The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-08-29
AN IMPENDING VETO.


next Congress, will force "free silver"
men in both parties to call halt. This
announcement has been greeted with
applause by all the newspapers OF New
York state. without distinction OF party.
At Albany, at Bennington, at every
stopping place the Presidents distinct
pledge that he would veto free coinage
silver bill was cheered by the masses of
both parties, and it is perfectly clear from
the tone of the Democratic press Of New
York that no man can carry the Empire
State in 1892 on the platform of Stree
silver" The voice of New York as that
of great doubtful state, will not be
treated with contempt by either of the
great political parties. The "free silver"
minority of the Republican party will
have to choose at once whether they mean
to stay with the Republican party and its
silver platform, the act of July, 1890, or to
keep on shouting their useless but dis
tracing war cry IN the party camp. This
Republican minority cannot control the
party; they must either acquiesce or
abscond to the camp Aof the Farmers
Alliance or to the Peoples party, which
are nothing but Mr.. Jekyll playing Mr..
Hyde and vice versa in a roaring financial
farce.
This Republican minority will hardly go
to the Democratic camp, for it is not likely
that the Democracy will take so hazardous
step as to stand upon free silver coin
age platform for 1892. To do this would
mean to burn the party bridges between
the Eastern and Western Democracy. The
Democracy cannot elect president with
out carrying the state of New York, and
the only chance of carrying New York is
on sound money platform. The New
York Evening Post, the ablest organ of the
New York free trade" independents, who
elected Cleveland by their votes in 1884,
says that with free coinage plank in the
Democratic platform there would be no
use in the party's making canvass. The
Republicans would be sure of the state and
the nation" The Albany Argus, the lead
ing Democratic organ of the Empire state,
says of free silver coinage:
With the exception OF one member, or at the
utmost two members, New Yorks Democratic
delegation in congress has always been united
against it. If there is a newspaper in this state
consistently supporting the nominees of the
Democracy which fayors free coinage we do not
know Its name or 1t has not ventured to advance
its opinion. The reason of this unanimity OF
sentiment in the party lies on the surface New
YORK Is the great commercial state of the Union.
and anything which Injuries her trade strikes
hard the members of the party, who make I'D
the mass of the business men of the state and Of
frrIry wtVx
ings would be threatened by currency fuctua.
tions.
The Brooklyn Eagle, (Dem.) indorses
President Harrison's promise of veto as
heartily as the argus, and says:
Assured beforehand that General Harrison
would return unlimited coinage bill without
his approval, the only effect of the passage of it
over his veto by the great Democratic majority
in the House would be to make the question of
sound currency the leading issue of q presi.
Dental campaign, and thus rob the Democr acy
OF their winning card which they now hold in
the tariff reform issue.
The able men among the Stree coinage"
Democrats at the South and West will ul-
timately see that to make "free silver
coinage" plank in their national plat
form of 1892 would assure their defeat as
party. On this platform Mr.. Cleveland,
their strongest candidate before the peo-
pie, could not stand without eating a most
intolerable amount of crow, and probably
would not; but even Cleveland on
this platform would be repudiated by
the Democracy and the Independ-
ents Of New York, New Jersey.
Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New
Hampshire, the doubtful states of the
East. There is nothing but disaster in
free silver coinage for the DEM
ocracy, and for this reason we be-
lieve they will drop it before 1892, and
concentrate all their energies upon the
tariff issue. The ablest leaders of the
Northern Democracy in every state Bit
terly denounce free silver coinage as COM
mercial and financial suicide. United
States Senator Villas in Wisconsin: United
States Senator Palmer in Illinois: Con-
gresham Harter and ex-Congressmen
Hurd and Converse in Ohio; Governor Hill
and Grover Cleveland in New York; Gov
ernor Russell, John f. Andrew, Patrick
Collins, John E. Russell, Sherman Hoar.
William Everett and George NJ. Stearns in
Massachusetts,. and Ex-Governor Tom
Waller in Connecticut. The voice of New
Jersey has been emphaticallv expressed,
for both of her senators voted against free
silver. and the Maryland Democracy re-
Gently declared against it.
The Democracy in national convention
next year will not enact bedlamite finance.
which means the loss of every Northern
state east of the Mississippi on the slim
chance of carrying the middle West and
the trans-Mississippi silver mining states.
The good crops and the exceptional Eu-
ropean market for them are slowly but
surely demoralizing and disorganizing the
strength of the Farmers Alliance and the
Peoples party in all the great Republican
agricultural states. Iowa, Illinois, Min
nesota, Kansas, Nebraska and the Dakotas
are sure Republican in 1892. Blaine could
carry Washington, Oregon, California,
Idaho, Nevada, Wyoming and Colorado
against any man in the Democratic party,
and in all probability could carry even
Montana. Under these circumstances
free silver" will hardly be a live issue in
1892 with the Democratic party, and the
Republican party are already committed
against it.
Lassoing Bears on the wenas.
Yakima Herald.
One day last week Will Lemon, while riding