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OUR CANDIDATE in 1900
SILVER ISSUE ALIVE.
sIxTEEN-To-oNE MEN ACTIVE
Secretary or Sound Money League Labors
Under the Delusion That Bimetallism
In Politics Is Dead-Bryan Still
Leads.
Special Dispatch to The Chicago Record from a
staff Correspondent.

staff Correspondent.
Washington, d. G., March s9.-The
report of the secretary of the Sound
Money league, presented yesterday,
asserts that ''only few politicians
still stick to the doctrine of 16 to L."
and that s'the present indications are
that there will be no mention of free
silver in the next democratic plat
FORM"
The writor of this report must have
obtained his information from the
money devils and capitalistic YAM
pires" In Wall street, because he could
not get further from the truth if he
tried. My observation and informa-
ton from every source are exactly the
contrary. Although the former lead
ers Of the democratic party are MAX
ing 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 progress,
and there is no reason to believe they
will accomplish.anything in the future
The other day the editor of a wes-
tern newspaper, who happened to be
In Washington, went for advice to
Senator J ones, chairman of the ma
tional democratic committee. He
confessed that he was an expansion
ist, and personally did not approve
OF the opposition in congress to the
ratification Of the peace treaty, but
he was publishing party paper and
he wanted to keep squarely up to the
line. Therefore, if Senator Jones
could give him little advice he
would be greatly obliged. Mr.. Jones
told him to stick to 16 to 1 and anti
expansion and he would come out all
right.
have talked with a great many
democrats lately from different parts
OF the country, and they all agree
that Mr.. Bryan made a great hit in
refusing to attend the $40 dinner of
the Democratic club of New York and
in accepting an invitation to the S.
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 demo.
cratic party, and that, no matter
what the mossbacks in the senate and
the house of representatives may do,
Bryan will be the next candidate for
the presidency, and the men who are
reviling him now will be compelled to
support him or go over to the repub-
lican party.
misrepresentation Buxton of North
Carolina, for example, says that no
man would stand a ghost of a show
OF being elected delegate to the ma.
tional convention 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. Henry Watterson says that in
Kentucky people have got to bow
down and worship Bryan or get out
OF the democratic 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 Martin of Virginia, after
making tour of his state, has sud-
denly become an ardent admirer of
the silver-tounged Nebraskan; and 80
itgoes in every state south of Mason
and Dixon's line.
Almost every newspaper in the south
has approved Bryan's action in de-
Ginning an invitation to Belshazzar's
feast, as they call the Croker dinner.
The Southern democrats hate Tam
many anyhow, and understand that
the Democratic club is the social
headquarters of the tiger. The very
TACT that Croker and Tammany are
opposed to Bryan makes him a tower
OF strength, and when they learn that
MS letter rejecting the invitation was
addressed to Perry Belmont, mem.
Der OF the banking firm that repre-.
sents the Rothschilds in this country
and got up the syndicate that bought
the bonds during the Cleveland ad-
mfnistration, they admire him more
than ever.
Weavers Strike.
Providence, R. l., April 5.-The
weavers employed at Robert Knights
mill at Lippett struck to-day because