St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-12-06
ANOTHER SILVER COMBINE,
Silver Mining Senators Again
Seeking the Aid OF Southern
Democrats

seeking the AIu or Southern
Democrats.
! Special to the Globe
WASHINGTON, Dec. 5.-The Western
Republicans who favor the free coinage
of silver are again planning combina-
ton with Southern Democrats for a
fight against the financial policy of the
administration. This time, however.
the Democrats from the South are not
as anxious tor such an arrangement as
they have been. Some of them begin
to realize that they did their share,
along with Brice, German and Smith, to
diScredit the Democratic patty in the
Northern and Eastern states, and they
want to wait and sec II there is not
some middle ground upon which all
Democrats will be able to meet before
taking the bait offered by the Rocky
mountain silver mines.
Ot course this talk Of a combination
between the silver miners and the
Southern silver nell is no new thing. 1t
has, in fact, been successfully worked
| on number of occasions in the last
few years, notably when the force bill
went down before it, but In the last two
years the alliance. especially in the
senate. became stronger. and, contrary
to the expectation of the Republicans i'm
the East, the demand for this alliance
| as far as the senators from tine silver
mining states is stronger than ever
| since the late election. While the Re-
pubicans won in Montana, Idaho, Nyo-
ming, Colorado, Oregon, South Dakota
and Washington, they
Won as Free silver Men.
as strong for the white metal as the
! PopullStS or the Democrats. The peo-
pie had more confidence in the nomi-
nees Of the Republicans as men in those
states than IN the Populist candidates.
and for this reason they voted down
the Waites and Lewellings.
There is strong element in the
house, headed by Bailey, of Texas. and
Bryan, OF Nebraska, who are anxious
| for an anti administration fight on the
! money question. Behind these two
gentlemen are a host of Democrats with
| grievances against the president, but
| the dlfhculty with them is that no two
have the same grievance. Springer. of
| Illinois, is sore" but so Is ''Watch-
| dog" Holman, but they do not agree i'm
| their conclusions. One is strong siI
| yer man and the other is on the other
| Slde. FROM Missouri come the ioudest
| walls, and there, too, there is the same
failure to agree. Mr.. Bland can't quite
understand d why he, the unbending adj
vocate of silver for twenty years. should
| have been made the object at which all
| the POpulistS i'll the state aimed their
| shafts.
Taken all in all. 1t is very badly
! mixed mess A; and. if the silver mining
senators and members are able to bring
anything out of it of benefit to the in.
! terestS they represent, either in the
! present session or in the Eext congress.
they will be accomplishing wonders
Although Teller, WaIcOtt, Dubois and
| their fellow members from the meun-
| tain states refuse to admit It, IL is
| perfectly apparent here that silver was
dealt terrible blow at the late election.
| because it has caused an awakening of
| the honest money sentiment in the
! South. The silver cause is, of course.
| just as strong as ever in the silver
| states, but these alone can do nothing