The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-10-08
Texas Candidates. Mistake.

] a TexaE Cand1Qate'S Mistake.
Mr.. Culberson. the democratic candidate
for governor Of Texas, is making the mi
take of favoring the free coinage of silver
at the ratio of &c TO 1. He is not on the ma
/ tional democratic platform nor the plat
/ form of the democrats of Texas when he
! does so.
! Mr.. Culberson was nominated on a sound
money platform. At the democratic
/ convention at Dallas the party was
/ squarely committed against the free coin
| age Of silver at the ratio Of Is to /. The
/ convention was asked 10 vote as to whether
| it favored the free coinage of silver at that
ratio and it voted in the negative. Judge
! Reagan, who was on the other side Of the
silver issue, and who was a candidate for
the gubernatorial nomination, withdrew,
and Gov. Hogg, who was also a candidate
for the nomination, and a suveri6e, pro
ceeded to eat crow. Mr.. CuIberson got the
nomination because he was in harmony
with the convention.
Speaking of Mr.. Culberson's change of
base, the Galveston News says: IF the
leading candidate of the party is at liberty
to disregard the party creed in this item
and in this way, then in what and upon
whom is any portion binding If a candi-
date Of party can ignore one Of its most
important aad positive expressions, then
why did Gov. Hogg find it necessary TO
consume any crowl Why did Judge Rea-
gan declare that he could not stand as a
candidate upon a platform which MIR. Cul-
berson souses in q turbid mess of unlimited
free silver foolishness2 If he or any other
democrat can perform the remarkable feat
of indorsing the Dallas platform and wall
ing for free silver in order to satisfy a dan
gerous craze for fiat money, then why
should it ever have been necessary for any
body to eat crow or for anybody else to re-
joice at the platform commitment to the
cause of sanity and sound money! The
democratic candidates bid for disciples of
populism on the silver question seems as
much lacking in sagacity as in courage and
consistency"
MIR. Culberson is making a mistake SINH
lar to the one that Mr. Atkinson made in
this state. He was nominated on a sound
money platform, and early in the campaign
he talked on the silver question in a way
that left a doubt as TO whether he was with
the silverites or with those who favored
sound money. If we are not mistaken one
prominent paper OF the state asserted that
he favored the free coinage Of silver at the
value of l6 to /. While it may be true that
he said he insisted upon maintaining the
parity between gold and silver currency.
still he left so much room for doubling as
to whether or not he favored sound money
that sound money democrats became in
different, and took comparatively little in
terest in the campaign or the election.
And not populist, we venture to say, was
induced to vote the democratic ticket, and
not silTerite was prevented from voting
the populst ticket.
Mr.. Culberson says that he insists that
silver and paper currency shall be main
tanned at par with gold but he favors the
free coinage of silver at IS to because he
thinks the credit of the government is suf-
ficient to keep all the dishonest silver
dollars that may be coined at par. He ad-
vocates a DANCE rous experiment with the
view of getting the votes of populists.
He will be disappointed He will not get
one of their votes and he will drive from
him sound money democrats. What he
thinks will win him votes will cause him to
lose votes. And if he should lose a great
| part of the democratic majority that usually
any sympathy.