Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-07-13
SENATOR KENNA'S VIEWS.
He Thinks the Tickets Next Year VIII BE
Harrison and Cleveland.

Before leaving the city for the summer for
his home in West Virginia tonight Senator
John E. Kenna talked freely to a number Of
friends who called to see him. The Senator il
confident that the democrats are in q splendid
condition to win a great national victory next
year. Regarding the presidential candidates
he said THE heads OF the tickets will be Cleve-
land and Harrison again. To my mind there is
no doubt who the democratic candidate will be-
1t is in the air. All the signs point to Cleve-
land. Some democratic Senators are opposed
to him, but that is all there is to the opposition
1t is confined to the politicians. The great mass
of the people want Cleveland and in the end
their wishes must prevail I believe that
Cleveland is stronger today with the rank and
White House. He is identified with the cues
ton which is to form the issue in the cam
paign Of next year, the great question of
wringing from the people millions Of money
for no legitimate purposes Of government.
That is bound to be the issue next year. and
on it the democrats will win. The silver
question is an important one, but it will be
subordinate to the tariff question. While the
masses Of the party believe no doubt as l do
that free coinage of silver would be q good
thing they will not turn away from Cleve-
land because he takes q different view of the
question. On all the other great questions Of
democratic policy he is sound, and beside this
the people believe him to be strong, courageous
honest and patriotic. He gave the country
magnificent administration Of the government
and he will be the man to lead the democracy
to victory in 1892"
ON FREE COINAGE.
Speaking further on the silver question Sem
ator Kenna said that great many of those
who demanded the free coinage Of silver would
ho isfa cd o<ho
which would give the country more money.
1t was only the silver-producing sections that
would be satisfied with nothing but the free
coinage Of silver, because they were interested
in silver as a commodity as well as q money.
ALL THE MASS OF PEOPLE WANT.
II by the practice Of the government the vol
ume of currency could be increased without
the free coinage Of silver it would be all the
great mass of the people would care for. The
and great many people who now demand
its free coinage did 50 because they thought
justice demanded this should be done in atone
ment for the former wrong, to restore to the
debtor class of the country the money wrong
fully taken from them by the act Of 1878, and to
again restore the double standard. The latter
was another great point aimed at, and Cleve-
land, in his objection to free coinage, takes the
position that free coinage, instead Of restoring
the double standard, would have the effect, by
driving gold out Of the country, Of making .
singh standard Of silver instead Of gold.
Regarding the next Congress Senator Kenns
said he had no doubt general bill to revise the
tariff would be formulated In the House and
would pass that body. II it were . moderate
measure, he believed it would have . good
chance Of passing the Senate ALSO The north
and especially the northwest would not be with
the republicans in support Ut the Mckinley bill
He believed Massachusetts, could b carried
BY the democrats against the Mckinley bill
hn and Gam "a Nnvn1da nd
tariff bill next winter. He did not think Harri-
son would dare TO veto IL