The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-07-03
CHICAGO sTRA Ws.
Indications, Predictions. suggestions
and ThrtRtenings with Regard 20 the
Great Battle That Opens Next Week.


the country during this campaign %
"time serving, knock down ant
dragged-out politics
1t seems to be case of bolt, boy
colt or bust - ingfield Republi
can.
, The Oregon Democrats are going I,
: urge Gov. Pennoyer for first, or sec
| ond place.
Gen Edward S. Bragg of Wisconsin,
who originally loved MIR. Cleveland fol-
the enemies he had made, is going
J to the Chicago convention for the ex-
press purpose OF attending to Sen ator
Ben iamin r. Tillman.
Senator Teller says that he will sup
port either Boics or Bland, and that
they will be acceptable to the free sill
yer Republicans OF the mountain
states.
Chairman Taubencck of the Pop
nlist national committee, is siren
uo'lsy opposed to any union. He says
If the Democrats believe that the
populists and silver Republicans will
be content solely with the glory OF do
ing tho voting in those states where
their votes are absolutely needed they
will be reasoning outside the line OF
human nature. My oplnion is that
the peoples party will not support
Horace Boies Despite his recent
protestations, they think him unreli
able on the currency question.
The Maryland delegation met and
voted Tuesday not to bolt il the con-
vention does go for free silver
Lieut. Gov. Day of Minnesota an
nounces through his paper, the Fair
mount Sentinel, that he can no
longer act with the Republican party,
because of its position on the money
question. He thinks Mckinley cannot
carry single state west OF Ohio.
A man has but to ask himself
whether he himself would lend dol
lar to a man who would repay it ia
dollar worth only half as much to
see this latter from point of view OF
those who have savings to invest. So
long AS this free silver agitation con-
tipues people will prefer to let tb cir
money lie idle rather than put it where
it cannot be gotten ON demand. Hence
the business stagnation and distress
which are so severe in the south and
west. Those sections have paid dearly
for their folly. An invading army
could hardly infiict greater injury to
them than they are enduring from the
devastation of Their credit by the free
silver agitators. As long as they cher
ish this free silver folly they will fry
in their own juice. -tPittsburg Chron
Gle Telegraph.
Every sound money Democrat in
Boston approached on the subject has
promptly signed pledge not 10 rote
for free silver ticket.
The Illinois delegates held con fer |
ence Tuesday under the lead of Gov.
Alleged, whose motto as he phrases il, !
is ITO h--with the gold bugs" 1t !
was decided to vote for the abro |
cation of the two-thirds rule.
The leaders of both sides OF the sill |
yer question are already on the ground |
at Chicago, consulting and laying |
plans for the great fight Of next week.
4 lso ON hand to aid the silverites
with their counsel are Senators Du
bois and Pettigrew of the boiling Re-
publicans, Sovereign of the knights
of Labor. Senator c. Harris of Ten
nessee, chairman of the Democr attic
national committee, will
probably be the permanent chairman
of the national convention. The silver
program also includes the removal of
the national headquarters to Chicago
and the election of Senator Jones of
Arkansas chairman of the national
/,
Secretary Whitney says the sit
uation that now confronts the Dem. {
1cracy lis like that of 1860. The hon
)r OF the country is at stake, and all
men must stand together to avert pub
lie disgrace and the wreck of hun
ireds of thousands of homes through
the country" He evidently expects
/ split and almost threatens it,
saying that if free coinage win mo
1ower on earth can either persuade or !
,oerce sound money Democrats to for J
'ake the fundamental principle OF de .
nocracy.'
Senator Lindsay of Kentucky when
Democratic party replies Well, it I
strikes me that we are going straight /
o the devil y
Senator Marion Butler says he is s
,nly afraid Whitney and his followers .
Won't bolt but that if Whitney fails in v
else, his last card will be to &
nave the gold men apparently in v
lorse or submit to the action of the b
convention. In order to v
iiscredit it and make the union of the j
ilver forces impossible and McKin
ey's election sure. t.
Gov. Altgeld is leading bitter oppo-
ition to Boies because of speech the !.
after made in July '94 strongly APP
,roving Cleveland's course in sending {
roops TO Chicago during the great Il
trlke to quell the disorder with which u
Altgeld refused or neglected. to deal. ,
Senator White of Colorado is also +,
fter the presidential nomination.
General Secretary Hayes and sew
raj other officers of the knights of
.ahor are on the ground, though theyI d
insist that it has nothing to do with II
he convention. =.
Two hundred Democratic Indian @,
polls business men have opened head "
uarters in favor of sound money and f.
his is only sample of what scores of
theirs are doing. 1t is to be the most |
xciting gathering Chicago ever saw. m
4 list of boiling Kansas Republi p,
ans is standing feature of Kansas fo
ewspapers these days. The Atchison 81
ounty Republican convention has n:
pted down by a two thirds vote a res
luton ENDORSING the ST. Louis plat bf
,rm, and both the Republican papers
/ Atcb ison city have repudiated the b,
.tion of the natl onal convention. 81
Senator Teller's return home from ~ ~
mai1a Wednesday was one continuous vi