Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-02-21
6 The FIGHT IS ON
In New York--The Struggle Be-
tween Gold and Silver.
A MUGWUMP'S TESTIMONY
To the Soundness Of David B.
Hills Tariff Views.
Mr.. MILLS INTIMATEs TEXAS
VIII Join a New Party if Hill is
Democracy's Nominee.
NEW YORRS EARLY MEETING
And the Precedents Therefor-A Logical
and Powerful Letter from Senator
Pugh FavorinR the Nomination
of New YOrk's Senator.
For a snver Nan for President.


From Senator Fugh's Letter to the Hill Club
Of Lauderdale, Ala
"What real merit is there in the demand
that Hill shall not be nominatedl Is there
any well-founded charge that he is not
Democrats That he has not been faithful
TO Democratic principles and Democratic
organization, and hard worker for their
success! But it is charged that he is
'tricltster,' and that his political methods
and practices are unclean and disieputaOle.
Who are the authors of these charges and
what are the acts cited as proof to sustain
theme The charges come from Republican
and mugwump sources and the acts of Hill
cited to prove them are acts done in the
interest of his party that resulted in the
defeat of the Republican party and its
mugwump allies and secured Democratic
success.
No man has been more bitterly assailed
and characterized by more felonious cpl
thets than David 3. Hill, solely On account
Of his mastery achievement in securing TO
the Democratic party the legislature of
New York. And one of the most powerful
enemies of Mr.. Hill, and one Of the most
powerful supporters of Mr.. Cleveland, the
New York Times, abounds in editorials OF
bitter condemnation Of HILLS work, for
which he deserves the praise and gratitude
of every true Democrat in the land. We
hear the cry for tariff reform and honest
gold and no more silver.
How much interest has Wall street and
its money kings in tariff reform except TO
increase importations and the dividends
from steamship lines in which they are part
ownersl Their loan association, with mill
ions of idle money, and individual money
lenders. TO be found in New York and Bos-
ton inviting loans and aids to investment in
the West and South, all threaten to subject
every contractor with them for loans or for
investment with a stipulation in the loan
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paid in gold, and they ignorantly defy the
declared public policy of the United States
in favor of bimetalism and maintaining the
equality between gold and silver. They are
ignorant of the power OF congress, tested in
the supreme court, to compel them to re-
ceiYe silver as well as gold, notwithstand-
ing their gold contracts. They and their
associates are interested to the extent of
millions against the free coinage OF silver.
Their income in interest and from the pur.
chasing power of gold in the absence OF
free coinage cannot be estimated. The
really paramount issue with them is the
defeat Of the free coinage of silver. The
silver issue, they say, must be side-tracked
and forever eliminated as a Democratic
measure, and they have enlisted few life
long supporters of free coinage in the cry.
THE friends of free coinage fully under
stand the purpose OF these Democrats
that tariff reform shall be made the sole is
sue in the Democratic platform. It is
far-reaching scheme of the enemies OF sill
yer 10 make tariff reform a cover, blind
to move under to get at the Democratic
party and capture it and turn it over to the
money power that owns all the gold and
regulates currency supply and makes the
prices, and is organized TO govern this
country with money in their interest. The
Democratic party is the only power, and
silver is the only lion in the track OF this
understanding.
The struggle between gold and sill
yer now engaging public attention all
over this country is of the most transcen-
dant Importance, as it is an element in the
struggle for supremacy of accumulated and
associated wealth. The old reliables IN the
Democratic party demand tariff reform and
currency reform. They demand less tax
atiOu and more money and more equal dis
tribution of it, and the people are deter
mined TO have both, and they know that
free coinage is an Indispensable basis OF
currency supply. When Democrats tell US
10 let silver alone they will be let alone.
What are such Democrats worth to the
cause of free colnagea
My opinion is not worth much, but
have the right to express 1t, and time viii
soon decide who is right; and do not be-
heve that any Democrat can be nominated
or elected president whose record Instittes
the belief that he would veto free coinage
bill. Silver is like Hill-it has never lost
battle
y have no doubt Mr. Cleveland would
use all his power, as he has done in the
past, and exercise, if Necessary, the veto TO
defeat such bill, although passed by so per
cent of the representatives of the party
that elected him president, and those who
support him are necessarily allies of the
gold monopoly. have no doubt that Hill,
or German, or Flower would approve free
coinage bill. Keep q sharp watch on the
delegates 10 the state and national Demo-
cratic conventions"
Senator Pugh closes by making the pre-
diction that David B. Hill viii be carried to
the national Democratic convention by dele
gates for his nomination from New York,
New Jersey, Connecticut and Indiana, and
with this support he will be nominated,
with Gray Of Indiana for vice-president
This ticket viii be inyineible.