Evening star., 1896-09-12

SEPTEMBER
average old party cambaisner. 1t has been
great fun f011s ,s,t One speaker
classified hydraulic hdse as stockings he
was pulled off. But Jhis was no worse
than the blunders they made on the silver
be back on the old tartn time in two years
from now. This spaSm Of reform will
hardly survive the present campaign. 1t
will certainly not go beyond It,"
PopuIists Agalnst sewau.
"Will Maine populisys support SewaiI::"
"Will the Maine populists support Sewall?
Well, I should say noT There are not five
hundred populists in aine who will even
vote fer Bryan, unle& Sewall comes off
the ticket. But he wil& come off after this
election. The democTEts themselves are
low even more anxioua Tor that event than
we are. / predict thai in less than three
weeks he will be off TIE ticket. 1 have 1t
from the very best authority that he will
be forced to abdicate, Whether he wants to
or not. Tom Watson will take his place,
and then we can all work for the ticket.
AS the matter now stands, We are handi-
capped in even working for Bryan"
do you find any free. silver republicans?"
Yes; there are ma&y republicans who
of this city told me ahe other day that
their canvass revealedSthe fact that fully
p per cent of their party believed in free
coinage This is a mederate estimate Of
republican silver sentRnent all over the
state. Not one Of these men in thousand.
however, will vote th6 democratic ticket.
Some of them will woke with Us. but the
great majority will swallow their convic-
tions and vote their own ticket. 1t is no
use to talk about getting republican to
vote for the Maine democracy. 1t is out of
the question. The deNecratic leaders are
too we'll known here 10 command either
respect or votes. An& that pleaSeS them
just as we'll, es they want to keep the party
as small as possible, so 2hat the offices may
go around. They WOnH have any trouble
on that score this yeaH
Democratic Elec3 prs for Gold.
II notice you say thefdemocratic electors
in Maine are gold standard men,"
"Yes the democratic Electors are all gold
standard men. They would all vote for
Mckinley If elected. ut excites not ,he
least surprise. as that1s exactly what we
expect from that party in the way OF re-
form. The men that ttey are running are
all the same at heart. ahd are the great
majority of their couAty and legislative
candidates" <
Have you been treated fairly by the
press during the campaign?'
Il am more than pleased with the treat
ment that has been acqprded to Inc by the
press. Most of our public men are con-
tinuaily finding fault because. as they say,
they have been misrep1esented by the pa
pers. Not one word OH complaint have
te make. have been i4ferviewed by scores
OF papers and in almosSever instance the
reports have been emt4ently fair and cor
rect. Especially fair is The Star"
Watson sold Out.
L. c. Bateman has RECEIVED a letter from
Gen. Paul VandervooEtt who is the presi-
dent or the National Reform Press Asso-
citation, and formerly commander of the
Grand Army of the R{bublic This letter
goes to show that thu can be no real
unity of action betweef the populis.s and
the democrats of the sohth and west The
letter follows: T
Omaha, Neb. September I, 1886.
Hon. L. c. Bateman, Auburn, Maine:
The Nebraska sel-ouf of Watson has
been carried out. The democratic state
convention met here on ethe 4th, and the
Holcombe and Allen gang gave away half
the electoral ticket to Bryan and Sewall
and then put on four zpopulists, who are
under their absolute control They have
about al the foreign influence, and they put
up a ticket with one German one Bo-
hemian, one Polar der, one Swede. one
lrishman, and, believe, a sixth man, who
is Russian. 1t is clean sell-out We
are sold out on Watson in Kansas and
Nebraska. the two Dakotas, Iowa and Illi-
nois. We get five for Watson in Ohio,
while Colorado, Wyoming. Idaho Montana
and Nevada are all Sewall. State conven-
tions have been called in Colorado and
Illinois to nominate Watson electors and 1
learn that Kansas WILL; too, have another
set of electors. l have 10 Information that
Sewall will withdraw. You seem to have,
as judge from your interviews. The DEM
| ocrats and populists here say he will not
withdraw. 1 was in Texas when the dem
ocrats sat on our proposition to divide
electors. They will not give us one in the
south, except two in Kentucky, and our
people will put up straight electoral tick
cts there. 1t Is a straight sell-out, and
shall not support Sewall electors here. 1t
does not even mean free silver 1t Is a
fraud from end to end 1t means destruc-
tlon to our party, and 1 won't stand it..
l hope Sewall will be cha wed up In Maine
Your friend, PAUL N1ERVOORT.
PoPuIist Notification of Bryan.
Mr. Bateman has received letter from
United States Senator William V. Allen of
Nebraska which says:
"As chairman of the Bryan notification
committee and pursuant to the precedents
of the party and with the approval Of the
national executive committee, l will, by
the Goth of this month. forward to Hon.
w. J. Bryan formal letter notifying him
of his nomination for the presidency. Mem
pers or the committee with whom 1 have
communicated believe it impracticable to
secure meeting of the committee, 1
would therefore be pleased to have you
SEND me by return mail the substance of
what you believe should be embraced in
the letter Of notification"
Mr.. Bateman replied to Senator Allen
courteously, saying that he had no sug-
gestlons to make and cared only that Mr.
Bryan should be notified. He said that it
vas no more than just and fair that Mr.
Bryan should have a formal notification,
and that in return the party should know
whether Mr.. Bryan desired the nomina-
| ton not.
This said Mr.. Bateman to The Star
correspondent, and he smiled blandly, this
Is a position that l have taken all along
don't care so much about the formali-
| ties Of the ceremony of notification SO long
as the ceremony itself is performed"
Mr.. Bateman intimated that he SHOULD
Keep careful! watch and know when Mr..
Bryan was notified, and he seemed to in
innate that he yet had his suspicious that
the formal notification might be evaded.
Personal Mention.
Secretary Francis has gone to jamestown,
R. l.. to join his family there for a few
days.
Assistant Secretary of the Interior Rey-
nolds has gone for a vacation of three