The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-10-02
SENATOR RANSOM.
arc IRRATIONAL CANDIDACY
.oLopger Represents North Carolina
Hs Democracy.

nro uniting forward men to repre-
.ant their views and interests in the
sen. General Assembly, it will be well
nsA *bom to pause and consider by what
loi If marty usage Senator Ransom
rul' stand for election to the United
ca ..os Senate by a legislature elected
0'' tSo democratic platform of 1894.
Tbo first and by far the most import
declaration of that platform is sec
sn' which demands the free and un-
gmited coinage of silver at the ratio of
16to1
how any legislature elected by vir-
w. If this party pledge can consistent
~ rota for a nan for the United States
S,rata who has already repudiated it.
T,rovarned is forearmed. Let him
~ how Senator Ransom can come be-
80 the representatives of the people
Nd offer himself as the fit instrument
o. their will in the settlement of the
sroncial question, when in the last
CONGRESS he deliberately chose to ally
SimeeIv with the Senators from North
:, States in a scheme for a currency
attraction. which if not checked, will
.nrrIf the whole South in ruin more
t..ribIe than that from which we suf-
s,rod bv their invasion thirty years
coo The devastation of a debtor sec
tim wrought by a contracted currency
!, far more grievous than the destruc-
linn of property which accompanies a
conquest by an armed foe. Let US
Ink at Senator Ransom's vote upon
the question of free coinage. On Fri
dav. Oct. 81, 1898, "A black Friday for
the people of the South while the
United States Senate had under con-
5deration the famous or Infamous bill
for the repeal of the purchasing clause
Of the Sherman silver law, a resolution
was introduced providing for the resto-
ration of the coinage law approved Jan.
IS 1887. That sterling Democrat and
un~Ainching friend of silver, Senator
Morgan, of Alabama, declared that this
amendment was identical with a free
coinage bill introduced by Mr.. Bland In
the House of Representatives, Nov. 5,
1877, entitled, IAN Act to authorize the
free coinage of the standard silver dol
lar and to restore its legal tender char
acter. Gong. Rec. 5Srd Cong, p.
1887
How did Senator Ransom, who Is
seeking re election, at the hands Of the
Democratic party On a platform that
aims at this very thing, vote on this
amendment?
FROM THE CONG. REC. 53RD CONG. P. P.
2885-6
The yeas and nays were ordered and
the secretary proceeded to call the roll.
The result was announced-yeas %,
nays 80 as follows:
YEAS %.
Allen, Bate, Berry, Blackburn, But
Ter, Call, Coke, Daniel, Dubois, George,
Harris, Irby, Jones, Ark, Jones, N.
7, Kyle, Martin, Pasco, PETER, Power,
Pugh, Roach, Sharp, Stewart, Teller,
VANCE, Walthall, Wolcott.
NAYS 80.
Aldrich, Gallery, Camden, Carey,
Culom, Davis, Dixon, Dolph, Faux
ner, Frye, Gallinger, Gibson, German,
Gray, Hale, Higgins, Hill, Hoar, Lind
say, Lodge, Mcmillan, Mcpherson,
Henderson, Mitchell, Wis, Morrill,,
Murphy, Palmer, Perkins, Proctor,
glay, RANSOM, Sherman, Smith,
StOckOridge, Turpie, Voorhees,, Wash
burn, White, La.
The following day a vote was taken
On another amendment providing for
Zee coinage. Referring to this vote,
Senator Morgan said: ION the 28th of
october, 1898, the following Democrats
voted IN the Senate for restoring to the
people the right of free coinage: They
ae Senator's Bate, Berry, Blackburn,
0utler, Call, Coke, Daniel, George,
oarrls, Irby, Jones, of Arkansas, Mar
vi, Pasco, Pugh, Roach, Vance, Vest,
'uu Walthall, IS Democrats voting.
aau the following Democrats were
paired IN favor of free coinage of silver,
aaqeLy: Cockrell, Colquitt, Morgan,
Iua White, of California, making 29
Ds"ocrat8 cho support the free coin
aSSCJ 8ttuer IN the Senate. The Demo
"8lS IN the Senate who refused to SUP
yr'' the free coinage of silver are
r csSSrs. Gallery, Camden, Faulkner,
T v'TSon' German, Gray, Hill, Lindsay,
~ emerson, Palmer, Ransom. Smith,
uas' Iurpie, Voorhees,, and White, of
W.. %@Iolslana -16 Democrats voting against
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