Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-09-05
COKE TALKS.


tho president calling congress together.
W. viii REPEAL the act Of 1890, ~
cause II + moi wise 10 continue IN fIfce
a statute providing for the purchase Of
5OoODO ounces OF silver per month aud
issuing paper which the government e
bound 20 project l hope its repeal viii
az III service In removing the paralysis
now upon business, but we will not soon
have good times aud good wages again.
n an the pledges made By the party now
in power arc redeemed In good faith.
The platforms Of the two parties on
the money question are not very unlike
IN either their language or meaning, and
the prominent feature Of each ]. that
every dollar. whether paper or coin, ls-
sued by the government should be as
good a. any other and at all times equal.
Eneh recognized the Importance of So
curing an international conference 20
adopt measures to insure a parity be
tween the two metals.
The special champions OF the silver
purchase act say the act must not be re-
pealOd because to repeal II would be the
end Of silver ~ money metal 10 this
country. OF whit value Is the law nowl
Silver mines are closed. ainelters are re-
ported shut down. while the silver pnr-
chasing act still remains In force.
COKE'S SPEECH.
Coke Of Texas obtained the floor at the
conclusion Of Cullom's remarks He
said: The money problem can only be
settled by the establishment Of bimetal'
lie currency as II existed prior 10 1873.
The people will never be content until
the wrong Of 1873, by which half of the
money Of the country was stamped out,
10 order to double the purchasing power
Of the other half. has been undone aud
reversed. If single god standard be
established In Amchca then Rothschild
and the bank Of England, with their New
York associates, will become the arbiters
Of American finance and the dictators OF
our financial policies, because they con-
troll the gold which the United States
would have TO have. The abandonment
Of silver By the United States will be its
death knell az money. except in subor-
dnate ways and for subsidiary coinage.
The United States senate is the only
tion.
1'ip sana,e went into executive session
TO consider nominations Of certain officers
whose confirmation Mr.. Berry Dcm.l Of
Arkansas said was essential 10 carry Into
effect the presidents proclamation OPEN
Ing the Cherokee strip on tho 10th Of
September
At $50 the senute resumed its lrgish-
tive session, and Mr. PETERS amendment
10 tic repeal bill providing for free COln-
age, being the pending question, was
rad preparatory 10 Mr.. PETERS adj
dressing the senate
Mr. Jones of Nevada moved that the
senate adjourn. Rejccted-yeas 10, nays
a.
Mr. PETER said tho administration was
not proposing 20 discuss the philosophy
of finance. They came to congress with
a demand for O particular nGt-the repeal
OF the sherman law They suggested
no policy which will admit OF the usual
compromises IA legislative proceedings.
This or nothing, aud that 80 far as con-
cerned the people here represented they
accepted The ultimatum In the spirit IN
(which given. They proposed TO pivc no
quarter and his people proposed 70 give
none. He said most Of The Southern
farmers are members Of the Farmers
Alliance and one of the cardinal doc
trincs Of the Alliance was free and nm
limited coinage Of silver at the old ratio.
Mr.. PETER read lettcrs from Senator
Gordon, now In favor of repeal, written
IN the Alliance expressing sympathy with
lhem and approval Of their doctrines.
Coming TO 1892 he mld North and South
Carolina, Georgia. Alabama. Mississippi,
Louisiana and Texas would all have voted
for the Popnlist candidates for the prcsi-
dency and yicc-prcAdency had II not been
for the promises made by the leaders Of
the Democratic party that while Mr.,
Cleveland was personally opposed to
silver, he would approve a free colnuge
measure when presented to him by a
Democratic congress rs it would be II
was time the partnership existing be!
tween the government Of the United
States aud Wall street spectators was
dissolved. The leaders Of the Democrat
10 party are pursuing precisely the same