Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-07-06
WASHINGTON LETTER.
TsPEoIAL CORRESPONDENTS OF THE MoNIroF.l
WASHINGTON. June 20. 1896.

majority or MS parry on UHe uHdHcidl
question that he wants to be where he
can commune with the wild waves of
Buzzard's Bay when he hears the
news from the Chicago convention,
and he is accordingly making his ar
rangements to leave Washington this
week. 1t took long time for him to
get it through his head that big ma
jority of the democratic party was for
free silver, but now that all the dele
gates to the Chicago convention have
been selected, he is at last convinced,
and he is mad all the way through
about it, and is taking it out on mem
bers of his cabinet by accusing them
of misleading him in regard to demo-
cratic sentiment in their states.
The best informed democrats now
accept it as practically settled fact
that the platform adopted by the
Chicago convention will declare for
the free coinage of silver, and the eff
forts of the anti-silver democrats are
now being directed towards getting
a man whose opinions on that subject
are not radical, nominated for Presi-
de Mt, and they haven't much hope of
accomplishing even that much. They
will not bolt if they fail, butts an open
secret that none of them will render
any active help in the campaign for a
radical silver man on free coinage
platform, and that many of them who
do not for reasons of their own care
to openly repudiate their party's
ticket will quietly knife it at the polls
without the slightest conjunction.
1t seems practically certain that
more than nine tenths of the German
Americans will be found working and
V citing for Mckinley and Hobart this
year. The German sound
money league, composed of both re-
publicans and democrats, has served
notice upon each individual delegate
to the Chicago convention that the
German Americans will support no
platform which does not declare
against the independent free coin
age of silver under present circum-
stances. In this notification we're
some interesting figures gathered by
the league. Of the 5s1 German
American newspapers in this country
which discuss politics 1876 are in favor
of the present money standard, 80 are
for the free coinage of silver, and 43
have not taken a definite stand on
either side. A majority of these pa
pers are published west of the Allie
ghany mountains.
Mr.. j. K. Mcdonald, manager of
the Elyton Land Company of Bir-
mington, Ala. who has been demo
crat all his life, is now visiting Wash
ington. He says he is inclined to vote
for Mckinley and Hobart, and that
business associates will do the same, |
because they consider free coinage, |
which he calls as great delusion as
was the old greenback movement, to
be dead against the business interests
of Alabama.
Although the hardest work of the
campaign will not be on until all the
nominations for Congress have been
made, things are already quite brisk
a t the rooms of the Republican Con-
gressional Campaign Committee, and
much literature is being sent out. 1t
is the purpose of the committee to
concentrate it's work upon those dis
tricts which may reasonably be con-
sidered doubtful. Chairman Babcock
hasn't the slightest doubt about the
republicans retaining control of the
House, but he will work just as hard
as though it were matter of doubt,
in order that the majority may be as
large as possible.
Senator Germans friends make nc
bones of charging the responsibility
for the triumph of the silver wing of
the party upon Mr.. Cleveland. They
say that months ago, he was urged to
write letter saying that he was not
q candidate for denomination and
that he would not attempt to control
the choice of the convention. This
Mr.. Cleveland refused to do, until the
silver wing was in control, and even
then he so worded the letter that he
might still accept the nomination
should any chance combination of
circumstances bring him the oppor-
tunity. They say further that it would
have been easy to have defeated the
silver wing of the party had it not
been for the fear on the part of many
democrats that active opposition to
silver would be accepted as friend
illness towards Mr.. Cleveland and his
third term ambition. Senator Cor
man reiterates his determination not