Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-04-17
Prospects Of a Sound Money Dem
ocratic Bolt at Chicago.
HILLS POSITION WILL INFLUENCE
Some Think There Will Be SuIk-
ing and Knitting.
WHAT THE OTHER SIDE SAYS

A warm discussion is gorg on among
the democratic politicians as to whether
the sound monay'' men will support the
Chicago nominations If the nominees
should be silver men. There is wide di-
versity of opinion, but 1t Is noticeable,
from an unprejudiced point of view, tnat
there is apparently more loyalty on the
part of the gold standard men than is
evinced by their brethren CT the other be-
lief. This ostensible loyalty is suspiciously
regarded at times in some quarters and
is said to exist because the sound money
men are still confident that they will con-
troll the Chicago convention.
TO the question will the gold standard
men bolt?' :he answers from the follow
ers of President Cleveland ere that they will
not, but there are, however, few prominent
adherents of this side of the money ques-
ticn who will openly pledge their earnest
efforts to the election of the ticket should
1t be against them. Ex-Governor Camp
bell of Ohio is said to be about the only
man who has deprecated the threats of
bolting on each side. He has said that he
will support the nominees. no matter who
they are.
How Does Hill stand:
Right st this juncture there are hun
dreds of newspaper men who would walk
miles to hear Senator David B. Hill ex-
press himself on this subject. While the
general belief is that his famous express
sion, Il am a democrat" will be his mot
to In the coming camplign. there would be
universal interest in what he might say
on the subject. 1t is urged that if there
is a man in the democratic larty who can
stem the silver tide at Chicago 1t will be
this man, whose loyalty to the party and
mis- one-ttme hatred of all things mug
wumpish made him admired. His antag-
onlsm to President Cleveland for so long
was charged up to his opposl ton TO the
Presidents habit of occasionally going out
side Of his party to make appoin ntments.
Therefore the voice of Hill at Chicago is
looked to. Ii the silver men are in the
majority there they will listen, it is said,
to Hill befor. any other man. Whether
his advice will be accepted at that time is
another question, but IT is believed that
he Will have much Ia do with sterlming
radical action and in harmonizing affairs
the best possible.
Threats of knitting.
A high authority in democratic ranks ex-
presses the opinion that the gold demo-
Gratis will not bolt, but that they will quiet
~ lay down" on the nominees; refuse to
vote, or vote for the republican candidates.
There Senator Hill will come in again. No
one believes, it is said, that he would con-
sent to this program. He hates political
assassin, and would much more quickly ad-
wise. complete bolt, with nomina tions by
the gold standard democrats. Senator Hill
and a great many others are said to take
the view that the silver furore will pass
away before another four years, and that
the democratic party will then fall back to
Its old ideas. To knife the nominees of the
party this year would precipitate feeling
of enmity in the ranks of the cohorts which
would las for twenty-five years.
The other Side of 1t.
While eminent authority and circum-
stances point adversely to the idea of gold
standard bolt, the silver men of the party
say they think there will be bolt. They
point to the opposition to Blackburn in Ken
lucky as the most direct evidence that there
will be bolt. Secretary Carlisle, they say,
who now asks for the democratic presiden-
tial nomination, and expects silver men to
support him if he gets it, is the man re-
sponsible for the failure of Blackburn's cleo
ton. They charge that he is practically a
boiter. Then, again, they point to the ac-
ton of Oregon gold men in putting out an
Independent candidate against the regular
nominee, who is for silver. They point to
the bitter feeling shown in all departments
of the administration against silver demo-
Gratis, who, they say, are regarded in the
same light as enemies of the party and the
administration. They assert that there is
certain to be holt, and that the boilers
will align themselves with the republicans
or will put out a ticket of their own
Many hold to the belief that If there is not
a positive declaration against silver at St.
Louis, with a silver nominee at Chicago, the
gold men will go to the country with a
ticket of their own, and on a single gold
standard platform.