Show IN 1 the new york cornea out in a long article in recognition ot a spectre that has arisen in the rural counties of new york elate which can be ignored no and which threatens to overshadow parties and conditions and obliterate partisan lines from the pennsylvania boundary to the st lawrence and from lake erie to the hudson this wonderful spectre is free silver the herald bays the tamers are wor shipping the calf in mandof the counties there is no actual organization of the friends of silver an organization and an active free silver campaign would nako many of the strongest republican counties in the state doubtful continuing the herald says that even without an organization the free silver farmers knocked the sound money men off their feet in many places in the state in the recent democratic primaries and enumerate localities where this has been done prominent among them being euch counties as lewis and genessee the herald bays that the reports of its correspondents egowa that it is the ke publicans than the democrats who should be alarmed the situation is like a mountain forest in august ready for the match the republican leaders are in ignorance of the actual detate of affairs it lias all come about in three or four weeks the county demo cratic leaders having become acquainted quain ted with it in their caucuses are secretly anxious tor free dilver to triumph in chicago As the correspondent riling from oswego puts it that county has gone daft on the question of free silver together with tho other northern counties 0 the state the movement does not appear to be confined strictly to either party A free silver leacue of members haa been organized end ia spreading free silver literature and farmers to support no candidate for the presidency unless he pledges himself to the iree coin affo of silver at 16 to 1 the correspondent concludes with the significant statement the thing one most notices in talking to the farmers in this country is a growing antipathy to wall street it is simply a sign but it is a portent of sectional prejudice that bids fair to run wild soon one hears farmers say on every hand that what wall street are opposed to this feeling has traveled rapidly cast from the wheat fields of the west from lowville another section oi the state tho herald gets the word that party lines are badly broken by the tree silver sentiment at the democratic county convention held june resolutions favoring free coinage at a ratio of 16 to 1 were adopted from syracuse N Y the herald prints the following dispatch SYRACUSE N Y june 27 1896 1 I am told by reliable persons who have spent much time lately among tho farmers of onondaga madison and oneida counties that the free silver sentiment among the republican farmers has developed wonderfully since the st louis convention the section is being flooded with john R mcleans cincinnati newspaper the republican lead era are immersed in a quarrel between T 0 platt and warner miller and are not taking up the issue in time to prevent its spread the town of beasen in oneida county is a hotbed of free silver |