St. Paul daily globe., 1892-06-19
GROVER AND SILVER.
Ex-senator Patterson, ofCoior ado,
Analyses the Situation.

Ex-senator E0IISfSOHs Oh SOtOFd0Oi
Analyses the Situation.
CHICAGO, June 1S.-"The Colorado
delegation will not under any cOntin-
gency vote for Mr.. Cleveland" said eX
Senator Thomas NJ. Patterson, of Colo
RADIO, tonight. THE reason is his
unreasonable and unrelenting enemity
to free coinage. The mountain states
favor free coinage exactly as the farm
ers of the West and the planters Of the
South favor it-because it was great
wrong to destroy it, and by restoring
the law as it was prior TO 1878 simple
Justice would be done.
We are asked if the mining states
don't seek the free coinage of the Amer
lean silver product. We say no. If it
was a purely selfish interest, we would.
But to give free coinage tOAmerica alone
would not relieve the financial distress,
nor add, what is needed above every
thing else, to the volume OF the money
of ultimate redemption. To give such
limited free coinage would not restore
bi-me talliSm-tnat is, free bi-metalllc
coinage.
1t would, it is true, add 40 cents an
ounce to the price the silver miner
would receive for his bullion without
benefiting the people of other sections.
This would not only be unjust, but it
would be the giving of bounty by the
government that the silver miners do
not ask. Until 1873 silver was coined
free, just as gold always has been, and
is now. All the silver men ask is that
it shall hereafter be treated as it had
been until the secret decentralization of
1873 and as gold now is-nothing more
and nothing less.
To favor free coinage aud Mr.. Cleve-
land is political paradox | cannot un-
derstand. Those who profess to
must either deceive themselves or seek
to deceive others. If Mr. Cleveland
shall be made president, we know he
may pass during his administration. To
elect him president is to put in
the White house the equivalent of 81
senatorial votes and 2345 votes of con-
gresSmen against the measure, If he
vetoeS such measure, it will require
the votes of more than "a senators and
235 members of the house to pass it.
How absurd it is to talk about Cleve-
land and free coinage in the same
breath.
The mountain delegates do not ask
that free coinage shall be made the
prominent and only issue in the cam
DdlBn. 1U6N WdDl, III lIG pldlIOi III,
declarations for tariff reform and free
coinage. Then they want candidate
whom they have reason to know will
not veto a free coinage law if con-
greSS enacts one. Both Harrison and
Cleveland not only stood ready to vet)
such law if one had passed, but each
used all the power of their administra-
ton to prevent congress from passing
such a law. Their interference was
both indecent and Impertinent.
If Cleveland is nominated, he will not
only lose New York almost entirely, but
also several of the Southern states. The
Alliance has deep feelings on the coin
age matter. 1t is a challenge and def
ance to every Alliance member in the
Southland there are hundreds and
thousands OF Democrats in the South
who belong to the Alliynee and will
vote, not only against Cleveland, if he
is nominated. but also against Demo
cratic congressman.
/ believe the nomination of Cleveland
will lose the Democracy not only the
presidency but also the next house of
representatives. If Cleveland shall not
be nominated, and some one is who is
known to be in line with their views, l
believe he will carry half dozen of the
Western states. Nominate Cleveland
and the whole risk of a Democratic
president Is cast upon New York, and
that state will certainly he lost TO the
Democrats"