Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-11-09
HOT CAMPAIGN MAPPED OUT.
They viii Reopen the Coinage Fight When
Congress Again Assemblies.

adjournment OF the extraordinary SEES
sion of Congress and the developments
Immediately following it have only
served to accentuate the conclusion
that the financial question, instead of
being solved, is merely in the in
cipiency of its discussion. The
silver senators who stood out for SO
many weeks against unconditional re-
peal in the Senate appear to be congrat-
ulating themselves over the fruition OF
their labors. They state that their long
opposition to following the mandates OF
the administration and the major
ity has served the purpose OF
calling the attention of the
American public to the real
questions at issue, and that to this pub
lie they will now appeal for vindica-
ton of the actions Of the silver sena-
tors 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 in
terest in the question and the desire OF
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 recon-
vene on December 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 playing part in the discussion
Of every great issue between the parties,
from the tariff question to the
repeal of the federal election laws.
Now that the silver purchase law is re-
pealed the President is to be called
upon to show his fealty to the spirit of
the last Democratic platform by tavorlng
financial legislation looking to the resto-
ration of silver to its oldtime realm.
Every stage of the tariff discussion will
be punctuated by pertinent queries
from the silver men tending to prove
that the demonetization OF 81 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 embar-
easements of a depleted treasury, and,
indeed, every great public question
that comes before the next Congress for
solution, will find opposed to its consid-
GRAFTON band Of silver men VINO will
combat the adjustment OF any and all
grievances until the cause of silver re-
ceives the attention of the fttythird
Congress.
The ultimate policy may be that the
silver men may assume the role OF or
gained obstructionists in the attempt
to force from the American Congress the
same consideration for silver that Bar
nell and his Irish followers finally
wrested from the British Parliament in
the years that are gone. Both parties
are fully aware of this posi-
bility and both parties are view
ing with increased anxiety the
representatives who, as Populists, Re
publicans or Democrats, have all banded
together in the great struggle for free
coinage Or an increased volume Of cur
rency. In the states Of Virginia, Geor-
gia, and indeed, throughout the South
generally the Populists or third party
are showing phenomenal gains, and for
the first time in history there really APP
pers to be much trepidation in the
minds of the Democratic leaders lest
the historic old commonwealth of Vir
ginia should actually go for the Popu-
list ticket at to-morrow's election. In
Georgia the third party under the ag-
gressive leadership of Tom. Watson is
fully organized and already preparing
for the election Of '94 when the Popu
lists declare they will carry the state,
defeat Speaker Crisp, and elect legis-
lature that will send Watson to Congress.
TO offset the tremendous accession to
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 opposi-
ton of Chairman Springer, of the COM
mlttee on banking and currency, and
other leading Democrats of the North,
who fail to share the Southern view upon
this phase of the financial question.
Altogether the absorbing question of
finance appears likely to play almost as
important part in the next session as
it has in the past, and those who con-
slider the tariff the paramount issue
have already realized that much of the
embarrassment to be overcome by the
ways and means committee in forcing
its bill through the House will arise
from the complications and discussions
that have grown out of the silver ques-
ton and the repeal Of the Sherman act.
Much interest attaches to measure
which Chairman Springer is said to be
preparing on the currency question,
ministration, and although the distln-
guished Illinoisan thinks it will prove
the panacea for many ills, he has decid
ed to withhold it from publication until
the opening Of the regular session.
This conclusion is understood to be the
result of suggestions made by admins
tration officials who evidently hope the
four weeks to intervene before the open
ing of the regular session may in some
degree allay the general disquietude
that exists in all political parties over