The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-07-31


but one-half the party and which they
may be inclined to think. is made only
for political effect, while many indie
pendents who would vote with the dem
ocrats on all other, issues will be likely
70 be frightened off by one which they.
consider pregnant with menace" The
New York Press (rep. says: As
matter of fact the adoption OF a
plank in favor of free coinage of silver
was effected by bargain between the
silver men and the democrats of Ohio.
At the meeting of the National Silver
Executive committee held in this city a
week or ten days before The Ohio demo-
cratic convention, it was agreed that
large sum of money, at least half a mill
ion dollars, should be raised and poured
into Ohio for the democrats if they
would adopt a free coinage plank and
make that one of the leading issues of
the campaign. Agents from the COM
mittee went direct to Ohio and were
in attendance on the democratic
convention, and the free silver plank
was the result The Denver NeUs,
(dem.) says: t'In dealing with the silver
question the Ohio democracy rises to an
attitude of moral and intellectual
grandeur. There is no evasion. 1t
scorns the sneaking pusillanimous atti-
tude of it's republican predecessor which
nominated Mckinley, and extolled the
virtues of the present law-impotent for
everything except injury to the silver
cause and injustice to miners every
where. If Campbell wins, the national
conventions of both parties will be forced
to approve free coinage and President
Harrison will not dare to veto such
measure when passed by the coming
congress. Three cheers for Campbell
and the free and unlimited coinage of
silveri''
The St. Paul Press Crep.) says: ''In
declaring for the complete adjustment of
the protective system, the question which
the voters of Ohio have to decide is not
whether the particular measure fathered
by Mckinley was wise or right but
whether any sort of protection shall be
afforded to American industries. And
eide, not whether the silver bill which
passed the last congress- was wise and
judicious measure but whether they
want to drive all gold out of the country
with the deprecated silver dollar as the
standard of value" The Richmond
State (dem.) says .'The platform is
manly throughout. Even the silver
plank, mistaken we believe, is outspoken
and to the point, free from so many of the
denligogical suggestions generally lugged
in by sllverites on all occasions. The
tariff is the real issue aud is no expert
ment like silver legislation. 1t has been
tried. The depressed condition of the
country under McKinleyism proves
what the republican party has done"
The Minneapolis Journal, (ind.) says:
'sThe silver plank was carried but it
struck upon rocks. going through.
When 800 democrats out of 700 de-
clare for honest money, in state
like Ohio, where there has been so
much leaning TO initiation in the
past, there is some encouragement to
believe that a reaction will set
in against the free coinage fad which
will save the country from the bitter ex-
perience its effectuation would entail. -
The Bennington, Ala, Age- Herald
! (dem. says: f'There is no longer any
room to question that free coinage is a
cardinal doctrine of the democratic faith
and that it will be made plank of the
next National platform" The New
York Times (dem.) says: "Free coinage
is in no sense state issue and the Ohio
democrats have blundered badly regard
ing it, The Atlanta Constitution (dem.) }
says: 'tSome of the Wall street organs
are making an effort to show that there
was division of sentiment in the con-
yention on the silver question. There
was really no difference of opinion on
the silver question, but a minority
thought that the best policy would be to
make something of compromise by
using ambiguous language" The Chi
cago Herald (dem.) says: "The one
issue in Ohio is the Mckinley
bill. 1t was bad generalship in
leaders OF the democracy, after accepting
that issue, to add a subsidiary one to it.
The silver question is not yet party
question and neither democrats nor re-
publicans are prepared to draw party
lines upon it, The Pittsburg Dispatch,
(ind.) says the graded income tax plank
is stub to the farmers alliance whale.
The New York Su'a, (dem.3 calls an in
come tax, s..class legislation of the worst
sort 1t shows that in 1870, when. the