Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1896-09-19
WASHINGTON LETTER
SEWALL OR WATSON
nUST COTE DOWN.
Attorney General liar
mons Open Letter.
POLITICAL SITUATION
IN INDIANA.
X. OF l.. Organ FOI Bryan
And SeWaH.
(From Our Regular Correspondent)

(trOm Our Regular rrespOhuShIi
WASHINGTON, ID. G., Sept. IA, '96.
Who will muzzle Tom Watson? That
is Just now the question of questions
q: every secret cOnclave held at popo
cratic head Quarters. Watson is as au
tocratic in all his dealings with the
members of the populist National Com
mittee, as Bryan is with the members
of the democratic committee, aud his
demand that Sewall be taken of the
Bryan ticket to make room FOR him
has reached a stage where 1t can no
longer be ignored. The popocratic
managers have got to do something
very soon, and they are at loss IT,
choose. Their original intention was
to bunco Watson, and there is reason
to believe that Senator Butler, Chair
man of the Populist National Commit
tee, was a party to that intention ; but
Watson has succeeded in stirring up
the populists in portions OF the South
and West TO such an extent that the
popocrsts have lost their nerve and
are now in doubt about what to do.
and bets have been made that they
will wind up by throwing Sewall over
board,
They would probably have done so
before now, if they did not hope for a
lot Of Sewall's money, and il they had
not been afraid of it's effect in the
East. After the New York COnven-
ton meets, this week, the last fear
will not count They know that they
haven't a ghost OF chance TO carry an
Eastern state, but they want the NOR
al effect in other states OF a declara-
tion in favor of Bryan and Sewall, by
the New York Democratic Convention.
GOOD NEWS.
Good news continues 20 be about the
only kind received at the Republican
headquarters. 1t comes from every
section and indicates that the reaction
against the free and independent coin
aye of silver at a ratio of 10 to l 10y
this Government is steadily becoming
stronger, even in states into which thu
republican IN Rnagers have sent neither
literature nor speakers because they
believed them hopelessly given up Il
free silver sentiment This is, o
course pleasing. but no rainbow chas
ing is being done ny republicans ;thei
efforts are being confined to state
which they have n reasonable right L
believe can be carried by Mckinle
and Hobart.
AN OPEN LETTER.
The calm, dispassiona' legal-lik
open letter which Attorney Geners
Harmon made public several days az
il by far the most important utteranc
that has come from the adIninistrs
tion, against Bryan's anarchistic tor
denotes, not excepting the letter frOl
Mr.. Cleveland. MIR. Harmon's lette
deals exclusively with that clause {
the Chicago platforn declaring againl
what it termed Federal interference
nAoI of afv nh 1ah ryh u
TO have been aimed at Mr.. Cleveland
prompt suppression of the interference
with the u. S. Mail by the raiiros
rioters at Chicago, the most creditab
thing in his administration, and wit
Mr. Bryan's pledge not 30 do ikewi
should he become President, and a 81
liar state OF Affairs be brought abol
again.
The following words of Attorn,
General Harmon are worthy of Il
careful study OK every good citizen. T
gardless of par y: This in my judg
Inent, is a far more serious matt
question now before the people, gra
IS they all are. Our form of COVER
mept may SURVIVE wrong decision
those questions, and the people m
endure Tor time the evils which T
suit from false systems of finance a
ta4ation, but if the President has q
ljhsrately disregarded the instFume
upon which the Union is founded,
supplantiog the authority of a SOW
- ~ f0roa a nraoad o
eign state Dy arIl,,. -,
has been made which threatens G
form or government, wAlles u can
date for President may properly plec
himself In advance, as Bryan has do
to do nothing TO protect the proper
maintain the authority and emo
the laws of the United States, uni
and until the officers of another &
eminent req uest or consent, then
really have no Federal goyernms
for Government which is not emit
" free to use force to protect
maintain itself in the discharge Of
own proneF functions, is no COVE
ment at all. Mr.. Harmon also QUO
the resolution offered in the Ser
by Senator Daniels, of Virginia, '
presided over the Chicago Convent
voted for that platform and who
now on the stump for Bryan, indor
In the strongest language the Pr
dents action in suppressing the ]
road riots.
INDIANA SAFE.
Col. b. F Havens, of Terre Ha
Ind, has written a letter TO WI
ington friend on the political situa
in that state, which he has unust
good opportunities to be familiar
closing with this positive assertion
regard Indiana safe against all col
for Mckinley"
LABOR ORGAN SUBSIDIZED
The substituting of the official o
OF the Knights of Labor, pnblishe
Washington, by the popocrats re
the subsidizing of the official org
the Farmers Alliance by the ID
cratic National Committee in
The journal of the X. of L. is now
ing widely distributed just as t
A. paper was then, and The result
be as fatal to the X of l.. paper
was to the f. A., paper which
long ago.