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Stats ' Library Ml I A, 1 1 1 GLUME 28. Palmer The Leader. Xortli and South Joined in the Indianapolis Ticket, BUCKNER IN SECOND PLACE The Platform Uncompromising on the Money Question. ,VtR. CLEVELAND REFUSES TO RUN. Cjco. Palmer Wat Finally Prevailed Upon to Accept and His Nomination Followed oa First Ballot (Jen. Buckner Named by ' Acclamation Candidates to be No- -titled hep tern be r 12 In Louis ville. Washington Poat. Indianapolis, Ind., Sept. 2. John M. Palmer, of Illinois, and Simon Bo livar Buckner, of Kentucky, were to i.iy nominated by the National .Dem ocrats upon a platform which declares for gold and free trade, and eulogizes . Cleveland's administration. Having .'vcoinplished its work the convention promptly adjourned. The proceed-in-: of the day were totally lacking in all that was picturesque or dramatic, excepting possibly the appearance and peeeh of ex-Congressman Breckin ridge, of Kentucky!. .,'-.' The nomination of Gen. Palmer was practically the work of all the dele--.'gates, TOO votes having been cast for him before Gen. Bragg, of Wisconsin, moved to make the nomination unan imous. It was an outcome which was plainly foreshadowed in the dispatch er last night, 'when Gen. Hragg was practically out of the race, and theon ly .obstacle was Senator Palmer him After he finally yielded to the f-olicittttious oi his friends there was no doubt of tlie result. When it was known this morning that he-was still hesitating he wns le-seit;ed.-by delegates from Michigan, Tennessee, North Carolina, Texas and other states, and though he still said he would decline, it was quite evident tb;.t he was merely in the position of the schoolgirl who will not go to the piano until sufficiently urged. Even this half-hearted refusal to run gave . way atlas," and then Gen. Palmer's nomination was a foregone conclusion In the mean time, too a message had been received from President Cleve land declining to entertain for a mo ment the suggestion of a .nomination, an I this also effectively cleared away all barriers. Some of the delegates wvre rather disposed to think that Mr. Cleveland should have accepted i their tribute, but this very small minority remahted discreetly silent The ticket which has thus been uaiueii will ue a gooa ueai more man a thorn iu the side ot Bryan. It is destined, in all probability to be the knife under hist -llfth rib, which will defeat him next November, uuless he is able to poll a phenomenal vote. With all the denunciation of protec tion that the. platform contains The fact still remains that as Iwtwct u lie Kinleyisiu and free coinage of silver the voters represented in the National Democratic luovnncut- would prefer tlie former without a moment's hesita tion. All. the ipeeches which have leen made have emphasized this fact, and even John De Witt Warner, radi cal tariff reformer as he is, admitted iu his address before the convention to day that it would be time enough to enter upon a new tight against the - protective system when the silver snake had been beheaded. - Talks with the individual delegates from all sections of the country sim ply confirm the prevalence of this sen timent that of the two evils, these- irold Democrats regard McKinley as the least. They know that their ticket nominated today ha not the slightest chance of success, but they do believe that it will be an effective agent ia ac complishing Bryan's defeat, and with this they are joyfully content. The broad assertion that this move ment will probably result in McKiu ley's election bears close examination The nominees of today represent the two doubtful states of Illinois ana Kentucky. These states are most im portant, also, in the fact that they ag gregate no less than thirty-seven elec toral votes,, one more vote than the electoral vote of the empire State of New York. Gen. Palmer's nomina PROTECTION ! HICKORY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, tion practically takes Illinois out of the doubtful column, unless the as sertions which are made here by the leaders in this gold movement are Munchausen exaggerations. Ex-Congressman Cable told me to day that at least 75,000 votes would be cast for the Palmer-Buckner ticket in Illinois, and when I expressed some surprise at the largeness of hi? figures, he replied that he had made it a point to interview personally all the Illinois delegates here, and his estimate was based upon reports from every county in the State. He predicts that in his own county 3,000 votes will be cast for Palmer, and Comptroller Eckles pla ces the.vote of his county at 2,500. If the aggregate of the votes in all the counties reaches "75,000 it means a tre mendous majority for McKinley, for the normal Democratic vote will bo decreased by that figure. The situation in Kentucky is made even more favorable for. the Republi cans, for in that State the prospects of Democratic victory were even more uncertain than in Illinois. In other States the third ticket will also be a factor toward Bryan's defeat, although perhaps not so marked as in the two States already named. The character of the catupaigawhich these gold Democrats will wage can not be doubted for an instant. No words or interviews can exagerate the bitterness, intensity,, and tenacity of their purpose. In States where such action would jeopardize the success of the gold standard cause they will not put Palmer-Buckner electors on the ticket, but will vote solidly for Mc Kinley. In other States these electors will be named. In other words, the plan will be to' adapt themselves to local conditions, having always an eye single to the defeat of Bryan. This is the one goal of their ambition, the one object of their hopes. They will not lack money and they are not wanting in earnestness and enthusiasm. it Is true that the candidates who have been named are both old men, one being seventy-eight .and "the other seventy-three. Both, however, are apparently as young as any man in the prime of life and Gen. Buckner said today that he proposed to begin at once -an' active campaign through Kentucky, while he would rely upon j a thorough and aggressive organiza tion of gold Democrafs in the Statu. Senator Palmer has not yet formu lated his plans, saying today that he would go from' here to his home in Springfield and there await the pleas ure of tije National Committee, which would direct the campaign. He will probably soon deliver a set speech at Springfield, and ) will then talk at points which can be reached without too much travel and discomfort. The active . turn pin? in Illinois will be done by Gen. Black, the gold Democratic candidate for Governor, and'it is said that Palmer's name iu conjunction with his will be a strong combination to break the political back of Altgeld. This, by the way, is a matter of some importance in determining the result in Illinois, for these gold Democrats include the faction which hates Alt geld with much bitterness of spirit, and would go to any length to com pass his defeat. The former leaders resent his powertu I control of a ma chine which has, side-tracked them and placed new men iu their places, while the rank and file -have no sym pathy, with Altgeld's principles and method, and look upon him as an anarchist and menace to good govern ment. Iu Illinois the gold movement is as much against Altgeld's domina tion as it Is against Bryan's silver views. ; The platform upon which this new arty goes before the country . is, as already state!, a declaration for gold and free trade, or, in the world of the pUitfoti it!f, u triST for revenue on ly. The financial and tariff planks were written by Senator Vilas and Comptroller Eckles, and there was lit tle pppooitiou to the insertion of an outspoken gold clause. The commit tee, its I learned from talks with its members, was very largely influenced by the assertion of Mr. Bryan, and of the regular Democratic National Com mittee, that no party erer had or ever would declare uuequ?vocaily for the single gold standard. They wanted to prove to the country that at least one political organuation had the courage of its convictions, and they realized that there could be nothing gained by INDUSTRY ! ENTERPRISE ! temporizing or juggling with words. The only case which can be construed into even a remote concession to silver occurs in the following paragraph: Thus the largest possible enjoyment of both metals Is gained' with a value universally accepted throughout the world, which constitutes the only practical bimetallic currency, assuring the most stable standard, and espec ially the best and safest money for all who earn their livelihood by labor or the produce of husbandry. In this paragraph the words "which constitutes the only practical bimetal liccurrency, were inserted at the re quest of the Colorado member of the committee in the draft framrd by Sen ator Vilas. The committee was care ful however, to omit all references to international bimetallism, and made it very plain that only so much silver should be allowed to circulate as could be" maintained on a gold standard without disturbing the present parity. There was no mistaking the sentiment of the convention, for the declarations that committed the delegates to the gold standard were most heartily ap plauded. The denunciation of the Populist conventions at St Louis Were also received with enthusiastic ap proval. Outside pf the nominations and the platform there were no features of. the final day worthy of special comment save Breckinridge's speech. The inci dent of last night had aroused the sympathy of his friends, and they gave him a double round of cheers upon his appearance this morning. Every time he arose to respond to personal greet ings his friends would , break into fresh applause; then somebody hissed and the sabilant sound becam a cho rus. Then there were calls upon him for a. speech, which made his friends and enemies rival each other in a dem onstration ot cheers and hisses which verged upon the sensational. Finally, however, he ascended the platform, and amid absolute stillness began his address. He had not ut tered a dozen sentences until it was evident that he had captured the con vention. This spurred him to a mag nificent effort. He spoke with electric rapidity the well formed and rythmic sntenes tailing pliantly from his lips. As he forged his words with ever in creasing heat, the convention respond ed with artlor, and before he had con cluded nearly every sentence caused a demonstration pf wild enthusiasm. All the other speeches of the day were hardlv above the averaqe of the con yention addresses, and even Comp troller Eckels brief, thoughtful talk was marred by a slow and hesitating delivery. There is naturally, it may.be said, in conclusion, considerable political gos sip afloat whieji does not concern the convention proper. A report among the delegates, for instance, is that the differences. Insetting the regular De mocracy will be adjusted soon after the election in Maine. A Georgia del egate says that Watson has had assu rances that Sewall will withdraw as soon as the election in his State dem onstrates, as it is expected to do, that the Republicans have made great gains there. This will give him the excuse that he has been seeking. According to this information it is said that Wat sou has said repeatedly, to his friends that it is either no Sewall or no Bryan. The value of this information, howev er, is somewhat curtailed by the assu rance of Chairman Hammond, of the Georgia delegation, that the conspira cy is just the other way, ami that the entire energy of the Democratic Nation al Committee, headed by Senator Jones, is directed to discovering some means of unloading Watson. Regarding the position of Senator Hill. ex-Gov. . Flower' 'say that he is trying to carry the State Democratic Convention, which meets iu Saratoga September 1, for the sound money plank. "I think, aid Mr. Flower, that he vvil! be successful too, for the vote of Vermont has certainly warned New York that she had better beware. If this doetn't ojen their eyes, why an augel from heaven would do them no good. Mr. Hill is a great man. He made a great speech t Chicago, and I cannot believe that he will now go back on what he taid then. If he does try to carry the State Convention for sound money he will do a splendid thing." x Other New York delegates a;ert that il their State Convention declares for Bryan &nd Sewall and free silver. PROSPERITY ! SEPTEMBER 10, 1896. Hill will come out forthe gold stand ard'and attend the sound money con vention, which meets on the 24th. It Is interesting to note that while New York has been appreciated here with an attention in marked contrast to the manner in which It was Ignored at Chicago, theae has been absolutely no spontaneous references to Senator Hill. He seems to have dropped to the bottom of the Red Sea. WASHINGTON LETTER. From oor Bejrnlar Correspondent. Washixutox, Sept. 7th, lSOU.- If the bare election of McKinley and Hobart was the only aim of the managers of the Republican party, they could shut up shop and go home,' as their election is just as well assured to day as any political event possibly can be before it has actually taken place. But much more than a small majority of the elector at college 'is sought for, so instead of relaxing -their efforts, the republican managers are increasing them and will continue to do so until election day. If McKinley and Hobart are elected by only a small majority, the issues of this campaign will continue to be agitated and busi ness remain in an unsettled condition for four year more and the battle wll have to be fought all over again 1!00. What is wauted.aud what every republican and every true friend of good government should help to briug" about, is such an overwhelming ma jority, both in the iopular vote and in the electorial college, for McKinley and Hobart, honest money, public prosperity, and costitutiouai govern ment, that no other party will ever dare to make a National Campaign on a platform favoring debased currency, repudiation of debts, xmblic and private; attacking constitutional government and favoring anarchy by implication, if not in direct words. Let the seal of public condemnation be so indelibly placed upon the 'slimy serpent of distrust, hatched by the cranks of populism and nursed into dangerous activity by the democratic National Convention. that all the world may understand, once for all, that money may be safely invested in the U. S., with the certainty that all obli gations will be honorably met. When that is done, the foundation will have been laid for an era of, prosperity that will exceed anything our .country has yet experienced. Enroll yourself in this army of honor and recrnit as many of your friends as possible iu order to help briog this about. Mr. J. W. Jordan, a business man of Ottumva, Iowa, who is now In Wash ington, says: Iowa may be depended u pon as for McKinley. There is some free silver sentiment in my locality, but sound money ideas predominate very largely. I come in contact with a great, many people, and I hear of scarcely any republicans who are go ing over to the Chicago ticket. The feeling among the sound money demo crats that I have talked with is that if they regard the result in Iowa as at all close, they will, vote for McKinley iu-' stead of the ticket named at Indianapolis ' Chairman Babcock, of the Republi can Congressional Committee, thinks that Palmer atid Buckner will get n large vote in Illinois, Indiana aud Kentucky, and that if there had been any doubts about thosy states casting their electoral vote for McKinley, they would have been swept away by the action of, the Indianapolis convention, and Secretary Mereer, of the same Committee, thinks that many old soldier in Kansas and Nebraska will vote for Gen. Palmer on personal grounds alone. The popocrats are much alarmed over a rumor that Secretary Carlisle is thinking of taking the stamp in Kentucky for Palmer and Buckner. J According to what apiwars 'to; ne trustworthy administration authority it will be as much as an official's Hie is worth his official lifefor him to the stamp for Bryan. Mr. Cleveland has determined to consider it the rankest sort of "offensive partisanship for any member of his administration to take an active part in the campaign In HrjJuis behalf, and word to that effect ha been passed around In all t he departments. 1 1 is also tated on the same authority that three .promi nent officials who have been talking for Bryan will be asked tfc resign. The officials are Affbtant Secretary of the Treasury Scott Wike, Auditor Baldwin and Deputy Pension Com HQllBER 37 missioner Belt The first two are subordinates of Secretary Carlisle and the last is in favor of the Indianapolis ticket The reason why Representative Richardson, of Tenn., has been de tached from the Washington Popo crat Ic headquarters and sent to Chicago, is not that Chairman Jones wanted hhu there, as was given out at those headquarters, but because Chairman Butler of the Populist National Committee did not want him here, and the democrats were afraid of offending Butler. Some ten days ago, Butler and Richardson had a bitter quarrel which came near resulting In blows. They have not spoken to each other since. Richardson has gone to Chicago, and Butler is King bee at popocratic headquarters, as he finds no difficulty in controlling Sena tor Faulkner, who is in charge of the democratic end. Butler talks glibly of the desirability of forcing Sewall oft the democratic ticket. Powderly on Fre5llvr. Former General Master Workman Powderly of the Knights of Labor, who has come out for McKinley and Hobart and sound money. Is now in this city, where he will remain until Sept.1 10, as he is to speak on the even- , Ing of that day at the McKinley and Hobart mass meeting in Cooper Union, Mr. Powderly said last night: "The silver men have been spread ing the doctrine of free coinage active ly for many years, and by incessant labor the have succeeded in commit-": ting some industrial organization to . the advocacy of their theories. With such earnestness have they circulated ' the story of the 4crime of 73' that the belief that silver was stealthily - and surreptitiously demonetized has gained great headway. The fact is lost eight , of that those who havo exposed tho alleged crime.' were- themselves crimi nals according to their own theory. They sat in congress' when the bill was passed. They, took part in the debates, and by their votes aided in the passage of the act Had tho men who discovered-; the crine of 70T not been owners of sliver mines or did they not wish to unload their silyer proper ties on the unwar) no one Would have heard of the act of 173' 1 Speaking of Mr. Bryan Mr. Pow derly said that he never heard of Bryan championing a single labor measure.- "He Is vouched for by co one' continued Mr. Powderly. "He nominated himself In a speech about crucifying labor upon a cross of gold. His only solution of the difficulty is to break the limbs of Ia!xr nKn the rack of silver, Bryan speaks of gold plutocrats, but he does not explain why the gold plutocrat is any worse than the silver one. In Nevada, the home of the agitation for the singla silver standard there are less than 400 people. My home, the city of Scranton, has a population of 115,(00 inhabitant De duct double the population of Nevada from 'the. population of Scranton and you hive 23,000 left Yet Nevada has two Senators to sh&ut for silver while the city of Scranton has not a single representative in the United States, Senate to boom our coal and iron and steel and to ask th Government to double their value. - PrMpct Oood fr Southern TrJe. MdaBfAttertrt Racer!. According to the report from mer cantile firms who transact a large bu inesji in the South, the outlook la that section for increased trade this fall is very bright. A number of the price! !&! jobbing tlnas in Baltimore,' in cluding Armstrong, Cator & Co., the largest millinery dealers in thljf coun try: John E. Hurst Co., oua of the largest dry good houie of Baltimore, as well as a number of representative firms In boots and shoc-f, clothing hardware, hats and rubber good, are unanimous In saying that the plasters will receive higher prices than last year for their cotton, placing! them In abetter position financially. It Is a question if a many favorable reports could be obtained In any other city iu. this country, unless that city dfpendf upon Southern trade. It Is the gen eral Iinpreyon that owing to the po litical agitation and other causes, trade prospects in new New Englscd and the W est ar very poor. This i simply another indication f the f la bility of busines in the South, which lias been noted in the Manufacturers Record in report of increased railroad earnings, bank clearings . and other features. '
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