Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-11-30
SENATOR PUGHS LIE TER.
What the silver Men Demand - Juds
crisp is = Stauneh rarifr eforuier.

What the silver Men Demand - Judge
crisp is 3 Stauneh rariR efOrnler.
WASHINGTON, D. c., November 90
A friend Of Judge Crisp said to-day:
"There never has been the slightest
excuse FOR calling into question Judge
CrlSp's attitude towards tariff reform.
His whole course on the subject in Con-
gress has been one of unqualified loyal
ty 20 that cause. he voted for Mr..
Carlisle as against Mr.. Randall for
Speaker, and he supported both Col.
Morrison and Mr.. Mills in their respec-
tive efforts as leader Of the House to re-
duce taxation.
That Judge Crisp has not figured
more prominently in the agitation in
the House for tariff reform has been
due entirely 10 his COmmitte assign
mentS. Had he been member OF the
Ways and Means Committee be would
have been in the fore front Of that fight
rs ne was in the last House as a mem
Der OF the Elections Committee In de-
Tense OF the rights OF the Democratic
members 20 their seats whom the Re-
publicans seemed resolved to turn out
IN order to increase their majority to q
good working figure.
The feature Of the day here has been
letter from Senator Pugh in reply to
the one written by Senator Carlisle on
Mr.. Mills candidacy. MIR. Pugh, an
ardent chsmpion Of free silver, objects
TO the tone OF Mr.. CSrliSle's letter, and
declares that the party must not per-
nit itself, either in the Speskership
contest or in the struggle for the great
National prize next year, TO be arrayed
for one moment against the interests OF
silver. On the subject Of subordinating
silver to tariff reform Mr.. Pugh says:
Il well remember-what was gener-
ally conceded in 1883, the last year Of
Mr.. Cleveland's Administrstlon-ths
he had so ably and wisely and honestly
administered the Government as to
leave the Republican party without d
/ formidable or meritOriouS issue In the
I Presidential election OF that year, when
some wise counSellOrS and safe leaders
/ (n their own estimation; l do not inti-
mate that the Senstor was one OF
I them), induced President Cleveland TO
throw away all the jewels in his Admin
iStration and challenge the Republican
party % battle on the single, paramount
and all absorbing issue Of tariff reform
on the formula furnished In Mr.. Cleve-
/ lands message and the Mills bill. This
was done by wise counsel and safe
/ leadership on the ave Of a great ma
tional contest, when victory was almost
within our grasp
'.IS Il unwise and unsafe to suggest
among ourselves uat something had
better be learned from experience?
When q child gets burned it will not go
back into the same fire.
"What l wish to deny most emphati-
cally is the Senator's statement that any
Drmocrat in the United States who sup
ports the free coinage Of silver has ex-
pre- sed any desire, intention or purpose
70 abandon or ignore the vital issue OF
tariff reform.
"All that the friends Of silver demand
is what the Democratic party in every
National Convention has done without a
single eIception-kept taxation and
currency together as coordinate and CO.
equal objects OF remedial legislation.
Neither tariff reform nor financial re-
form has ever been ignored or abandon
ed, or one SubOrdinatod 70 the other, in
any Democratic platform during the
lifetime of the party"
IF the friends OF silver are to be
clasSed as unwiSe counsellOrs and un-
safe leaders because they insist that the
silver issue shall not be abandoned or
ignored In the presidential contest OF
1892. but that 1t shall go hand in hand
and receive the same treatment with all
other issues made in the Democratic
UlatfOrm-eSpecially when they are so
Classed and condemned at the instance
aud in the interest of those Democrats
who throttled the free coinage bill in
the last House Of Representatives-all
the friends Of silver have TO say is that
they are accustomed TO such clasSitca-
tion and hope to be able to persevere in
the vindication Of their convictions and
integrity.
|. "As Democrats and friends Of free
coinage they protest against being re-
tired from the councils of the Demo-
cratic party, because they are unwill-
ing TO allow the corporal'S gnard OF gold
representatives TO dictate TO the friends
Of silver and silence and postpone them
in their Just demands until the veto
power can be put in the hands Of a
Democrat for four years, TO be exercised
against any adjustment OF tho silver
question, except on the formula fur
nished by the wise counsellors aud safe
leaders 70 De found only In the neigh
bOrhood Of Wall street"