Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-09-18
ALL Is WELL.
REPORTS FROM THE NATIONAL
CAPITOL CHEERING.

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CAPITOL CHEERING.
Bryan Meeting i'm Washington To
morrOw-A Coin Argument-The
Lesson Taught BY Arkansns-
Cheering Reports All Along the
Line.
From Our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 11th, 1896.
Bryan's enthusiasm has been on tap
in Washington this week. The
Arkansas election started the ball by
putting all the Democrats in jubilant
humor, and the news which has been
coming to Bryan headquarters has all
been of a pleasing nature to his sup
porters. The local Democrats are
fairly bubbling over in their enthusiasm
while engaged in making preparations
for the big meeting they are to hold
on the 18th inst, and which is to be
addressed by Bryan. Unless present
anticipations fail to be realized it will
be the biggest political meeting ever
held in Washington.
Put up or shut up" is the gambler
argument but there are times when it
is the most convincing that can
possibly be advanced. Representative
Mercer, Secretary of the Republican
Congressional committee, is from
Nebraska and he never tires of claim
ing that State for Mckinley. This
week Mr.. c. H. Pirtle, of Populist head
quarters, who is also form Nebraska,
sent Mr.. Mercer word that he had
$500 to wager that Bryan would carry
Nebraska. Mr.. Mercer did not accept
the wager.
Senator Faulkner said OF the. silver
victory in Arkansas: eff it has
significance, it is not that the battle it
won for the Democratic nominees, but
as evidencing the fact that in one of
the greatest Agricultural States of the
Union the candidates nominated and
the principles announced at Chicago
meet the approval and command the
support OF the great agricultural and
laboring classes 80 strongly represented
in that State. 1t appears further that
the great amount of campaign lit
erature sent into Arkansas by the Re.
publican organization had no other
effect than to stimulate to stronger eff
forts those who are now realizing that
the great producing classes of the
country must have relief from con-
tinually falling prices, resulting from
the gold standard"
Representative Bankhead, of Ala
bama. says his State will give Bryan
10000 majority regardless of any thing
the Populists may do, and that if the
Populists vote with the Democrats it
will go much higher.
Deputy Commissioner of Pensions,
Bell, was very mad man when he
found out that it had been telegraphed
out of Washington that he was q
recent convert to free silver and that
his conversion was the result of his
having. become offended because Presi-
dent Cleveland had not promoted him.
He said Indignantly: "There is not
particle OF truth in this story. am
not recent convert to free silver, but
have been advocating it openly and
above-board, as everybody knows who
knows me, for years. / was in full
sympathy with my party in Illinois at
the time OF the silver convention in
that State over year ago. Moreover,
have never been an applicant for any
promotion in the Pension Bureau since
secured my present position, nor
have / expected any promotion. am
now and have been for the free and
unlimited coinage of both gold and
silver At the ratio of 16 to l, without
the action OF any other country, for
the reason that l believe it to be
economically, scientifically, historically
and legally right, and for the futher
reason that l believe it to be for the
best interests of the great majority of
the people of this country. l am for
the free coinage Of silver, and for the
election of Bryan, because l believe
that the best interests Of the country
would be subserved by his election. and
the restoration of silver to the position
it occupied as primary money in his
country prior to 1873"
Mr.. James l.. Norris, assistant
Treasurer of the Democratic National
Committee, and president of the jack
son Democratic Association of Wash.
ington, made fiery speech before the
latter organization this week, in which
he said: eff the candidates named
by the true and only Democratic party
at Chicago are to be elected we must
waste no time in the States that op-
posed the war OF 1912. There was the
peace faction then. rs there is the gold
faction now; there was legalized State
smuggling then defrauding the nation,
as there is the illegal syndicate despoil-
ing the Federal treasury now; they
had Quincys then declared for separa-
ton of the States. amicably if we
can, and violently il we must; they
had a British party then, as we have
Morgan-Rothschild's syndicate now,
to destroy the credit of the nation that
profits may accrue to the syndicate |;
the pulpit then Numbered against the
war, as it thunders against genuine
patriotism to-day"
No utterance during the campaign
has been more pleasing to the friends
of Mr.. Bryan than the words of Sens.
tor Teller in speech at Morrison, H.,
which we're telegraphed to Washing
ton. Senator Teller said: al think
know every man in public life
among the Democrats who had
the slightest claim to a nomination,
and say to you here now, after an
acquaintance of more than seven
years with Mr.. Bryan, and pretty
close acquaintance with him, too, that
in the whole ranks of the Democracy
there was not man better equipped
and more worthy OF nomination than
he." Dem.
TO the Voters of ThurstOn County.