Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-07-01
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promise.
"There are many more instances of th'
same sort all over the state.
"The reports printed show that it is th'
Republicans, rather than the Democrats
who should be alarmed.
"The situation is like a mountain
forest in August-ready for the match
The Republican leaders are in ignoranc,
of the actual state of affairs. 1t has al
come about in three or four weeks
County Democracy leaders, having become
acq quainted with it in their caucuses, are
secretly anxious for free silver to triumph
in Chicago. They think they can shift
the tariff issue and carry the farmers
almost solidly for free silver. In the
meantime Warner Miller, the Mckinley
leader in this state, believes that the state
will carry itself for Mckinley and, ignor
ant of the discomfort among the farming
Glasses, is preparing to devote his whole
time to driving Platt and his Sound
money followers out of the party"
MORE SILVER STOCK.
Washington.--Col. John R. Fellows, ot
New York: "There is no use in trying to
head off this silver movement. 1t will
sweep New York state itself, like some
white simeon of finance. Seven up
country farmers out of every ten are fol
free silver at 16 to l, in New York right
now. This cry for free silver amounts to
a revolution. am going to Chicago to
Gohk for rold hit ~ will ho ,,lo n ptipn a N 4
no fruit, sowing and no harvest, save a
harvest of disappointment. Free silver
at 16 to l will carry New York"
Consistent with the apprehensions of
the colonel come the fear of such men as
Representatives Cummings and McClel-
land, of New York. Cummings reports
his district as worm eaten and rat-holed
with free silver. McClelland talks the
same way.
CHICAGO GOSSIP.
Chicago.-Utter hopelessness charac-
terizes the gold Democrats who are here.
They say that the eastern members of the
party fail to appreciate the situation in
the west. Three members of the national
committee-Prather, of Missouri; Sher-
ley, of Kentucky, and Sheerin, of Indiana
are here. They are not 16 to l men,
but they agree that the silver men will be
able to do just as they please about the
platform and the ticket. The conven-
tion will be in possession of the free sill
YER men. A hope held out in the east
that the gold minority will be strong
enough to thwart the free silver mai ority
is without foundation.
Whitney will organize the gold and
anti-silver Democrats just as Senator
Lodge did at st. Louis. He will demand
in the name of the eastern Democrats
that such a compromise be agreed upon
as will leave the gold standard delega-
tion free to return to their constituents
and make fight for the ticket. Whit
ney expects to utilize the spirited fight
between the free silver presidential can
didates to help him in his fight against a
silver declaration.
With many of the eastern politicians
who are committed to the gold standard,
any candidate will be preferable to Bland.
The argument being advanced that any
other silver man would make it much
easier for eastern Democrats to fall into
line. and if the favorite sons can develop
a positive strength which will stand by
them to the end the sound money men
count upon some sort of compromise
or concession on the platform.
Every day is bringing to the free silver
ma jority additions. Unless the unit rule
is strictly and rigldly enforced in certain
eastern delegations the silver men will
have votes from the Atlnntic seaboard.
There are free silver men in both the New
York and the Pennsylvania delegations.
Four of the Maryland delegates have de-
clared themselves for 16 to l. Ifthe unit
rule is broken the silver men will gain
five silver delegates from gold states
where they will lose one gold delegate
from a silver state. There will be a very
determined effort made to break the unit
rule by gold minorities in silver delega-
tions like those of Kentucky and the
state of Washington, and by silver min
critics in gold delegations like those OF
Pc ennsylvania and Maryland.
Hugh @. Wallace, the Tacoma banker,
of Chief Justice Fuller, and a
gold man, one of the gold delegates from
the state of Washington, rather startled
the gold men to-day by offering the pre-
dction that free silver will carry his state
this fall. He said that the adoption of
16 to by the Chicago convention would
combine the silver Democrats and Popu'
lists in Washington, and would draw to
them some silver Republicans. The gold
Democrats who would vote with the Re-
publicans, he thought, would not be sutfi-
ciently numerous to help keep the state
from going for free silver.
Senator Turpie is one of the mainstays
of the Matthews cause. He will make the
nominating speech for the Indiana gov
ernor, and is expected to make the speech
of his life. Turpie is not bit pretty to
look at, but he can talk, and the mere
fact that he is going to talk makes it GER
tain that the sound money men from the
east will hear things on the financial
question that may not sound polite, but
will be effective with the galleries.