The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1893-11-07

Silver Seems Destined to Play an
Important Part Throughout the
Fitty-Third Congress.
Its Ardent Advocates May Assume tie
Role Organized Obstruc-
tiOnists.
Every Important Question viii Be
Combatted by the Men Who Have
Been Defeated.

WASHINGTON, Nov. THE adjourn
ment of the extraordinary session Of con-
gress and the developments Immediately
following it have only served to accentu-
ate the conclusion that the financial ques-
ton, instead of being solved, is merely in
the incipiency of its discussion. The sill
yer senators who stood out for so many
weeks against unconditional repeal in
the senate appear to be congratulating
themselves over the fruition of their
labors. They state that their long oppo-
sition to following the mandates of the
administration and the majority has
served the purpose of calling the atten-
ton of the American public to the
Real Questions at Issue
and that to this public they will now
appeal for a vindicatiqn of the actions Of
the silver senators and representatives in
congress. They contend that the success
of the financial doctrines for which they
labor can only be achieved by a general
awakening of the masses to the gravity
of the situation. Public interest in the
question and the desire of the mediocre
intellect to devote itself to the study of
the financial problem has, they say, been
intensified by the long struggle which
took place in the two houses of congress.
When the house and senate reconvene on
Dec. 4 in regular session it is the plan of
the silver men to keep the financial
question well to the front at every stage
of the session, and it will be found play
ing a part in the discussion of every
great issue between the parties from the
tariff question to the repeal of the fed
eral election laws. Now that the silver
purchase law is repealed the president is
to be called upon to
Show His Realty
to the spirit of the last Democratic plat
form, by favoring financial legislation
looking to the restoration of silver to its
old time realm. Every stage of the
tariff discussion will be punctuated by
pertinent queries from. the, silver men
tending to prove that the decentralization
of silver and not the Mckinley tariff, is
responsible for the commercial depres-
sion of the time. The proposition for an
issue of bonds to meet the embarrass-
ments of a depleted treasury, and indeed
every great public question that comes
before the next congress for solution,
will find opposed to its consideration a
band of silver men, who will combat the
adjustment of any and all grievances un-
til the of silver receives the atten-
ton of the Fifty-third congress. Indeed
tiA~ ~.l%tAAiaUc poiivy AI.ay Dc GIldU tie siI-
yer men will assume the roll of
Organized Obstructionists
in the attempt to force from the Ameri-
can congress the same consideration for
silver that Parnell and his Irish follow
ers finally wrested from the British par
lament in the years that are gone. Both
parties are fully ware of this possibility
and both parties are viewing with in
creased anxiety the successive moves of
these senators and representatives who,
as Populists, Republicans or Democrats,
have all banded together in the great
for free coinage or an increased
volume OF currency. In the states of
Virginia and Georgia, indeed throughout
the South generally, the Populists or
third party are showing phenomenal.
gains, and for the first time i'm history
there really appears to be much trepida-
ton in the minds of Democratic leaders
lest the historic old commonwealth of
Virginia should actually go for the Pop
ulist ticket at next Tuesdays election.
Would Defeat Crisp.
In Georgia, the third party under the
aggressive leadership of Tom Watson ia
fully organized and already preparing
for the election of 1894. when the Popu-
lists declare they will carry the state, de-
feat Speaker Crisp and elect a Legislature
that will send Watson to the United
States senate.
To offset the tremendous accession 10
the third party's ranks in the South, the
senators and representatives from those
states are wildly anxious to repeal the
10 per cent tax ON state bank currency.
but here they are met with the opposition OF
Chairman Springer of the committee on
banking and currency, and other leading
Democrats of the North who fail 10
share the Southern view upon this phase
of the financial question. Altogether
the absorbing question of finance appears
likely to play almost as important a part
in the next session as it has in the past,
and those who consider the tariff the
paramount issue have already realized
that much of the embarrassment to be
overcome by the ways and means CON-
mittee in forcing the bill through the
house will arise from the complications
and discussions that have grown out of
the silver question and the repeal of the
Sherman act.