The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1896-07-23
WASHINGTON.
WASHINGTON, July 18th, 1896.
From our Regular Correspondent.

VI tiiS DO'hCSiobiC ANitlOlldl SOlll-
mittee, returned to Washington this
week. He brought with him an i'm
mense stock of confidence which he
is freely distributing among demo
Gratis. He refuses to consider the
election of Bryan and Sewall other
than an absolute certainty, and he
says he knows prominent republicans
who take the same view of the situa-
tion, one of whom told him that he
would not be surprised to see silver
carry every state outside of New
England. He was asked if he feared
the nomination of gold democratic
ticket, and replied "Not IN the least.
Why should we1 1t will not carry
any State, and the only votes it will
get will be of those democrats who
would otherwise vote for Mckinley
or else go fishing. 1t may be called
an Independent ticket. Its convention
would not be representative of the
democratic party, because the demo-
cratic party, called together in nation
al convention by its national COM
mittee, has already acted. No one
has any authority to call another de.
mocratic convention. No, the threat,
if it may be called one, of certain
gentlemen to hold another conven-
ton has no terror. l understand that
several administration officials refuse
to support the nominee of the demo
cratic convention. They have never
been with us. The fact that they are
not with us now is not astonishing
Secretary Herbert was pro. .ably one
of the officials Senator Jones referred
to, as he is credited with having said
that he would not vote for Bryan and
Sewall.
Senator Faulkner, of w. Va, chair
man ofthe Democratic Congressional
Campaign Committee, believes that
the democrats can capture the House
this year and is determined that It
shall not be the fault of the commit
tee II they do not. He says: "The
province of this committee will be to
aid the election of any candidate for
Congress upon the regular democratic
ticket We have nothing whatever to
do with the nominations for Congress,
and will take no part in the contests
Tor them. After the candidates are
selected, however, it will be our bust
ness, and we will see to it that all the
aid possible is given for the election
of those candidates. We will take it
for granted that the democrats of each
district know what they are about,
and we will not question their selec-
ton. 1t will make no difference to
us what the platform may be upon
which the candidates are selected y
Senator Faulkner has no doubts about
the election of Bryan and Sewall, nor
about their carrying his own state, o.
which he said: 81 think West Vir-
ginia will be carried by free silver |
believe that the sentiment throughout
the state is overwhelmingly in favor
of It. In my own county l know
personally ofrepublican votes that we
will get with our platform. l think
the same condition exists in other
counties in the State. We will hold
our State convention August 18th,
and will nominate state ticket upon
silver basis throughout. Every one
of our Congressional candidates will
also be for silver"
The Congressional committee has
already placed large orders for Mr..
Bryan's speeches in Congress, in order
to be able to promptly fill the orders
for them which have already begun to
come in. Among the other dc Gu
ments selected by the committee for
campaign use are speeches on finance
by Senators Daniel, Jones, of Ark,
and Cockrell; on the income tax by
Representative McMillin and Ex-
Representative Wike, and Represent
tive Fitzgerald's speech on sectarian-
ism and the Marquette statue.
According to present indications,
the number of democratic clubs which
will take part in this years campai6 4
VIII largely exceed that of any previous
campaign. In one day, this week,
sixty applications for charters for new
clubs were received at the head
quarters of the National Association
of ofDemocratic Clubs.
There is reason to believe that a
bold attempt is to be made to prevent
the populist convention, which will be
held at st. Louis next week, endors-
ing Bryan and Sewal. Agents oi
those interested in having the popu-
lis put up ticket of their owl foi
the purpose of dividing the silver vote
are reported to have intimate1 tc
leading populists that any price they