Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1896-09-04
WASHINGTON LETTER.



The harmony among the silver men is
of the fighting brand According to Dem.
ocratic gossip. "Silver Dick" Bland, who
started to accompany the boy talker on his
swing around the Eastern circle, was so
unmercHully snubbed by Bryan that he
refused to remain with the party under
any circumstances, although in leaving it,
he sacrificed a remunerative contract to
swap almighty bad English accounts Of the
tour for numerous one-hundred cent dol
lars from the strong box of a newspaper
publisher The exact csuse Of the snub-
bling is not given. but the foundation ap
pears to have been Bryan's belief that "Sil-
yer Dick" didn't know enough to make
real platform speeches. will not vouch
for the snubbing part, but it is certain that
SILVER Dick" left the BRYAN party ten
days or more ago and that he has since
thsn been staying with a friend in the sub
urbs Of Washington. This, coupled with
the rough-shod manner in which Bryan
has walked over every Democrat who has
opposed his slightest within since the Chi
cago Convention, gives the snubbing story
an air Of probability
The confidence with which the prominent
silver Democrats started in to rush Bryan
into the White House has all disappeared.
and they are now 50 timid that they are
allowing themselves to be bossed BY the
radical Populists Of the Tom Watson stripe.
and they are running hither and thither
seeking some evidence that Bryan has
even a fighting chance to win Chairman
Faulkner, Of the Congressional Commit
tee, went to Chicago last week to see
whether Chairman Jones. of the National
Committee, was able to cheer him up. and
since his return he has found it harder than
ever to keep up a bold front
Secretary Mercer of the Republican Con-
gressional Committee, thinks the vote cast
in November will be phenomenally large. 1
Speaking on the subjective said "There
never was such wide spread interest in a
! know that in my own dis
tTict in Nebraska, the votes polled at the
primaries reached almost the total of a gen.
eral election Men who were sick braved ]
Telapses, in order to get TO the polls, and / I
know Of one instance where a man was
rolled to his voting place in an invalid's /
chair With such interest in a primary,
what will be the vote when election day
ZONES around"
Nobody in Washington took pitchfork
Tillman's absurd challenge Of ex President
for a joint debate seriously, and
more than Mr. Harrison did 1t was
merely an effort of Tillman to keep himself
'efore the public. When Joint debates oc-
ur. they are usually between men of the
anne standing. Nothing but amusement
vas caused by TiIlman's mistaking tie
uriOsity which brought out big crowds to
lear him speak in the mining section of
for enthusiasm for free sill
-er PENNSYLVANIA Republicans are IN an
nously OF the opinion that the size of the
majority for Mckinley will break the rec.
I'd, and some Of them express the opinion
nat the indianapolis ticket will poll more
otes in the State than Bryan will.
According to Hon R {. Kerens. who
nows a thing or two about Missouri pol
les, that State is going Republican to a
cad certainty. Mr.. Kerens-''Dick" is
hat everybody around Republican head.
larters call him-made a flying tip to
Washington to consult with Chairman
abcock,o the Congressional Committee,
nd while in the city he said 1.-THE Re
lblican party is united and determined to
in. The Democrats are hopelessly split
I'd with three parties in the field we are
)ing to succeed and we ought to succeed.
he Democrats have held the administra
IN Of Missouri for thirty years, nearly a
ird Of century. and it is time for a
iange
While the Democrats have been making
cir Eastern bluffs the Republicans have
'en sending convincing literature broad
st through the West. The result is now
coming apparent even to the mpst rabid
-yanite Reports from nearly all the =
'esteTn States show that the silver wave
hich followed the Chicago Convention is
pidly receding, and if things continue to
as they are now going, well informed
.publicans will not be surprised if McKin
and Hobart carry not only all the great
ricultural States Of the middle West. but
20 some OF the silver States Mckinley
d Hobart are also rapidly gaining gorund I
the South. West Virginia. Maryland
d Kentucky are put into the Mckinley
umn by some very conservative men