The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-05-26
as follows. After demanding the coinage
Of both gold and silver. It adds:

| mined whether gold has risen or silver
has fallen. or whether there should De
change OF the gold dollar or OF the sii-
yer dollar. or OF both, 10 the end tna'
whatever rato Is adopted the rights OK
| both creditor and debtor shall be pre-
| served alike, having IN view the demands
| OF the people for an adequate circulating
medium. We declare that we are not IN
| favor OF gold recommendation or silver
| mono-metallism. but that both shonid ne
/ coined at such ratio as VIII malh'"'"
the two metals in circulation
II Mr.. Bland thinks this right IN p''"-
| ciple and right in policy he WILL n'o''
Unexpectedly TO himself, find that 'n''e
is but little difference between hiinse''
and sound men Of common sense.
Mr.. Bland is "whistlIng to keep ms
courage up." The truth IL that the MIS-
souri, platform Is a complete SURRENDER Vi
the free silver" case. That mas ai""y'
maintained that the true relation Of Sill
yer to gold is as 16 TO l. ana that Il inc
Government would make coinage Tree inc
nresent silver dollar would at once De
come as valuable as the gold dollar. But
the Missouri platform abandons TINS
Sound altogether and asks no more than
that the coinage shall be at ratio
which shall make one dollar as valuable
as the other. which Is a total reputation
OF everything that Mr.. Bland has taught
We learn from the Missouri papers that
Mr. Bland wished to head the Committee
on Resolutions, and il was only after a
hard fight and by vote OF to thaI
he succeeded. Then ensued a hght pc
tween the straightout Tree coinage men
for a declaration in favor Of l6 to and
the bimetallists who were willing 70 IeaNe
all the practical details 10 investigation
and argument and simply declare Tot the
use of both gold and silver money IN
this fight two days and the greater part
Of one night were consumed. The Kan
sas City Star Che convention was held
at Kansas city, says:
"In the stubborn fight in the committee
last night Bland held ont for the l6 TO
ratio with logged insistence. quiet tip
reached him, however. about IL O'Clock,
that the convention was likely 10 adjourn
without waiting for the committee to
report and so he rushed the business
through and FASTENED 10 the convention
hail. 1t was a bitter disappointment 20
him 10 have TO let the majority report
go in without specifying in figures that
mystic ratio. l6 10 {, which has been his
sbibboleth Of war for twenty years. Al
last he gave way and agreed 70 conceal
under a mass Of verbiage his cherished
plan to commit the convention ana the
party to specific statements
1t is perfectly plain TO us, froa these
facts. that free silver is dead in Mis-
souri,.
What, now, do we find to be the case
in Alabama? Its convention used this
language. and only this:
"While there are differences Of opinion
among us in matters Of detail, We all be-
Heve in the free coinage of silver when
ever II can be done consistently with the
maintenance Of a sound and safe cur
rency."
Believing in "the free coinage of silver
whenever it can be done consistently with
the maintenance Of a sound and safe cur
rency." and demanding. as Bland, Stew
art & Co. have been doing, that the Gov
eminent shall instantly turn into scat
tering amongst the people an illimitable
quantity OF fifty cent coins which it will
force all creditors to take as dollars are
two about as different things as fire and
water. When Alabamas convention en-
dorses Mr. Cleveland's administration,
dominates Colonel oates for Governor,
10 ,.Io fuof-
nous canvass in which free silver has
been the issue, impartial men may very
well hope that matters are not as bad
in Alabama as they have been repre-
sented to be. The Memphis Appeal-Ava-
lenche also addresses an editorial open
letter Ito the southern men in Congress"
in the course Of which it says: 1.-The
southern people who earn their bread
and meat in dealing with the people Of
foreign lands are in favor of a sound
currency, and are willing to go with Mr..
Cleveland and try the virtue of inter
IS.sional bimetallic free coinage. They
are not willing to submit TO the
free and unlimited coinage Of silver by
the sufficient reason that such coinage
means the conversion of southern farm
ers into poems paying tribute to the
silver kings of the silver producing regions
of the West" 1t concludes with the
notification to the southern men in Con-
gress who have been in Washington while
1--WE have been in the South" that the
southern people and the administration
stand on the national platform of 1892
which did not declare for free silver
and, therefore. the southern people like
Mr.. Cleveland and his policy, and they
will stand by Mr.. Cleveland and his poll
cy next November"
In short We see what are, to our mind
unmisiakabie evidences that the silver
craze has run its course.
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