Milford chronicle., 1896-09-18
WASHINGTON LETTER.

I
is lust now the question of questions at
every secret conclave held at Popocrate
headquarters. Watson is as autocratic in
all his dealings with the members of the
Ponulist National Committee as Bryan is
with the members of the Democratic Com
mittee and his demand that Sewsll be taken
off the BRYAN ticket to make room for him
has reached a stage where it can no longer
be ignored. The Popocratic managers
have got to do something very soon, and
thew are at a loss to choose. Their origi-
nal intention was to buncO Watson, and
there is reason to believe that Senator But
Ter. Chairman of the Populst National
Committee, was a party to that intention J;
but Watson has succeeded in stirring up
the Populists in portions of the South and
West to such an extent that PopOcrats have
lost their nerve and are now in doubt
about what to do,and bets have been made
that they will wind up by throwing Sewall
overheard. They would probably have
done so before now, if they did not hope for
a lot of Sewall's money ,and if they had not
been afraid of its effect in the East. After
the New York Convention meets, this week,
the last fear will not count. They know
that they haven't ghost of chance to
carry an Eastern State, but they want the
moral effect in other States of declaration
in favor Of Bryan and Sewall, by the New
York Democratic Convention.
Good news continues to be about the
onlv kind received at the Republican head
quarters. 1t comes from every section and
indicates that the reaction against the free
and independent coinage of silver at ratio
of 10 to by this government is steadily
becoming stronger, even in States in which
the Republican managers have sent neither
literature nor speakers because they be
lieved them hopelessly given up to free sill
yer sentiment. This is, of course, pleasing
but no rainbow chasing is being done by
Republicans their efforts are being con
fined to States which they have a reasona
Bile right to believe can be carried by Nc
Kinley and Hobart
The calm, dispassionate, legal-like oper
letter which Attorney General Harmon
made public several days ago is by far thu
most important utterance that has CONF
from the administration, against Bryan:
anarchistic tendencies, not excepting thu
letter from Mr.. Cleveland. Mr. Harmon:
letter deals exclusively with that clause o
the Chicago platform declaring agains
what it termed Federal interference in loca
affairs, which everybody knows to hav,
been aimed at Mr.. Cleveland's prompt sup
preston of the interference with the u, S
mail BY the railroad rioters at Chicago, tn
most creditable thing in his administration
and with Mr.. Bryan's pledge not to d.
likewise should he become President, and
similar state of affairs be brought abou
again. The following words of Attorney
General Harmon are worthy of the careful
study of every good citizen, regardless o
party: "This in my judgment, is a ia
more serious matter than the money ques
ton or any other question now before tn
people. grave as they all are. Our form o
government 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, Blu
if the President has deliberately disTegarde'
, the instrument upon which the Union i
: founded, by supplanting the authority Of {
sovereign State by armed Forces preceden
has been made which threatens our form o
government, whie,i if a candidate for Presi
dent may properly pledge himself in ad
vance, as Mr.. Bryan has done, to do moth
ing to protect the property, maintain tn
: authority and enforce the laws of rh'
United States, unless and until the officer
of another government request or consent
then we really have no FederalEgovern
: ment, for a Government which is not en-
tirely free to use force to protect and main
tain itself in the discharge of its own prope
functions, is no government at all " Mr.
J Harmon also quotes the resolution Offered
? in the Senate by Senator Daniels, of Va
3 who presided over the Chicago Conven
2 ton, voted for that platform and who il
now on the stump for Bryan, indorsing If
the strongest language the Presidents &C
ton in suppressing the railroad riots
Col. B. z. Havens, of Terre Haute, Ind
has written a letter to a Washington frienC
on the political situation in that State
! which he has unusually good opportunitie:
to be familiar with, closing with this posi-
tive assertion 81 regard Indiana saf'
against all corners for Mckinley"
The subsidising of the official organ o
the Knights of Labor. published at Wash
ingtoR, by the Popocrats, recalls the subsi
dising of the official organ of the Farmers
Alliance by the Democratic National Com
mittee in 1892. The journal Of the K Of L
is now being widely distributed just as thu
F. A. paper was then, and the result may
be as fatal to the K of L. paper as it wa:
to the F. A., paper which died long ago.