The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-07-24

!, bottled. The Mobile Register, Florid
! Citizen and Savannah News are thre
c more of the leading papers of tn
south to be added 10 the boiling lis
, this week
Chairman and ex Banker ST Johl
is now predicting that even Vernon
will be carried for silver.
Ex-senator Ferry of Michigan. an ar
dent republican. and ssacting vice-pres
ident in Grants last term. has declared
his opposition to the gold policy of hi
party.
No good cause ever was promoted by
= ruftianism. We must not rillmanize the
fight for honest money. The appeal lie,
10 the honesty and the Intelligence OF
the American peoplc-the infallible
court of last resort in every national
controversy -[Chicago Times Herald
Secretary of the Interior Smiths pa.
per, the Atlanta Evening Journal an
nounces that. After careful deliberation
! while we cannot indorse all of the plat
1 form adopted AT Chicago. we have
determined to give an earnest support
/ to the democratic nominees.
| Ex-senator ingalls, Is lighting for his
old seat in the senate on free silver lines
within the republican party. having car
ried six legislative conventions on Satur-
day.
The Butte Gazette. democratic paper
in Bryan's own state of Nebraska. has
bolted the ticket.
The y. y World has been polling
the Democratic committeeman of the
state. Chairman Hnkley of the state
committee says one quarter of the
party is in revolt, though he believes
a portion of the kickers will come TO
the support of Bryan. But the chair
men of the county committees geuer
ally repor. a growing sentiment for
free silver among Republicans, and
predict net increase If the vote.
DIR Ralph Sherwood of St Adams,
the nominee for lieutenant governor,
absolutely refuses TO say anything for
publication on the subject of the
Chicago platform and ticket.
Gov. Mckinley made richly word
ed speech to the Cuyahuga veterans
union which visited him in Canton
this week, il which he declared the
country's honor to be at stake in ii is
campaign aad told them that battle
of ballots was impending to tax their
patriotism like the battles of bullets
they used to pass through.
The announcement that George VI
Powers of Worthwhile will not be a
for re election as clerk of
the Vermont senate has caused hut-
ter, and three candidates have rushed
out from cover They are Messrs.
Carl c. Fletcher of st. Albans, Max |
l.. Powell of Burlington. and A. G. |
Coolidge of Rutland.
Randolph Barton, one of the cleo
tors at large on the Democratic ticket |
in Maryland. has announced his with |
drawal ana his purpose 10 vote for Nc.
kinley.
Gen. Daniel f. Sickles not only
bolts but propose To vote for Mckinley.
tie says IN letter about proposition
to organize the veterans in this way:
You and | and our comrades are not accus
omed TO use blank cartridges in presence of an
ehemy therefore | don't propose TO throw
iway my vote on any third candidate. Nor are
Se IN the habit of Withholding our fire when
lssailed; therefore.I don't mean TO stay home
ma not vote az az shall give a patriotic vote
or my comrade Major Mckinley. believing that ,
n so doing am repeating what | did in ,64
Mnen az war bemoctati voted for Lincoln
md the Union.
Senator Don Cameron of Penn '
yivania. long the foremost Republican
advocate OF free silver in the east. !
announces his purpose to support Me S
Alnley. am for free silver. but I
m not fool is his way of putting i
I. rms is Interpreted to mean that I
I the Chicago platform had contented !
tseif with simply declaring for free n
oinage, he might have supported it.
SUIT ne can't stomach the rest of il.
Honest John Davis. who has twice .
I'd the Rhode Island Democrats to :,
ictory, declares for Bryan. He says
e has long been silver advocate and
o matter who is elected this year. the o
line VIII soon come when the country X
MI be obliged 10 adopt silver basis. v
borrower, this country can well afford il
, take the lead and European couu
hes will be sure TO follow. He admits
nat in case of Bryan's election, For Y,
Igs capital would unload all Of their y
oldings, undoubtedly. and there would !.
= great business panic In this :,
ountry. But when it was all over =
here WOULD be REIMBURSEMENT of -
alues and much greater prosperity. y,
Ex Gov. Boies of Iowa refuses 10 al.
Nv bis name to be used as can
ldate for congress. Il
Elk Senator James W. Bradburv of :,
aine, who was one of the party lead n,
8 with Hamlin way back before the n
ar and who has not failed to vote :;
lie ticket for % years. is one of the n,
pliers. -