The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-04-02
The SILVER ISSUE ALIVE
SIXTEENTH ONE MEN ACTIVE AND WILL
CONTROL THE PARTY.
Secretary of the Sound Money League Labors
Under The DeIuson that BimetaIIism in
Politics is Dead, Bryan Still Leads.
Chicago Record.)

Washington, March 29.-The report
of the secretary of the Sound Money
league, presented yesterday, asserts that
only few politicians still stick to the
doctrine of Is to IT, and that ''the pres
mt indications are that there will be no
mention of free silver in the next Demo
cratic PLATFORM
The writer Of this report must have
obtained his information from the "mon-
ey devils and capitalistic vampires" in
Wall street, because he could not get
further from the truth If he tried. My
observations and information from ev-
cry source are exactly the contrary AL
though the former leaders of the Demo
cratic party are making Il desperate
struggle to recover control and divert the
attention of the rank and file from the
financial question, there is no evidence
that they have made the slightest pro-
gresS, and there is no reason to believe
they will accomplish anything in the
future
The other day the editor of western
. newspaper, who happened TO be in Wash
ington, went for advice to Senator
Jones, chairman of the national Demo
was an expansicnist, and personally did
not approve of the opposition in Con-
gress to the ratification of the peace
treaty, but he was publishing a party
paper and he wanted to keep squarely
up to the line. Therefore, if Senator
Jones could give him a little advice he
would be- greatly obliged. Mr.. Jones
told him to stick to 16 to l and anti
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right.
i have talked with great many Dem
0cratS lately from different parts of the
! country, and they all agree that Mr..
Bryan made great hit in refusing to
attend the $40 dinner of the Democratic
club in New York and in accepting an
invitation to the 81 dinner to be given
the same night They say also that Mr..
Bryan's recent tour through the south
has restored him to the leadership of the
Democratic party, and that, no matter
what the moSshacks in the Senate and
the House of Representatives may do.
Bryan will be the next candidate for the
presidency, and the men VINO are revil-
ing him now will be compelled to sup
port hlm or go over TO the Republican
party.
EX-Representative Buxton of North
Carolina, for example, says that no man
would stand a ghost of a show of being
elected a delegate to the national CON
yention of his State if there was the
slightest doubt of his loyalty TO Mr.
bryan, and that it is the true test Of
the Democracy of the present day. Hem
ry Watterson says that i'll Kentucky
people have got to bow down and wor-
ship Bryan or get out of the Demo-
cratic organization. Gov. Mcmillan
says the same of Tennessee. Senator
Bacon, Of Georgia has been compelled
to bow the knee to Bryan or forfeit the
leadership of his party. Senator Mar
tin. of Virginia, after making Il tour
of his Stat, has suddenly become an
ardent admirer of the silver-tongued
Nebraskan; and so it goes in every State
south of Mason and Dixon's line.
Almost every newspaper III the south
has approved Bryan's action in declin-
ing an invitation to Belshazzar's feast,
as they call the Croker dinner. The
southern Democrats hate fammany any
how. and understand that the Democrat
ic club is the social headquarters of the
tiger. The very fact that Croker and
Tammany are opposed to Bryan makes
him il tower of strength, and when they
learn that his letter rejecting the invita-
ton was addressed to Perry Belmont, Il
member of the banking rrm that rep
resents the Rothschilds in this country
and got UP the syndicate that bought
the bonds during the Cleveland admin
istration, they admire him more than
ever.
WM. $. CURTIS.