The morning times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-23
BRYAN CLUBS ARE f0RMInG
Many Republicans Said to Be
Joining Them.
REPORTS ARE POURING IN
Virginia Heads the List--Leads the
Southern States with q Total of
1855 Organizations-we West and South
Have Their Quota-President Grant
and Silver the SubJecfof Bulletin.

AT the Democratic Congressional be;ld-
quarters 1t is said that reports thus far
received from ali sections of the country
Indicate greater interest in the formation
OF clubs than in any previous campaign.
The national association has enrolled w.
ward of 400 clubs within the past few
days. Each days mail brings In. ssses
OF requests for information as to the best
manner for organization and what sre-
qIired to become a member OF the ma
uOnal body.
state and county organizers are being
named as fast as possible. aui all the neces-
saI. Information aud blanks furnished them
that they can work successfully in their
assigned localities.
or the Southern States, Virginia aud
Texas are the most active in organizing,
but all the other States will be quite as
thoroughly aroused TO the Importance of
club organization within very little
wbiic. Virginia has l65 new clubs, with IA
very large part of the State 10 bear from
1t is estimated from the report just re-
ceivcd from the State organizer that Texas
viii have a Bryan Club in every voting
precinct before the last day of August
With hardly an exception, IT is said,
every club which has been recorded as a
member of the national association has
within its membership many former Re-
publicans.
WORD FROM KANSAS.
Several of the States have already start
bd distinct movement among the first
voters" and clubs bearing in part that
title have made application for membership.
One came yesterday from Fort Worth,
Tex, with an enrolled membership of en-
thusiastIc young men who will cast their
first votes ID November, and for Bryan and
Sewal
Princeton, III, reports the formation Of
a Free Silver Swedish Republican Club
with n membership OF so. This club can
not be enrolled as a member of the Ma
tioDal Association of Democratic Clubs.
but will be a strong factor in thu. forma-
ton of the proposed national organization
OF Free Silver Republican Clubs.
Several letters from Iowa show, it is
claimed, material accessioDs to the clubs
from Republican ranks. One from Bedford
reports: The chairman of our club has been
a lifelong Republican until the silver issnc
came. We have thirty former Republicans
on our roster and expect TO reach fifty,
-four or them leading attorneys Of the State"
st. Louis, and. in fact, the entire State of
Missouri, is beginning to eyince great In
terest in the second quadrepral convention
OF Democratic clubs, which will assemble
in st. Louis Wednesday. September 30. Sec
Rotary Gardner says both Bryan and SewalI
will be present.
GRANT AND SILVER.
In the new edition Of the pamphlet issued
by the Democratic Congressional Commit
tee, entitled Money of the Constitution
will be found the following extract, which
shows concl1sively, as the committee be-
heles, that President Grant had no knowl-
edge Of the Decentralization of silver up to
the time Of his sending this message TO
Congress, which was in January, 1875
On January IA, 1875, in a message an
nouDcing his approval OF the act to pru-
vide for the resumption OF specie payments
and suggesting further legislation to make
the law effective, President Grant said:
.'In fact. to carry out the first section OF
OF the act another mint becomes neces-
sary. With the. present facilities Tor cOir'-
age it would take a period probably beyond
that fixed by law for final specie re-
sumption to coin the silver Necessary to
transact the business Of the country.
"There are now smelling furnaces for
extracting the silver and gold from the
ores brought from the mountain territories
In Chicago, ST. Louis and 0Tnaha-three in
the former city-and much Of the change re-
quired will be wanted In the Mississippi
Valley States. and as the metals to DC
coined come from west CT those States.
and, as understand, the charges for trans
poriation of bullion from either OF the cities
named to the mint in Philadelphia or to New
York city amount to 81 for each 81 600
worth, with an equal expense for transporta-
tion back. it would seem fair argument
In favor Of adopting one or more OF those
cities as the place or places for the estab-
Iishment of new Coming facilities