The Arizona sentinel., 1896-07-18
Washington LetteE
'om our regular correspondent.

cause the OnlcdSO cOnVeuIlOu aGoPtSa an anarchist-populist platform and the selected ex-Congressman Bryan of Nebraska, Populist, to head their ticket. On the contrary, they are de- lighted with both ticket and plat form, both of which have already done efficient work for Mckinley and Ho- bart. When you say that Bryan is a natural born orator, you say about all that can be said in his favor. During the two terms he served in
 the House, he demonstrated that there was little underneath his ability
 to talk brilliantly, smoothly and dra-
 matically, and before he retired from
 Congress he was at outs with all the
 Democratic leaders because of his
 having shown them that he was much
 more of Populist than Q Democrat.
 He was SO much of Populist that
 only two years ago he wanted the Pop
 ulist nomination for Gov. of Nebraska,
 but was beaten out of it by Holcomb.
 Ills career since. that time has been
 anything else but great. He made a
 failure as editor of an Omaha paper,
 and was repudiated by the voters of
 that state when he stumped the state
 as the Populist-Democratic candidate
 to succeed MT. Manderson in the U.
 s. Senate. The man who defeated
 Bryan in that campaign and who can
 be depended upon to see that Me-
 Kinley and Hobart carry Nebraska this year is Senator Thurston, who so able presided over the St. Louis con- vention.
 The nomination of Arthur Sewall, of Me, for Vice President did not strengthen the Democratic-Populist ticket. Even in Washington, where nearly everybody has sort of general knowledge of the men wbo are at all prominent in politics, everybody was asking, when the news of SewaA's nomination was sreceived, "who is Sewall?" And Tn all Washington, no picture of him could be found by the newspapers. His nomination was evidently intended as sop to the Democrats of the middle and Eastern States, who had nothing to do with putting Populist Bryan at the head of the ticket, but it will not work.
 Even after the Democrats have adoped an out and out PopulIst plat form and nominated Populist for President, they are far from certain of securing the indorsement of either the Populists, the silver party or the boiling silver Republicans. That is 9 matter of bargains and deals yet to be made. Ire leaders of each of these factions will make demands-extensive ones, too-which must be met before they will agree to support Bryan and Sewall, and even if they agree to do so it will still be matter of doubt as to how many votes of the rank and file they can deliver. Senator Teller could probably have gotten the votes of nearly all of these factions had he been nominated by the Democratic party, but it is certain that Bryan cannot.
 Members of the administration are not talking. They are waiting for Mr. Cleveland to give them the cue. It has been known for sometime that Mir. Cleveland favored the nomination of a gold Democratic ticket, while many other prominent Democrats, who will under no circumstances sup port Bryan and Sewall on their Pop ulist platform favor voting directly for Mckinley and Hobart as the surest way of rebuking the work of the Chi cago convention. The latter have the support of such prominent papers as the New York Sun, Herald and Times. Republicans are not worrying about what the sound money Demo- crats may or may not do, for the very simple reason that they are confident that Mckinley and Hobart can and will be elected by Republican votes. Of course they will be glad to have Democrats vote the ticket because they believe that the larger the ma jority against the Chicago ticket and platform, the better it will be for the future of the country. It is a ques- tion of law, order, public credit and general prosperity against anarchy and ruin.
 This is the way Kentucky Demo crat-Maj. D. w. Sanders, of Louis vile, now in Washington, secs the ac- tion of the Chicago convention: "The Democracy" he said, "has drifted clear away from its ancient moorings and has gene into the camp Of the socialists, anarchists and Populists. It iS ho,rribla tC ooptapo nla tp-this OOmi-