Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-29
THREATS OF DANGER
To Both Political Parties Made by the
Free Silver Leaders.
REPUBLICANS BOLDLY WARNED
That the Election May Be in Doubt and
Thrown Into the House,
WHEN THE DEMOCRATS WOULD CONQUER
rrnoM A STAFF CORRESPONDENT,

| rFROM A STAFF CONSEQUENTLY
WASHINGTON, May 2s-"The Repub-
lican National Convention will adopt a
liberal silver plank in the party platform,
or there will be trouble in half dozen Re
publican States of the West" said Senator
Stewart, of Nevada, to me to-day. "While, :"
he continued, 'the Democrats of the East
are no more favorably disposed toward
silver than the Republicans, those of the
South and West are differently disposed, and
the Democratic Convention would declare for
free coinage were it not for the great State
of New York, whose financial feeling is
dominated by Wall street.
Therefore, If the Republican platform
does not give the most liberal utterance on
the silver question that could be expected
of it, no one need be surprised to see several
of the Western Republican States fall into
the Democratic column. Or, if the Demo-
cratic Convention shows itself specially
illiberal and cowardly, and the third
party pronounce boldly in favor of free
coinage, nothing would be more natural
than that these States should support the
ticket of that combined Peoples and Alli-
ance party, which certainly embodies more
of the substance and promise of successful
new party than any of the movements of
recent years which have resulted from the
discomfort bred of the pinching policy of
the money-lending monopolists of the East.
Increased Coinage Of Silver Demanded
"What that great element of the country
in both parties would have the Democratic
and Republican conventions do is to adopt
planks in their platforms which will at
least promise for the representatives. of the
parties in Congress that they shall enact a
law providing for specific coinage of silver,
which will increase the circulating medium
of the country to something near what is
needed for the easy transaction OF the coun-
try's business and not leave every borrower
at the mercy of the usurious sharks OF Wall
street who control the price of money
throughout the length and breadth of the
land.
Possibly we cannot expect a declaration
of either party Tor free coinage. l know
that many members of Congress who are
not opposed to free coinage have assisted to
defeat the bill in the House, and are against
any radical declarations in the conventions,
merely because they think they might lose
few votes by any other but cowardly
policy. We want a plank which will at
least advocate larger coinage of silver
than ever before, and that such coinage
shall not be left optional with the Secre-
tary Of the Treasury"
All of Them Thinking Alike.
The sentiments of Mr.. Stewart are shared
ny al OF the 1ree coinage Republicans, VINO
represent q greaI region o. hepuoilca1
naJorltIes III the west, anu theY are ecnoeu
by the free silver Democrats, who declare
that II the Democratic convention pursues
coWardiy pollcy the antl-money-monopory
element OF the country VIII even go SO iar
as TO organize a new party on tnat vltal
issue and others emoodylng tne intense
ieei1ng OF the discontented masses against
potn OF the oid parties wnien nave for years
been giving the millionaires all and the
masses nothing In the way OF advantageous
Legislation.