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8 THE EVENING STAR, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1896-TWELVE PAGES, FG AeseSens | APPENDICITIS |* PATRIOTIC APPEAL F st., roel MM Our Great Sept. Clearance Sale Offers about every kind of floor covering at a ridiculcusiy small clearing price. soc. Ingrain Carpet, 27¢. four lots. cor. Mth. | Sto: And so on, throt 75¢. Tapestry Brussels, gic. Al so on through four lots. $1.15 Body Brussels, 75¢. $1.25 Body $1.25 Axminster Mcquette, 75¢c. - $1.50 Axmimnsters, goc. $1.25 Wilton Velvets, 75¢. $1.75 Bigelow Axminster, $1.25. Carpet Remnants, Bordered Carpets, Rugs, Art Squares, Maitings and Oii Cloths and Lino-=- leums reduced pro= portionateiy. Hau! russels, Se. x, Moving specialties, and Packing are dt flt’s in W. BL Me best d serviees: | proken, sed? ¥ | cuse to offer if thes’ ; 5 SS EXTRACT CROWN WORK. 5.00 Evans’ Dentai Pariors, i217 Penna. Ave. N. W. auzs-24d . = (enna aN To the Painting Trade! We are supplying quite a number of painters with material, &c., for contract work. 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It Is in this way that the best results will be obtained, unless It be us a prophylactic, for phosphatic appendicitis 1s a danger that patients with the litbic diatbesis always rum, During my Jast year as resident physician at the Buffalo Lithia Springs one case of appendicitis that came under my care made a very good recovery without opera lion, drinking the water of Spring No. 1 throughout the entire duration of the disease.” “I have already said regarding their action w taken internally that ‘in the cl: of cases in which lithia, soda and potash are regarded as most spe. cially indicated I have obtained far better results from the Buffalo Lithia Waters than from any of the preparations of the lithium salts of the phar nutcopoeia. | Furthermore, I am satisfied that th is no other’ mineral water either in America or 1n Europe so sinzularly adapted to such a large nuw- ber and variety of maladies." Dr. THOMAS H. BUCKLER of Paris (formerly 0! 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P. S.—Plenty of the choicest peaches coming in daily. bs nf Eiphonzo Youngs Co., Wholesale and Retail Grocers, 428 oth St., bet. D and E. IF THE BABY I$ CUTTING TEETH BE SURE and use that old and. well-tried remedy, Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup, tog ebildren teething It sootkes the child. softens the gum, allays ali pain, cures wind colle snd ts the hest ‘remedy for diarrhoea. 25 cente s bottle acl0-1y ANGOSTURA BITTERS, THE WORLD-RENOWN- ed Scuth American appetizer, cures dyspepsia, &. Dr. J. G. B. sole manufacturers. At all druggists. NORTH STAR POLITICS. Fusion Candidates for Congress Are Put in the Field. ‘Special Correepondence of Fhe Evening Star. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., August 29, 1896. The fustonists have put up candidates in two more of the congressional districts within the past week. In the first, Patrick Fitzpatrick of Winona, an old-time demo- crat, has been agreed on to run against J. A. Tawney of the same city. Fitzpatrick is an Irishman, and not very well known out- side of his home. It is not thought that he will be able to give Tawney much excite- ment. In the third district the nominee is H. J. Peck of Shakopee, who promises to put up a lively campaign against the hand- some Joel P. Heatwole of Northfield. In the sixth district, where Charles A. Towne, the young silver Congressman, who madé a reputation in Washington by his brilliant maiden speech in behalf of the white metal, is running against Judge Paige Morris, also of Duluth, it had been expected that these two eloquent young men would meet in Joint debate. Both are great debaters, and their meeting was looked forward to with lively anticipation. It is now announced, however, that the committees representing the two nominees have been unable to agree upon terms. Mr. Towne wants to confine the argument entirely to the finan- cial question, while Judge Morris wants to dis all the issues upon which the par- ties are at variance. In the fourth, or St. Paul, district Congressman A. R.’ Kiefer has finally announced that he will not be a candidate for a third nomination. He has been moved to this course by the discovery that his candidacy was doomed to defeat and that the cards were already stacked in favor of F. C. Stevens of St. Paul, in whose behalf the young republicans have long been laboring. Mr. Kiefer in his letter of withdrawal pledges his support to the re- publican nominee, whoever he miay be. Clashing Ambitions. In republican circles there has been some amusement over the absurd information telegraphed over the country from Chi- cago that there was internecine war in the party between the friends of ex-Governor W. R. Merriam of St. Paul and Charles A. Pillsbury, the big Minneapolis miller, be- cause of their conflicting ambition to suc- ceed Cushman K. Davis in the Senate. he story originated in the visit of the 1 | two to Chairman Hanna in Chicago, and it was asserted that Hanna had endeavored fo smooth over the trouble by naming Pillsbury to a co-ordinate position with Merriam on the advisory committee. It might very easily happen that the two men would come into conflict in a campaign for a seat in the Senate, if there were to be @ vacancy this year. But Mr. Davis has two years of his term left, and the grand struggle will not occur until 1898. Conse- quently Messrs. Merriam and Pillsbury are pulling together fairly well, and have both been members of the advisory committee since it was first formed. The legislature to be elected this fall will happily have no senatorial question to settle, and will de- vote itself entirely to the business of mak- ing laws. ——_-_ Special train tomorrow for Rockville Fair, without stop, leaves Baltimore and Chio station at 12:15 p.m. Biggest race to- ‘morrow. One dollar round trip.—Advt. Ex-Gov. Flower's Address at the Indianapolis Convention. CALLS ON DEMOCRATS FOR SUPPORT Says There is No Hope of Personal Preferment. >—_——_. ANSWERING BRYAN INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.. September 2. The sound-money democratic convention here today was addressed at some length by ex-Gov. Roswell P. Flower of New York, who had been chosen as temporary chairman. Mr. Flower said in part: “This gathering is notice to the world that the democratic party has not yet surren- dered to populism and anarchy. The true principles of democracy, expounded by Jef- terson and exemplified through a century of national history, are not dead because those principles have been repudiated by a convention calling itself democratic, but controlled by undemocratic influences. Those are true democrats who remain true to the principles of their party and who re- fuse to be bound by party declarations which betray party faiths and threaten both party and country with disaster. By our presence we emphasize ‘the gen- uine character of our democracy and dem- onstrate the patriotic nature of our parti- sansnip. There have been numerous in- stauces in political history where in the name of party ioyalty men have justified their non-support of party platforms or candidates, and in too many of such Ss has the movement failed, because when analyzed its inspiring influence was found to be nothing higher than a desire to avenge disappointed ambitions or to over- throw a puliucal organization. No such sor- did motive can be charged against this gathering. No democrat here sought honors from those who framed the ‘ago platform. Every democrat here only pe.itical humiliation to ex- pect in the event of the success of the Chicago ticket. No democrat honored here Ex-Gov. Flower. ing made the candidate of this con- vention can look forward with any reason- able hope to an election. None of us who help to nominate him can expect to be par- Ucipants in any distribution of political favors. We are here because we love the demucratic party and because we love our country. That is the inspiration w ch has rawn us together and encourages our ac- ion. That is the fact which evidences our sincerity and makes our cause strong with the people. Danger of the Chicago Platform. “The danger of the Chicago platform lies not alone nor chiefly in its declaration for a financial policy which would be ruinous. The danger lies in the revolutionary in- fluences which controlled the convention and animated its platform. Men may justly differ as to the best scheme of na- tional finance, and may debate their differ- ences without recrimination or without questioning the honesty of motives. But when men, led on by ambitious politicians, the nds fired not by the example of American patriots, but by that of the radi- cals of the French revolution, overturn arty precedents and pack a convention to secure an effective majority, then by aid of that majority raise aloft the incendiary banner of the poor against the rich, attack the integrity of the Supreme Court, threat- en the subversion of national institutions the indirect rversion of constitu- tional guarantees, incite disrespect to law and authority, suggest and in substance recommend the repudiation of national and private debts, and reject by intended impli- cation the fundamental principle of democ- racy that that government governs best which governs least—then it Is time not oniy for democrats to forsake that motley and un-American gathering, to reject that undemocratic and un-American enuncia- tion of doctrines, and to join, in such man- ner as may seem best, with all patriots who cherish their country’s honor and wish to protect the welfare of its people. “I mistake the moral sense of the Ameri- can people if the action of the populis's at Chicago, reinforced and emphesized by the action of the populists at St. Louis, has not rekindled the spirit of American patriotism and awakened the Amer.can conscience to the national dangers which lurk in the forces and influences behind Bryan and Sewall, or Bryan and Watson. The real is- sue in this campaign is an issue of pa- triotism. In many a presidential elecifon has the fight waged fiercely between the advocates of different pol.tical doctrines, and the ruin of the country has been freely Predicted if either set of doctrines were es- tablished as the policy of the government —such predictions being merely the ex- treme expression of party politics; but in this election the issues around which the battle is waging involve the integrity of our institutions and the sacredness of our national honor, and when men have stirred that deep well of sentiment, ordinary party differences disappear, the moral issue pre- deminates, and all good citizens stand shoulder to shoulder against those who would defile the American name and un- dermine the walls of her political structure. Representative of Forces, “Mr. Bryan takes pains to reiterate, in about every second speech, that he stands squarely on the Chicago platform, and supports every one of Its planks. He has not yet announced his acceptance of all the Planks of the populist platform, but inas- much as these are only different in degree, and he has been Identified with populism quite as much as with democracy, it is but fair to assume that he stands on both plat- forms. Not quite so radical in his views, perhaps, as Altgeld or Tillman, not quite so frank as Tom Watson, he Is, nevertheless, a fit representative of the revolutionary forces behind him—ambitious, unsteady and unsafe. There is nothing in his career or in his present utterances to encourage the hope that if elected he would rise above his surroundings or stay the hand which threatens to destroy and pervert. An un- tried man, a demagogue, a word-juggler, he perhaps will represent the restless mob frem which he rose, and with character- istic recklessness does not hesitate to ap- peal to base human passions in order to at- tract votes. That in this incendiary’s role, standing, as he professes to stand, on prin. ciples as undemocratic as those of Herr Most, he should deserve, by any conception of party regularity, the support of true democrats is past comprehension and ex- plainable only by ignorance of the man and his platform or disloyalty to genuine party faith. No sound conception of party regu- larity can justify encouragement to social disorder. Not even the honest believer in a silver standard or the most enthusiastic bi- metallist can, if he be a patriotic citizen, conscientiously support the forces of po- litical anarchy. Even the advocacy of free silver coinage by Bryan and many of his associates is only a cloak for the spirit of revolution behind it. Every true bimetal- list must blush to have his cause depend- ent for success upon those who would re- organize the Supreme Court when its decis- fons do not please a party convention, who would repudiate the national debt if free silver coinage did not accomplish bimetal- lism, who would attempt to destroy the sanctity of private contracts, who would have the government take and operate the country’s railroads and telegraphs, who would restrain the strong arm of the law from the suppression of disorder. Elven if Revolutionary I believed that free coinage of silver by the United States independently and alone would, under proper conditions, restore bi- metallism, I could not bring myself to in- trust so delicate and important an under- taking to men of Bryan’s inexperience or associations, and I would suffer forever the alleged evils ofia gold standard before I would be a party to contempt for law, to an attack on our highest court and to a subversion of our form of government by loading it down with ungovernmental func- ticns. Before such a spectacle how would the shades of Jefferson, Jackson and Til- den shudder and shrink. No Claim on Democrats. “While, es I have eaid, Mr. Bryan boldly professes to stand on every one of the strange planks of the Chicago platform, he adroitly attempts to divert d2mocratic at- tention from the revolutionary spirit which pervades most of thut ducument by confin- ing the larger part of his public utterances to what he calls bimetallism; and he evi- dently hopes by magnifying the import- ance of this financial issue and distorting its phases, so that it will appear to be the movement of the masses against the class- es, to make democrats forget their dislike of the plainly undemccratic features cf the Platform and ty persuade them that after ell only an economic issue is involved and this should not justify @ breaking of party ues. But that kind of tactics should de- ceive no one. We believe that Mr. Bryan's arguments for free silver are fallacious and demagogic, but we oppose his candidacy not chiefly because he favors free coinage, but because his advocacy of that policy is but a feature of his support of a set of dcctrines which we have been taught to regard as the very opposite of democratic and the support of which demonstrates the unfitness of Bryan and his associates for pesitions of public trust. Let not this fact escape democratic attention. Every appeal in the name of party regularity to sup- port the Bryan ticket is an appeal to sup- port the governmental ownership of rail- reads and telegraphs, to attack the inde- pendence of the federal judiciary, *to abol- ish the merit system as a test of fitness for Public office, to refuse to uphold the na- tional credit by the issue of bonds when necessary, to scale down the public debt by repudiation, to invite not only the evils which would follow a silver standard but those which would follow irred22mable pa- per money, for even purely fiat money Seems to be rerommended in this Chicag> platform. ‘The men_who represent :uch a conglomeration of pucr principics and radi- cal notions are not democrats. They have no claim on democrats, and all over the land teday democrats are rising to over- throw these party fetters which ren slav- ery, and to stand between the people and the certain injury which the parzy’s rash leaders would inflict upon the nativ “The revolutionary spirit which Bryan’s nomination is manifest sreeches now being delivered throughout the country. His conspicuous failure at Madison Square Garden to advance the cause of silver by close argument has in duced him to abandon the weapons of the logician and statesman and to employ the arts of the orator. From the rear end of cars he has been flinging out social and political firebrands among the people. He appeals to the base instincts of the ignor- ant or to the misery of the distressed. He strives to array class against class, to in- cite employe against employer, to stir up debtor against creditor, to make this a centest of the poor against the rich. May forced in his Ged prevent this incendiary’s work! In this broad land it has been our proud beast that the avenues of suc have been open to all. The rich today were the boor of yesterday. No families of inherited wealth dominate our politics or our so- ciety. Before the law all men are equal. The same opportunities do not come to all men; some succeed, many fail, but no bar- Tier to success or position is created by law. Industrial conditions may be affect- ed by unwise laws, and when this is dem- crstrated we attempt to change them through the opportunity which every man has to register his vote at the polls. But thcugh some men succeed and many fail is the let of life, and no candidate for the presidency has ever dared before to use this fact to arouse man against man and to kindle the fires of social discontent and disorder. Proud as we have been of Amer- fea’s material prosperity we have heen prouder still of the self-reliant, indepen- dent and sensible spirit of her people When foreign critics have told us dema racy here would some day prove a failure, that universal suffrage would lead to an- archy, that class feeling would be engen- dered which would result in riot or in the confiscation of property, we have laughed and bave pointed to the sturdy American- ism on our farms, to the influences of our Public schools, to the respect for law and order In our citles, to the examples of self- made men in every family, to the educat- ing influences of our press, to the fullness and broadness of our charities, and more than all to the solid patriotism of our peo- ple. I belleve that we can still depend on these. Bad as the times are, stagnant as ir dustry is, distressed as many homes are for leck of employment, the common sens of the American people will not be de ceived by appeais to passion, but will p>: ceive clearly what is the truth, namely, that present conditions are largely caused not by the influences against which Mr. Bryan tn lurid words declaims, but by fear of the very remedies which he suggests When this great shadow which he and his associates have created passes off the sur- face of the financial and industrial wor!d, then confidence will be restored, money will seek Investment, factories will be reopened and employment will be secure. There can be no prosperity without confidence, and Mr. Bryan's plan shatters confidence and rortends business failures and panic. These ™ean more men out of employment, more hemes without food and clothing, more misery and distress. European Capital. “Sneer as Mr. Bryan may at our de- pendence upon foreign gold, the bare fact remains that without it the bullding of our great railroads, the opening of our great farm areas, the development of our mines, the building up of our Industries—with all the stimulus of prosperity which these have given—would have been delayed many years. Foreign gold—to Mr. Bryan's dis- torted vision and demagogic mind a species of yellow fever—what Is It but cap- ital which gives work and wages to our citizens, adds to the product of our fac- tories, makes necessities out of the former luxuries of life, increases the comforts and conveniences of living, adds to our coun- try's wealth and prosperity, until finally we will be rich enough and prosperous enough to send part of our capital to other less fortunate or advanced nations and per- form the same good mission, selfish though it be, for other people. Who would reject it because it comes, as some of it probably does, from the drones of Europe? What better use can the accumulated wealth of England’s aristocracy be put to than to build up American industries! “The withdrawal of European capital would still further depress values and en- courage panic. So large a proportion of our business is done on credit, and credit is such a slender support, that when credit is attacked it matters not how much money there may be in the country, it will avail nothing to prevent the contraction of loans and the refusal of accommodation. These mean business failures—losses, sacrifices of prices, diminished demand for commodities, closing mills, lack of employment, poverty and distress. Against the progress of this certain series of events no man nor meas- ure can stand. No kind of relief is effi- cacicus except the conviction of the peo- ple that the money which measures the ex- changeable value of their commodities and services and underlies the structure of their system of credit is sound and stable and will remain so. Political Quacks. “One characteristic of political remedies administered and recommended by quack political doctors is that they are alleged to cure all diseases. To every man in dis- tress in any part of the country the de- monetization of silver is pointed out as the cause of his misery, and the remonetiza- tion of silver as his remedy. By reason of perfectly simple causes the prices of wheat and corn and other agricultural products have declined, but this decline is attributed by these political quacks to the demonetiza- tion of silver, and the farmer, along with every other man who finds it hard to make both ends meet, is told that by remonetiz- ing silver wheat will go to a dollar a bushel, and other farm products will rise proportionately. If this were true, rising prices would affect the commodities which a farmer buys, the interest he pays on his debts, the freight rates which deter- mine the cost of getting nis products to market, and he would be relatively no bet- ter off than before. To expect the farmer to accept so great a delusion is to presume upon his intelligence. Ask the farmers of my state why they are giving up the pro- duction of wheat and corn, and they will not tell you it is because of the deprecia- tion of silver. They will point to these great western prairies, and tell you they cannot compete with these in the growth of the staple cereals. And they have taken to raising other crops, which are more profitable and less competitive. The same tendency is manifest throughout the ag- ricultural world. Not only have thousands of acres of western lands in America been thrown open to cultivation within recent years, but in Ru India and the Ar- gentine Republic railroads and enterprise have brought large additional acreage un- der cultivation and poured millions of ad- ditional bushels upon the markets of the world. The game cheapening in the cost of boots and shoes, of hats and coats and other clothing, which has followed ex- cessive production in the manufacture of those articles, has been manifest in the excessive production of agricultural prod- ucts. It is the old familiar law of supply and den:and. In my state of New York hay is se'ling at $15 per ton; last year it was $10 per ton—do our silver friends at- tribute that to the demonetization of sil- ver? They ought to, consistent. Silver dollars in the pockets of the mine owners are of no benefit to west- ern farmers—what they want is prosperous conditions which will put silver dollars in their own pockets—dolars which, when taken out, wil buy just as much as gold dollars. Silver and Wage Earners. “A silver standard would work particular injury to wage-earners. The rich and well- to-do can usually take care of themselves. But the man who has a vital interest in every day's wages, whose family depends upon those wages for its bread and meat, is the person first to feel the injury and last to feel any possible benefit from an in- flation of the currency. Not only would he for one year, or perhaps two years, feel the effect of the prostration of industry and business which would at least be the first result of a charge to the silver standard, but when that wore away, ds it probably would in the course of time, and the full effects of an inflation of the curerncy under unlimited silver coinage began to be mani- fested, he would find the prices of food, of clothing, of rents raising, but his wages would remain stationary, for it is an eco- nomic fact that in an era of rising prices Wages are the last to fecl the influence. So long as steady work is assured, the laborer is much better off under the condition of falling prices such as we have had for many years, as the cost of production of commodities has been decreased by new in- ventions and improved methods of manu facture, for the necessities of life and even its luxuries have beccme cheaper, while by Treason of various influences wages have In 1870 the average waxes paid to laborers was $302 per year. In 189 these had increased to $485, more than 50 per cent, while during the same period the prices of commodities had fallen, the sil- Verites tell us, from 25 to 40 per cent. Un der the operation of the gold standard, therefore, no matter what its injuries ma have been to other classes of citizens, ti laborer is at least 75 per cent better off than he was in 1870. Does he wish to re- verse this condition and face lower wages and higher cost of ving? I think these facts have only to be presented to the at- tenuon of the workingmen to convince them that any grievances which they may be persuaded they have, cannot be cured by the humbug remedies prescribed by Dr. Bryan. The Broad Shield of Patriotism. There are some classes of employes who would be especially affected by a silver standard. I refer particularly to the 800,000 men who get their wages from steam und surface railroads. Most of the money invested in these enterprises is rep- resented in bonds whose principal and in- terest are payable in gold. The annual payments required by these ‘obligtions of indebtedness are hundreds of millions of doltars. If gold goes’ to a premium the holders of these bonds insist that their terms shail be fulfilled and the interest be payable in gold; it means that the railroads have goi to raise that amount of gold or the mortgages will be foreclosed and the properties sold. Every railroad employe knows what that means—a cutting down of expenses, diserganization, uncertain em- ployment. If the companies have to pay < hundred cents premium on gold to satisty their interest demands it means doubling their fixed charges, and this in the case of nine railroads out of ten means bankruptc ‘They cannot increase their rate of tar for that tne s will not permit. They cannot exact payment of fares in gold. Therefore they mu: udiate their obligations or cut down tainly cannot increase wages. horn of the dilemma they choos ion of obligation or a reduction —the employe is no gainer; for even were there no reduction of wages un- der the free coinage of ifty-cent dollars he oughi to receive tWice as much wages as he did before in order to put him on an equal- ity with previous conditions. The purchas: ing power of his wages, if the rate remains the same, would be cut’ down one-half. Against such threatened calamities we have met as democrats and as patriots to protest. Gur purpose is too serious to per- mit differences on minor matters or perso- nal jealousies to divide our councils or Weaken our influence. We have come here as democrats to exert such influence as we may have among democrats for the goud of i they cer- Whichever , therefore our country and the preservation of our party organization for other periods of us: fuln Renouncing undemocratic the work of the party organizatio! let us be at at Chie: true to every democratic in: is Indianapolis. Let no man say that in convention any false note of democ- y was sounded. We stand for all that pire good citizenship—for honest enforcement of law and order, re- spect for authority, the preservation of the national credit, the just payment of debis, the dignity and welfare of labor, the pros” perity and fair name of America. United in such a cause, we can go forward with the American flag as our banner and the words ‘National Democrats’ inscribed on s. We know no sectional issue or We stand behind the broad shield ism, and in that sign we shall ee ALABAMA FOR BRYAN. The Democrats Refase to Encourage Fusion. Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. BIRMINGHAM, Ala., August 30, 1896. Since the democratic gold convention at Montgomery this week, and the populists and republicans have shown their hands with regard to congressional nominations, political lines in the Alabama campaign have been distinctly marked out. This statement, however, it should be added, is made on the presumption that the populist state committee, which meets here Thurs- day, will do that which they are expected to do, viz: put out a Bryan and Watson electoral ticket. This is said to be the present program. The only change from this course would, it is generally believed, be the failure of the populists to take any ac- tion whatever with regard to an electoral ticket. It is regarded as a pretty safe thing that the populists will not indorse the democratic eiectoral ticket because of the antagonism existing between the two parties in Alabama. The situation in this state at this time sizes up as follows: The regular democrats have out an electoral ticket and are about to put out congressional candidates in all nine districts. The gold democrats op- posed to the Chicago platform and nomi- nees have named a full electoral ticket, and have avowed their purpose to have a candidate for Congress in each district. The republicans likewise have a full elec- toral ticket, and have named candidates in three of the nine districts—the fourth, sixth and ninth. They will also nominate one in the seventh district, and perhaps in ‘one or two others. The republican congressional policy now seems to be not to fuse with the populists for Congress, as they did two years ago, but to make their own fight, but only in the doubtful districts, where they think they have a show to win. The populisis have as yet put out no congressional can- didates, nor have they named an electoral ticket. They will probably nominate a Watson and Bryan ticket to preserve their identity, and in pursuance of their general Policy in this state to fight the organized democracy. In addition, they will nomi- nate candidates for Congress in the close districts—that is, in those districts where they think they are strongest and have a chance to win. Already populist district conventions have been arranged for in the second, seventh and ninth districts, while they will undoubtedly put out candidates in the third, fifth and sixth and probably the eighth districts. With this condition of affairs, it will be a matter of much doubt just what will be the outcome of the congressional election in nearly every district in the state. As to the result for President, the regular demo- crats have no misgivings. The number of populists who will vote for Bryan and Sew- all, regardless of what their party organi- zation does, and the number of gold demo- crats who will refuse to support the In- dianapolis ticket, coupled with the fact that there will be three electoral tickets most probably in the field in opposition to the Bryan and Sewall, leave but little room if they wish to be,| j districts, left today for Indianapolis, Vir- to doubt that the regular democratic ticket will succeed. Judge Shelly's Work. ‘The democratic campaign—that is the campaign of the Chicago democrats—has already opened up. State Chairman John B. Knox has appointed a strong campaign committee, with Gen. Charles M. Shelly as chairman. Gen. Shelly, it will be recalled, managed the Alabama campaigns, both state and national, four years ago, and did it most successfully, too. He is a keen politician, and the democrats feel in se- curing him for chairman they have played a big card. He is, in fact, acknowledged to be the ablest politician in the state, though it can hardly be said that he lives in the state,as his law practice is chiefly in Wash- ington. Headquarters of the campaign will be here. All signs point to a vigorous policy, tov, especially with regard to the treatment of the “bolters,” who are being mercilessly excoriated by speakers at every democratic meeting and through the silver democratic press. All proposals to accord the populists recognition on the democratic electoral ticket have been scrupulously and studiously ignored. Democratic leaders argue that the populists who sincerely de- sire the success of free silver will vote for Bryan and Sewall. Gold Democrats. The recent state convention of the ‘na- tional” gold democrats, opposed to Bryan and Sewall, developed the fact that that element fs much stronger in Alabama thin was generally thought. It 1s conceded pretty generally that they will poll from 15,000 to 20.000 votes. While the leaders of th movement, of course, have no hope of carrying the state for their elec ticket, they do expect to elect some &ressmen, and it is for this that their is being chiefly made. tion showed representation from forty-two of the sixt x counties, with an especially strong showing from the cities and indus- trial districts of the state. The body was a representative one in its personnel, and every member was in deep earnest. It was the unanimous sense of the convention that candidat for Congress be put out in every district, and already calls have beon issued for congressional conventions in some districts. It is believed by w li-posted politicians that the “national pmo ts stand a good showing to carry at least two or three districts, among them the ninth the sixth aad second. 5 eae GOLD ME HOPEFU ht Their state conven- Virginia is Being Carefally C ed by Them, Special Corresp ence of The Evening Star. RICHMOND, August 31, 1896. For the first time in Virginia within the memory of the present generation strong political clubs made up of many of the most prominent and influential white vot- ers in many sections of the state are being formed. This has been practi known in Virginia until the free silver war cry swept over the state. In Lynchburg a McKinley club of representative white voi- ers has been organized, with a membership of about sixty. This means that hundr vani of prominent voters there will cast their ballots for McKinley and Hobart. mentioned for money Amorg those prominently chairman of the democratic sound State committee, besides Jame ner, jr., of Staunton, is Gen who has had much exp2ric and who was a few year ce in politics, 1go on Chair- man Ellyson’s executive committee, and as state chair e twenty Mr. Joseph Bryz ~Con- C. Verable of Petersiurg are ned in connection with the pos understood that Capt. A. L. Guigon, counsel for the Sound Money League of Richmond, will also be legal a Viser of the state committee, and tha will have a number of promine: associated with him. he Richmond delegates to the Indiarap- olis convention, together with a number of delegates from several of the congressional also ment’ ion. It ginla will be well represented at the c vention, some of the most prominent influential citizens in the staie ent. and being pr Bryan and the Populists. Considerable comment has been indulged in here as to the statement published that William Jennings Bryan entered into an greement with the populist state commit- tee of Virginia to s tain Edmund Cocke, the popul for governor, against the cratic nominee, Col. Charles T. , during the gubernatorial nal and not political the skan was induced not the program through. The fact known here until a day er two s , and it is vouched for by a high pub- lic official in the state. Considerable comment has been brought on by the publication of a card by R. O. a well-known citizen of Bowling © the effect that the represent ne county in the recent sound y state convention here was che: by the representative himself and a citi of Knoxville, Tenn., whe is not a Mr. Peatross s: that was no public call for a meeting of the dis- affected element in the county, and that nctices were privately sent out by a promi- nent sound money mar. of the county to all whom he had reason to chink were not s isfied with the Chicago plaiform end ti to meet at Bowling Green and send de} gates to the sound money ~ two men responded, says Mr. Peatross, only one of them a v. The episode, claims the writer, has put the people ir that section to asking many pointed qves- tions. Senator Daniel to Speak. Senator John W. Daniel has returned from Europe in fine health and spirits, and is ready to take the stump at once in the interests of the Chicago presidential caa- didates. The rational committee, it is sai. are anxious to have Senator Daniel do ereat deal of speaking outside of Virginia. Which, it is thought by the free silverites, is safe enough for their side, and it is un. Gerstood that requests from the northwe ard the lake states asking for Senator T re; This was campaign. reason: ave been received f lel to be sent out there for campaign speaking , Secretary Britton of the st: con mittee, under the instructions of the committee, is busily engaged in organizin * z n and Sewall clubs all over the state. Thicugh these free silver literature is be- ing widely distributed and political rallies Worked up. It is expected that before th. 1th of September there will be something like 200 free silver orators turned loose to adcress the voters of Virginia. Candid Bryan is expected to speak here about September nd efforts ‘e being made to have all the democratic clubs in the state represented. Cheap excursions will be run frem ail parts of Virginia, and an immense throng will greet the “boy orator.” Sena- tor Dantel will probably introduce the Ne- braskan. e democratic te ——__ DOWN IN ANNE ARUNDE! There Are x Good Many Gold Me There. Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. ANNAPOLIS, Md., August 29, 1896. The political situation in Annapolis and Anne Arundel county is somewhat different from the situation elsewhere in the state. in one respect at le in that very little interest is manifested so far in the cam- the Politics is not the one ab- walk about paign, and there is no excitement ove contest at all. sorbirg topic here. the streets all day about the “W. One can favored classes” or “tne money changers of Europe” on the lips of the passe while the groups of loungers about market or the public squares will be found to be talking en every otiier subject but tie election. In this Annapolis presents a de- cided contrast to her neg! the eastern shure, where every third n you meet is arguing over the money ques- tion; and when people here do talk politi they speak in a perfectly matter-ol-fact and every-day tone of voice. This is doubi- less not without significance The fifth congressional district, in which Annapolis lies, is claimed by the republi- can: te be a republican district and by the democrats to be a demceratic district. As a matter cf fact, it hos changed hands the back and forth during the iast ten years, | so that the result is usually very close and | uncertain either way. The republic: have already put their candidate, Sydn E. Mudd, in the congressional field, the democrats are to hold their nomina: ccnvention Thursday of this week in Ea!- timore. Robert Moss of Anne Arundel county will be pushed by the Annapolis democrats at the convention and is thou! to stand a good «hance for the nomination. William Ciaggett of Prince George’s county, ns and Important To Some People! DR. SHADE, * 1232 14th wt. Leng and Throat Specia’ Is the only physician in this countr the ability to cure Consumption (Tu who has proven the same by living w siding the District of who claims losis), and slumbla physicians, ms and other citizens, who are Willlag to be interviewed. Why spend) and money with doctors who do not even ¢l they lave cur d on Chloridam Discovery for Consamp tion, Lung, Throat and Catarrhal Diseases has heen tested, and no ot complished such results. nd or call fo symptom blank, &c., for those desicing bs ment Office hours—M onday, Wednesday and Friday only fro has ac- booklet, ¢ treat er of Baltimore county, Mr. Camilier of St. Mary's county ana Dr. Jones of Calvert county are regarded as the other principal men in line for the tion. nom What Leaders Say. Dr. Washington G. Tuck and Dr. € orge Wells, both of Annapolis, are the recog- nized leaders of the republican a mo- cratic forges, respectively, in Anne Arun- del county. Dr. Tuck has just s a in having his man, Sydney E. Mudd, nom i the republican convention There is not much to be bout pol- s here now rep Dr. Tuc when ioned concerning the outlook. rhe campaign hasn't opened yet. Nothing much will be done till after the meeting of the state central committee in Balti- trore Wednesda I think the chances «ood for the republicans carrying “both the district in the congressional election and the state in the national election. The only prominent republican in the fifth district that has declared in favor of silver, so far as I know, is John T. Bow! p republicans generally are very hope- this ful, and claim a sli, in three ways. In the first place, advantage moera’ be from their own, and t rat is put up for P: an men will be heavy tis in this way,” said one of their num- ber, “people that a third candidate will draw away votes from McKinley, but there are very few gold demovra's here: abouts who would vote for McKinley, any how. Most of them say that they will not vote at all. Voting, however, is conta- gious, and when the time came many would vote for Bryan after all, under the niluence of the hour. A third candidate p votes.” id th have not to any ex by the silver doctrines t the ont been influenced and they are ex- pected to go solidly republican, as usual In the third p . the fact that the mr publicans hold the state machinery at pre ent is thought to be in their f. still more is hoped from the new registra- tion law, requiring the supervisors of rex- ration and election to be com an or. But vosed of equal number from each of the parties This is expected to give a fairer registra~ tion than ever before A Cloxe Fig! The politicians here generally predict a close fight, but a tolerably pariy vote. Only a few men of any prominence in politics in this district have so far an- nounced their Intention of leaving either of the two parties. Richard J. Moss, father of Robert Moss, who is running for the democratic congressional nomination in the district, has announced that he will not vote for Bryan 1H n of An- napolis has likew led not to vote the silver ticke thoucht by some to be # good many bolters from both pa ties in Anne Arundel county, but they ar mainly among private citizens, who hesi-, tate to announce themseives either way as yer, and y ob to their pro t to being put on record as tive cours: There is but one bank in Annapolis, the Fermers’ National Bank. J. W. Randall, nd the cashier, who ar will, of course, vote for y other five cmptoyes, how- ever, are afl democrats, and none of them will support the Chicago ticket, it is claimed. John H. Thomas, the mayor of the city and a democrat, will not Y WARRENTON. The German Was a Success. vote for Bryan. HA Distinguished um nee of . 1806, weautiful leap r german at th evening in compliment The cotillicn w to their gv s led by Mrs. wi- liam C. Marshali, a lo 1 lea and the wife of the editor of The Virginian, as- ed by Mr. John 1D. Hooe, the master of the Warrenton hounds. It w the most superb public function witnersed here for many years, aid was attended by hundreds of fashionable society points. A group of the dar in a flashiight by Rice, the j Washington, as a souve The germon was divided in and continued until 1:30 o'clock, wh: people from « aborate collation Was served at the War ren Green Ti Mrs. Mars! looked strikin hand- seme in a Quinze toilet of tiow ered silk, Miss Lizzie Tyler, the daughter of Col. Nat. Tyler of Washington, who has just returned from an © n months’ tour of Europe, wore a Parisian gown of salmon pink pompadour suk; Miss Mattie Pratt, a pretty army belle, a dainty flow- ered organdy: M say Lomax, the daughter of General Lomax, a blue ik, ith bertha of rare old lace; =v ] he, one of the sponsors at th a nd reunion, a maize-colored satin t e of white gauze: M Je n m of Alexandria, a cream-colored satin with bodice of gauze; Miss Sue Her also of Alexandria, aa exqul gandy over pink man, a white an¢ zie Fair, a black gauze, chiffon i flowers; M lante ugh dent of the autiful flows iture of apple gre aNze; Mrs. Carter + white atin gown and chiffon, whose beauty wa the theme of the evening; Miss Mar Payne, a brocaded white satin, with of chiffon; Miss Mattie Payne, a whi sandy over pin Miss Mary We Scott, the daughter of Attorney G Scott, a white organdy; her sis d Ros: Scott, in pink b ade, w as perb bouquet of American beauty ros Miss Meta Moore, a debutante of Norte’ in white sandy Miss Nina Ra Richmond. in pink brocaded satin; Mi Patterson. cf Maryland, in white a Miss Agn s summer , tante, a p.nk with Misses Frances and LulieWilson ef Nor in whit dies, respe with > ribbe Booke! Point debi Charlotte organdy over bine orbes, in white organdy nd Miss M tante, in w bunch rs of the ever Robin of Baltimore, Mrs . Mrs. Gen. Payne, Mrs. 2 er, Mrs. € Mrs ry Forbes, of Conway nd Mrs nmitt hriver. he rec composed of Mr. M. } of Washin you who ci Washington were Mr. vier, Mr. Mor- Mr B. Woo ownit Mr. vival whi d tho ntingent from the have taken Mission renton Hu at the about ihre w front of na wild fox will be bout thirty de Jers with their swiftest hunters t. the occasion promises to be ring and social event.