The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-07-30
At Loss to Decide as to Candidates. on
the State Electoral Tickets.
AFRAID OF SOUND MONEY MEN
The Republicans Are Supplying Cam.
paign Literature ON Demand.
Opinions from Kansas and Nebraska
as to Brynn's Chances..H .HOke Smith
Proposes to Unchain the ORATOR..
cal Cyclone.
Bureau of The Tribune,
sol 14th street, N. W..
WashinYton InlN 2I

ocratic national committee, will come
to Washington next week, and after a
meeting with members of the national
and executive committees will estab-
lish national headquarters. One of the
subjects. which involves a somewhat
perpleNing question, which will re-
ceive early consideration by the COM
mittee, Is the candidates. of sound
money Democrats on state electoral
tickets, who can be counted on by rea-
son of open declarations like that Of
William NJ. Singerly. Of Pennsylvania,
to vote for sound money candidates
for president and vice president. Just
what action will be taken in the cases
Of these candidates seems a bit prob
lematical, but 1t is known that many
members Of the national committee are
in favor of putting up Democrats. who
will support the Chicago ticket against
the regular nominees who will not Sem
ator Jones is said to disapprove of such
course for the reason that 1t would
SAVIOR Of the bolt method which the
silver Democrats are just now earn
estly discountenancing. Senator Faulk-
ner. chairman of the Democratic con-
gressional committee, Is out of thN city,
but his associates at committee head
quarters in discussing the probable ac-
tion of the national committee, eX-
pressed the opinion that while the COM
mlttee might not officially advocate the
placing of Bryan candidates in the
field against the regular nominees of
the state conventions, who would not
support the ticket, nothing would lie
omitted in efforts to elect Bryan cleo
tors in every district where there was
the slightest chance Of Democratic sue
cess; the intimation being that al
though the committee would not Of
ilcially endorse the proposition to vote
for supporters of the Chicago ticket
against the sound money Democratic
nominees. there would be no objection
to such course.
Colonel John w. Kelly, general solic-
itor of the Union Pacific system OF
railways, was In the city today on pro-
fessional business with the interior de-
partment. He is q Nebraskan and will
support the Republican sound money
ticket and platform. within the past
two weeks l have been travelling
through Nebraska" said he. "The SEN
tiii'ht loi Souhi Is SioNlIS
stronger daily and by November the
state will be for the sound money ticket
| by from fifteen to twenty thousand
majority. l am aware of the fact that
the residence of the Democratic candi-
date for president is being depended
upon to arouse state pride. but from
what | can Judge this influence will
hardly figure in the contest. Nebraska
is for sound money and the presiden"
tial vote in November will prove this"
Senator Thurston. who is at present
at Omaha, has written a friend In
Washington, that he is confident the
Republicans will carry the state.
Assistant Secretary Schroeder of the
Republican congressional committee,
said today that the committee was COM
plying with all requests for campaign
| literature that reaches it. I'VE are
sending to voters whatever they ask
Tor, If they want matter on the tariff,
we give them that; If they ask for cur
rency literature, they get it. We are
not attempting to unload tariff speeches
and arguments on people who are ind.f-
ferent to that issue. Requests for tariff
literature, however, are very few, the
people evidently regarding the question
as to whether the country is to have a
safe and secure financial system in
stead of an unsafe and insecure one, as
the dominant issue" This would indi-
cate that the Republican managers are
not, as Is charged by the Democratic
Populist party, endeavoring to evade
the financial issue.
One Of the callers at Republican head
quarters today was a Kansas Repub-
lican politician. He had read. he said
Senator PETERS interview in which the
Kansas senator said his state would
surely give Bryan 10000 majority.
That" said he, ''misrepresents the po-
litical feeling of Kansas. 1 am in
touch with the people of the state, and
from actual knowledge can state as
fact that in the coming contest party
lines will be Obliterated: men will for
get that they are Republicans or Demo-
| Gratis. and join hands for the accom-
plishment of a single purpose. 1t is
this, the eradication of Populism and
| whatever is allied with it. There is no
state in the Union where Populism Is
| more unpopular than i'm Kansas. Un-
der it's rule the states credit has been
| almost ruined, and it's good name de-
stroyed. Mckinley and Hobart will
carry Kansas and am betting money
| on the result"
Regardless of consequences, Secere-
| tary HOke Smith is going to fire the
opening gun in the Democratic cam.
paign in Georgia. Not only that, but
| he will make the opening speech in the
Bryan ratification meeting, which will
, be i,eld in Augusta. Ga, on Aug. 12. Mr..
Smith has asked no ones advice in this
matter, and will go to the extent of en-
dorsing the platform. He expects this
play to put him in high political favor
in Georgia., but whether the farmers
will be taken in by 1t remains to be seen.
II Is believed that Mr.. Cleveland will
take no notice of his erratic secretary
until after he declares himself in q
| speech. Those who are very close to
Smith say that he has put everything in
the department in shipshape, and that
ne is prepared to walk out Of the in
terror building at a moments notice.
Certain 1t is that the bravado manner
in which Mr.. Smith is growing enthusi-
astic over the Chicago nomintion has
estranged him from his fellow cabinet
officers.
| From down in Georgia come great
rumors of discomfort from the How.
ellis. Pat Walsh and the anti-adminis-
tration set, who had hoped to see Smith
and his coterie of friends in this same
hostile attitude towards Bryan as they