The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1896-08-22
Political Notes.

Hoke Smith, Secretary of the Interior, has
written letter to an Augusta committee, stat
ing that, while his opinions on the financial
question were unchanged, he felt bound to
support the Chicago ticket. He urged Geor
gians to vote for Bryan and Sewall, declaring
that 1.-THE Democrat who fails to vote for the
national Democratic ticket strikes blow at
the Democratic State organization.
Chairman Jones, of the Democratic Ma
! tional Committee, on Saturday announced
that the headquarters of the committee will
be established at Chicago, with a branch at
Washington The following were appointed
John R. Mclean, Ohio; d. D. j. Campau,
Michigan; j. d. johnson, Kansas; Clark
Howell, Georgia; B. B. Smalley, Of Vermont,
and Thomas Gahan, of Illinois.
In regard to the report that the Delaware
Republicans would unite in the coming cam
paign, Washington Hastings, one of the lead
ers of the regular Republicans here. was
interviewed. He said that so far as the ma
tional ticket is concerned his party will follow
the action of the national committee, what
ever it might be, but on the State ticket there
will be no compromise of any sort with the
Addicks faction.
Fusion of the populists and free silver men
who left the Republican party has been eft
fected in the State of Washington. The name
OF the party will be the peoples party. The
populist convention decided to allow the
| Democrats to nominate one Congressman in
addition to the other Offices allotted to them.
| The Democratic campaign was opened last
Saturday in Indiana by meetings in nearly
every county. Gov. Matthews spoke to a
large audience, mostly farmers, at Brookville.
The Chicago Labor Union last Saturday
| night passed resolutions denouncing the action
of the Republican party in selecting Henry
| C. Payne to the position of National Com
mitteeman, and cautioning all wage workers
''to keep aloof from any and all persons who
defend, associate with or uphold labor's enc
my, Henry c. Payne" The congress also
| Endorsed the action of the American Fedora
ton of Labor in declaring itself against the
single gold standard and in favor of free and
unlimited coinage of silver and gold at the
| legal ratio of 16 to l, and ordered a commit
tee of three to make ''full and fearless in :
vestgation of the leading men in the gold
standard movement, to the end that their true
attitudes toward organized labor be laid Off
cially before every labor organization in the
United States
According TO President E. Benjamin An
drews, of Brown University, the only way out
of the financial mire into which Uncle Sam
has wandered is the adoption of free coinage
independent, if nece .sary, of other nations
1t is not only the only cure offered by politi-
cal action, President Andrews holds, but it
can be done without danger to our national
credit.
A Bryan and Sewall club was organized by
a number of ladies in New York a month ago,
and now they intedd to have national or
ganization. with clubs in every state.
Ex-Governor Roswell P. Flower said be-
fore he lef. New York for Watertown that he
was coming to Jefferson county to send gold
delegates to the State Convention. The dis
triet conventions met and both passed resolu-
tons indorsing Bryan and Sewall and instruct
ing the delegates to the State Convention to
vote for the Endorsement of the ticket and
platform. They practically read Flower out
of the party by passing resolution condemn
ing the attempts made by certain persons
to use the name of the party they have left to
aid in the election of Republican candidates.
A dispatch from Harrisburg, Pa, to the
Pittsburg Post, under date of August IL, says:
SEX Representative John A. Woodward, of
Center county, was here today after an ex-
tended tour through the state, making ad-
dresses in the interest of the state educational
department. He says the silver movement
has wonderful hold among the farmers.
From inquiries that he made among 1900
farmers 1t the agricultural Chautauqua at
Conneaut Lake recently he was led TO the
conclusion that 95 per cent of them are for
Bryan and Sewall. He believes that from
present Indications Center county will give a
large majority for the Democratic ticket. In
Erie and other northwestern counties Colonel
Woodward found most decided movement
in favor of free silver. He thinks the farm
ers throughout the state will vote in great
numbers for the Democratic ticket, and that
the Democrats hope ofcarrying Pennsylvania
is not without foundation"