New-York tribune., 1900-07-29
NOTES OF THE CAMPAIGN

NOTES OF THE CAMPAIGN
RRYAN sILvER's SPECIAL CHAMPION
The Philadelphia Ledger sees no pertinencv In
the plea made by certain Eastern and southern
Democrats that for Colonel BRYAN this ves-
Is Tot vote restore silver as quickly as nosshla
70 its &ncient right of free coinage as standard
money. The silver issue is as little to be avoided
7r sidetracked In this campaign IT was in 1895
For. The Ledger adds:
Bryan may sugar coat their pill by tie assertion
that theirs IS vote for silver, bur for anti
Il Is vote to confer the Presidency upon the nos
ESses s5s5es ' ~ '''''''' S'''e'''e i" the On''e0
NO UPSETS IN GEORGIA.-Georgia is the only
one az the larger States which promises to return
an unchanged delegation to the next House of Rem
resentatives, Every district the State is surely
Democratic. and every one of the eleven Georgia
Tenominated. There was opposition to only one
Of Representative Elijah b Lewis, of Monte
crisp represented. But Mr.. Lewis won from his
IN IN h fS aS and hS Se no 0g5e
in Georgia viii not open until late in September.
THE FIGHT IN WIsCONsIN-According to a
western critic OF rather independent tendencies
there some weak spots in the Wisconsin can
vass this year about which Republicans are show
ing or less anxiety One of them is Aiilwau-
rYth Congress District represented by Theo-
9ol6 O0en, comprises large portion of this city.
rhe party vote has been falling off since 1896, and
this fsii In 1895 Mr. often received 5Ss6 votes a
clear majority oI ABOUT 449; Two years ago ne re-
ceved only io+io votes which was a plurality OF
about so but a minority of the total cast
Dshe. Of Mount Horeb, received L. 892 votes two
years ago against 15.7eS for his opponent, His Re
Mr Dahle mad, however a clear majority of 2Ss
over all rival candidates.
MISSIONARY WORK IN MARYLAND.-If
Maryland not held in line for Mckinley and
Roosevelt this fall. il will not be from lack of
vigorous and intelligent missionary effort prom
ising beginning OF what should prove a winning
Republican campaign is reported from Boonsboro
one Of the smaller towns of Washington County
near the Antietam battlefield Major Josiah Pierce
jr Of Washington. D. c. and South Mountain
No. has undertaken to convert the Boonsboro dis
trtcL normally Democratic, TO Republcanism
The issues Of this campaign. and has just organized
s ar work in yagton @ Il - and nd Fl FredeTok conn
ties President Msltinley telegraphed his congratI-
also read from secretaries Hay. Root and Gage
and ex-SecreJary James a. Gary. on August 25
the political canvass IN Western Maryland will be
a H. GFoS1e2o WIN Geo4e
Pearre' Of Cum nberland. and Senator Louis E Nc
major o. engineers and is related by marriage to
GIVES MARYLAND TO ATKINLEY.-General
Ferdinand c. Latrobe. old school Maryland
Democrat. who served terms Mayor Of
Baltimore and is a member of the House of
Delegates at Annapolis, has hesitation in say
ing that Bryan's denomination a free silver
coinage platform Will give Marylands eight cleo
toral votes again 10 the Republican party. In
Baltimore dispatch The Philadelphia Press the
veteran Democratic leader is quoted as saying:
am Democrat. and believe I know as well
a any other man what is demanded from Demo-
@ @ r6T & d ae Toe for McRRe HR RG Vo have aGF y4 m P m
ions about this years nominations, but l do not
the Republicans viii carry Maryland by about forty
thousand majority.
FIGHTING FOR COLONEL CoX's sEAT.-In
the With Tennessee District. which has been rep
resented for ten years by Colonel Nicholas Nichols
Cox now voluntarily retiring from public life. there
is 4 stirring fight over the succession. While not
go widespread IN interest. the conflict is quite
heated as that for Judge IgTes PafSS fSs 9 eld the
". J. Wmtthorne and L y Paogett,- OF @ @Maury
meeting Of the Congress Committee OF the district
vii be held august 10 70 decide whether a Pri-
iile-z The domination.
TARIFF LITERATURE IN CIRCULATION
The tariff speeches Of President Mckinley and
Colonel Bryan are being made TO do duty in this
Years canvass. Mr.. Bryan's speeches in the House
Of Representatives on January 13 and 90 1894, and
March l6 1892 are printed in parallel columns with
the speeches of President Mckinley delivered in
the House on May and 20 1890 Other tariff 1T
Of recent date is also being circulated
This includes a speech made by senator Ga!lIgeT'
of New-Hanpshire, in the Senate on May 10 last
This same speech of Senator GaIhngers has been
compiled with other tariff speeches made by him
on May l6, Il and I9. 1884 and May Zl 1896, under
The heading American Tariffs from Plymouth
Ts-iffg and American Sheep is the title Of another
tariff document just issued by the Republicans, IL
being a speech made in June last by General
Grosvenor Of Ohio
NORTH CAROLINA RED SHIRT CAMPAIGN
The red-shirted Democrats of North Carolina,
initiating the tactics by which they redeemed"
are confident Of success August 2. The last
week Of the contest reminds one Of Representa-
tive John Aliens explanation Of how the Demo
Of Mississippi give warnings Of political oc-
currences Said he: The Democrats down our
way off guns the night before election TO let
the negroes know there is going to be an election
the next day" Senator Butler is deferred from
going to appointments by flaming notices in the
Wilmington papers that the alarm bells, when they
sound FIVE repeated. mean that the citizens are
turning out Negroes In Dupln County who have
sworn out warrants against ntmidating registrars,
when the cases tried, are 'persuaded' by
armed Red-Shirts that they did not know what
they were doing when they appended their names
20 The papers In the Fifth Ward Of the city of
Wilmington a Baptist minister who presumed to
speak against the amendment DISTINGUISHING the
cOlCred people, and who had the punishment in
ficted upon him Of being ducked in a pond, cited
the offending Democrats before local court-a
very bold proceeding indeed. But his temerity re-
ceiyed Inevitable reward when. FACING the 1retu
Democrats al around him, he implored the
israte 10 dismiss the mplaint, he was now as
that no harm intended by the playful
duckers. Accordingly they were discharged from
arrest, and the minister departed from the scene
sadder but wiser He had learned that
some things could be said In the community, but
out that regto1 IN Wilmington and Newbern par
tculary the registration Of black voters Is almost