Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-22
that accusation was once, and but once,
made against him to his face

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never again repeated by his competitor, and
the people passed upon that, as well as all
the other points at issue, with majority Of
6. 900 in his favor. The confidence thus ex'
pressed in Governor Gray by the people OF
Indiana was fully justified and retained by
him, as was shown by the action of the
united Indiana delegation at St. Louis in
1883 in presenting his name for the Vice
! Presidency 1t will be found. think, that
he has still further grown since that period
in the esteem of the Democracy of Indiana,
and that the delegation from that State in
1892 will be instructed to vote for his nomi-
nation as candidate for the Presidency.
"Now, in what l have said in behalf of
Governor GRAY, / must not be supposed to
| be guided by hostility toward Others
simply intend that Governor Gray shall
have fair play in the field, and that his de-
tractors and calumniators shall not have the
ear of the public all to themselves. l in
! tend, also, to assure our party friends,
wherever they may be, that Indiana will
present next year a candidate fit and quail
fed to fill with honor and usefulness the of
fee of Chief Executive of the Government.
1 feel this to be duty, while inviting the
Democracy of the country to give Governor
Gray their support
eff you fail to secure the nomination of
next most available candidate %
''Of course, l cannot answer such uues-
tion specifically. 1t seems to me verv desira-
Bile, however, to take candidate from the
West, and in that connection the names of
Governor Campbell, of Ohio, and Governor
Boies, of Iowa, naturally suggest them
selves, in the event that they should carry
their States this fall General Palmer has
shown himself a great power in Illinois
But neither Illinois, Ohio nor Iowa can be
counted on for the Democratic party in q
Presidential year; Indiana can be"
THE OHIO CAMPAIGN.
'tWhat do you think of the political out
look in Ohio this fall?"
Governor Campbell has fully equal
chances for election. He is superb fighter,
and with the issues shaping themselves as
they are in that State, L would rather have
his chance to win than McKinley's The
laboring masses, whether in Farmers
Alliances or labor organizations, are mov-
ing against the agents and representatives
of the monopolies. Mckinley and Sher-
man both are in far greater danger than
they are willing to admit
''As to the political issues of the present
and of the future l have nothing new to say
The overthrow of the present horrible sys-
tenn of tariff taxation is absolutely essential
to the liberties of the people. Taxation of
the laboring masses for the enrichment of
the protected and privileged few is a re-en-
actment of slavery in this country more
odious and abominable than African bond
age when it existed. This issue is to be
fought out to the bitter end, and 1 have
faith that sooner or later the people will
triumph over the ruins of the plutocracy
There are other issues also which must take
their place in the national Democratic plat
form.
SILVER AND DEMOCRACY
81 am Jeffersonian Democrat and be-
heve that Thomas Jefferson was right and
wise when, in 17S3 in the Continental Con-
gress, he devised and secured the adoption
Of the silver dollar of 4121b grains as our
unit of account and payment and the stand
ard of values. l believe also in the wisdom
of Washington, Hamilton and Madison and
the other great fathers of the Republic, who
established the free and unlimited coinage of
silver. For 90 years of American history
the American silver dollar in every in
stance held its head as high as gold, and
sometimes higher, and in spite of all the as
saults made upon it in these later years,
500 in silver, or in paper certificates based
upon silver, will now purchase Just the
same as 500 in gold, and will purchase the
gold itself 1t is waste of breath to de-
nounce such currency as dishonest money
In Indiana, and in fact throughout the Mis-
sissippi Valley, there is really but little, if
any, division of sentiment among the labor
ing people in regard to the coinage and use
of silver money. On this issue, however, as
on all others, we will defer to the platform
to be laid down in the next National Con-
ventio1.
There ought to be no sectionalism on the
silver question. The laboring masses, the
wage workers, the farmers, the mechanics of
the Empire State of New York, of the great
State of New Jersey and of the manufactur-
ing State of Connecticut are Just as much
and as deeply interested in the use of silver
money as the people whom l represent on
the other side of the mountains. We are
willing for tariff reform to be foremost in
the fight, but we are not willing for any one
of the leading issues of the Democratic
party TO be dropped in the coming contest
any more than the church would be willing
TO have a portion of the Ten Commandments
torn out.
''The force bill, too, that monstrous men
ace to free government, must never be lost
sight of. The scheme is not dead, but waits
its opportunity. So great was the joy over
its temporary defeat that the Democracy of
ihs South and West, and indeed of the
whole country, will not be slow in rallying
to the support of the Senator from Mary
land, Mr.. German, as a candidate for the
Presidency if the nomination should be
made from the Atlantic coast
THE FARMERS ALLIANCE.
"What do you think as to the present and
future prospects of the Farmers Alliance?"
81 have a very great and sincere respect
for an an association of farmers. The ends
they aim at are honest. II they are unwise
or mistaken in some of their methods, other
parties and associations have been, and will
continue TO be, the same. The farmers in
the country are struggling in the right d.
rectlon. They are struggling for relief
against the most outrageous and oppressive
financial and economic measures ever in
ficted upon people even pretending to be
free.
There is another feature of the Farmers
Alliance movement which greatly COM
mends it to me. 1t is national in its organ
ization, scope and purposes. 1t avoids all
sectlonalism, and brings the farmers of the
South and of the North and of the East and
of the West face to face together. Future
success and development of the Alliance as
controlling power will depend upon the
course pursued by the two old parties. If
the Democratic party is true to its prin-
ciples as the party Of the people as against
the protected and privileged classes, the AL
lance organization will not be recruited
from our ranks, but rather from the ranks