Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1892-06-28
FORCE BILL IS THE ISSUE
FEAR OF ITS ENACTMENT
WILL UNITE DEMOCRATS.

senator Morgan SpeaES LnT gree
SiIyer-DenocratS In AL, sec
u0rs, He Says, VIII Resent Fed
eral Interference AT the coils.
WASHINGTON, June 27.-rhc discon-
tented murmurings Of the silver men. as
reported from Colorado, Nevada, Kan
sas, Missouri, and various other parts
of the country, naturally gi;c the mana
gers uf the two great parties some
anxiety. First they were inclined to
believe that the silver men would swallow
the bitter doses administered to them at
Minneapolis and chicago, and announce
ments were circulated everywhere to give
the impression that this would be the
case. But it appears evident that the
silver extremists, especially those of
republican affiliations, are not inclined
to be as docile as the regular party mana
gers hoped they would be.
The news relating to the Gresham
movement and other third party mani
fcstations in the west has attracted a
great deal OF at tent ion om' ng the poll
ticians of both parties here during the
last the last three or four days. Thus
far it is the republicans who are more
particularly worried about these devel-
opments, because most of them are oc-
curing in republican states, and threaten
| to make inroads into the republican
party only. For day or two after the
close of the Chicago convention the dem
ocrats here were also little worried be.
cause OF the well known strength of the
silver sentiment among the democratic
| masses of the south and the southwest.
Thanks to the force bill folly of the re-
publicans, however, it now seems quite
certain that the democrats of of free sill
yer proclvitics will support the regular
democratic ticket almost to man. This
information has been derived from con-
vcrsations today and yesterday with
several leading free silver democratic
congressman who have an intimate
knowledge of the sentiment prevailing in
their respective committees, who ave in
constant correspondence with the lead
ing politicians IN the south
Senator Morgan, of Alahama, for cX-
ample, is one of the foremost advocates
of free silver coinage in the country. llt
is also one of the most intelligent and
best informed democratic leaders in tn,
south He has been very prominent al
through this session ol congress i'll hls
advocacy of immediate tree silver lcgis
latiOn. and no man i'll congress has con
tended more energcticully against til,
policy of nominating men or the p,esi
dencv men who arc opposed to free sill
yer coinage. His name has also beer
frequently mentioned III connection will
the presidential or yicc-prcsidtntial nom
nation on silver third party ticket
but Senator Morgan declared to thu
Sun correspondent yesterday with th'
utmost postiveness that he would no
dream of such thing as attaching him
self to third party or allowing the us,
of his name by a third party in the pres
ent crisis.
Everybody knew his positionin regarC
to silver, he said, but although the sill
yer question was of very great impor
tancc, it was only one OF The importan
issues of the present day, and i'll hi
opinion as democrat and Il champion
of constitutional liberty it was com
pletely ovcrshadowcd by the all impor
tant issues of the Force bill, which th
republican party had deliberately anC
family introduced into the campaign
as one of its leading articles of faith. s.
long as that monstrous proposition re
mained in existancc, said Senator Nor
gan, every southern democrat and ever,
northern democrat also, whatever hi
views on silver might be, must act wit
the regular democratic organization, 81
as to present a united front against tn
republican party and secure its detca
next November. He praised the Sun 10
its attitude in regard to this point, an
said that its argument for the supper
of the democratic ticket was perfect
sound and consistant.
Representative Pierce, of Tennessee
one OF the leading free silver democrats i
the house, expressed similar opinions
conversation with the Sun corrcSpoi
dent today. When asked what the 81
yer democrats were going to do, he sal
he knew what one OF them was going
to. He himself was going to vote tc
Cleveland, and he believed that ever
southern democrat who understood an
realized the situation of affairs would
the same. The force bill, he said, ha
been made by thercpublcars the lcadin
issue in this campaign, SO far as Il
democrats were concerned, and for tn;
reason the silver question would have
be postponed, Mr.. Pierce conceded th;
there was widespread sentimci
among southern democrats in favor
independent action in regard to silvc
and he expressed some solcitudc
"' to what might happen il the third part
movement i'll the south were pcrmitt'
q to develope further this summer.
All those who favored the third par
~ movement, he said, were democrats, al
if they could be made to realize the da
ger of coercive legislation by the rcpu
lican party in the next congress, he W
convinced that they would immediate
abandon all their attempts at indepen
cnt political action and remain stea
lastly adherent to the democratic par
in the pending campaign. For this IT
son Mr.. Pierce hoped that there mig
I be an carly adjournment of congress,
order that the southern members mig
go upon the stump i'll their own stat
and tell the people what their real d;
ger and duty were.--N. Y. Sun.