Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-09-06

good faith it would carry out those
pledges now, and if the friends of that
platform let go on what they had before
they got something else in exchange,
how could they justify themselves be-
fore the people. If asked why he could
not trust the future for the enactment
of those laws which ought to come con-
current with the repeal of the Sherman
act, Mr.. Vance said his answer would
be more clearly the truth than theirs
he had no condolences. Being once
deceived he could not accept any more
promises as those of honest and respon-
sible men.
In reply to Senator Gormans query,
why the friends of silver halted be-
tween unconditional and conditional
repeal, Mr.. Vance said that by q condi-
tiOnal repeal we united the Democratic
party, or at least all true friends o. hi
metalism. By the proposition OF I'M
conditional repeal that was impossible
Bimetalism was the most popular if the
most potential factor in the last cam
paign; it was the one plank common to
all platforms. A comparison of votes
in Congress and in conventions before
and after the proposed repeal would
form a contrast that would put to shame
the wonder inspiring patent medicine
advertisements, ''befOre and after tax
ing"
Referring to Senator Germans change
of front, he said he believed he would
be condemned out of his own mouth
and would be compelled to say like the
wall-eyed, lOnghaired man who ac>
cOmpanied the temperance lecturer, 81
goes along to serve as a frightful ex-
ample"
Giving and taking was fair, but when
one side did all the giving and the 9th
er side all the taking it amounted to a
surrender. Thirty days from this time
all distractions to the business of the
world would have passed away, and to-
day, according to the leading financial
papers, an upward tendency was every
where manifested. He called upon his
friends to take heart and stand
by the object of their love little
peal in the face of the admitted
fact that the Sherman law was not the
cause Of the trouble was an acknowl-
edgment that it could not be repealed
without some substitute in cold blood
and in times of reasonable prosperity.
In view of the attitude of the PreSi-
dent, he knew and other senators knew
that any bill providing for either the
free coinage or the limited coinage of
silver could not become law; and to
permit the passage of this bill without
attaching some other legislation
knowing that other legislation could
not be secured independently and by
itsef-was to conscientiously surrender
and turn their backs upon the pledges
made to the people. If Democrats did
this they must do it with their eyes
open to the consequence and knowing
that they were subjecting themselves to
the serious accusations of their con-
stituents. If the Democratic party did
this it would cease to be the peoples
friend and become the subser-
Went tool of combined capital and con-
stitute in it's legislation the lineal success
sion of the thirty-three years of that
Republican rule which they had always
heretofore denounced as building up
the combinations and corporations
which have we'll nigh absorbed the
wealth of the country
After dwelling for a time upon the
production of the two metals and their
use as money by the different govern
ments, Mr.. Vance concluded his speech
by a declaration fayoring the free and
unlimited coinage of silver and ex-
planned why he thought this could be
accomplished and maintained.