Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-10-12
Political Notes.

President George c. Chase of Bates
college. says of the 16 to / proposition:
"A distinctively American policy in re-
spect to the legal ratio between gold
and silver dollars is as sensible as a
distnctively American multiplication
table"
Over 300 Democrats in Stamford.
Conn, voted gold ticket at the town
election last Monday. IF this proper
ton is kept up throughout the state in
November" the New Haven Register
Dem.) says, 1.-The national Democratic
vote will show larger beginning to
the movement than even it's most en-
thusiastic friends predicted"
A travelling man relates an expert
ence he had in Leavenworth. when
Bryan was nominated l bolted and de-
clared for Mckinley, and at once be-
gan talking sound money to everyone
met. For several years | had been
paying monthly visits to customer of
mine in Leavenworth. He is a manu-
facturer and employs IS men. I was
there just after the Chicago conven-
ton, and 60 out of the rs were for
Bryan. From time to time l have sent
sound-money printed matter to the
shop, and have improved every oppor-
tunitv to talk to the men, for / know
many % Them personally Day before
yesterday L was up there again. and
how many silver men do you suppose
there are in that shop now? Just three
and one of those is wavering"
At Topeka the other day, writes
I
offense to a hotel clerk. will you
please tell me- / asked, ''where I can
find the headquarters of the Demo-
cratic state committee" This seemed
harmless enough, but the clerk didn't
like it, for some reason or other. mo.
l can't" he replied. because there
isn't any such thing. But if you want
to find the joint where the mongrels
the long haired, big-eared, disgruntled
oilice-hungry, drooling, wild-eyed
Democratic renegades and Populists
hang out, go up Kansas avenue two
blocks and a half on the right hand
side of the street" you appear to be
excited" I remarked TO the clerk
what is the matter with you?'
Nothing" he replied, except that I
am Democrat and am down on this
whole cheap money, repudiating out
fit'
The Galveston (Texas) News tells q
queer little story about Gov. Culberson's
now famous letter to Bismarck. II seem {
a.,ai iast July he wrote to the Prince
.u.shihE ms views on the financial Dues
tloh: Then he placed a two-cent stamn
on the envelope and dropped it into a
convenient cor mail box. In due time the let
Ter reached Germany. marked COLLECT :,
or the German equivalent for Insufficient
postage The thrifty Prince or his ser
xitors declined to accede to the demand
me me sender refused The governor put
me letter into another envelope. put a
s nvu.cent postage stamp on that. and
started laitnr 1T on return trip. This time the
letter reached the Prince. and he sent
,he reply that has had diversified trans
latlons The man who told the News the
story story, comments: Mr.. Culberson. a free
silver man, writes a letter to a German
Dimetallist and puts half the required
amount OF postage on the envelope The
letter Is refused because there is not
enough postage on it. Yet in the face
VI TINS. Mr. Culberson and his friends ex-
pect TO make dollar out of SO cents
worm worm OF silver and expect the people of
foreign nations to take it. See the point -
Hon. John r. Proctor, civil service
commissioner. Is preparing tract for
'he REFORM club showing the attitude
o. the democrats Of the period preced
ing the war toward the gold standard
Mr.. Proctor cites an extract from tho
speech OF Representative Durham of
Indiana. chairman of the WAYS and
means committee. which shows fu,lv
that the act of 1853 for reducing the
Vaiue OF the subsidiary coins was
understood at that time to be a com
nhittai TO the gold standard policy. Mr.
Durham said in presenting the hill
1t is urged against this pronosad
change that it gives a standard of chr
reney of gold only. Whenever the Nv
pertinent of standard of n s;rg,e
metal has been tried it has proven
eminently successful Indeed 81 e
utterly impossible that we shou,d ,o,,s
at time maintain a doub,a st.,,ass
l repeat, in reply to the pentlanaau -
,ha' we propose so far as these coins
are concerned to make the silver s,,,,.
serVient to the gold coin of the conntr,,
we intend to do what the best writar.
on political economy have annrnv .ef,
what experience. when the exnar;r,a,,
mas peen tried. has demonstrated 10 y.
,ne best. and what the COMMITTEES - h ~
neve to be necessary and prone y.