The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-05-28
AN INTERESTING RUMoR CURRENT
AT THE STATE CAPITAL-MR.
BRYAN, HOWEVER, SAYS THE
RUMoR is R1D1cULoUs-A RE.
PUBLICAN LEADER SAYS HIS
PARTY WOULD SUPPORT THE
Observation-Disclosures
BoLTER COALITION.

Tor governor-at least there are many
Gnlngs TO indicate that he may be.
1t is quite generally agreed, us every
body knows, that the regular Dem prracy
Will reafiirm the Chicago platform and
declare for the.free coinage of silver in no
uncertain words.
The mouthpiece of the oddities in Vir-
ginia has declared, as is known, that the
gold people, so far us it is able TO speak
for them. will uoG swallow the Chicago
platform with its free silver and other
alleged hercsies.
And the Republican party, at least its
leadersit is said have decided not to hold
State convention and@ nominate candi-
dates, but to throw their support to can
didates to he nominated by the goldites.
And Mr.. Joseph Bryan is undoubtedly
the leade" of the gold men in the Com
monwealth who formerly affiliated with
the Democracy prior to'the last campaign.
SO the rumor that he may be named
and urged to accept the candidacy is not
without ground fer plausibility
The gold people, of course, will DENY
that there is anything in the rumor.>
But some people remember how events
shaped themselves last year when the ex-
Democrats who opposed the regular De-
mocracy and the Chicago platform
worked hand in hand with the Republi-
cans to help carry the commonwealth for
Mckinley, and the Republicans are I'M
uoubtedly counting on a continuation of
this utilization with those who still refuse
to accept the doctrines of thu regular
Democracy
A representative of the State saw Mr..
Joseph Bryan yesterday ia his comforta.
bic office. ut the top of his large Office
bnlldlrg ut Tenth and Bank streets, over
looking the other surrounding buildings
and the James, and asked him about the
rumor of the probable combination.
1.-The report is being circulated,sa Mr..
Bryan" said he, chat the Republicans
are not going 20 hold State convention
but are going to try to Combine with the
goldites and support the candidates that
the latter will name andsas you are the
owner of the representative paper of that
class, the State wants tn ask you about
its correctness9"
~ don't know anything about any such
an arrangement. | haven't seen ,Judge
Waddill for Ions time. L know nothing
about it,"
"Your name has been mentioned, too.
MIR. Bryan, as the candidate for the gov.
ernorship," added the reporter
ridiculous; you know that is ridicu-
lous," was the reply. "You can lust
uehS Vne whole STORY as TO any cOmbina
tion. 80 lar as know there is nothing
IN lt. VI course cannot speak for the gold
people as to what they will or will not do.
| have no doubt that so far as The Renub.
licans are concerned that they would like
to enter into such an arrangement.
Mr.. Bryan said further in the course of
long and interesting conversation, that
he felt confident that the silver issue
would soon die out; that he was yery
sorry that it was to be brought forward
so conspicuously in a purely State cam.
paign; that he wanted no quarrel with
his Virginia friends, and that he expected
to go on advocating the single gold stand.
ard, believing that the people would come
around to his way of thinking before very
long.
Eminently satisfactory to the Rcpubli-
cans would be Mr.. Bryan as IL gupernato-
rial candidate, and he would, in the event
that he permits the use of his name in
this connection, receive their united SUP.
port.
General Edgar Allan, who is in a posi-
ton to speak for the Republicans, was
seen by the reporter this morning.
ut is being said that Mr.. Bryan nav
he the candidate of the gold Democrats
for governor and | want to know what
the Republicans think of it, he was
asked.
THAT report first started when Mr..
Bryan announced that he could not sup
port the Chicago PLATFORM" replied Gen.
eral Allan. ut was said then that Mr..
Bryan was laying his plans to get into
the governors chair. I have frequently
heard the rumor since, bur | have never
attached any Importance to it. Mr.. BRYAN
is in my opinion just rs good Democrat
as he ever was. He sticks to principles
and is not after the Offices"
"Will the Republican support a goldite
ticket"
Eyes, if the gold Democrats Will not
support Republican ticket
"Will the Republicans vote for Mr.
Bryan If he is nominated."
''rhey would do so heartily
General Allan intimated that he
thought that it would be an easy matter
for the boilers and Republicans to get
together and make fight for 'the Offices
next iaii. He was of the opinion that
the number of gold Democrats was
greatly under estimated by the regular
Democracy. He said that if the gold men
made nominations the Republicans would
not do so.
20 far the plans OF the Republicans
nave not been perfected any farther than
thcy were several months since when the
state made the announcement that the
prospects were that the Republicans
would allow the boilers to make. nomna-
tlohs ana support their candidates The
hepup'icans profess not to care for State
ol'ses' federal patronage being preferable
oil