The Arizona sentinel., 1896-09-26
WASHINGTON LETTER.
(From Our Regular Correspondent.}
WASHINGTON, Sept. 21, 1896.

questions at every secret COnClaVt
 held at popocratic headquarters
 Watson Is as autocratic in all his
 dealings with the members of the
 populist National Committee as
 Bryan IS with the members of the
 Democratic committee, and his dc
 mand that 5ewall be taken off the
 Bryan ticket to make room for him
 has reached stage where 1t can
 no longer be ignored. The popo-
 cratic managers have got to do something very soon, and they are at a loss to choose. Their original intention was to bunc0 Watson, and there Is reason to believe that Senator Butler, Chairman of the Populist National Committee, was a party to that intention; but Watson ha: sue 0 ded in stirril 2 up the populistS in portions of the South and West to such an extent that the popocrats have lost their nerve and are now in doubt about what to do, and bets have been made that they will wind up Iy throwing Sewall overheard. They would probably have done so be- fore now, if they did not hope for a lot of Sewall's money, and if they had not been afraid of it's effect in the East. After the New York Convention meets, this week, the last fear will not count. They know that they haven a ghost of 8 chance to carry an Eastern state, but they want the moral effect in other states of a declaration Tn favor of Pryan and Sewall, by the New York Democratic Convention.
 Good news continues to be about the only kind received at the Re publican headquarters It comes from every section and indicates that the reaction against the free and independent coinage of silver at ratio of 16 to by this Gov ernment is sles dily becoming stronger, even in states into which the Republican managers have sent neither literature nor speak CTS because they believed them hopelessly given up to free silver sentiment. This is, of course, pleasing, but no rain bow chasing is being done by Republicans; their efforts are being confined to states which they have a reasonable right to believe can be carried by Me KinIey and Hobart.
 The calm, di-passionate, legal like open letter which Attorney General Harmon made public several days ago is by far the most important utterance that has come from the administration, against Bryan's anarchistIc tendencies, not excepting the letter from MT. C!eve- land. MT. Harmons letter deals exclusively with that clause of the Chicago platform declaring against what it termed Federal interference in local affairs, which every body knows to have been almei at Mr. Cleveland's prompt expression of the interference with the U. s mail by the railroad rioters at Chicago, the most creditable thing in his administration, and with Mir. Bryan's pledge not to d. likewise should he become President, and a similar state of affairs be brought about again The following words of Attorney General Harmon are worthy of the careful study of every good citizen, regardless ot party: "This in my judgment, is a far more serious matter than the money question or any cthe" question now before the people, grave as they all are. Our form of 2 vernment may survive a wrong decision of those questions, and the people may en- dure for time the evils which result from false systems of finance and taxation, but if the President has deliberately disregarded the instrument upon which the Union is founded, by suppIanting the au- thori:y of a sovereign state by armed force. precedent has been made which threatens our form of government, while, if a candidate for President may properly pledge himself in advance, as Mir. Bryan has done, to do nothing to protect the property, maintain the author l ity and enforce the laws of the LLnited States. nnless and until