Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-11-12
A FREE SILVER PARTY
What the Believers in the White Metal
Will Probably Do.
Will Vote for No Presidential Cam
dtdatc Unless He is Pledged
to Free Coinage.

Out Of the ruins Of the democratic party
the silver men are hoping to organize a
silver party. The aim of the great advo-
Gates of the free coinage of silver is to
bring together In one political organization
all men of their own faith. 1t is held by
such men as Bland on the one side and
Teller, Dubois and Jones on the other
that the cause Of silver has been seriously
injured by the fact that the believers in
that metal have been led to maintain their
allegiance to one or the other of the old
parties according to their convictionssas to
the tariff and other questions. In other
words, they have allowed their divisions on
the tariff to interfere with their properly
standing together on free coinage. The
purpose OF the leaders now Is to ignore all
other questions and make the fight for free
coinage The paramount issue In the pontlcS
of the future. The republican silver lead
ers In the Senate will unQuestionably at
tempt to lead their old party into the recog-
milton of silver as a money standard be-
fore the split from that organization. Fail
ing to do this they will without breaking
their allegiance to the republican party
continue the fight for silver in whatever
ways they can until the meeting of the
national convention.
A Free Silver Party.
If they fail at this convention to secure
the adoption of free coinage plank and
the nomination of President pledged TO
carry 1t out, 1t is SAID that they will i'm
mediately join with all other silver men
willing to go into the venture in organizing
free silver party. The expectation is
that they will not have to organize an en-
tirely new party. but will make an alliance
with the democratic party if they as ar
organization will make free coinage of
silver the "a of
paign and pledge their candidates for that
cause. 1t Is said by men interested in the
cause OF silver that neither Teller, Dubois,
Wolcott, Jones nor Stewart will vote for
the Mex republican candidate for the presi-
dency unless he is committed to free COIN
age and running on free coinage plat
form.
On the other hand, it is not believed that
any of the radical free coinage men in the
democratic party will vote for a cadidate
Nominated oy their PARTY who Is not irrey-
ocatly committed to free coinage. In some
form or other 1t is predicted that the next
great battle Will be on the silver question,
either through the democrats committing
themselves completely to free coinage and
thus drawing the support of all silver men,
or else by the organization of a new party
composed or silver men drawn from boti.
the old parties and making q sectional di-
vision between the west and south ON one
hand and the east on the other
Democrats Have No Hope In the East.
The overwhelming defeat of the demo-
Gratis in New York leaves scarcely a posi-
bIlty for any hope that they may again
get control of that state within a good
many years. Nor have they any hope of
recovering their lost ground in New Eng
land or elsewhere in the east. New York
and a few New England representatives
winch the democrats have had have been
tne co1serVatcrs Of the democratic party,
which have kept them from being more
radical on the silver question. Their ac-
ton on this question has been tempered by
desire to hold New York In the demo-
cratic column and to strengthen the New
England democracy. By the almost COM
plete annihiiation of the eastern wing of the
party the democrats are deprived of this in
centive to conservatism and moderation on
the financial question, and it is very free
ly predicted that from their hopeiessness of
regaining their foothold in the east their
issues will be made up entirely with the
view of pleasing the south and west thus
bringing about the sectional division in poll
tics which the silver men long have sought