The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-01-01
business dislIkes of change and to give those


wrong-doinxs the air of rightful precedents.
What are we going to do aboutiti You and I,
and every Democrat in Washington is asking
himself that question. since any Democratic
legislation proposed by the House Ia sure of de-
feat in the Senate or White House, is a wiser
course open than that Democrats shall first send
up for defeat what will cost the Republican par
ty final overthrow IN the next con-
gressionsl and presidential electionsi Now let
pivot our policy on those Here is one fact:
Democratic legislation by this Fifty-second Con-
gress is quite impossible. Piebald legislation, or
Here is another fact. 1t is the largest fact with
which our great leaders in Congress have to take
account. The peoples verdict last year upon
utter nuliiry and empty wind, unless the people
OF the United States, unbedeviled. unfooed.
stick to their work again, come together at the
ballot-boxes and again next November thunder
forth the same just verdict
Shall the peoples verdict on the billion Con-
gress have execution or notl Shall the Demo-
cratic party by keeping before the people the
billion Congress issues OF lS90-nOthing else and
nothing less-keep for the people power to add
TO their verdict or 1890 its execution in 1922
How can that best be donei
First-Pass no free-c0inage bill; pass only
needful appropriation bills, enforcing economy
Second-Grapple to undo the worst work or
the billion Congress: demand repeal of the Sher-
man silver law and the two Mckinley laws.
sues. no other issues. Grapple TO undo the work
OF the billion Congress Put the country and its
silver laws and It's tariff laws back where they
and before the infamous Republican revolution.
Demand this, and demand nothing but this, and
keep on demanding this, in Congress, in our
State conventions in our national convention
aud throughout the canvass till sundown next
Nov. 8.
The characteristic feature of the present polit-
ioal uncture is that by holding fast the issues
made by the billion Congress during the canvass
already preparing with great energy throughout
the Union, the condolences of time. OF public
interest of senatorial elections, OF the elections
of Representatives and of the executive are such
that the peoples will. declared O year ago,
can in one year more Immediately and through
out prevail
Concluding, Governor Hill said:
New York will not follow the lead of Nevada.
New York Democrats caye nothing for the Re-
publican silver Senators an their protected CON-
modify. New York Democrats will never support
any federal money legislation save that which
promotes the Nations return to the best money
ever known to mankind. namely, gold and sill
yer. the only legal tender" as Tilden's platform
said in 1874, and these united at fixed ratio in
free. bimetalic coinage, with paper cur
rency, which is a deposit certificate of
either coin. But New York Democrats, to
a man, and many on honest Republican
besides, will follow Mr.. Bland, the chairman of
the House committee on coinage, with their re-
spect their admiration and their support, IL he
will now lift the banner of repeal of the Sherman
law, renewing for the present the Bland law,
which bore his name, but not his approval, until
the Democratic party next November shall be
commissioned to undertake some better ana
final disposition of the whole subject"