The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1894-07-30
Another Free Silver Party.

With the democrats and the pOputlStS
for free silver, and the almost certain
prospect of another powerful champion
in the shape of the republican party, it
is not easy to see how bimetallsm in
this country can be delayed much longer.
Speaking of the significant drift of
republican sentiment, The Washington
Post says:
The increasing friendliness of republican
leaders to silver-as shown in the proposition
of Senator Lodge and ex-Speaker Reed,
that the United States should discriminate
against England in tariff laws until the
latter country is willing to join in an inter-
national arrangement to restore Silver-is
producing some effect on both sides of the
Atlantic. The London correspondent of The
New York Sun says that letter has APP
peared in Manchester newspaper on this
subject which has excited great interest.
The writer of the letter shows alarm at the
threat of diminished market for British
manufactures, and urges that his country
should recede from it's position on the sif-
yer issue if it is likely to interfere with its
trade.
The tone Of republican organs is gradually
undergoing a change. While there are few
that go so far as to meet the views of the
most advanced silver advocates, there are
fewer still that indulge in harsh or denun-
ciatory comments on those who insist on I'M
limited free coinage without a change of
ratio. The leaders of the party have
adopted a policy of Cancellation, and are
looking for a basis on which practical
union of republican forces can be effected
The chfIIGe here spoken OF is 50
marked that it has caused comment on
both sides OF the sea. Over in Eng
land the goldbugs cannot conceal their
apprehension. They believe that, no
matter which party wins, the United
States will restore bimetallism in the
course of the next two or three years.
The Kansas City Journal, leading
republican daily in Missouri, editorially
said the other day:
We viii not vote for any man or knowing
IY support any man for any office that
islature-WhO is not rOI~ -tlrs az prepres enta-
silver to its position as a money metal
prior to the act of 1873.
This is going about as far as the most
extreme silver advocate "Would 20. and
when republican newspapers like The
Press and The Recorder of New York
and The Kansas City Journal begin to
talk in this fashion, with such leaders
rs Lodge ana Reed in full sympathy
with them, it is easy to see how Sir
Moreton FreWcn gets the impression
that the republicans propose to win
next time on protection and free silver,
the latter being adopted to counteract
the doubtful popularity OF the former
But there is one thing that stands in
the way of this programme. The dem
ocratic party is the Oldest and trucst
friend of bimctallsm in this country.
1t is now pledged in its platform to
restore free silver. Suppose it shows in
the next congress that it proposes to
redeem this, pledge-What then? The
fulfllmont of our platform promise will
head off and elfectuaily bar the repub-
leans, and their conversion to the silver
cause will go for nothing.
Under all the circumstances, the only
true democratic policy is to lose no time
in redeeming our free silver pledge.