People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-04-29
NOT A CAMPAIGN ISSUE,

According to present indications the
silver question is not likely to appear
at all as a national issue in pO litics
this year. There is very little variat ion
in the positions which the two parties
have thus far taken in their state con-
ventiOnS. In the eastern states repub-
licans and democrats alike have de-
clared out and out against the free
coinage of silver, while in the western
states platforms not Objectionable to
either the advocates of free silver or
its opponents have been adopted. In
fact, in most of the states which have
thus far held conventions, the silver
platform adopted by each party might
be substituted for that of the other.
Of course local sentiment on silver
will be played upon by the speakers,
whether there should be a sharply de-
fined line of distinction between the
expressions on The subject, or not. In
the SO-called free silver states, the
democratic orators will strive to create
prejudice against the republicans be-
cause of Mr.. HarriSon'S well-known
opposition to the Bland bill and all
similar legislation. At the same time,
in the eastern states the point will be
made against the democratic party
that it harbOrs dangerous tendencies
on financial questions. The result
will be that whether a democratic or
republican president is elected, the
question of free silver will remain in
its present status, to be the subject of
dreary, Improbable, non-political dis
cussiOn in congress and out, until some
development in the business world, at
home or abroad, opens a way for the
final solution of the prOblem.-K. c.
Star.
The case could hardly have
been better stated than by the Star in
the above. 1t is fact to which we
desire to call the especial attention of
the rank and file of the democrats that
"in the eastern states republicans and
democrats alike have declared out and
out against the free coinage Of silver,
while in the western states platforms
not Objectionable to either the advocates
of free silver OrIits opponents have
been adopted" In other words the
western people have pocketed their
views on the finance question at the
dictation of the east. The Star is an
independent democratic paper and it
says this is a fact and adds that "in
most of the states which have thus far
held conventions, the silver platform
adopted by each party might be substi-
tuted for that of the other"
The VOICE comedies the tariff ques-
ton to be of Importance, but we must
insist that the finance question is the
one great question which now concerns
the people. The democrats have al
ready had chance and are now trying
to remedy the Mckinley bill but their
efforts in this intensely democratic con-
gresss hows that they are not ready to
make radical changes even in the tariff
say nothing of silver coinage. Now,
to we want to appeal to the good sense
and patriotism of the rank and file of
that party. Will you permit New Eng
land to say for what measures you will
vote? The two old parties in the east
are confessedly unit against free
coinage. Would it not be an assertion
of your manhood to step boldly out
with the people and cast your vote for
both tariff reform and free coinage +?
Will you permit yourselves to be car
ried into the republican camp under a
false name? We appeal to you to
meet revolving republicans half
way and by your ballots show
your eastern partners that you hold
views as well as they and that you now