The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1899-06-28
ARE IN A BAD FIX.
Sound Money Men Refuse to Vote
Their Free Silver Ticket,
THINK THEY MIGHT AID BRYAN.
Republican Insurgents Who Arc Dis
heartencd Over the Fact Continue TO
Be Severely Trounced by the stall
warts In Their Own Party.
Especial Correspondence)

| warts In Inclr OWN IartNs
Especial Correspondence)
Philadelphia, June 27.-Pennsylva-
MAS Democracy is in very bad way.
For every Republican insurgent the
Democratic leaders expected to vote
for their candidate for state treasurer
they now find there will be at least ten
Democrats, of the sound money wing
of their party, who will not vote the
Democratic state ticket.
The action of the Democratic state
convention in adopting a Bryanite
! platform and naming a Bryan ticket
| to run upon II was bad enough, but
to have the county organizations go on
record in the most blatant fashion in
favor of the Chicago platform is too
much for the sound money Demo-
Gratis of Pennsylvania.
The sound money Democrats were
greatly disappointed over the action Of
the state convention. They had been
given to understand that the coming
state campaign was to be run upon
purely state issues This was the PROM
Use given the Republican insurgents
upon whom the Republican leaders
counted to help their candidate for
state treasurer. The free silverites
were too strong for Colonel Guffey at
Harrisburg, and they insisted upon des-
ignating William Jennings Bryan as
"our matchless leader" in the Demo-
cratic state platform.
SOUND MONEY MEN CONFER.
Not only did they do this, but they
knocked out Guffey's first choice for
supreme judge, Hon. Harman Yerkes,
of Bucks, solely because he was a
sound money Democrat, and nominated
in his stead Judge MestreZat, of Fay
ette, about whose loyalty to the Bryan
| ite ticket of 1896 there was no Ques-
tion. The action of John Cadwalader.
Jr., of this city, bolting the state con-
vention because of the eulogy of Bryan
in the platform, simply gave express
sion to the sentiment of o large num-
Der of delegates in the state conven-
| tion, who, by reason of the fact that
they went there to bring about the
nomination of certain candidates for
the supreme bench, were prevented
| from following his example and en-
| tering an emphatic protest against this
Endorsement of the free silver cham
| pion.
There was no Disgusting their
chagrin and modification over the vic
tory of the slverites. This feeling
was freely expressed after the con-
vention adjourned.
There have been several informal
conferences since then of leading
sound money Democrats, who have
been considering the best course to
pursue under the circumstances. There
has been a suggestion that the best
way to express disapproval of the
policy of the present leadership of the
party in the state would be by the
nomination of an independent ticket,
which would give the sound money
Democrats an opportunity to place
themselves on record as opposed to
the Bryan platform and the Bryan
ticket of the recent state convention.
There has been opposition to this from
some of the conservative gold men,
who fear that the result at the elec-
tion might not fully express the senti-
ment of the sound money Democrats.
The nomination of an independent
ticket, it is argued might result in
many Democrats voting for the nomi-
nees of the Republican convention,
just as they did in the last presidential
campaign, and the smallness Of the
vote for the sound money Democratic
! candidate would then give encourage
ment to the silverites and make them
more bold and aggressive by the time
the state convention shall be held to
select the delegates to the national
Democratic convention. The gold mon
in the minority party are certainly in
quandary.
Supplementing the action of the
state convention, the Democratic coun-
, ty organizations are now falling in
line with a reafirmation of the silver
craze. The Clarion county Democratic
convention not only went on record
for Bryan, but indorsed the whole Chi
cago platform, and seemed to glory in
the fact. Other counties will no doubt
follow suit. and the grave question that
coGfronts the sound money Democra;
is, What am | going to do about it?'
There is no doubt that they will
generally vote the Republican ticket
; as rebuke to the present party lead
ership and in the hope of halting the
: national Democracy in the manifest
: purpose to renominate Bryan and re-
affirm the Chicago platform.
REPUBLICAN, INSURGENTS RE-
BUKED.
| While the Republican insurgents are
greatly discouraged over the fact that
the free silverite5 have assumed con-
troll of the Democracy, they are also
chagrined because of the action of the
J stalwart Republicans in keeping up
a succession of victories over the partg
wreckers and caucus boilers.
Saturday last was q field day fol
the regular Republicans. Northamp-
= ton led off with a great county con-
vention, in which the sympathiZerF
of the insurgents did not have a cor
porals guard present. General Franl
Reeder, whose friends were in absolute
control of the convention, presided
He made a rattling speech.
A committee on resolutions, with ex
Assemblyman Charles f. Chidsey as
chairman, reported the following
which were unanim usly adopted
"The Republicans of Northampton
county ratify and reaffirm the princi
ciples and policy of the Republican
party as declared at st. Louis, GhC
, heartily indOrse the wise and states
manlike administration of Presiden
Mckinley.
= I'VE tender our sincere congratula
|