The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-06-13


Captain S. Frederick Knowles of
New York is in the city. While a busi-
ness man in the quiet city of Flushing
he has been identified with Hill and
other heavy politicians in the political
enterprises Of his state, for twenty
years.
Captain Knowles is a triple plated
gold bug and is radical in.his denuncia-
tions Of the silver wing of the Demo-
| cratic party.
While he seems to be honest in his
convictions regarding the worship of
the golden calf, yet according to his
statements, while excited, he gave away
the whole secret with reference to the
friendship OF the New York Democrats
for the golden metal.
When a reporter for the Eagle asked
him how the Democrats of the Empire
state stood on the money question he
said:
I'VE are for sound money and will
stand by President Cleveland and the
traditions Of the Democratic party this
fall"
How can you stand by both when
Cleveland is a gold bug and the tradi-
tions Of the Democratic party have had
silver lining from jefferson 10
Buchanan"
That's not so, sir. The Democratic
party has always been a party of sound
money. 1t has always been a gold
standard party. You fellows out here
are crazy over this silver question. You
fellows want TO run and break up the
Democratic party. Yau want TO stand
in with the rebel south in order to re-
pudiate the obliga tions of this nation"
The captain was growing very warm
and was about TO faint when the report
er asked him where would the Demo-
cratic party by were it not for the
rebel south"
Il don't care about that. I say that
the northern Democrats propose to have
sound money at the Chicago conVen-
ton. New York Will never submit to 4
platform of free silver. 1T would ruin
our party there. With a gold standard
platform New York City will go Demo-
cratic again and l want to tell you that
that means a great deal. There are
thousands Of good places in New York
City that can be filled by Democrats,
but if the party changes its creed 10
silver the Republicans will sweep the
state and counties that now elect Demo-
cratic officers will go hopelessly Repub-
lican if our Chicago platform does not
equivocally declare for gold"
1T is question of offices then with
the Democrats of New York;"
Not altogether, but there is some
thing in that, and there ought to be
We can elect more Democratic officers
in the city and state Of New York than
"a N Ia a1a in, oil ha cfo fae- 1P
the Missouri river combined. The men
who fight the battles and win are the
men who should dictate the policy of the
Democratic party"
''Of course you elect more Democrats
to office in New York than they do in
the ten silver states of the south, too"
This was a corker for the captain, and
he had to abandon that argument. He
seemed to think that for the sake of
electing a few county clerks in New
York state and putting the control OF
the street cleaning gang of New York
City in the hands of the Democratic
party that all the other Democrats in
the United States should surrender their
principles and allow 70.000.O 900 of people
fall into the clutches of Wall street to
become the slaves and serfs of the
money power. He honestly thinks that
New L OTk Is emitted 10 frame tle DOilCN
of the Democratic party and he doesn't
care a straw whether a Democrat in
any other part Of the United States gets
to the pie counter or not.
What will the New York Democrats |
do if the Chicago convention declares !
for silver?''
1--WE will let the Democratic party |
march on TO ruin. We viii let you west |
ern fellows who think you know ii all |
run things till you get tired of it AMI |
that will not take long. If silver IS in |
the platform New York will give the |
ticket half a million ma
jority. We must and viii repudiate the /
platform publicly and emphatically in |
order TO elect our local Democratic |
tickets"
rs there any silver sentiment at all |
in New York p"
'NO. not 10 amount TO anything Here /
and there are scattered a few but they
are not many. The Populist party Is
very small there and even a great many
OF its membership favor sound money"
How does Mckinley stand in New
York? %
Not very good. New York IS an i'm
porting city and il does not
believe in any tariff policy tha,
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