Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1892-05-11
DEMOCRATS AND rnnn COINAGE.


 Long and pointless essays cannot alter the one great fact that when the silver producing states join hands with the south against the republi. can gold-bug party free coinage will be assured.
 But for the democratic south there would be no free coinage issue today. The question would occa- sionally bob up in the hands oi representative from . silver-produe- ing state, but it would not have sufficient following to warrant debate.
 Despite the fact that the south makes free coinage the issue and that all the support received by the sii- yer states comes from the democracy the Rocky Mountain states nave persisted in going republican. 90 long as they continue in this eoarse they can expect little sympathy. II they will not support that party which is the friend of silver they cannot expect eastern democrats to hazard political prospects in their behalf.
 1t is a proposition that permits oi no debate. When the west, which persists in voting with the republi- can gold-bugs, joins the south m electing democratic presidents, New York will not command the situs,. ton and free coinage will be granted promptly and without qualification. Look at the situation without parti' san prediudice and you mus. ac- knowledge the truth of these asser- tions. When will the west come 10 it's sensesl- Butte Miner.
 For a sublime exhibition of gall and presumption of ignorance on the part of its readers the above cannot be excelled. Talk about the ''re,. publican gold bug party" preSshting free coinage when the~democratic party has a majority of l40 mem bers in the lower house of congress Have they put themselves on record as party as having passed any bill looking fo free coinageS Abill pro- 1 vfiia.a for it was introduced and with this overwhelming majority and with the assistance of a large number of republican gold bug party" members who voted for it the bill failed of being passed.
 Talk about a republican gold bug party" and that all the support of free coinage comes from the de mocracy, when there are no abler advocates of silver in congress than Senators Jones, Stewart, Teller and Woleott, all republicans.
 Talk about a republican gold bug party" when the great Moses oi democracy, the man in whom alone that party has any hopes of success at the next election-Groyer Cleye- land, is one of the most pronounced and bitter enemies of bi-metalism.
 But mark the Miners proposition. .sWhen the west joins the south in electing democrats, etc, New York will not command the situation. Well now that is sublime. But sup pose the proposition is reversed. Suppose the south which has gone solidly for the democratic party joins the republican silver party of the Rocky mountain region in electing republican presidents, and send a solid delegation of republican silver men to con lress from that section also, then who would command the situation. The interests of the south are in harmony with the principles of the republican party on the sub ject of protection. Why not join hands with the republicans of the west on the silver question: Weask the Miner to look at this question without partisan prejudice and see if that is not the proper thing to do. One of the most illustrious men of the post bellum days of the south admitted four years ago that the interests of the south were with the republican policy of protection, but added that his section could not af- ford to break it's solidity by voting with the republicans. Is there any thing more inconsistent in the people of the Rocky mountain region vot- ing the republican ticket when it is known that many republicans as well as democrats are opposed to free silver coinage than there is in the above proposition to maintain the political solidity of the south even against its own best interestsi We rather fear that the above paper can only see one side of a question, and that is the side which would be advantageous to its party.