The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 18, 1896, Page 1

> Lty i »‘1':1::‘4"" " VOLUME LXXX.—NO. 48. REFUSE T0 BOW DOW, Leading Populists Opposed to Indorsing Democratic Candidates. MUCH FEELING AGAINST FUSION. Southern Leaders Demand Their Own Party Platform and Cand:dates. “CYCLONE” DAVIS OF TEXAS PUT IN THE RACE, Middle of the Road Men Prepare to Fight for Principle to the Bitter End. Lindell Hotal, St. Loais, Mo., July 17. Leading Populists, whose lips had been sealed for several days, now announce that they are opposed to indorsing the Democraiic candidates. They object to the Chicago platform on the financial question because it conflicts with the Populist theory of fiat money. Com- plaint is also made that the Democrats want all the advantage and do not seem to be willing to give the Populists any share of the profits, etc. Editor Gilstrap of Tulare County, Cal., arrived to-day, violently opposed to fusion or indorsement. The Populist editors by an overwhelming majority are middle-of-the-rond men, he says. Prominent silver men propose to in- dorse Bryan at their convention and are working with the leaders of the Peo- ple’s party to influence them in a like direction. Senator Jones, chairman of the Demo- cratic Na'icnal Committee, now in New York, ha< bo.n summoned here by the silverites and the Bryan push, but he has notreplicd. Seme of Senator Teiler’s friends are starting a boom forhim. Friends of ““Cycione” Davis of Texas are recommend ing him for the Presiden- tial nomination by che Populists. It was reported late last evening thata Democratic emissary with an unholy proposition of indorsement would be here to-morrow and that the proposi- tion would be acceptable to the fiiends “The Oa I’s’’ Headquarters, 2 of fusion. JOHN PAUL COSGRAVE. —_———— ST. LOUIS, Mo., July 17.—Although there seemed to be a disposition among the early arrivals here to join forces with the Democracy for the sake of getting a victory, the doctrine of straight Populism seems to be too strong for them, and they have thawed out and are now speaking according to the light thatisin them. Like a refreshing breeze from the ocean comes W. L. Gilstrap, editor of two Populist vapers—the Tulare County News and the Tulare Valley Citizen—in the sunny town of Visalia, Cal. I found Mr. Gilstrap to be a straight- away out-in-the-middle-of-the-road Popu- it He wants no Democratic stick in his soda pop, if he is aware of it, and he is not favorably impressed with boy orators who are members of the effete Democratic party. Mr. Gilstrap is here to attend the meeting of the National Reform Press As- sociation next Monday morning. This association is composed of the masses of the party. The question of fusion or in- dorsement will be thoroughly exploded. Mr. Gilstrap receives several hundred Populist exchanges, and he has fonnd not more than two or three of the whole num- ber that will tolerate the proposition to fuse with or indorse the nominees of the Democracy. “Our State Convention,” said theeditor, “instructed us to use every honorable means to effect 2 union of the reform forces. The Democratic National Conven- tion ignored us altogether, and 1 am cer- tain that if a resolution had been offered at Chicago looking toward a fusion with the Populists it would have been defeated by the votes of more than three-fourths of the Silver Democrats in hat convention. ‘We cannot hold a separate party identity and indorse any other candidate, The Democratic convention made 10 advances to the Populists, and Mr. Bryan himself has made no allusion to us in any of his speeches. Free coinage is the most prom- inent issue before the people to-day, but not the most important. It is a fad, J am not1n favor of fasion or indorsement. We are for Populism pure and simple, and do not want to see the party delivered over, bound hand and foot, to the enemy. ‘We have kept straight in the middle of the road in our county, and we have met with not only moral but political success. We carried Tulare County last election by 170 plurality and elected a Sheriff, a District Attorney, an Assessor, a Treasurer and a Burveyor, all on a straight Populist ticket. We never have fused and we never will to:-y that if the Populists indorse Mr. Bryan they will be done up by the Demo- crats. ““If we leave the Democracy alone it will break allfjto pieces this year, and we will have only the Republican party to fight next year,” said Mr. Quick. “All we have to do is to keep cool and not get excited, keep in the middie of the road and we are bound to win. We want to show the peo- ple that if we have wheels in our head they are running all right.” Sergeant-at-Arms McDowell of Tennes- gee has heard from his people in no uncer- tain tones. ““The people of tne South,” said Mr. Mc- Dowell to me to-day, “are opposed to fusion, and want nothing but straight Populism. They have written me several letters to that effect, and have emphati- cally deciared that if this convention in- dorses Bryan they will bolt the party and vote for McKinley as a rebnke. One of these letters says: “‘If you folks go to St. Loais to sell out to Bryan we will vote for McKinley and beat you.” ““The Southern Populists want the Popu- list platform. and their own candidates. The Democrats have not made us any offers as yet, and if they don’t succeed in getting our indorsement they will be beaten and McKinley will be elected. ‘What fusion Populists want is for all the States to agree upon one-half Democratic Electors and one-half Populists. Then whichever party gets the most votes will have the Presidency and next highest the Vice-Presidency. Of could we would nominate a Populist President and Vice- President upon a Populist platform, and the Democrats would nominate their own man upon their own platform. The great- est objection which the Populists have to fusion is that the Chicago platform de- clares for free silver, while the Populist doctrine 1s for fiat money. “So strong is the feeling against fusion,” added the sergeant-at.arms, “that ex- Governor Buchanan, after making a speech in favor of homorable fusion, was | tied hand and foot by a non-fusion pledge.” Cyclone Davis of Texas addressed a gathering of three delegates in Becretary Rozelle’s office this afternoon. “If we don’t indorse Bryan,” said one of the delegates, “*McKinley will.be elected.” “Whose fault will it be?” asked the cyclone, and the deiegate bent his head in study for a while and then replied that he guessed it was the fault of the Democrats. The Southern Populists have no love for the Democracy, because away back 1n the early davsof the movement the Demo- crats abused the Populists as renegades and traitors who had turned their backs politically on their old neighbors and as- sociates, and much bitterness of feeling was the result. Hence, haviag no love for the Democracy, the Populists of the South will not have anything to do with the old party and will hold fast to principle. As most Southern Populists of to-day have been Democrats, it will be easily seen that there is no hope that that part of the party will entertain any overtures looking to- ward a compromise. The Democratic horizon is looking very squally. The captain, crew and passens eers are fast leaving the sinking ship, and soon the rats will begin to abandon it. At a meeting of the Jefferson Demo- cratic Club of this city last night the sound-money men, composing one-half its membership, handed in their resignations and walked out. A movement is now on foot to organize the sound-money forces of the State and put a State ticket in the field. Ex-8ecretary William Whitney, Gov- ernor Flower and other notable Demo- crats have formaily bolted the ticket. As the sound-money men are in politics for business and not for sentiment they will not be likely to do anything which will be likely to injure their cause by either the influence of sentiment or politics. If they shall find within the next week or so that there is a prospect for their defeating the Republican candidate on a sound-money Democratic platform, with sound-money Democratic candiaates, they will call a convention, formulate a platform and put up a sound-money Democratic candidate. But if, on the other hana, the chances of defeating the Republican ticket seem doubtful or dubious in the event of a sound - money Democrat being put up for President the sound money of the country, irrespective of politics or party, will unite and cast their votes for William McKinley. Nomatter from which side the sun may be viewed the prospects for Republican success are most brilliant. It must be remembered also that the sound-money Democrats who are desert- ing the ranks of Democracy are not going to the Populist party and are not going to sit with folded hands on the day of elec- tion, but as business men with a business object in view they will vote with the only party before the people with any prospect of success that will satisfy their ideas and their interest in the financial question, and that party is the Republican party. From all over the country come accounts of leading Democratic politicians and office - holders, chairmen of county and State central committees, and men high in the councils of the party and influential with the people, resicning from their political clubs and repudiating the an- archistic and revolutionary platform adopted at Chicago under the sinister aus- ‘pices of Governor John P. Altgeld. The Sun stands about thus: If the sound-money Democracy putsa gold ticket in the field, it will be certainly doomed to defeat, for there are many Democrats to whom the financial question is of the greatest importance, who are unwilling to take any chances and who will cast _their vote for the Republican candidate. If the Populists indorse the candidacy of Mr. Bryan, the defections from its ranks wili be much larger and much more serious than those now being noted in” the ranks of the Democracy. The result will be that the strai:htaway Populists wouid put up a ticket of their own and the opposition thus Our county used to go 800 Democratic ma- | being, by the mysterious decree of fate, jority. We refused to fuse, kept on in the muddle of the road and got there without any outside help and without the sacrifice of our indepenaence or bprinciple. Our people down there like the San Francisco CALL very much, and thank it for the fair- ness with which it has treated our cause. It has not ridiculed us, and has published articles by Joseph Asbury Johnson and others on behalf of our principles.” Editor Gilstrap clcsed with the state- ment that he had not the slightest doubt that tie editorial reform convention would declare against indorsement. W. J. Quick of this city is another straight People’s party man. He isone of the party’s leading representatives, having served as a delegate in the Omaha conven- tion. He helped also to make the fight in Kansas. Mr. Quick expressed the opinion divided up into small bodies, will fall an easy prey to the victorious and united hosts of conservative Republicanism, R. A. Bouthworth of Denver, Colo., secretary of the National Farmers' Al- liance, has opened headquarters at the Hotel Barnum. There are two sets of contesting delegates from his State, one headed by Mr. Southworth and the other by Thomas Patterson. Mr. Southworth gives Patterson a bad reputation polit- ically and says that he is more of a Demo- crat than a Populist. Mr. Southworth added concerning the Patterson persona non grata: “He desires the reabsorption of the Populist party by the old parties, and is aiding and abetting the operation with all his ability. I ask you, should our con- vention allow such designing men to cross A HEAVY LOAD FOR.A BOY ORATOR. its threshold? It would seem to me it would not be just to those men who have stood the martyrdom that has beenineces- sary to build our party up to its present high standing. It seems to me that I should lose my respect for its represent- atives if they cannot distinguish between such a man and men whose lives are one continuous sacritice for the advancement of its principles. Our delegates are from the farm, the mine, the shop, the store, the printing office; in tact all the trades and callings are represented in it.”’ “You believe there are other issues be- sides that of silver?” “Yes. Money, transportation and land are so closely connected that they cannot be separated and settle the trouble that afflicts our country. Why, sir, I have known in the eastern part of Colorado wheat {to sell as low as 20 cents and 25 centsa bushel, and the people who raised it were obliged to pay $7 a ton for coal—or go without—at their railroad station. I have known corn to be burned as fuel within four hours’ ride of a coalbank and of my home. I could not afford to buy that corn to feed my cattle because of unjust charges for the hauling. I have known in the same passenger-coach in which I was riding people paying several cents, 5 cents, 314 cents, 13 cents and no cents a mile for their ride.” Kichard Winsor, a Populist delegate from Seattle, Wash., arrived this morn- ing and is stopping at the St. James. After the nomination of Bryan at Chicago Mr. Winsor started on a proselyting mis- sion among his Populist acquaintances. Said Mr. Winsor: “I did not find one who had & word to say against Bryan. We do not feel in the West the same as they do in the South. To tell the truth, before the Chicago con- vention met we were casting about for a man who might be regarded as an avail- able candidate before the St. Loais con- vention, and his name was presented as the logical candidate, We do not feel to- ward liim as they do in the South. When he spoke in Seattle last September he came at the invitation of the Populists, and was entertained by the Populists. I conducted him to the stage, upon which were seated over twenty leading Populists, and his speech was spoken of by Repub- licans and gold Democrats as a Populist’s harangue. *'At Spokane the Populists held a meet- ing after the Chicago convention for the purpose of discussing the matter, and there was but one man who opposed the nomination of Bryan at St. Lous, and after a free discussion even he admitted that the expression of many might be more valuable than his individual opinion. You can put it down that the Pacific North- west is for Bryan.” I will put it down also that Mr. Winsor is a Bryan Democrat with the skin of a Populist. Bamue! D. Nicholson and P. Baker, dele- gate and alternate from the Nineteenth District of Colorado, are here shouting for Bryan. They report thewr part of the country a unit for Bryan. A Chairman Taubeneck of the National committee bas declared himself opposed to fusion or indorsement. The next thing on the bourds is a Teller movement. The boom has already started, and Teller’s friends are saying that heis a Populist, opposed to National banks, and in favor of the Governmental issue of all money. 1 think the boom will develop into something very strong, and that the Senator, after having beeh crowned with the thorns of a silver and Populist nomina- tion, will be politically crucitied upon a cross of silver. The signs of the time point to the fall of the Democratic Bastile and the corona- tion of the Republican Napoleon. Late this evening the tip was quietly circulated among the chosen few thata Democratic emissary would be here to-day with an unholy proposition to the Populist leaders who have been flirting with fusion ever since last Monday. The secret is be- ing carefully guarded, but 1 was given this much of an inkling by a friend from Alabama. He said that if matters turned out as he hoped and thought they would the Populists would not nominate any candidates of their own. There are, how- ever, 1300 delegates to be consulted with reference to this affair, and as the majority are understood to be Populisis first, last and a1l the time the nice little yrogramme may not carry. If it does there will be u bolt that will eclipse all its preaecessors. - JouN PAUL COSGRAVE. BRYAN MEN WORK RARD, Silver Leaders to Indorse the Boy Orator of the Platte: A SRR | £ ST 5 A TRYING TO INFLUENCE POPULISTS. Arriving Delegations Promptly Met by the White Metal Champions. NO EXPENSE TO BE SPARED IN THE BITTER BATTLE. War Declared on Those Who Insist Upon Keeping the People’s Party Intact. Horer LiNpeLL, 8t. Louts, Mo., July 17. The programme of the Silver party isto indorse Bryan for President of the United States. The leaders already on the ground have so declared themselves. Wilh this end in view they are now making war upon the Populists, especially the middle- of-the-road boys, who are holding out against the ratification of the Democratic candidate. The silver men want Bryan because they think they can win with him. They say that he has always stood firmly for the white metal and they are willing to over- look his Democratic proclivities in other directions since he reflects their doctrine upon the financial issue. Senators Stewart and Jones and Con- gressman Newlands of Nevada and William P. 8t. John of New York will be here on Sunday, and then a united effort will be made to have & conference with the leaders of the People’s party with a view to their joining with the silver forces and unanimously declaring for Bryan. The organization of the silver forces is compact. It is bold and aggressive. It will accept no half way measure, *Byran or nothing”’ being written upon their standard. Representing, as they do, wealth, influence and power, it is thought that ttey will be able to overcome the op- position of the Southern Populists to the Democratic nominee and ultimately insure his indorsement. The silver barons of the West are indifferent to the expense neces- sary to bring about their cherished wish. They are working night and day and spending money freely. They openly de- clare that there is no power on earth to blockade their purpose. They have sum- moned Senator Jones, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, from New York. They want him here because of the attitude assumed by certain Popu- lists who are anxious to know if Bryan will stand upon the Omaha platform. With these Populists it is not a question of TrE CALU'S Hnmvu-nn,% accepting Bryan. Itisa matter of Bryan accepting their platform. If he satisfies them in this respect their opposition will, in a measure, be withdrawn, other- wise they will hold out to the bitter end. They declare that the Populist party’ came 1nto existence for a great purpose, and they don’t want to see it perish, now that its power has increased and its influ- ence become manifest to the politicians as well as the people of the country. Even those Populists who insist on continuing down the middle of the pike, though they should be run over and crushed to death, are willing that Bryan should come in for secondary consideration. They have sug- lists, jointly with the Silver party, place a full ticket in the field and then in case the Democrats receive the largest representa- tion in the electoral college, they unite with the latter and cast their vote for Bryan. This is the scheme which Chair- man Taubeneck has promulgated. Taubeneck is charged with being a “trimmer’” and the silverites are sos- picious of him. It was he who wrote Tel- ler’s address to the people when that sil- ver-plated statesman bolted the St. Louis convention. His conduct at that ume was censured by the miadle-of-the-road Populists, who did not favor Teller for the Presidency. Since the mnomination of Bryan the Tanbeneck foliowers who were favorable to Teller bave deserted him and gone over to the Nebraskan. On the other hand, the middle-of-the- Tosa - -to Taubeneck, and are now shouting for Teller; therefore, the reader will clearly see that the situation is a most complicated one. But above all this discontent, suspician and uncertainty in the Populistic ranks, the strong and steady arm of the Silver party is seen up- lifted, and rallies forward the straggling forces. Whether it will eventually suc- ceed in bringing about the much desired harmony: whether it will triumph over the opposition that is daily growing in volume; whether it will command the forces of the two conventions and dictate a compromise nominee, is a question at this time which can only be conjectured. The question of Bryan’s indorsement will be decided by a conference committee of the two conventions. The silver com- mittee will be a unit for Bryan. If a ma- jority of the Populists likewise favorable to the boy orator can be secured, it is thought there wiil be little difficulty in se- curing a joint resolution recommending Bryan to both conventions. The greatest opnosition to Bryan comes from Tennessee and other Southern States. The Populists from that section are struggling to inject new life into their party. They are weeping over its prospective demise. To ti.e outsider their comments upon the situation are amusing. ‘‘Cy- clone” Davis of Texasis especially vehe- ment in his remarks. He was cooling him- self in fron 'of the Lindell to-day when he ots at the enemy. ‘‘Become gain?'’ he said, *'not in a hun- We Populists out in Texas have left the Democratic party for all time to come and will never reiurn to it. No matter what the action of the Populist National Convention will be the party will still exist. The Democrats have cursed and traduced us. They have stolen our ballots. .They have stuffed our ballot- boxes. They have coerced our voters. In Texas, Louisiana and Arkansas the Demo- crats have been in the minority for years, yet they have beaten us by counting the votes of dead mnegroes and clubbing us down with the repeated votes of live negroes. We might have a combination on electoral college if given the right sort of recognition; but, to give up our organi- zation, that is to indorse the nomination of Bryan without putting him under obli- gations to us before and after election and keep out of the field in the matter of elect- ing members of Congress and representa- tives of our State Legislatures which will elect United Btates Senators, is something entirely out of the question. If thisis asked of us, or expected of us, the Bryan sentiment in our party, not only in the South but in the entire country will vanish like snow before a southern sun.” M.J. Owen of Tennessee, and a dele- gate to the People’s Party Convention from that State, is very bitter toward the proposed fusion ticket. Like ex-Governor Buchanan and Sergeant-at-arms McDow- ell, he is an old line Southern Democrat. He joined the People’s party four years ago, and is now one of the bitterest op- ponents of the organization founded by his fathers. “I am a delegate from the Ninth Con- gressional District of Tennessee,” began Mr. Owen, in discussing the grievances of his party in the South with me to-day, “and deeply regret that some of our lead- ers have become weak-kneed and reaay to throw up the sponge and indorse the nom- inee of the Chicago convention. This is what certain far-seeing silver Democrats have been working for long before their convention met. The fact stared them in the face that it was their only hope for success, and to avoid a disastrous party defeat was to set a trap to catch Populist votes, and a nice trap they have set in- deed. They know very well that if we are gested to the silver men that the Popu- | caught in the trap our party is forever PRICE FIVE CE S. gone. They will carry off the prize and give us the cold laugh. For years the Democrats have fought Populists and their principles. “Down South they have been particu- larly bitter against us. When Cleveland was elected the last time the Democrats in our district resorted to ti.e mostun- manly and un-American methods to carry the election. They resorted to pallot-box stuffing and other disgraceful means in order to gain their ends. Populists were cursed and insulted for no crime buta claim to the right of a fair count and an honest ballot. Our leaders were branded as traitors. Time has proved that we were in the right. Now the Democrats want to get in our band-wagon. We have noble leaders in our ranks who will not desert the rank and file in the heat of battle, men in whom the people can de- pend for the safekeeping of their princi- ples. There is one route for the People’s party, and that is in the middle of the road. To the right there isa dark gulf, to the left an impassable mountain. We must stand on the Omaha platiorm or be destroyed.” % Sergeant-at-arms McDowell is vigorously combating the efforts of the free-silver men to secure the indorsement of Bryan. He and Taubeneck are leading the Popu- listic forces in thisdirection. With them it isanything to beat the Nebraskan. Toshow that the sentimentin the South is strongly against a fusion ticket, McDowell displays letters received from influential Southern Populists, declarihg that they will support a straight ticket and that alone. A letter signed by John L. Quarles and others of the Fourth Congressional Dis- trict of Tennessee is significant. “In the name of the People’s party of the Fourth Congressional District,” reads this forcible declaration, ‘‘we solemnly and earnestly protest against any infus- tice of the People's party by reason of a fusion with either of the old political par- ties, and especially do we protest against the People’s party National Convention at St. Louis indorsing or in any way fatify- ing or countenancing the nomination of W. J. Bryan by the Chicago convention. The platform of that convention is a figud. It was issued under false pre- tenses. ““We have investigated the feeling and sentiment of our people,” continues the letter, ““and it is unanimously opposed to fusion, and any other course but a straight ticket we will regard as treachery to our party.” On the other hand, the leaders of the Silver party are very much encouraged by the number of Bryan people that are com- ing over from the Populists and joining in the procession. As each delegate ar- rives in the city he is approached by a Bryan emissary and solicited to cast his influence with the white-metal brigade. Fred L. Bailey, a Bryan boomer from Oklaboma, waved into town to-day, carry- ing a life-size picture of the boy orator of the Piatte. . Mr. Bailey is a young man with a smooth face and a large supply of nerve. He orig- inally came from Kansas, and for a time was oneof the chief advisers of Jerry 'Bimpson, the scckless Congressman of the grasshopper State. He says that Mr. Simpson will be here next week and will do a little snouting for Bryan. Mr. Bailey was not long in town before he made his presence known. He ran a large banner across Washington avenue from the Lin- dell Hotel. On it was inscribed the tol- lowing: ‘‘Oklahoma Headquarters for Bryan.” To demoanstrate that there is no superstition lurking in the Oklahoma del- egation it selected room 13 at the Lindell as its headquarters. “We are going to indorse Bryan,” shouted Bailey as he walked through the | loboy of the hotel. “Oklahomais for him, and whoever Oklahoma declares for is go- ing to win. Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado and the other Northwestern States are falling into line, and if the convention were to be held to-morrow tiere would be only one candidate in the field and his name would be Bryan of Nebraska.” ‘The managers of the Silver party are to- night holding secret conferences and are devising plans to bring about a stampede for Bryan in the Populist convention. Tbemselves a unit for the Nebraskan, they wilt leave nothing undone to bring about his indorsement by the two conventions, As their platform simply declares for sil- ver, without touching upon any .of the other great issues of the dav, they are satisfied with Bryan as a standard-bearer, and should the Populists finally consent to likewise favor him there will be no.hap- pier people in all :his broad land than those who have so assiduously and sin- cerely champloned the cause of silver. The hotels are filling up rapidly with delegates and visitors from all parts of the United States. While there is less enthu- siasm than was manfest at Chicago dur- ing the preliminaries to the Democratic National gathering there is not less ear- nestness on the part of those commissioned with authority to faithfully perform the duties expected of them by their constitu- ents. Certain it is the two conventions next week will be historical. The one may mark the rise or fall of silver; the other may signal the death of Populism. Some people, however, are inclined to think that the Populists may survive being run over and killed should they con- tinue down the middle of the road. * Fraxk McGuize. R SILVER BOLTERS TO MEET. Senator Teller Growing Impatient Over the Delay of the Pro=- posed Conference. DENVER, Coro., July 17.—Senator Tel- ler is growing impatient over the delay of some of his colleagues who bolted the 8t. Louis convention to meet in Manitou for conference. He will go down to-mor- row to settle the matter finally. “Several of those who will participate in the conference will be at Manitou to- morrow,” said Mr. Teller, “and it is possi- ble that we may go ahead without the others. Qur whole work will not occupy more than an hour. We have already agreed upon our course. We will advocate the support of Bryan and Sewall. The only action that the conference will take will bpe to agree upon the form of some short manifesto or address to the public.” s Boles Declines the Honor. < WATERLOO, Iowa, July 17.—At the Chicago convention and even before that sevaral of the Democratic leaders proposed nominating Boies for Congress from his home district, but a quietus was put on this movement to-day when Mr. Boies said: “I hope no effort will be made to bring me out as a candidate for Congress. I could not accept the nomination if I }nov it would result in my election, and do not desire the notoriety which would result from my declining.”” N 10 ONE 1S THE BET, Kitchen of New York Says McKinley Will Be Elected. OFFERS TO WAGER VERY HEAVY ODDS. Nebraskans Are Not Unanimous for William Jennings Bryan. GREETING TO THE NOMINEE OF THE REPUBLICANS, On Tuesday Major McKinley Will Speak at the Cleveland Centennial, NEW YORK, N. Y., July 17.—William E. Kitchen of the New York Exchange to- day offered to bet $4000 to $400 that Wil- liam McKinley will be the next President of the United States. CANTON, Omro, July 17.—Major Mc« Kinley received the usual string of callers to-day, who came on various errands of a personal or social nature. The following letter was received from Nebraska, a State the mention of which always awakens a good deal of interest in the McKinley home now: PLATTSMOUTH, Nebr., July 16. Hon. William McKinley, Canton, Ohio; The McKinley Club of Plattsmouth, Nebr., sends greeting to the standard-bearer of the Repub- lican party and begs to assure him that ale though the Democratic nominee for President hails from our State, this circumstance will in no wise affect the enthusiasm and loyalty of the Republicans of Plattsmouth and Cass County for McKinley and Hobart. H. N. Dovey, President. C. E. SM1TH, Secretary. Major and Mrs. McKinley will leave for Cieveland next Monday, where they will be the guests of Mr. and Mrs. M. A, Hanna. Major McKinley will speak there Tuesday on the opening of the Cleveland Centennial, of which he is honorary presi« dent. - WINSTON, Cov~., July 18.—The new Hartlord Weekly Tribune (Ind.) has come out for McKinley and gold. A O A PLANNING THE CAMPAIGN. Members®f the Republican Execu= tive Committee Are Actively at Work. CLEVELAND, 0., July 17.—The execu- tive committee of the Republican Na- tional Committee reassembled in Hanna’s office yesterday shortly after 10 o'clock. Major McKinley could not arrange his affairs so as to come here. At 3:30 o’clock members of the committee will leave by train to visit bim at Canton, and will then separate, to go to their several homes. P. S. Heath, in charge of the McKinley literary bureau at St. Louis, spent nearly an hour with the committee. He an- nounced that the committes had deter- mined to consolidate the literary and printing bureaus, and that he had ac- cepted the position of chief of the new bureau. Its work will be done in Chicago for both the Eastern and Western head- quarters. The committee vractically closed its ses- sion shortly after noon, although several of the members remained with Mr. Hanna. That gentleman in response to requests for information sent out word that he had nothing to say and other com- mitteemen were as reticent as ever. At 3:15 o’clock the members left on the Valley road for Canton. CAMPAIGN HEADQUARTERS Democrats Practically Decide to Select Washington as the Base of Operations. WASHINGTON, D. C., July 17.—It has been practically determined that the Democrats will select the city of Wash- ington as their principal headquarters for the direction of the campaign, and thata branch headquarters will be established at Chicago. Senator Jones returned from New York to-day, but would not say definitely where the headquarters would pe located. Mr. Jones also stated that the announcement that the Presidential can« didates would meet the notificatidn com- mittee at the Madison-square Garden on the 21st inst. was entirely premature. In several other respects Mr. Jones indicated his unwillingness to make any statements of the future plans of the Democrats. Nevertheless, Washington will be made the headquarters. In the first place, ‘Washington is the home of all the Gov- ernment publications which will be sent out during the campaign, and the Demo- cratic Senators believe that the Congres- sional document-rooms at the Capitol are easier revived than re-established in New York. 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