Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-07-20
WASHINGTON LETTER.
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS OF THE MONITOR.
Washington, July 10, 1896.


cause the Chicago convention adopt
ed an anarchist populist platform
and then selected Congressman
Bryan of Nebraska, populist, to
head their ticket. On the contrary,
they are delighted with both ticket
and platform, both of which have al
ready done efficient work for McKin-
ley and Hobart. When you say that
Bryan is a natural born orator, you
say about all that can be said in his
favor. During the two terms he serv-
ed in the House he demonstrated
that there was little underneath his
ability to talk brilliantly, smoothly
and dramatically, and before he re-
tired from Congress he was at outs
with all the democratic leaders be-
cause of his having shown them that
he was much more of a populist than
q democrat. He was so much of
populist that only two years ago he
wanted the populist nomination for
Gov. of Nebraska, but was beaten
out of it by Holcomb. His career
since that time has been anything
but great. He made a failure as
editor of an Omaha paper, and was
repudiated by the voters of that state
when he stumped the state as the
populist democratic candidate to sue
coed Mr.. Henderson in the U. S. SEN
ate. The man who defeated Bryan in
that campaign and who can be de-
pended upon to see that Mckinley
and Hobart carry Nebraska this year
is Senator Thurston, who SO ably
presided over the ST. Louis conven-
ton.
The nomination of Arthur Sewall,
of Me-, for Vice President did not
strengthen the democratic populist
ticket. Even in Washington, where
nearly everybody has a sort of gen
eral knowledge of the men who are
at all prominent in politics, everybody
was asking, when the news of Sewall's
nomination was received, "who is
Sewall?" And in all Washington, no
picture of him could be found by the
newspapers. His nomination was
evidently intended as a sop to the
disgruntled democrats of the middle
and Eastern States, who had nothing
to do with putting populist Bryan at
the head of the ticket, but it will not
work.
Even after the democrats have
an out and out populist plat
form and nominated a populist for
President, the populists, the silver
party, or the boiling silver repubi-
cans. That is a matter of bargains
and deals yet to be made. The lead
ers of each of these factions will
make demands-extensi ones, too
which must be met before they will
agree to support Bryan and Sewall,
and even if they agree to do so it |
will be a matter Of doubt as to many /
votes of the rank and file they can
deliver. Senator Teller could proba-
bly, have gotten the votes of nearly all
of these factions had he;been nomin-
ated by the democratic party, but it
is certain that Bryan cannot.
Members of the administration are
not talking. They are waiting for
Mr.. Cleveland to give them the cue.
1T has been known for sometime that |
Mr.. Cleveland favored the nomination
of a gold democratic ticket, while !
many other prominent democrats, /
who will under no circumstances sup
port BRYAN and Sewall on their pop |
ulist platform favor voting directly
for Mckinley and Hobart as the sur
est way of rebuking the work of the
Chicago convention. The latter have
the support of such prominent papers
as the New York Sun, Herald and
Times. Republicans are not worry
ing about what the sound democrats
may or may not do, for the very
simple reason that they confident |
that Mckinley and Hobart can and |
will be elected by republican votes.
Of course they will be glad to have
democrats vote the ticket because
they believe that the larger the ma
jority against the Chicago ticket and
platform, the better it will be for the |
future of the country. 1t is a ques-
ton of law, order, public credit and
general prosperity against anarchy,
and ruin.
This is the way a Kentucky dem
0crat-Maj. D. w. Sanders, of Louis
ville,-now in Washington, sees the
action of the Chicago convention:
'sThe democracy, she said, ''has drift
ed clear away from it's ancient moor
ings and has gone into the camp of |
the socialists, anarchists and populists.
1t is horrible to contemplate-this