New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-07-03
fortunate at this stage for New-York to incur
rcnroach which timely precaution may avert.
THE DEMOCRATS AID FREE C0INAGE'

TIE DEMOCRATS AID FREE COINh"
The Democratic Senators have amply proved
orr charge that Cleveland's nomination was
fraud. They are men who do not propose ~
stultify and efface themselves and their record.
Their party is a free-silver party lhey nave
the platforms of thirty one state conventions
to prove it, The platform adopted at Chicago'
if it means no more than limited coinage no
more than the purchase as needed OF Small
stock of silver at the market price ana ratio
between the metals which shall make goiu anu
silver coins of the same denomination honestly
and certainly of equal value-if this is what the
silver Dlank means on which Mr.. Cleveland ap-
peas for votes, then these Democratic senators
will have the country know that he speaks lot
himself and not for them and their party. Tie
must not ask them to roll in the dust that ne
NAV be exalted. lie may be better, wiser ana
stronger than the Democracy, as his ldOiatcrS
so dearly love to declare, but these Senators
are the men who pass Democratic legislation,
and. as they understand it, free and unlimited
coinage is the Democratic policy. 1t was be-
fore June 90. it is to-day and it will be after
November s.
When Senator Morgan announced the other
day that, tlcNeldnu anu OHlCdSo w o"O w"
trary Notwithstanding, he intended to press the
Stewart bill TO a vote, our Mugwump contem-
poraries Indignantly demanded to know Whether
or not he considered himself Democrat. lhey
said that if he persisted in his declared pur-
pose he would have to be read out OF the party
When this is done, it appears that twenty nine
other Democratic Senators will have to go with
him. and the Democracy of NcwYork, New
Jersey, Indiana, Arkansas, Kentucky, IenneS-
see, South Carolina Missouri West Virginia
Mississippi, South Dakota, Texas Alabama
North Carolina, Florida, Georgia, Virginia ana
Louisiana will be wholly or partially unrepre-
sented in the Federal Senate What states
can the Democrats carry if not these? DO they
look to New-York to place them in po' or
Their New-York Senator voted for free com
age. Do they look to New-Jcrscy? Their
Junior Senator from New-Jersey voted for free
coinage Do they look to Indiana? Mr.. Turpie
voted and Mr. Voorhees, was paired in favor
of free coinage Mills of Texas, the Free-Irade
leader the beloved of the Democratic Prcsi-
Dental candidate, cast his vote for free Sill
YER Is Mills to be read out, too? Only nine
in the entire body of the Democratic Senators
stood against the bill. and of those nine three
have heretofore recorded themselves in favor
of a similar bill. and were frank to acknowl-
edge on Friday that their action then was based
on considerations of policy and not OF principle
The action of these Democratic Senator'S in
passing the Stewart bill must be taken in one
of two ways. Either it was their Interpretation
Of the true meaning of the Chicago platform. or
it was a defiance Of it. I'm either event it pro-
claims Cevelands candidacy to be fraud, and
it shows the country far more clearly and en-
phaticaly than could be done by any platform
phrases that Democratic success next Novem-
Der assures financial policy unstable and full
of peril If Cleveland were elected after the
event of Friday. the assumption would be fair
one that the Amercan people were not inter
cstcd TO prevent free coinage and his party
associates would enforce that view upon him.
They would say, with entire propriety We
gave the people our construction OF the Chicago
platform when, within eight days after its
adoption, we passed bill for the free and UNI
limited coinage Of silver. They Endorsed that
construction by clectng YOU. You have no
right 10 assume otherwise nor 70 intcrpose
your private opinion to thwart their will.' This
argument would he logical. and who can say IT
would not be cffcctual?