Evening star., 1896-07-27
Some of the Letters Received by the
Republican Committee.
4 CAMPAIGN OF EDUCATION
What the Democrats Hope to Sc
cure in the East.
MILLIONS OF DOCUMENTS

OF DAY, enough, In ract. TO keep a big
force of clerks at work upon the reading
and answering of them. Among them are
some curious communications. numbers of
important ones, and at intervals letters
conveying Information of an unusual char
aCter. One of the letters received today
was from resident of South Carolina, in
closing a communication to lo,al demo-
cratic paper from William Miles Hazard,
who is described as a "dyed-in-the-wool
democrat Mr.. Hazard In the course of
his writing, records the following senti-
u.ent:
While free silver will Increase the wealth
of silver miners. and more money not suit
able to the trade Will be in circulation, 1t
Is not going TO benefit the rice planters and
sugar planters, who will still have to cope
with foreign competition, which means rice
and sugar made SO cheap by cheap labor
that We cannot cope with them. Fer my
Self, shall vote for Maj. Mckinley, as he
represents sound money and protection; we
have lived under 1T. prospered under it,
and know that 1t is no experiment Free
silver and free trade does not suit our IN
GLstry.
1T cannot suit the south. The day is not
distant when cotton planters will be forced
TO ask for protection from the increased
annual shipment of cotton from Egypt and
the factories from the formidable competi-
Oon that will arise from Japan and China
Ihese branches of our southern industries
nave not yet felt the blight, as We have in
coping with JapanS. China's and Egypt's
cheap labor. Is it prudent for them to aid
IN Keeping sound money and protection
apart?''
A Campaign of Education.
The republican congressional committee
is conducting campaign Of education up
on the financial question on a scale larger
than was ever attempted before probably,
6y any congressional campaign committee.
Inc number of campaign documents that
Will be sent out this fall will run I'D into
the millions One Congressman from the
west, who called at congressional head
quarters today. made arrangements to
nave $1,000 documents sent into his dis
trict. and it IS not the largest district in
the country by any means. 1t is signif-
cant TO note that the titles of these docu-
ments show them to relate mainly to the
financial question. McCleary's answer to
Iowne's tree silver speech, "Babcock on
Money. "Populist Humbugs Exposed"
Dingley on the Treasury Situation" and
similar topics comprise the order Before
the campaign Is over 1t is probable that
two million documents will be distributed
in Indiana and Illinois alone
one of the campaign documents which
nave oeen offered to the republican commit
tee comes from a Philadelphia printing
firm. and Is In the form of great poster
printed in red and blue ink. as follows:
'16 to l.
What does 1t mean?
"A silver dollar weighs about sixteen
times as much as a gold dollar When the
ratio was established for the coinage of
gold and silver dollars 1t approximately
represented the market value of the two
metals An ounce of gold was worth about
sixteen times as much as an ounce Of SILL
yer Now an ounce of gold Is worth more
than thirty times as much as an ounce of
silver.
Under our law whoever owns gold bull
Ion can take it to the mint and have 1t
made into coins without any cost to him.
That Is free coinage of gold. The gold thus
coined Is worth a dollar, Irrespective of
the stamp. all over the world. The silver
men demand that We shall do the same
thing for silver without any change of
ratio-that Is to say. that every owner OF
s.iver snaIi be permitted to take 1t to the
mint and have every fifty cents worth Of
II stamped as dollar. though 1t would be
worth only Its bullion value outside the
United States
That is what free coinage at 18 IN
means.'
senator Pettigrew's Resignation.
Senator Pettigrew Of South Dakota, who
Will be recalled one Of the men who fol-
lowed Senator Teller in his dramatic bolt
from the republican national convention at
ST Louis, was a member of the congress
slonai committee Since his departure from
the republican party at ST. Louis Senator
Pettigrew has resigned his place upon the
committee. The vacancy has not vet been
filed.
In this connection Ii has been remarked in
avowed advocates of the gold standard on
the democratic congressional committee
standing practically as much in opposition
TO the platform and ticket as Senator Petit
grew did, but no designations have been
reported up to this date from the demo-
cratic committee.
Work of the Democratic Committee
1t is said that when the democratic ma
tional committee opens headquarters a few
days hence and gets down to business In
earnest, one of the first subjects to be taken
up VIII be the attitude of certain men
toward the national platform and ticket
VINO, having been nominated as presidential
electors on the democratic ticket prior TO
.he ChicaKo convention. have since that
time repudiated both the platform and the
ticket, and are publicly credited with tho
intention to vote for Mckinley
This matter has come to open issre In
Pennsylvania, where William NJ. singerly,
by reason of his revolt from the ticket has
been challenged by ex-Congressman Snow
den. who has written the following letter
10 the state central committees:
As democrat. who wishes to vote for
the regular democratic nominees for Presi-
dent and Vice President, Messrs. Bryan and
Sewal, at the next November election. /
address you this letter: Are you going to
reconvene the democratic state convention
In order that 1t may give US a democratic
presidential electoral ticket that will truly
represent the regularly nominated ticket
above named and the platform upon which
II was nominated. so that all loyal and
faithful democrats can safely and con-
sctentiously vote for 1t. and in doing so feel
certain that in the event Of election the
electors chosen Will cast their ballots In the
electoral college for Messrs BRYAN and
Sewall?
Il am led to ask you this question becausa
/ observe through the democratic news
papers that are Loyalty and faithfully sun
porting Messrs- Bryan and Sewall in this
state that William NJ. Singerly's name is
still at the head of the democratic presi-
dental electoral ticket of this common
wealth. while he is personally in open re-
bellicn against the ticket and has boldly re-
pudiated the platform upon which it wac
nominated.
He and a number of other prominent and
influential Philadelphia democrats are open.
ly engaged in a scheme to defeat our ticket
and elect Mr.. Mckinley. He has even gone
30 FAR as to suggest the basis upon which
he claims that the dissatisfied democrats
and republicans can come together and ell. ct
Mr. Mckinley hands down, to use his own
language Surely. you Will see the neces-
sity or Your committee taking some steps to
relieve the honest and loyal democrats
from the embarrassing position in which
they find themselves by reason OF having
such democrats on the presidential electoral