The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-09-13
CREELMAN'S VIEWS.
How the World Correspondent Views
the Situation from Headquarters.

POAANCAO VI INC NEW AO1h HOA1ua IDS
been in Chicago studying the situa-
ton for the World He writes from
gold standpoint. We make a few ex-
tracts, first giving his interview with
the secretary of the Democratic Execu-
tive committee of Illinois:
PULLMAN WORKMEN'S POSITION.
"Now," said Mr.. Nelson, ''you say
that there is a sound-money club of
1900 voters among the Pullman car
men. The Pullman men know they
must sign their names to this club or
lose their jobs. We hope men like
Pullman will keep up this work of
coercion. But let enc tell you what
lies under the surface. A man who
was compelled to join Mckinley club
against his will came to this Office
yesterday and cried like a baby. My
Cod he said, 4 have got to hide my
manhood or lose my place just as the
winter is coming on
IAN employe of large store who
is a very warm friend of free silver
reported that his employers had or
dered him to stop talking about free
silver in the establishment. He made
a protest, but obeyed.
'"The next day he was told that he
must stop discussing free silver in the
street. Having a wife and baby and
| being a poor man, he swallowed his
pride and yielded. Several days later
| he was informed that he must read up
on the gold side of the argument and
| that the firm would furnish the liter
allure. There was nothing to do but
surrender. Next he was ordered to
| Join a Mckinley marching club, and
| the day after he put on his button and
signed his name to the roll, his en-
ployers coolly congratulated him on
his conversion.
"A business man in this neighbor-
hood Joined our movement, but as soon
as he began to talk in favor of free
silver the bank which advanced him
capital for his enterprise called him
in and ordered him to settle his ac-
count on the spot. He had to borrow
$50, 900 or make an assignment
Il am making a conservative state
ment when / say that there are thirty
thousand Republicans in Chicago who
are for Bryan. 1t is easy to ascertain
the fact. There are more than hum
bred free silver clubs in the city and
at least one-half of the membership is
Republican. In the country the same
conditions pervail. Take the home OF
Mr.. Hopkins, the Republican Congress
man at Aurora. There are exactly 54S
Republicans in the Bryan club there.
We pay no speakers because we prac-
tically have no money. But, counting
the school house meetings, we have
at least five hundred men talking free
silver in Illinois. Gov. Altgeld has built
up a magnificent organization. There
| are Is, 800 men in the county and aux
iliary committees.
A SILVER CANVASS OF ILLINOIS.
just now free silver canvass of Ill
| inois is being made. Mr.. Nelson, the
| Secretary of the Bryan State commit
| te, told me to-day that although only
| few counties had been heard from that
| the outlook was encouraging.
1T is a mistake to suppose that we
| are losing strength among the farmers
| of Illinois," he said. The Republi-
| cans have made some serious blunders
/ at the very beginning. TO catch the
| farmers they talk high prices, and to
| catch the laborers they talk low pri-
ces. Sometimes they get their itera-
| ture mixed, and when a farmer gets a
| Republican circular showing that the
| gold standard will lower prices, he sees
| the fraud and comes over to US"
Mr.. Nelson held up several pages OF
| typewriter names, to which was at
tached a certificate signed by the Dem
| ocratic chairman of Wabash county.
Here's a purely agricultural coun-
| ty, ''he said. II have just received this
report from our committee there. This
is list of 300 Republican farmers who
have declared for Bryan out of total
county vote of 2,700. That tells the
story of our fight in the country dis
tricts. The Indianapolisticket is
hurting the Republicans. We already
see that Palmer's votes viii be chiefly
taken from Mckinley. Thousands of
| Republicans who have been wavering
| on the line, now understand for the
/ first time that we are in earnest and
have driven the gold standard men out
! Of the party
| ORGANIZED LABOR FOR BRYAN.
From the standpoint of the Bryan
| leaders the corporate interests of Chi
| cage are in a state of siege. The polls
| which have been taken in some of the
| factories are misleading, for members
| of the labor unions are afraid Of losing
| their employment and refuse to ac-
knowledge their intention to vote for
| Bryan. The slightest investigation of
| the organized labor sentiment reveals
! this Mark Hanna has bought a few
| of the leaders, but the rank and file
are with Bryan. Although the poll
ing of worl1ingmen by their employ
ers has shown heavy majority in ia
VOr of Mckinley everywhere the fact
remains that the united labor organi-
cations invited Bryan to be their ora
tor, and also invited Chairman Jones
to be present, Mr.. Hanna being ig-
nored. A proposition to have the Rev.
Mr.. Gunsaulus address the organiza-
tons at some future time was over
whelmingly voted down. Mr.. Gun
saulus has declared against Bryan.
Organized labor in Chicago sees all
the corporations and millionaires it
has been fighting for years arrayed
against Bryan. That is enough. The
old passion flames up fiercer than ever.