Arizona weekly citizen., 1896-08-01
big PRICE.
The Democrats Pay Dearly
For the Populist Vote
They Receive.
SILVER DAILY.
The Situation at the Ma
TONS Capital Briefly
Told.
SILVER DAILY.
Special Correspondence.

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Republicans do not envy the demo
Gratis all OF the mesger satisfaction the
can extrAt from the action of the pc
pulist natonsl convention. But all tn
same it does seem that the democrats
in putting up populist candidate fol
President and adopting populist plat
form, paid an almighty big price for on
ly portion of the .populist vote.
The populist N0pvsntion received
next to no attention IN Washington.
If there were any people who really
cared what it would do they did not
make their appearance aro.sSd the
usual news csnters. Thoee who did
discuss the convention did SO in such
an Indifferent manner that it was PLAIN
they attached not the slightest import
8nce one way or the other to what ii
might do, and when it's action was an
nounoed there WAS not even a ripple
of interest displayed. Whatever may
be thought elsewhere the opinion is
practically unanimous in Washington
that Mckinley and Hobart are going t.
be elected.
Representative Mercer, Of Nebraska,
secretary of the Republican Congress
sional Campaign committee returned
this week from a trip to his home. He
ia enthusiastic over the promising re-
publican outlook, from both presiden-
tial and congressional points of view
Speaking of his own state he said:
"The republicans will carry Nebraska.
l believe it will be hard fight, owing
to the fact that the democratic no
minee is from Nebraska, but the repub-
lcsns will win, and We will have q
safe majority. too" Everybody is hust-
ling around the committee headquarters
to meet the demand for sound money
literature, which is becoming greater
every day. The committee is prepared
to supply the demand, no matter how
great 1t may be.
Senator Faulkner, chairman of the
Democratic Congressional Campaign
committee, Is supporting Bryan and the
Chicago platform, but he isn't much 10
love with either. He likes to talk, and
in my opinion he talks too much. He
should be kept quite until the cam
psign opens, and then he should not be
allowed to speak without careful pre-
paratlon. His recent speeches are not
up to the standard of his Chicago
speech, and they will not be unless he
is given ample opportunity to prepare
himself. L have noticed considerable
criticism upon some OF his offhsnd eff
forts. His enemies are on his trial, and
they are ever ready to pick up and make
use Of any silly or injudicious remark
he may chance to let fall. HIS play
now is to remain silent and bottle up
some of the personal Joy be feels over
having been selected as the candidate"
Iu plain English, Mr.. Faulkner thinks
Mr.. Bryan needs guardian to keep
him from making a moi key of himself.
Mr.. p. E. Studebsker, of Indiana,
who has just returned from Europe, says
be proposes putting in q lot OF active
work for Mckinley and Hobart and
honest money. Speaking OF the situa-
ton he said:
II know the farmers of the west, for /
have done business with them for thirty
years. They are intelligent and honest,
aad L cannot Relieve they can be infiu
enced by sophistry 10 place themselves
in bumilsting position before the eyes
Of the world. i know Mr.. Bryan, too,
for l discussed this silver question with
him several years ago. 1t will require
more than high sounding phrases tC
cstoh the farmers vot, 8 this year. You
must convince the average farmer that
he, and not some wealthy mine owner,
will be benefited before he will vote for
the free coinage of silver, which woulC
really be disastrous to the farmers"
Although two of the three daily news
paper in Washington are controlled by
democratic ex-congressmen, and all Of
them are presenting in their news COL |
umns all sides of the silver question in
IN unusually fair manner, some Of the
silver dem ocrats are trying to get money
to publish a daily organ
during the campaign. It's .res coun-
Try, and il there are people who have
money to invest in that way 1t is nobo- |
ly else's business. Still, it would be
interesting to know what they could
possibly expect to accomplish by the
,u blication of a daily silver organ at |
Washington.
An interesting rumor, which nobody |
las been able to authenticate, is to the /
Effect that Senator Cannon, OF Utah,
Who was one of the silver boilers from /
he republican national convention. had /
decided to support Mckinley and Hob
lrt. This rumor may have started from
he fact that Senator Csnnon's name
vas not attached to the Teller manifesto
n Bryan's behalf.