Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-08-18
NATIONAL POLITICS.
DEMOCRATIC WORKERS.


Democratic national committee will be
established at Chicago. The announce
ment was formally made by Chairman
Jones. There will be branch headquar-
ters in Washington, and a part of the
campaign committee will remain in Wash
ington during the contest.
Six members of the campaign COM
mittee were ann onnced last evening by
Chairman Jones. They are: John R.
Mclean, of Ohio; E. j. Cam pau, of Michi-
gan; j. g. Johnson, of Kansas; Clark
Howell, of Georgia.; B. B. Smaley, of
Vermont, and Thomas Gahan, of Illinois.
The campaign committee, when COM
pleted, will be composed of nine men,
bers, 80 three members are yet to be
selected. It is probable that one of these
will 60 to New York, another to the Pa
cifc slope and another to the southwest.
The work of the campaign will now &C.
lively begin, and within couple of weeks
Democratic orators will be on the stump
in every state.
The campaign book of the Dem mocratic
committee is in forward state of prepar-
alton, and will be ready for general dis
tribution within three days after the re-
ception of the letter of acceptance of Mr..
Bryan.
The location of the headquarters in
Chicago means that the battle ground will
be the west. strong fight will be made
in New York and New Jersey, but the
management of the campaign in those
states will be left to local men. The hard
fighting will be in Illinois, Indiana, Michi-
gan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebras-
ka and Kansas. McKinley's own state of
Ohio will be sharply contested, too, and
the reports received from that state make
the Democratic leaders hopeful of carry
ing it in November.
The campaign in Indiana il we'll under
way and the Democratic managers in that
state already have secured the postoffice
addresses of II, 400 Republican voters who
intend 70 vote for Bryan and Sewall and
free coinage.
Mr.. Bryan's letter of acceptance is ex-
pected by August 25, and then general
charge of the Democratic forces will be
made all along the line.
At this time the Democratic managers
are absolutely certain of success. The
reports from all the region west of the
Allegheny mountains would indicate a
Dem ocrntic tidal wave. There is revolt
against the single gold standard that bids
fair practically to annihilate the Repub-
lican party in November.
MIDDLE WEST YOUNG MEN.
Washington.-Mr. @. w. Ernest, for
merry assistant postmaster of Boston,
has long been known as an expert statis-
tician. Mr.. Ernst, while in Washington,
prepared interesting figures, which he bo-
iieves to be important IN the conduct of
the coming campaign. Speaking of them
he said:
"Of the men who voted in 1892, about
100000 are dead Their places are
taken by the young men who have reached
the voting age since 1895. 1t is fair to
think that the vote in 1896 will be heav-
ier, relatively, than in 1892. In 1892 the
country was apathetic, while in 1896 it is
interested.
II expect total popular vote of about
IA, 900, 900, nearly 5000, 900 being new vot-
ers; that is, young men who attained their
majority since 1892, voters naturalized
since 1892, and men who failed to vote in
1892 for lack of interest. The important
element is the young voter who casts his
first vote for president. The total nun
Der of young men who have attained the
voting age since 1892 is almost 100000
Not all will vote, but nearly all will try
very hard to vote. If anybody doubts
this statement that nearly 5000, 600 young
men have reached the voting age since
| 1899, consult the cersus about our young
men respectively 81, %, % and "a years
Of age. In 1890 their number was 2,516,-
DAB in a total male population Of the vot.
| ing age aggrsgating 16.940,8l1. This
population of the voting age has now
reached about l9,750,OO0 of whom about
2,9OO, 900 have attained the voting age
since 1892. II ia not unreasonable to
think that some $500, 900 of these young
men will cast their first ballot for presi-
dent, either for Bryan or for Mckinley
and that the outcome of the election rests
almost wholly with the very youngest
voters We have. The fate of the country
rests with the middle west, aud 10 the mid
die west far less with the old voters than
with the young men who are less than 81
years of age"
LABOR SEES THE POINT.
New York.-In an appeal TO the X. o.
L. membership to push the campaign fol
Bryan and Sewall, Michael ]. Bishop, gen
eral worthy foreman of the order, has tn,
following to Say:
"The triumph of free coinage will b
an object lesson to all the people. 1t vii
be a long step in advance ON the road t.
the time when Uncle Sam will issue al
his money direct to the people with
out the Intervention of banks, and th'
banks that have fought of this day o
! reck oning for thirty-four years, and hav