
Is fully and finally determined.
There are some reasons why the
leaders here believe they would do well
to put separate ticket into the field
but there are some obstacles which,
now appear to be insurmountable. In
New York, for instance, the ballot laws
Will not permit an Organization which
cannot show given number of votes
at the last election to have its tickets
printed and accepted as legal. This
fact might be fatal to the proposition
TO put second Democratic ticket in
the field in that state. And there are
other almost equally great difficulties
elsewhere. a
The members of the Cabinet will say
nothing for publication until a policy
has been adopted by the gold-standard
Democrats, because they will then be
able to determine With greater pre-.
c1sion just what their course will be.
The disposition is to run no separate
gold candidate If such a course
seems likely to help the silver ex-
tremists. 9I, n