Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-07-27

July. 1891, and after that time for the
coinage OF on.y 50 much rs may be,
necessary for the redemption of treas
ury notes provided for by the act. 1t Is
a bullion purchase net with incidental
coinage feature only and Is passage
was solldy opposed by the Democrats.
While this Is trne and while neither Il
nor the Bland law authorized the free
aud unlimited coinage of the product
OF Onr silver mines, yet IL Is manifest
that the Sherman ACT is now the only
authority for the coinage Of silver dol
lars in any quantity. Recurring To The
platform II will be observed that ts
Demands upon this question are two
fold, via. the repeal of the Sherman law
and the free coinage of gold and silver
without Discrimination against either
metal, M candid person can doubt that
ny tins declaration the national Democ-
rdcy intended 10 reverse the Republi.
can policy hy substituting the free coin
asf OF gold AMI silver for the bullion
PURCHASE provisions embodied in The
sherman law. II, however. the Sher-
man law il Internationally repeated
only portion Of The party pledge will
be redeemed. for no authority will eAis,
Tor the coinage Of silver dollars. Silver
WI again 10 some measure have been
nemphciiNed, bni this time 10y those who
nave pr1fessSl TO be it's friends and
VINO for twenty years have denounced
the heiHI1liedn party Us its mortal
Ell envy. But 1t is % said the Sherman
law must tirst be repealed aud the coin
age Of I,Nrt will afterwards be provided
l9r. IhiS y 4 dangerous policy. Prob
any every Democrat in the South and
WEST VIII vote both for repeal and for
iree coinage, This is not the case with
those from the New England and Middle
states. many of whom favor a single
guld standard aud the stOppage of silver
coinage. aud If an unconditional repeal
is ellertel these, with the Republican
monamctalists who favor repeal singly,
may successfully resist all efforts for the
RECOMMENDATION and coinage of silver at
the present time. BY others il is in.
sisted TIM thcre should be a repeal and
subsequently, II coinage act, leaving the
responsibility with the executive Re
sipes TIM danger alluded to the sug-
geStion 5 unworthy of acceptance for
the question j. not of placing or shift
lug responsibility, but cOurageOusly dis
charging that which already rests upon
the party by solemn compact with the
people. Ii is not always just to use
bad law as n club, hut In this case
Justification. lies in the probability of
thus reaching correct results without
injury to public interests and the moral
right of every character of honorable
resistance, To the revolutionary proceed
ings of an aggressive aud unrclcutipg
power As an humble member of The
party u seems to me that the sugges-
uon OF the platform should be adopted
aud u conservative free coinage act
substituted for the Sherman law.
You will notc that what | have writ
ten upon this subject Is not from an
economiq' hut a party standpoint
strengthened, II is true, by the rule of
the constitution and the experience of a
century, for among Democrats with the
adoption OF the platform and nomination
OF candidates argument is closed What
the president will recommend in hls
Forthcoming message we are not authori-
tatvely Informed. but having accepted
rnndidnry upon the declaration Of
principles snotcd aud publicly proclaimed
his accord herewith the presumption
able
The platform. however, is clear and
unambi4uous, and until altered by A
national convention of accredited dele
gates the duty of every Democrat is
Very truly yours
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