Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1893-08-19
THE DEBATE.
The Jousts Opened Between
Silver and Gold.
Raynor Lowered First Lance for Cold
Bland Met Him in Mid-Carreer With
A Terrible Onset; While Pence
Charges Upon Both.

Bills pro and con having been offered the
| program of procedure settled and the field
| cleared for action, Mr.. Raynor, of Mary
| free silver coinage would tie the United
| States 60 the tail of any bankrupt nation in
the world. The opening of the minis to sill
yer might for time maintain the fictitious
| value of the coin, but the value of the bullion
I would always be regulated by the market
price. AS long as the Sherman silver act re-
mains on the statute book, so long will it be
| impossible to effect an international arrange
ment; SO long will monetary conference re-
suit in failure.
While referring to the platform of the
democratic convention, Mr.. Raynor was in
terrupted by several questions. In response
he said, in closing: II know that the de-
clarations of that document have been off
ferently construed, according to the views
of the various gentlemen eXpounding them.
But as for me in this supreme hour of my
country's needs, am not blinded nor in
Inundated by the glittering words of con-
vention declaration"
Mr.. Brown, of Indiana, was in favor of
the coinage of silver, but would vote for the
repeal bill with or without conditions. Still
the democratic platform promised to coin
both gold and silver without discrimination
against either, and that promise must be
redeemed.
and spoke far beyond the time limit by
unanimous consent.
He said that if the United States would
maintain the parity of gold and silver on
that ratio the world would buy American
products. This country had the property to
sell and should induce purchasers to come.
France maintained gold and silver at a
parity on the ratio of fifteen and one-half to
one for seventy years because she had prop
erty to sell.
I'VE are asked to lay the bloody hand of
confscation on the millions of our popula-
ton in order to satisfy the greed of England.
Will congress do it? 1t cannot; it shall not
be done. Applause Speaking for the
mass of people of the west. say you shall
not do it. Renewed appause.l And any
body or any party that undertakes to do it
will, in Gods name, be trampled as it ought
to into the dust of condemnation now and
in the future. Continued appause on the
floor and in the galleries.
II speak as a democrat: yet as an Ameri-
can above democracy. Cheers. We do
not intend that any party shall survive, If we
can help it, that will lay its cOntiscating hand
on America in the interest of England or
EUROPE. sdy W you VI SdSICLA uSLIOS1oSy,
we will bid you farewell when you do it.
[Applause.] Now you can take your choice
between sustaining American industries and
American laborers against English industries
and English laborers, or of our going apart.
We have come to the parting way. i believe
I speak for the masses of the great Missis-
sippi valley when | say we will not submit
to the domination of any political party,
however much we love democracy, if it lays
it's sacrifcial hands upon silver and wounds
it in this country. For myself l will not
support such party here or elsewhere; but I
will denounce it as undemocratic, un-Ameri-
can, and democrats engaged in it as repre-
sentatives of the money power and moneyed
interests instead of as the representatives of
the American people. You cannot hold the
democratic party together on that line
Pence, the populist from Colorado, was
the next speaker, and with his opening SEN
fences he attracted the close attention of the
house and retained it to the end. No other
man had succeeded in so impressing himself
upon the favorable consideration of his asso-
ciates on the floor at such an early period of
his membership,