Pullman herald. [volume], July 11, 1896, Image 2

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SILVER IN NEW YORK
IIHIM. OOVNTIBS RKS'IXKSS OVER
TIIK lILVBR qiKSTIOV ;
tit. I.Mwrenee luunly l« Maid to B«*
Onv VM»t Sliver DetmtlniK
Society. \
In its IMU« of June 28 the New Jfork
Herald, which is one of the leading demo- ,
cratic journals of the United States and :
which has been In favor of the sinorle |
g-old standard, prin s a long article on the
growth of the silver sentiment in the j
Empire state, Startling headlines ire
used. The article whs deemed so sensa
tional thai it was telegraphed in its en
tirety :o a number of papers in the j
tsts!. It follows:
"FREE SILVER L\ T THIS STATE.
j
"Plain Facts About the Restlessness |
of the Rural Counties and Their j
Drift Toward Tillmanism Told
» Drift Toward Tillmanism Told
by the Herald.
"Can Be Fgnored No More.
"Sentiment Forming Rapidly and Noth
ing Being Done to Check It
by Republicans.
"Work of the Silver Leagues
"Sound Money Democratic Conventions
Overwhelmed Without Any
Concert of Action.
"Tariff Is McKlnley's Hope.
"Some of His Supporters Not Aware cf
the Danger; Others Think it
Exaggerated."
"Portentous and menrxcln», a political
specter has risen in the rural counties of
this state, threatening to overshadow par
ties and conditions and obliterate partisan
lines from the Pennsylvania boundary to
the St. Lawrence and from Lake Erie to
the Hudson. The farmers are worshiping
the silver calf. In many of the counties
there is no actual organization of thai
friends of free silver. An organisation am) |
an active free silver campaign would
make many of the strongest republican
counties in the state doubtful in Novem
ber." •
Continuing, the Herald says that even
without an organlza lon the free silver
farmers knocked the sound money men
off their feet in many places in the state
in the recent democratic primaries, and
proceeds to enumerate localities where
this has been don-, prominent among j
them being such counties as Lewis and i
Genesee. The latter is the home of "Bob"
Maxwell, leader of the Cleveland demo
craoy in western New York.
On a test vote the silver men knocked
out the friends of P. Flower in the Sec
ond Assembly District of Jefferson coun
ty, and would have carried both districts
had they been organized. Silver is likely'
to control both party organizations m St.
Lawrence county, and the free silver
democrats of Onondaga and Monroe j
counties were in control at the Saratoga
convention. Summing up the whole situa
tion, the Herald says that the report
of its correspondents show that it is the
republicans rather than the democrats
Who should :>e alarmed. The situation
is like a moun am forest In August, ready
for the match. The republican leaders
are in Ignorance of the actual state of
affairs it has all come about in three or (
four weeks. The county democratic lead
ers, having become acquainted with It In
their caucuses, .'.re seeivtly anxious for
free silver to riumph in Chicago. They
think they can shift the tariff issue and
airy the farmers almost solidly for free
Kllver.
From St, Lawrence county the Herald's j
correspondent telegraphs that that rock- i
ribbed Gibralter of republicanism is one
enormous debating society, and the only
subject debated Is free silver; the tariff
has been forgotten. The writer portrays
the deplorable condition of the farmers of
that section of he state, and says th-it
tremendous fall in the prices of farm
products has made the scarcity of money
In the rural districts almost grotesque.
Cheese sells for from G to G" 2 cents a
pound; butter has been down as low as
10 cen s; potatoes must be fed to the
stock.
When the Wilson bill was enacted and
Canadian hay began to come across the
line and undersell the New York product
> th* farmers were inclined to blame the
democratic party. Lately they have be-n
, told that even if hat be true the republi
cans will be powerless to give relief with
in a year or two, and that In the mean
time something: must be done.
That something they are beginning 10
believ« is free silver, and this belief has,
the writer says, become so deep-seated
tha th:*t section of the state has been
verted to free silver. Three free silver
leagues have been organized in St. Lawr
ence, county alone, and others are being
rapidly organised in various counties of
the state. Sena: or Malby of Ogdensbwrg
\s quoted as admitting that the free silver
sentiment is unusually strong.
Prom Watertown comes the word that
the spread of the free silver .sentiment is
astonishing, and bids fair to crystalize
unless something is done to counteract
it. The editor of the Watertown Times,
W. i>. McKinstry, formerly one of the
civil service commissioners, went ovsr
the county, and afterward stated that
what he had learned about free silver
in that part of the state astounded him.
If the silver men only organized he
thought the result would be doubtful for
the republicans. The Herald's corres
pondent further said that he discovered
the farmers were no longer thinking of
the tariff, but of the benefits to be de
rived from free silver; <>•;•■ republican
candidate for sheriff and two for treas
urer were making a canvass on an out
and-out free silver platform; the cashier
Ol the leading financial institution Of
Watertown was for free silver, and re
publican farmers were pouring Into
Watertown's book stores for tree silver
literature; that the one great topic of
conversation, in fact the only topic, is
tho free coinage of silver and the bene
ftcial effect it was declared to be sure to
have on prices.
Aa the correspondent writing from Os
wego puts it, that county has "gone
daft" on the question of free silver, to
gether with the other northern counties
of that state. The movement does no:
appear to be confined strictly 10 either
party. A free silver league of 100 mem
bers has been organised and is spread
ing free .silver literature and pledging
farmers to support no candidate for the
presidency unless he pledges himself to
the free coinage of silver at 16 to 1. The
free silver men have swallowed up what
is left of the democratic organization and
the Palladium, the democratic organ,
preparing to accept free silver In its last
issue, publishes this editorial:
"A compromise or a straddle would be
disastrous. It would be cowardly. We
want no such thing in the platform. Win
or lose at Chicago, let us accept the result
and take the issue honestly to the Amer
ican people for final settlement. There
must be no bolting, no truckling, no de
ception, no bargains, l^et US have either
a free silver platform or else one declar
ing for the gold standard. There is no
middle ground to take. New York
should put up hii- light and acquiesce in
the outcome, whatever it may be."
The correspondent concludes with the
significant statement: "The thing one
most notices in talking to the farmers in
this country is a growing antipathy to
Wall street. [t is simply a sign, but It
is a portent of sectional prejudice that
bids fair to run wild soon. One hears
farmers say on every hand that what
Wall street wants they are opposed to.
This feeling has traveled rapidly east
from the wheat fields of the west."
From Lowville, anotner section of the
state,the Herald g< ts the word th ri party
lines are badly broken by the five silver
sentiment. At the democratic county
convention, held June 18, resolutions fa
voring free coinage at a ratio of i'< to l
were adopted.
From Syracuse, N. V., the Herald
prints the following dispatch;
"Syracuse, N. V., June 27, 1596.—1 am
told by reliable persons who have spent
much time lately among the farmers of
Onondaga, Madison and Oneida counties
that the free silver sentiment among the
republican farmers has developed won
derfully since the St, Louis convention.
The section is being flooded with John
R. Mil, aii's Cincinnati newspaper. The
republican leaders ire immersed in the
quarrel between T. C, Platt and Warner
Miller and a:e not taking up the issue
In time to prevent Its spread."
The town of Remseh, In Oneida county,
is a hotbed of tree silver.
»i:< ll)i:i> TO shake: tuiikky IP
Cretftiin \\ i«»i to Porn a Union
With Greece.
London, July 6. — A dispatch to he
Standard from Athena says the Cretans
yi sterday elected a provisional govern
ment, decided to proclaim a union of the
island with Greece and expressed a hope
that autonomy be granted the Island un
der surveillance of the powers.
ESCAPE OF PRISONERS
GUARDS IH I. S. JAIL AT OUTHRIE
OVERPOWERED.
Tiro Are Survivor* of the Uulton
tJmiK— Deputy MarNhalN Are
In PnrSfltt.
i
Guthrie, O. T., July s.— Fourteen prison
ers overpowered tne guards In the United
States jail tomgnt and escaped. Bill
Doolin and Dynamite jjick, the last sur
vivors of the Dalton gang, who were
wanted for the murders committed in the
' Ingalls fight, at which four deputy mar- i
shals were killed, were the principal ac
tors. Fourteen out of 59 prisoners es- ,
caped. j
They were the most desperate charac- ,
ters. They are: Bill Doolin. Dynamite j
Dick, Charles Montgomery, Jim Black,
Walt McCllm, Bill Crltteriden, Ed. Law
rence, George Lane, Kid Phillips, Henry
Irvine, Bill Jones, C. O. Nix, L,ee Khil
liam and William Beck,
They got two revolver? and a Winches
ter by a rush our of the cage when it '
was open, and knocking one of the guards
down, placed the others in the steel
cages, making them enter at the point of
the revolvers. Having the guards safj\,
the ringleaders called for every one of
the prisoners to escape if they wanted
to. Only 14 followed them.
A posse of deputy marshals, headed by
' Llghtman, who captured Doolin, went in
j pursuit of the escaped prisoners.
FOIH-I\-I1 AND RECORD BROKEN
J
Mlllionuire Hinsc Fancier of Chl
i'iiuii Wiih the Driver.
I Chicago, July 3. — During the sulky
events at Washington Park this afternoon
James Stinson, a horse fancier of this
city and a millionaire, drove a four-in
' hand to bea: the world's record of 2:27, i
and although he declares the quartet had <
, never before been hitched up together,
j they made the circuit in 2:31 I£, the result
! being received with tremendous applause.
The horses were Damina, 2:22^4; Bellhut,
2:28%; Maude V., 2:2»V4, and Nutshare, '
2:29%.
I
' GOLD >IEN DECLINED TO IERVB \
i
I Maryland DfleKnten Hare Sent Let- ;
tern of It <nl« n;i on .
New York. July 4. —A dispatch to the ■
i World from Baltimore says:
Three of the Maryland delegates at j
i large to the Chicago convention, all gold ;
■ men, have declined to serve. In a letter j
! of resignation to Chairman Talbot of
: the state committee each states his un- ,
willingness to be bound by a free silver I
i convention or to accept a free silver
candidate. They leave no doubt of their
intention to bolt. Charles C, Crothers
wired his resignation tonight. :
|
ONLY TO OPEN THE CONVENTION
, j
Appear* to be the Occupation of
Chairman Harrlty.
Chicago, July 3—Chairman Harrity, who
will call the convention to order, refuses
to say whether he will rule speeches in or
der or not prior to the selection of a tem
porary chairman. At that ime, no rules
will have been adopted for the govern
ment of the convention. Harrlty says the
only business is to call the convention to
gether and name the national committee's
j choice for temporary chairman.
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' LOST HIS .1011 POIt fRESE SILVER
l*re*ldent of n N«w York Hank
l-"#>r«*e«l to Hcnlkii.
New York, July 3.—William I. St.
j John, president of the Mercantile Na
| tional bank, ha« resigned; Hi lia.s been
( an outspoken advocate of free coinage
i of sliver at variance with the directors
', of the bank The feeling in banking cir
i clea against the advocacy of free silver
■ by a bank president resulted in making
j St. John's relations with his business
■ colleagues very unpleasant.
j ___ __—.
■ ONLY MAN THEY WILL SUPPORT
i'oi»uilNt Leadem Decide to Declare
for Teller.
Chicago, July 5.—A number of popu
list leaders who are in the city held a
■ meeting tonight and decided to issue a
I manifesto declaring that Toller is the
■ only man whose name is mentioned for
the Chicago convention that they will
■upport. They take the position that to
Indorse a nominee who la a democrat
would result in th« disintegration of their
' party.
WAJVTED TO SHAKE THEIR HANDS
McKinley Greeted by a «elc>jrati««.
of Tin Workers. °n
Canton, Ohio, July This afternoon a
thousand people of Tuscarawas county
came in a special train over the Cleve
land and Canton railroad. They had the
largest sheets of tin plate ever made In
the world and the largest strips of gaU
vanlzed steel. Colonel W. A. Bovey was
the spokesman. In response to a very
handsome presentation speech Major Mo-
Kinley replied:
"Colonel Bovey and My Fellow Citizens'
I am very grateful for this visit on the
part of my friends In Tuscarawas county
and I thank my old friend, your spokes
man, for the cordial and gracious words
of greeting which he has brought to me
In your behalf. This assemblage Is fairly
typical of our American communities.
and it fully represents the varied occupa-
Lions of the American people.
"As your spokesman has already said
in this presence are farmers, laborers,
mechanics, miners, railroad employes]
merchants, professional men and repre
sentatives of every rank of the people,
and you are here distant from your home
not for curiosity nor for any considera
tions at all personally, but you are here
because your hearts believe in the great
fundamental doctrines of the republican
party. You believe that those principles
are best for you when put into practical
legislation and administration. You be
lieve these principles will secure to all
the peole at large a measure of good to
the largest number, and you believe that
because you recall that for more than a
third of a century these great republican
principles have dominated legislation and
administration in this country, and that
during all that period you have enjoyed
exceptional prosperity, which you have
not enjoyed in the past three years and
a half.
"You know, therefore, something of
these great principles from experience,
and you are only waiting for an oppor
tunity to express that experience in your
votes next November. And all those de
monstrations which have been witnessed
here for the past two weeks are only
significant because they show what is in
the hearts and minds of the American
people—that they want an opportunity,
and they want it early, to return to pow
er that grand old party, your spokesman
so feelingly alluded to, In every branch of
the government.
"Here in this country we are all de
pendent upon each other, no matter what
our occupation, all of us want good times,
good wages, good prices, good markets.
and their value in good money. When
we give a good day's wages to our em
ployes we want to give a good .sound
dollar, and nothing loss. Now, whatever
policy will bring us back to those good
timos is the one that the great majority
of the American people are in favor of.
and will so register their votes at the
coming election. And you seem to have
In your minds what that policy is. I am
going to detain you only long enough to
say that 1 am grateful or this manifes
tation of your confidence upon the part
of the representatives of Tuscarawas
county. What 1 want to see In this coun
try is a return to that prosperity which
we enjoyed so lung. What I want is ta
Bee I'll'- men at work, and at American
prices, and the more men you have at
work at good American wages the better
the markets will be, and the better prices
will they get for their produce. Every
one of you farmers know that from exper
ience. After expressing my gratitude
for the assurance that you have given
me of your support and welcoming you
from an overflowing heart to my city
and to my home, it will give me very
great pleasure to meet and to greet each
one of you individually." (TremendUOlM
applause.)
VERDICT OF ORO\KII'S Jl'BV
McGregor Held for Preliminary Trial
at KoHNlaud.
Rossland, B. C 1 July s.—The coroner's
jury in the White murder case brought
in a verdict a^ follows:
"Alfred White died from a wound in
flicted by a knife in the hands of Chas.
D. McGregor."
McGregor comes up this afternoon for
his preliminary trial before Magistrate
Newton. He will bo committed without
doubt.
GOV. M'KIXLEY WK>T TO CHUIICH
Dr. HhumUh Preached a Fourth of
July. Sermon.
Canton. Ohio, July 5.— McKlnley went
to Trinity-Lutheran church today, where
Dr. Bauslin preached a patriotic sermon
appropriate to the Fourth of July season.
Governor MeKinley's present plans con
template but one day's absence from
Canton in the immediate future, and
that in a day in Cleveland, when he wIU
probably be the guest of Mr. Hanna.
DEATH OP' A CALIFORNIA 4088
AViib Well Known to Public Men f*
WuHlilngrton, D. O.
Washington, July 2.-Q. C. MoKlbben, »
California forty-niner and a Proml",rJ
member of congress from that state. ai
here last night. He waa well known v*
public men. He lived in Washing^
many years and made considerable monej
in the steamboat excursion bu»ines«.