Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1895 — The Political Pot. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The Political Pot.

Gen. Wade Hampton, in an interview at Portland, Ore., declared himself for sound money. Congressman C. A. Towne says he is considering the calling of a silver convention in Minnesota. The silverite conference at Topeka, Kan., appointed a committee to take steps towards calling a State convention. Replies to a circular letter sent out to 130 Democratic editors of Ohio show that 90 favor free silver and the other 40 are divided ii» their views. Senator Quay is unable to leave his room at a Harrisburg hotel, but is directing his campaign for chairman of the State committee from there. At the Oklahoma silver convention W. J. Bryan, of Nebraska, scored the Republican National League for refusing to discuss silver at'the Cleveland meeting. J. W. Farris, chairman of the Laclede (Mo.) Democratic committee, says if the State committee refuses to summon a monetary convention he will issue the call. Ex-Gov. Campbell, of Ohio, who may be the standard bearer for the Democrats this year, has come out for free silver and a literal interpretation of the Monroe doctrine. Gen. Warner, who has arrived at his home in Marietta, 0., says: “There is no trouble about the West. Nobody but an out-and-out silver man can carry a State west of the Missouri next year. A canvass of the Republican papers of Kansas shows that out of 102, 17 are for free and unlimited coinage of silver at 16 to 1, while 85 stand on the money plank of the last Republican national platform. Senators Harris, Jones and Turpie, empowered by the recent free silver convention at Memphis to form a national bimetallic Democratic league, have issued a call for a national gathering to be held in Washington Aug. 14.