The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1893-08-22
The Democrats Are Worrying Now
About 1t.
Silver Men Feel That They Have Been
Knocked Ont.
ARE TWO DEMOCRATIC FACTIONS
Mr.. Cleveland Quoted to BE Opposed in
All Particulars to Any Free Coin
age of silver.

over the commercial outlook. They are
divided and quarreling among themselves
on the silver question, and many Of them
are being turned away from party moor
ings on the tariff question. The rabid
friends of silver in the democratic party
and they are largely in the majority
are declaring that the present silver law
has nothing to do with the present finan-
cial %stringency and scarcity Of money.
While many Of them will not venture to
declare that the trouble is due to antici-
pated re~visions of the tariff and the first
c}mings Of free trade, there are other
democrats who openly announce, in their
strong advocacy of silver, that the trouble
originated with the manufacturers and is
due TO grave apprehensions as to tariff
revision.
Before the silver debate is finally en-
ded there must Of necessity be some hot
words and anti-democrat sentiment by
Secretary Carlisle and Chairman Sprin-
ger of the committee on ways and means
have both stated in private during the
past few days that the trouble which
must be encountered in a revision of the
tariff will come when the bill goes to the
senate that the house can be disciplined
by the administration, but there are
democratic senators who will refuse to
depart from their individual principles.
They also have intimated that the quar-
rel over silver legislation will result in a
combination such as was effected when
the election bill was before the senate
two years ago, and that republ cans who
will hep silver democrats to defeat un-
conditional repeal will be joined by tariff
protection democrats when it ZONES to a
revision of the tariff. This would indi-
cate an expectation on the part of the
administration of defeat for any radical
tariff measure. 1t is very we'll known
that such democrats as German, who is
largely interested in coal and iron min
ing; Mcpherson, whose state of New
Jersey is one of the greatest in manufac
turing interests in the country the two
senators from Louisiana, whose constit-
ucnts are the greatest sugar producers in
the United States, and the new demo
cratic senator from California. who rep
resents the greatest wine and fruit grow
ing interest in the United States, would
be glad to find some good excuse for an
tagOnizing an extreme tariff measure,
and since these men may not be the kind
to countenance any combination between
silver democrats and tariff republicans,
they stand in the way Of the administra,
ton should it attempt to pass an extreme
tariff bill in the face of a combination
effected upon silver and tariff lines, as
they will not suffer the adoption of a
measure which will i~niure certain in
terests which the party in power is
pledged to attack.
1t is as difficult TO diagnose the situa-
ton in congress as it has ever been. In
spite of the very closest hunting no one
can tell where the trail leads or where
the trailing will lie. You can talk t one
congressman at one moment and become
thoroughly impressed with the idea that
you can perhaps prophesy with some de-
gree Of safety and the next moment come
on a congressman with equally as clear
views which will upset your entire calcu-
lations. The most conservative view is
that the silver men are whipped in the
house and that the best they can hope for
is q sland-ofl in the senate-such a stand
of IS will send the bill repeating the
Sherman law into a conference.
nave talked TO silver men of the house
who are conservative in their estimate of
the strength of both sides, aud they as
sure me that what have just written is
the most they hope for. They believe
they are whipped and have been whipped
all the time in the house and their ouly
hope lies in the action OF the senate, and
believing thus they aIe fighting with a
desperation born e despair. For" they
say, w hen We lose this fight for silver
we have lost a battle which settles all
things against silver as a money for a
generation at least"
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