The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-08-22
BLACKBURN SCORES COCHRAN.
Says He is Far Ahead of Republicans
In Point of Malgnity.

Washington, Aug. 21.-(Speclal) -,
Senator Blackburn was here yesterday,
and expressed himself in his character
istic style ON Bourke Cockran's speech
He said
Il am surprised that the news
papers which are disposed to be emf
nently fair in this fight should allow
this speech of Bourke Cochran S to pass
without taking him to task for the
only thing that is in it. | never be-
lieved that Bourke Cochran was capa-
bic of making so disastrous failure as
he did the other night. He never an
swered nor pretended 20 answer nor
touched upon single point in Bryan's
speech Rade at Madison Square Gar
den. The only thing that attracts at
tention in B@urke Cockrans utter
ances is the conclusive proof that he
furnishes that he is far in advance Of
any radical Republican stump speaker
in this country in the matter of maEg
nifty. He charges that the silver
movement is conspiracy, the object
of which is to overtGrn all the rights
Of property. This conspiracy is com
posed of silver mine owners of the
West and unreconciled slave owners
of the South. He insists that, having
lost their property in their slaves, as
a result Of war, they now seek to ele-
stroy the other property in order te
balance the account.
1T must be said to the credit of the
Republican party that in this cam
paign it has not produced a single
editor or orator so thoroughly malig-
nant or utterly destitute OF decency
as to dig up the war issues buried
more than thirty years ago, and kindle
anew the sectional fires that have long
since burned cut. Mr.. Cochran is only
to ba congratulated upon having
adopted the tactics and arguments and
the appeals to passion and prejudice
which did duty for the Republicans for
a quarter of a century, but which they
were at last content to abandon as no
longer fit even for partisan purposes.
1T is to be hoped that this newly
and. strangely persuaded convert will
fail ia his efforts 10 induce his Repub-
lican allies to go back to campaign
systems that offended the decent ele-
menta of the country"
During the past week Senator
Faulkner has received notices of forty
six Brayn and SeWall clubs in Vir-
ginia. A letter from Illinois announc-
ed the formation of a Bryan and Sc
wall club of $50 Republican natural
lied citizens. A letter from Harris
burg announced the formation of a
club of 400, sixty of whom were Re
public2Ds.
One departnenIt of the government
service, at least, is a unit in its support
of the Democratic ticket. This IS the
Printing Bureau Of the Treasury De
partment, of which j. ID. Kehoe, of
Kentucky, Democratic politician,
is chief. A canvass of the bureau,
which was made this afternoon, show
ed that the entire force of IS men will
cast their votes for Bryan and Sewall
These office-holders are all voters, and
Is of them are men who have hereto
fore supported Republican candidates.
Mr.. kehoe said.
Il consider Bryan,s election as as
sursd. / can speak for the kentucky
Democracy. The Bluegrass State
will go Democratic by 10000 majority.
| In one county in the State, Johnson
| county, 100 Republicans have signed
/ a statement pledging themselves to
| vote the Democratic ticket"
|
Secretary Hoke Smith, who returned
| from Western North Carolina, where
ne haG been visiting his family, few
days ago, and who has since been at
tending to his duties at the Interior
Department, called at Democratic
headquarters to-day and had long
conference with Senator Faulkner,
chairman of the Congressional com
nittse. This is regarded as peculiar
" significant, and it IS the leading
topic of political discussion tonight.
J. r. Sovereign, General Master
Workman of the Knights OF Labor,
now attending the meeting of the
Hspulist Executive committee, will,
in a few days, start for Chicago, where
he will open the headquarters of a
labor bureau adjunct of the free silver
campaign. A corps of speakers will
at once be put in the field, represent
ins the different labor organizations
dn and ost of the Knights of Labor.
An immense amount of special Etera-
ture will also be used, and all directed
to thwart the efforts of the Republi-
cans to divide the labor vote. Mr..
Sovereign will center his efforts on
| those Western States which seem by
| common consent to be the main bait
tie ground of the present campaign.