Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1886-01-14
THE NORTHWEST
Not Against the President.

Because Senator Beck made speech in the
Senate the other day advocating the coinage
of silver and denouncing in severe terms the
attempt on the part OF the Wall street inter
eets to demonetize silver, it has been said
that he attacked the administration. It is
also said that because many-a majority
probnbly-of the Democrats in Congress con-
cur in the views of Senator Beck touching
this question that the Democrats are attack
ing their own administration.
This is not the case. Senator Beck has not
attacked the administration, nor do the Dem
ocrats who favor silver money intend to
make war on the President. On any party
Congress and out of it will be found in sup-
port Of the Democratic administration. Bnt
the silver question is an economic and not a
political question, and party lines are not di-
vided upon it.
The President and Secretary Manning en-
tertain views il. regard to silver coinage that
many Democrats and manv Republicnns do
not concur in but the question rs to whether
this country shall strike silver from the coin
age and bring itself down to the single stand
ard of the monometallists OF. whether it shall
adhere to the old and we'll tested double
standard has to be faced and decided with
out regard to what the President may think
about it. This ia case where the President
is wrong and where a policy contrary to his
views must be maintained, his objections
thereto to the contrary Notwithstanding. In
deciding it party lines will be broken down
and men Of both parties will take that nosi-
tion that best accords with their own judg-
ment.
So far as the Plain Dealer is concerned,
while it regrets that the administration is on
the wrong side of this question, it sees in that
no reason why it should not maintain the
right view Of the matter. II believes in n
currency of gold and silver, and their repre-
sentative values, not in currency based on
gold alone. II does not believe that silver
should be demonetized It does not believe
that the coinage Of silver should cease, hut
on the contrary believes that coinage ofsilver
should be free as the coinage of gold. It
AuoS 1ot uflltVe III dIIOWlnu Ine Drinks, IRE
bondholders and the money lenders to make
money scarcer, in order to make themselves
richer. 1t does not believe in perpetuating
the national debt as a basis for national
banking. But in urging its own views in re-
gard to this, it makes no attack upon the. .ad-
ministration. 1t only defends its own con-
sictions and advocates what it believes to be
right.
So of all who are silver men. They respect
the honesty and sincerity of the President in
the position he has taken, but nevertheless
they hold it to be wrong, and so they are
bound to maintain. They hope to convince
him that he is wrong, but whether they shall
be able to do that or not, they will stand firm
in their own convictions and will resist the
demands of the monometallists by every fair
means in their power.
But let no Republican think that any Dem
ocrat will fail to support their administration
IN any emergency where party support is
sailed for. In no such ease will they fail
him.--Ptdin Dealer