Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-11-30
HOWE DIDO.

Will 1859 nOtnlng IN the pubic esteem IN con-
sequence.
HOWE DIDO.
The Wisconsin Senator Talks about HI.
Candidature, the Silver Dollar. the Nu-
ttonaI Banks.
lChicago Tribune Interviewer.
81 see you are candidate for re-elec-
tion?''
"You have doubtless seen that my name
is discussed as that of candidate, but it is
not just to say that I have solicited re-elec-
ton. Really, I have asked for no mans
support. have not written to single men,
Der of the legislature, nor have spoken with
but one on the subject, and he introduced
the subject to me, not to him." 1 have
had some serious doubts whether ought to
permit further discussion of my name as a
candidate. 1 have received s1ch long-con-
tinued and generous support from the Re
publicans of Wisconsin that + could not af-
ford to endanger either their harmony or
success. l am nothing-the Republican
party is everything. The principles of the
party must be sustained by some one who is
in active sympathy with them. II there is
any man who can sustain these PRINCIPLES
and unite the party better than I can, T do
not desire to stand in the way of his sue
CESS"
LEADING QUESTION.
"Could you not withdraw if you chose to
do SOP"
"Of course could; but many of my old
frlends-prominent mon in the Republican
party, and among them some who would
doubtless be brought forward as candidates
for the succession in case Of my withdrawal
have insisted that it is my duty to leave nv
sell IN the hands of the people, and have
rendered me their cordial support
satisfactory than before? ?"
Evidently
SIN what respects?''
"Well, sick man, even if a physician, is
not always the best judge of what ais him
But my understanding of the case is, that
the loudest complaints against me- come from
those who have failed of the preferment thoy
sought. There is, however, an opposition
to me moro respectable than that. There are
those who do not approve my support of the
silver bill; others do not approve my criti-
clsms on what was known as the policy Of
the President. Still others, I~presume, op-
pose my reelection, not because thew like
me less, but because they like some other
man more, and they think I have been in
the Senate long enough
''THE DOLLAR OF OUR" ETC.
"Have you come to regard the coinage of
silver dollars as mistake?''
"By no manner of means. On the con-
trary, understand it to have been almost
the unanimous opinion of the late interna-
tional conference on that subject that the
demonetization of silver dollars was q mis-
take"
"But what are your main objections to de-
monetizing the silver dollar?"
"They are in brief these three: IN It
lessons the use of silver, and so depreciates
the value of an important American product.
(2) 1t defeats resumption, or compels the
contraction of the currency to volume
which can be redeemed in coin of a single
metal. (3) tits palpable violation of the
contract made in March 1869, which speci-
tically declares that the people shall deliver
and the holders shall accept in payment of
the public debt coin of the then standard
value. Ihe coin of that time included both
gold and silver dollars"
THE NATIONAL BANKS.
s'What do you think of the recent resolu-
ton of the New York banks to receive silver
only as special depost?"
81 think it an attempt, but vain attempt.
to nullify the recommendations act. think it
wholly unnecessary for the protection of the
banks, for it is quite evident that, SO long as
the law makes silver dollars legal tender
without any formal resolution of theirs, the
banks could not only pay silver to any
creditor who deposited silver, but to all other
creditors as well.''
''Have you seen occasion to regret the at
tack upon the President to which you refer
red?''
sPardon me, but referred to no attack
upon the President, and made none; but.
having been rather peremptorily challenged
to applaud certain things which the Presi-
dent had done, assigned, in the Senate, the
reasons why could not applaud. If the
newspapers can be credited, the President
himself now assents to at least some of those
reasons.'