The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1893-09-07
SENATOR VANCE ON SILVER
His Effort Pronounced the Best Silver
Speech Yet Made.
ITO YOUR TENTS, 0 ISRAELI
Zeb Favors the Free and Unlimited
Coinage of Silver at the Ratio of
Sixteen to One-He Says Uncondi-
tionaI Repeal is the End of Silver
For the Generation,

y special TO the Charlotte Observer
gives the following account of Sena-
tor Nance's speech on the silver ques-
tion, on September lst.
Senator Vance spoke one hour and
forty minutes, closing at o'clock.
The great burden of his effort was to
show-and here he was impressive
that half of the worlds money metal
was in silver and endangered by the
passage of the bill repeating the Sher-
man act without conditions. 1t would
take Il Dante or a Miltot to depict
What would result at the destruction
of so much money, and yet that proc
ess, which has been going on since
1873, would be completed by the pend
ing measure. Notwithstanding the
recent bitter denial Of Senator Sher-
man, Senator Vance declared that the
act Of 1863 was fraud in lcgiSla-
tion." Silver, lIc said with much en-
phdsiS, now takes its last stand in the
United States, Unconditional repeal
is the end of silver for the generation
unl,s gredtrreYolutiOn of the people
shouldureStorc it as was done in 1873.
The present movement was the result
of a conspiracy. Never was there a
more SenScleSs clamor that that which
has arisen for rcTeal. The coming in
of large quantities of gold does not
stop this clamOr.
There were tart passages here and
there, as when he declared that some
claim to be bi-mctalists whose mo-
tiyeS are improper and further on,
where he spoke Of the party'S nominee
last year .as hostile to silver. Chal-
lcnging the sincerity of some of
the friends of repeal he said: They
want both metals and sc they abolish
one. They surely must lOte silver
much since they chasten il rlIch." 1t
was likencd to Il doctor cutting his
patients throat to take 4 new start.
Il shall not vote for unconditional re-
peal but shall try common sense a
little longer" After the repeal the
remaining silver dollars, he replied,
would participate in the decline of
the metal caused by the passage of
the bill. Did the platform mean to
restore parity by making the silver
dollar scarce? The whole scheme of
the platform should be carried out
together.
He aroused laughter by his funny
Characterization of the arguments of
the unCOudition repcalcrs as to the
meaning of the platform, Senator
Washburn, who sat Immediately in
front, and others, Wee so convulsed
that they had to call their pocket
handkerchiefS into rcquisition. His
phrase for repeal, "un-Shermanizc
the Sherman bill, was regarded as
capitali hit.
Seldom has a written speech so eX-
| cited the riSibles of Il congress- lOnal
audience. The Senate was thin when
he began: the Democratic side was
! full when he closed. The speech
abounded, as all Of Nance's speeches
do. with biblical phrascology. Scna-
| tor Vance predicted that in thirty
days every obstruction to financial OPP
crationS will have passed away. "Un-
conditional repeal is unconditional
surrender. | am too old and have
been too much hOnorcd and trusted by
the people of my State TO make my
self a party to this legislation" lie
| favored free and unlimited coinage of
off Horace White and other professors
of ''hfgh finance. m Democrat
myself" declared the Senator, amid
| roar of laughter. An eloquent pero-
ration concluded with, 'T0 your
| tents O Israel" Senator Vance made
| one of his greatest efforts; az old cor
respondent said by long odds the
| best silver speech made by anybody"
| Among his most attentive auditors
were Senator Ransom, Representa-
| tiveS Alexander, Crawford, Grady
and Woodland. As Vance sat dewn
the Senate fiOcked around to congrat-
! ulate him.