Daily Texarkana Democrat., 1893-09-01
EASILY TO BE SEEN,
That the Presidential Cloud Has a
Bright Silver Lining.

Bright Silver Lining.
The great and we'll nigh universal
interest which has animated the pub
lie mind, more especially at Washing
ton, as to the final disposition of the
silver question by the Senate has had
the effect of coloring all other subjects
of public interest bright silver hue.
Indeed everything worth looking at is
seen through silver spectacles, Even
the possible candidates for the next
presidential election, Democratic and
Republican, are selected according to
the relations of these distinguished
gentlemen to the silver problem and
the bearing of these relations upon
their possible presidential candida
cies.
Four names that are prominently
mentioned in this connection are those
of Cleveland and Hill on the Demo-
cratic side and Sherman and Allison
on the Republican side. One would
scarcely expect that Mr.. Cleveland
would be looking for another presi-
dental nomination, or had it been
generally supposed that Senator Sher-
man would think himself still at the
age at which he could with propriety
aspire to lead his party in a presiden-
tial race in 1896.
Nevertheless the gossips are gossip
ing and there are those who suggest
that these four men, Cleveland and
Hill, and Sherman and Allison, are
each individually and separately shap-
ing his personal course on the SILVER
question with reference to the presi-
Dental nomination and election in
1896. Perhaps it cannot be better put
than in the words Of a prominent ex-
Congressman who has an Office on
Wall street and who knows the inside
of Wall street plans, and at the same
time the inside of the plans Of the
Southern members of Congress.
president Cleveland" said he, "has
pledged to Wall street that no silver
legislation shall become a law during
his term in the White House. His
plan is to force unconditional repeal
and stop right there. lie is in the
strictest sense monometallist, a gold
standard man.
Senator Hill knows all about this,
He has not been asleep all Of this time
and he understands the situation.
And his course on the silver question
is shaped especially with reference to
this. He would be glad to force Mr.
Cleveland to do one of two things
either keep his pledge to the Wall
street Democracy, and veto a silver
bill, or break his pledge to the New
York Democracy and thus prevent a
denomination. 1t is with this in view
that Mr.. Hill has taken the pointed
ground that he has, and that he will
urge upon Congress some legislation
which shall bring Mr., Cleveland
squarely face to face with the silver
question during his present term in
the White House."
This suggestion with reference to
Hill and Cleveland and the bearing Of
their attitude on the silver question
upon the nomination of 1896 creates
considerable stir in the political cir
cles and the more it is discussed the
more probable 1t seems.
On the other side Of the political
fence it is said that Senator Allison is
being groomed as n silver candidate
from the Republican standpoint Gen.
Clarkson, whose recent utterances on
the silver question have attracted con
siderable attention, it is said, is quiet
ly working Senator Allison's cards for
the presidential nomination upon a
platform which shall recognize silver,
OF course, this will not be permitted
without struggle either on the part
of other ambitious politicians or on
the part Of those who are opposed to
silver.
1t is quite probable that the "gold
interests" so-called, will cast about as
soon as they find this movement on
foot for some means Of counteracting
it, and it is not improbable that the
name Of Senator Sherman may be
pushed to the front with this in view.
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JoHNsoN's CURRENCY BILL.
The Tom johnson Currency Bill,
which briefly is to allow the owners
of bonds, individuals, as well as banks
to deposit them and get currency
thereon, has been under discussion