The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1896-09-18
Washington, Letter

Washington, Sep. Il, 1896 -Bry-
ans enthusiasm hes beer on tap IN
Washington this week. The Arkansas
election started the ball by putting all
the Democrats in a jubiIant humor, and
the news which has been coming TO Bry-
an headduarters has all been Of pleas
ing l.ature to his supporters The local
Democrats are fairly buholiog over IN
their enthusiasm while engaged IN I'M 1k-
ing p,e2arations for the ing meeting
they are to hold on the 18Th inst, and
which is to be addressed by Mr.. Bryan
Unless present auticipalions fail to be
realized it will be the biggest political
meeting ever held in Washington.
put up or shut up is the gamblers
argument but there are times when II Is
the most convincing that can possibly be
advanced Representative Mercer. sec
retarv OF the Republican congressional
committee, is from Nebraska and ne
never tires OF claiming that state for Nc
kinlev. This week Mr.. C. II PIrtle, of
populist headquarters, who i also from
Nebraska, sent Mr.. Mercer word that ne
had $500 TO wager that Bryan would
carry Nebraska. Mr.. Mercer did not ac-
cept the wager
Senator Faulkner said OF the silver vic
tOry in Arkansas: If 1t mas any sig
niticance, 81 Is not that the battle Is won
for the Democratic nominees, but as evil
dencing the fact thatin one Of the great
est agricultural states Of the Union the
candidates nominated and the prlncl-
pies announced at Chicago meet the APP
provaI and command the support of the
great agricultural and laboring classes so
strongly represented in that state. 1t
appear, further that the grcit amount of
campaign literature sent into Arkansas
by the Republican organization had no
other effect than to stimulate To strong
er efforts tnCse who are now realizing
that the great producing classes of the
country must have relief from continu-
ally falling prices, resulting from the
gold standard -
Representative Bankhead, of Ala,
says his state will give Bryan 20, 900 ma
jority regardless of anything the pnpu
sts may do and If the populists 70
with the Democrats 1t will go mucn
higher
Deputy Commissioner of Pensions,
Bell, was a very mad man when he
found out that 1t had been lelegraphed
convert to free silver and that his con
version was the result of his having be
come offended because President C.eve-
land had not promoted him. He sand,
indignantly: There Is not particle OF
truth IN this story. l am not recent
convert to free silver, but have been ad
vocating 1t openly and above-board, as
everybody knows who krowS me, for
years | was IN full sympathy with my
party in Illinois at the time of the silver
convention Ia that state over year ago.
! Moreover, / have never been an applicant
for any promotion in the pension bureau
since | secured my present position, nor
have expected any promotion | am
now and have been for the free and un-
limited coinage of both gold and silver
| at the ratio of 10 to /, without awaiting
| the action of any other country, for the
reason that | believe it to be economi-
| cally, scientifically historically and legal
| ly right, and for the further reason that
| believe ii to be for the best interests OF
the great majority of the people of thi:
| country am for free coinage of silver
and for the election of Bryan, because ]
| believe that the best interests of the
/
| ton, and the restoration of silver to the
position it occupied as primary money
in this country prior to 1873.
Mr.. James L Norris, assistant treas
| urer of the Democratic national com
mittee., and president of the Jackson
| Democratic, association Of Washington
made a fiery speech before the latter or
ganiZation this week, in which he said
~ the candidates named by the true
aud only Democratic party at Chicago
are to be elected we must waste no tim,
in the states that opposed the war O
1912. There was the peace factor
then, as there is the gold faction now
there was legaliZed state smuggling theI
defraudiug the nation, sS there is the il
legal syndicate despoiling the fedora
treasury now; they had Quncys theI
who declared separation of the states
'amicably if we can. and violently if W,
must; they had a British party then, a
we have a Morgan RothschIlds syndi
cate; The pulpit then Numbered agains
the war, as ii thunders against genuin
patriotism to day"
No utterance during the campaigi
has been more pleasing to the friends O
Mr.. Bryan than the words of Senate
Teller in speech at Morrison, III.
which were telegraphed to Washington
senator Teller said: Il think | know
every man in public life among tn
Democrats who had the slightest claim
10 nomination, and / say TO you her
now, after an acquaintance of more thar
seven years with Mr.. Bryan, and pref
ty close acquaintance with him, too
that in the whole ranks of the Democ
racy there was not a man better eguippe,
and more worthy of nomination thar
he" NJ.