The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-07-19
Many Government Employees
Strong For Silver.
BRYAN is THEIR CHOICE
An Ou1burst of Enthusiasm IN
the Departments.
OFFICIAL GuiLLoTINE FEARED
But the enthusiasm is SO Strong ha
Many Who Have Been Silent
Now Declare They Are
For BRYAN,
For Bryan,

vent-oD was in session no one seemed
TO manifest any great interest III It's
wor.. Perhaps this was because II vas
settled beforehand who the canol"dte
,yo,ff.J be. After it had done ~ VI
4beIt. was no great outpuISC o. ca
SLASH. When the Democrats lalo' -
Chieaoo there was the IntenseSl ~ g
est from the beginning All u"9 1il.
,,n{if tBe convention auJouIhO" -
niobt crowds congregated ABOUT tho
bulletin boards. While MI. Bryan vas
rnal,ino, his great speech men were
hoard TO say: He will be the cahul-
date and he can't be beaten AIteF
tbe balIoting began and the vote pc
pan 10 pile up in favor OF the galiaht
9oung giant of the West cheer upon
cheer went up from the enthusiastic
crowds.
So much has been said about the OPP
position in governmental circles 70 tue
platform, especially the Tree coinage
nIank that ] wish to give you some u
The expressions that / have heard Iiaue
nv employees in the departments heIe.
When the nomination was being liaue
was standing with scores OF others III
front of the Post building eagerly d
waiting each piece of pink paper as ~
announced the results OF the laSt loii-
<caH. BY my side stood prominent
safficial in one of the departments and
two chiefs of divisions in the Treasury
Denartment. Before the messenger
could get down stairs with the bullet
in announcing the nomination, tele-
cyranb operator rushed TO a third story
window and yelled, Bryan is nomln-
10 crowd went WIIQ.
Hats flew in the air and shout after
shout drowned the noise of the busy
street 4 gentleman turning TO the
high official mentioned above asked
him how he liked it, Capital, was the
vreply. sit is ideal. We will win" What
will MARYLAND do?" was asked him.
sJust what she has always DONE was
the prompt answer. This man is one
of the wisest and ablest in the govern
sment and he holds position second
only TO a cabinet portfolio.
Since the day of the nomination |
have mingled and talked freely with
government employees of all grades.
One of the most conservative men IN
Nthe Interior Department, and one
very close to the Secretary, when ask
ed what he thought of the ticket, sam,
sIt could not have been beaten, and
4 tell you the people will rally TO It,.
Another, a prominent and influential
official in the Treasury Department,
and one who has stood close to the adj
administration said, Bryan is the brain
pest and bravest man in the United
States and will blot Mckinley out of
sight" A first grade clerk said the
other day. II tell you ! am happy; |
am going home a thousand miles to
xTote for Bryan
A Pennsylvania Republican said yes
terday, my brother is here from Pitts
burg and he says silver sentiment is
sweeping our State like cyclone. The
Republican majority this year will be
4he smallest since the war" A Kan
ssas Republican said, Everybody in
my State will vote for Bryan" Down
in the sub-treasury of the Treasury
building in the black coal bins. a
s4slrdv laborer who tolls early and late
said. .Brvan will get the vote of the
working man lie is the first candi-
date since the war that the poor man
can trust"
/ might go on with similar express
ssifFTis-not a few. but scores OF them:
Men in the departments have sald
little. Many of them were afraid, ana
many are afraid now. The powers OF
the official guillotine has closed many
mouths. But the enthusiasm is 50
strong that many who have been silent
are speaking out.
Tt was not to be expected that here
in Washington there Would be much
sentiment for free silver. But there
is. The platform is popular and the
candidate is more popular. Outside
raf the official circle you hear praises
for Bryan. Around hotels, at the rail
road stations. on the street cars. in
the stores-everywhere there are
heard strong and hearty expressions
of approval of platform and candi-
dates.
The Populists are nearly all for
BRYAN. If the residents of the Dis
trict of Columbia could vote it would
90 Democratic by an overwhelming
majority in spite of the fact that it has
been colonization ground for Republi-
can office-holders for thirty years.
The big cities and the East are not
so much for gold as some newspapers
and back-number politicians would
have us believe. New York, Philadel-
nhia. Boston and Baltimore are teem-
ino with silver voters. The rural dis
friets of the East and North are going
= 10 fall in line for Bryan and free sill
yer The other night in the lobby OF
the Metropolitan Hotel | heard New
York Republican of prominence make
shis statement: II live in interior New
York. am a Republican and intend to
vote for Mr.. Mckinley. ] believe the
free and unlimited coinage of silver
would be tie greatest calamity that
could befall the country. But want
TO tell YOU the farmers of this country
think differently. In New York State
seven out of every ten of them are for
free silver regardless Of party, ana
instead of the Republicans coming
down to Harlem river with a hundred
thousand majority next November,
they will be lucky if they get there
with any majority"
This is nc craze" Tt is the out
burst of a principle that has been
kept down with the hove hat PROMISES
vaguely made Dy Northern polite ans
would be kept. It could he kept down
no longer. Panty platforms hive beei,
catering to the ideas of men Fho sald
1ssaey were Democrats but w not.
THIS year we have the first truE Dem
4ocroaic platform that has bd4n pro-
INDICATED within a generatioM. The
people are behind it and it is fmund TO
swim.
81 travel a great deal in the West, ant
my belief is that the feeling OF thu
Western people against the Etst is al