The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1893-09-14
SENATOR VANCE AND THE PLAT
FORM.

The brief report-not full synopsis
even-of Senator Vance's speech in
the Senate On the silver question, is
too meagre to enable us to Judge of its
merits as a whole. We hope to read
the full text soon. What was given
was interesting, instructive, and on
lines of exact truth in so far as is
known now or can be forecast. He is
for the free coinage of silver, and op-
posed to the repeal of the Sherman act
without conditions and guarantees.
He is afraid of the result-that it will
be the complete wiping out, demone-
thing of silver for this generation at
least. He was striking in his inter-
probation of the financial plank in the
Chicago platform, and said that if the
Interpretation now placed upon it by
many of the goldbug advocates and
others had been openly stated, plainly,
frankly stated last year, that Mr.. Cleve-
land would not have carried Southern
State. The hardest hit in his speech
as reported, in the Messenger is this :
Members OF Congress declared they
loved silver money, bimetallism: there
fore they slew it. They wanted both
metals: therefore they abolished the one.
They wanted gold and silver coined on
terms OF equality according to their
platform; SO they stopped coming silver.
They desired to maintain the parity, but
cut the only cord that held silver up and
permitted it to drop out of sight"
That is very happy stroke of the
yeduetio ad a6surdum. Senator Vance
takes no step backward. He stands by
first impressions and beliefs.
The platform does not call for fret
coinage of silver in so many words
That is so. But it does not favor inc
quality, or injustice as between gold
and silver. Read this and you will see
what is said, and if you have fail
intelligence you can hardly mistake
the meaning:
1--WE hold to the use of both gold ant
silrer as the standard money of thu
| country, and to the coinage OF both gol(
| and silver without discriminating agains
| either metal, or charge for mintaee, but thu
dollar unit of coinage of both metals
must be OF equal intrinsic and exchange
able value or be adjusted through inter
national agreement or by such safeguard
OF legislation as shall insure the mainte
nance of the partly of the tuo metals ant
the equal power of every dollar at al
times in the markets and in the paymen
of debts; and we demand that all paper
currency shall be kept at par with ane
redeemable in such coin."
That is in silver and gold. Their
is not word to show that it was ever
limited at that there should be a de
struction of or Limitation of silver coin
age, the enhancement of gold ane
henceforth single gold standard
There are scores of Democratic news
papers as we'll as politicians who hav
got so far away from that plank tina
Democratic law, that they cannot s.
much as touch it with their big toe
Last year they Grated" and "wri
large" for silver, but now they are {
quite another mind, and are actuall
rejoicing over the supposed destruction
of silver.
| The platform plank concluded it
declaration for silver principles wit
these words to be remembered
eve insist upon this policy as espe
cially necessary for the protection of tn
farmers and laboring classes, the first an
most defenseless victims OF unstabl
money and fluctuating currency"
Was that a tub thrown to the goi
whale? Was it mere noisy decla
ration meant to deceive the people 2
Wilmington Messenger.