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IIS MR. SEWALL
A REPUBLICAN ?
HE ISSUES GREAT QUANTI
TIES OF McKINIEY
LITERATURE.
DEMOCRATS ARE INDIGNANT.
As President of The American
Marine Association Sewall
Sanctions Republican
Documents.
New York, August 14.—There is
oommotion among the Democratic
con'erenoe committee.
At the meeting in this city yester
day, several leading Democrats, in
cluding Blackburn, of Kentucky,
Tillman, of South Carolina, McMil
lan, of Tennessee, with Chairman
Jones, and Mr. Bryan, many impor
tant matters were discussed.
' The fact that Mr. Arthur Sewall,
of Maine, was not present, is regarded
as significant.
Some time ago it developed that
the Republican campaign managers
were sending out literature, with the
sanction of the candidate from Maine,
as good Republican campaign docu
ments.
Some of the literature which Mr.
Sewall is putting up the cash to scat
ter broadcast in the interest of his
opponents is interesting to say the
least.
This sort of thing is not calculated
to help the Democratic party, nor is
It calculated to win Sewall votes in
the South.
The literature in question is strong
ly protective, and suggests that Mr.
Sewall is more in harmony with the
Republican platform than that on
which he has been nominated.
The circular is proving very annoy
ing to the campaign committee, and
it is said that Mr. Jones will take
action very soon.
It is even intimated that the cam
paign committee has already advised
the man from Maine of its displeas.
■are.
The literature bears the name of
( the American Merchant Marine As
sociation, with Arthur Sewall, Bath,
Maine, president, and Alex R. Smith,
secretary. The following ia a sample
of the document sent out:
“Brief argument in favor of the
adoption of the Massachusetts-Ore
gon - New Jersey ship-protecting
plank:
“It is sound Republican protective
doctrine. It puts money into the
national treasury, instead of taking
money out, as bounties and subsidies
do.
“It creates preference for American
ships in the carrying of American
commerce.
“It was in force for nearly forty
years—from the beginning of our
government down to 1828—during
all of which time an average of 90
per cent of American foreign oom
merce was carried in American ships.
“The first act of the first congress
in 1789 provided, in part, for this
form of ship protection. Subsequent
acts of that and succeeding con
gresses strengthened and extended
the policy.
“Ship protection was abandoned
because it was no longer thought
necessary, and from that time the
proportion of carriages of Am ricin
commerce in American ships has de
dined, unt 1 today but 11.7 per cent
of American commerce is carried in
American ships.
“Five million tons of ships are em
ployed in carrying American foreign
ccmmeree, less than three q i irters
ot a million tons of which are Atn sri
can.
“Four hundred million d liars
would be spent in American ship
yards building the ships necessary to
carry American commerce if the
policy advocated in the Missachu
setts-New Jersey plank is adopted by
the United States.
“Three hundred million dollars now
annually sent abroad to pay for the
carriage of American commerce, pas
sengers and mail* would be retained
in the United States if American
ships did the work.
“Four billion five hundred thous
and millions dollars, it has been esti.
mated by ths most competent ex
perts, has been sent abroad during
the past thirty years to pay for the
carriage of American commerce, pas
sengers, mails, etc.
“The weakness of the United
States is only apparent upon the seas
of the world. The adoption of this
policy would strengthen the nation
; where its one weakness at present
• exists.
“Senator Elkins, of West Virginia,
has introduced a bill to the Senate,
and Mr. Payne, of New York, in the
House, proposing to tax imports in
foreign ships 10 per cent, more than
imports in American ships arc taxed.
“It is a policy that provides for
the same protection forAmerican ships
that is now provided for American
manufactures, towit, discrimination
1 against foreign ships, just as we dis
i criminate against foreign manufac
tures, by a higher duty upon the for
eign articles, be they ships or pro
ducts of foreign nations.
“The United States navy is weak
because Americans are not to ba had
to man our warships. The adoption
of this policy would provide a re
source for the manning of the navy,
i sufficient to provide for the men for
the nation’s protection, if ever as
sailed by a foreign power ”
Another gives the progress of
ship-building under Democratic and
Republican rule. This is a single
page and says:
j “The Democratic Commissioner of
' navigation’s last report, that for the
fiscal year ending in 1895, shows
some rather startling figures of ship
building conditions under Demo
cratic aud Republican rule, which it
is worth while here recording.
“During the administration of
• ( Garfield and Arthur, preceding the
| first administration of Grover Cleve-
i land the total tonnage of all vessels
> built in the United States amount to
; 1,053,G72. During Mr. Cleveland’s
I | first term the tonnage of all vessels
> built aggregated but 623,046 tons, a
i • decrease of 41 per cent. During the
administration of Benjamin Harrison
■ I the tonnage of vessels built in the
• i United States ross again to 1,094,-
• 5 192, being an increase in the amount
1 of construction over that built under
i Grover Cleveland’s administration of
• I just 7-1 per cent. During the first
! three years of Grover Cleveland's
3 second administration the vessels
i built in the United States aggrdgated
■ I 454,436 tone, as compared with a
' I construction of 894,559 under the
- first three years of Benjamin Hard-
i son’s administration, or a fall since
i the Republicans lost control of the
government of 49 per cent.
’ “It is not difficult to understand,
’ from these figures, why it is that a
large majority, in fact about all, of
the shipbuilders and ship owners of
the country are strongly Republi
, oan -”
The Republicans are preparing to
, tike advantage ot the literature pre
, pared under the Democratic Vice
, Presidential candidate’s direction and
( will circulate it extensively.
Watson a Patriot.
In his speech in Atlanta on Tues
i r
j day night, Tom Watson said ; “We
: are going to vote for Mr. B yan
I whether you take Mr. Sewa 1 out or
not. lam going to try to so manage
’ this campaign that William J. Bjyan
shall get the benefit of every silver
voe, even if Tom Watson goes to
the bottom.” Patriotic sentiment,
Mr. Watson.—Brunswick Call.
Ths Call, like The Commercial, is
an untrammelled Democratic paper.
While it has not yet given its sup
| port to Mr. Watson, it has the man
hood to reeognizs in him a pairin',
and in this d.ffers from snm of the
bide bout) 1 papers that are too nar
row to sea good in anything out ide
of their own little c role.—Atlanta
i Commercial.
Cainpmeet ing at Lexington,
Editor People’s Party Paper:
There will be a campmeeting of
the people of Oglethorpe, Madison,
Eibert, Clarke, Oconee, Greene,
Wi.kes, and any other counties wish
ing to join, at Lexington, Oglethorpe
county, on the 2d, 3d and 4th of
‘ September next.
All friends of silver and reform are
I invited to come. Hon. Seaborn A.
Wright, Judge Hines, Walter B. Ilil,
Dr. Gambrell, A. A. Murphey, and
any others that can come, are in
vited to bo present and speak
Come in wagons—bring plenty to
eat and some to spare.
Yours truly,
James J. Green.
Crawford, Ga., August 15th.
Atlanta Commercial please copy.
Fith District.
The members of the People’s
Party Congressional Committees,
both the old and the new, are her-by
called to meet at Jackson hotel,
Aug. 27, at 12 o’clock, for the pur
' pose of naming a candidate for Con
; gress for the sth Congressional
I district.
J. L. Chupp, Ch’m.
PEOPLE’S PARTY PAPER, ATLANTA, GA., AUGUST 21, 1896.
Democrate, Show Your Hand.
Let it be fully understood that the
Populists have made the very last
step toward an alliance with the sil
ver Democrats. Acting as patriotic
men who held the interest of country
more sacred than the success of any
particular party, the delegates to the
St. Louis convention did all they
possibly could to make an alliance
possible. In other woids the Popu
lists have proven to the world their
sincerity in claiming that they had
severed their connection with the old
parties, not because of an unconquer
able longing for “pie,” but because
they despaired of securing reform
through them. As soon as the Dem
ocrats manifested a friendliness to
reform, and emphasized their declara
tions by nominating a man for presi
dent who is an undisputed friend of
reform, the Populists showed their
willingness to co-operate by nominat
ing him also. The Populists are
willing to aid in the election of Bryan
provided the Democrats will offer
proof of their sincerity by supporting
Tom Watson for Vice-President.
Under these conditions and no other
can there be a unity of action be
tween the two parties There will
be no surrender in favor of Sewall,
nor will there be a fusion of electors
in the states. The fight must ba made
straight out for Bryan and Watson,
or else there wil' be two sets of elec
tors—one set for Bryan and Watson
and the others foi B-yanand Sewall.
Grit Mr. Bryan’s Damooraiy is of
the kind that will ferbid an accept
ance of the Populist nomination he
can decline it and a straight middle
of-the-road Populist ticket will be
nominated. Populists like Mr. Bryan;
they admire him because of his bril
liant intellect and the manly, patri
otic stand he has taken on all the
great questions which confront the
people. For that reason they made
him their nominee at St. Louis; but
their admiration for Mr. Bryan is not
sufficient to cause them to make a
cowardly capitulation—boots, bag
gage and al), to the Democratic party,
especially after they have had so
many demonstrations of that party’c
treachery and corruption. Demo
crats, don’t lay the flattering unction
to your soul the “deluded Pop” ia
breaking his neck to got back into
the Democratic band wagon. They
have seen too much of the dear old
dear to be so easily duped into ac
cepting everything she says as gospel
fact. Though the Democrats have
apparent y made an unconditional
surrender so far as th?ir platform
pledges indicate, yet in the mind of
the pioneer Pop who has bravely
ste nmel the tide of battle during all
the darkness and danger of the past
half a dozen years, there lurks an
unpleasant remembcrance of the fate
of the grand old greenbaekers, who
were unfortunately too credulous of
Democratic promises, Populists
HAVE YIELDED THEIR LAST INCH.
They have made the fairest possible
propositions and have demonstrated
clearly that they are a'trr carrying
principle, not party, to success. I:
is now the turn of the Democrats to
offer some proof of their sincerity to
the cause of reform. They can do
it, and they ought to do it. Populists
have made their concessions by nomi
nating Mr. Bryan, now let the Dem
ocrats make theirs by accepting Tom
Watson. By doing this an alliance
between the two parties can be ef
fected, and by no other method.
Tie responsibility for governmental
reform rests upon Democratic sioul
ders; w.ll they prove themselves
equal to the occasion?—Navarro
County (Texas) Clarion.
The Madison Square Fiasco.
Mr. Bryan’s speech appears to
have disappointed the Now Yorkers.
Whether they would have approved
in any case is a debatable question,
but that they disapprove in this case
cau hardly be doubted. With the
exception of one or two out-and-out
Bryau organs, almost every impor
tant newspaper in the metropolis dis
cusses the Madison Square event as
a failure and heaps upon it an angry
ridicule which is perhaps not wholly
warranted by the facts. They declare
that Mr. Bryan did not really speak
at all, th a ; he simply stood up and
read to the audience. They dwell
upon the absence of oratory, the
dearth of striking phrase and grace
ful metaphor and graphic epigram.
They insist that the occasion wis
tiresome and stupid, the proceedings
dull, the (ffact dispiriting and melan
choly. They tell ns that the crowd
began to file out ten minutes after
Mr. Bryan began to epeak, and that
the close of his address was drowned
in the noise of shuttling feet. From
all of which they argue that Mr.
Bryan hag been a failure in New
York and prophesy that he will be
ro more heard of as a serious factor
in the equation of the campaign.
Some other things are said—things
to which much less prominence is
given, however, and for which the
average reader has to look with care.
For example, the New'York papers
admit that the heat within the build,
ing was almost intolerable, that the
atmosphere was simply stifling, that
twice as many people as the audi
torium was intended to contain had
been packed into it,and that,particu
larly in the galleries, the discomfort
of the audience amounted to positive
torture. Thus, it appears, the con
ditions were suffi as to absolutely de
stroy the bodily comfort of Mr.
Bryan’s hearers and to make it im
possible for them to receive his
speech with patience, much less with
enjoyment. Moreover, Mr. Bryan
was prevented by physical suffering
from appearing at his best or any
thing like his best. He was afflicted
with torments in his throats, which
ho had seriously overstrained on the
way from Nebraska to the East, and
during the last half of the speech it
was evident that every utterance
gave him cruel pain, These facts
the New York papers admit, though
they do not make parade of them,
and it may be well to take them into
consideration in forming an estimate
of the significance of the demonstra
tion in Madison Square last Wednes
day night.
As to the speech itself, viewed
with sole reference t“ its literary
style and its qualities of statesman
ship, that is quite another story
We freely admit that we cannot im
agine twenty thousand human be
ings, packed together in a steaming
hall, finding the smallest satisfaction
in even a much stronger and more
eloquent appeal. Indeed, it is incon
ceivable that half of the crowd re
mained for so much as five minutes
after realizing the nature of the tor
ments they were doomed to endure.
We do not therefore, regard the de
parture of several thousands of these
unfortunate beings as a slur upon
Mr. Bryan. On the contiary, the
fact that any of them stayed with
him to the end presents itself to us in
the light of a most '’eloquent tribute
to his attractions aud their own en
thusiasm. And this tribute is em
phasized a thousand fnl I by the fact
that the speech itself was in all re
spects the opposite of captivating. It
was not a speech that should have
been delivered under such circum
stances to such an audience. It was
uo long, it was too academic, it was
too metaphysical. As an essay, to
be pi ruse in the calm seclusion of
the closet, with the aid of cooling
breezes and of perfect bodily com
fort, it is to be considered with re
speot. As a camp I'gn harangue, ad
dressed to twenty thousand fainting
wretches tormented with intolerable
heat and half asphyxiated by a fe id
atmosphere, it was the most colossal
blunder of the generation. We think
we can recognize Mr. Bryan’s pur
pose. It seems clear to us that he
intended to explain, through the
medium of a calm, dispasdonate and
philosophic exposition of his ideas
and plans, the injustice of the charge
that he is the leader of a mob of
anarc’aistio agitators. Bat, in our
opinion, Mr. Bryan was not hippy
in his choics of an occasion. Ho
! missed the opportunity. Fifteen or
twenty minutes of bretzy, epigram
matic eloquence, a dozen graceful
and tffec.ive gestures,and one eagle’s
flight of peroration would have trans
formed that dismal failure into an
apotheosis.
Mr. Bryan is a very attractive and
a very forcible speaker. His speech
at Pittsburg was as effective as it
was admirable. He is a born oiator,
and be has the instinct of captiva
tion. But the man doei not live
who cau successfully conduct a dull
reading in an oven, or till people
with gratitude by prolonging their
tortures.—Washington Post (M. D.)
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