The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-08-02


of Chicnso-senatOr Vance and the
silver Question.
CHICAGO, July 31-There will be a
declaration of war tomorrow and the
signal of hostilities will be given by the
combined convention of populists, free
silver men and greenbackers. The foe to
be outlawed will be the money power,
and this generalization is so broad that
it is designed TO include the capitalists
of Europe as well as the money barons
Of Wall-st. In the present deprecia-
ton of silver the delegates who will as
semble in national convention tomorrow
only see a great conspiracy on the part
Of the gold lenders of England and
Germany, aided and abetted by the
lesser capitalists, their vassals of Wall
St, to make gold the only recognized
international coin metal of the world
and to subjugate the United States to
the financial control Of the country from
whom she wrested her political autonO-
my hundred years ago-Great Britain.
The scenes following the imposition of
the tax on tea that was so hotly con-
tested and indignantly denounced by
the colonial fathers of 1776 would have
been fitting parallel to that furnished
in the hotel lobbies today by the popu-
lar arraignment of the attempt now
being made by Great Britain and the
monometallic monarchies of Europe to
coerce the American continent into finan-
cial dependency upon the feats of the
mints Of the old world. The laws of
supply and demand, the results of over
production. found no place in their ar
guments, for every suggestion of this
kind was repulsed by a startling array
of figures tending to show that the clos
ing of the mints of India, the death
blow of free coinage in Europe and the
demand of Wall-st. for the repeal of the
Sherman bill were but parts of a great
conspiracy" against the silver repUb-
lies of the Western hemisphere. 1t is
the opinion, too. Of the delegates now
assembling that this conspiracy should
be firmly met and the enemy promptly
routed, and some Of them grow hot
enough to intimate that if legislation
should be inefficient a recourse to arms
might prove salutary remedy.
Want More Currency.
Those who have expected that the
convention to be assembled at 10 o'clock
tomorrow would go to pieces on the
shoals Of partisanship have underesti-
mated the deep feelings that actuate
most Of the delegates who are to dis
cuss the financial issue in this assem-
bly,. Populist, greenbacker and the free
silver men seem to be united on one pro-
gram-that the repeal OF the Sherman
purchasing act must be resisted to the
last unless there be coupled with it an
act for the free coinage of silver or for
a greater volume of currency. The
greenbackers and populists. who believe
that the fiat of the government is as
potent to make a dollar out Of a strip
of green paper as to make dollar out
Of 20 cents of silver. are Of course not
particular whether the legislation to be
substituted for the Sherman act should
be free coinage or government green
backs; but for the sake of showing a
solid front against the common enemy,
the mOnometalist, they will unite with
the free-coinage men In concerted re-
sistance to the Cleveland policy unless
a greater volume of currency be insured
to meet the stringency Of the financial
situation. In this program are found
united the republican Congressman Bar
tine of Nevada, the democratic silver
dollar Warner Of Ohio, the populist Kolb
Of Alabama and all their respective fol-
lowers, and their name is legion.
Nightly Mass Meetings.
1t is apparent even now that the work
of the convention is not to end with
the sine die agreed adjournment on
Wednesday. Aggressive committees are
to be appointed to carry the fight to
Washington, and state committees will
be named to work up public sentiment
in the various states. Then a campaign
committee is to be named, and to this
committee is likely to be entrusted what
is really the most important work of the
free silver crusades. Its work will be
secret and it is said it will labor to enlist
the assistance Of the unemployed every
where. Mass meetings nightly for all
the weeks to come during the financial
crisis are to be held by the unemployed
and poverty-stricken in every city of
the land. and resolutions are to be there
represented and adopted calling upon
congress to pass a free coinage bill. This
is to be followed by another important
move. The PROSECUTING of labor leaders
of labor organizations is to follow next
and the silver men, who we'll know how
subsequently the average political dema-
gogue bends the knee to the demands
of the labor organizations, expect the
same law. makers who passed the alien
labor law and the Chinese exclusion bin
to hearken to the voice of labor and
increase the volume of circulating medi-
um until the wants of the country are
relieved. It's to be a great moral crusade
an awakening OF the masses, until the
popular demand becomes so strong that
''the voice of the people will be stronger
than the voice of gold,' as the populists
put IL tonight. The men who are as
sembled here are terribly in earnest. and
their numbers and the marked person.
alitv and intelligence of most of their
leaders give greater significance 20 the
gathering than that attending any sim
liar convention in the past. over 1000
delegates will assemble for deliberation
tomorrow. and the gathering will be in
deed national convention.
Headquarters of the various delega-
tions have been opened at the Great