People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1895-05-03

Lne DdtII0 10 u0 1OuBHts Lot US Ue
thankful that the field is open and
let us hope that no politicians inge-
nuity will be able to obscure the
view"
Let's see who arranged "the truce
which produced the ''delusive COM
promise"
House Bill No. $500 for the free
coinage of silver was voted upon
April 8th 1884. 1t received l26 yeas
and 163 nays. Among the latter is
found So Democrats. To the votes of
of these 60 "ingenious politicians"
must be ascribed the honor of crea-
ting necessity for the "delusive
compromise" known as the Sherman
act.
In 1892 bill for the 'sfree coinage
of silver" passed Republican Senate
and was killed by Democrati;
House, but they did not tackle the
exclusive compromise"
The Democratic platform Of 1892
having demanded the repeal of "that
purchasing clause" Democrat Cleve-
land convened the Democrats in
extra Congressional session in 1913
and they repealed it. Therefore Mr..
Jennings political party is the "gold
monometallists" at whose "bidding"
the exclusive compromise" was re-
pealed.
Having gotten the "delusive COM
promise" safely cofined, an excellent
opportunity to resurrect "free coin
age OF silver" from the tomb was
presented. But its Democratic
friends (?) were too obedient to the
"bidding of the gold monometallists"
to remember their pledges to the
people.
Two little lines, repeating the act
of 1878 added to the act repeating
the exclusive compromise" would
have done the work. Mr.. Fleming's
party had overwhelming control of
the Legislative and Executive BRAN
ches of the Government. The
"chance" they had asked was theirs.
Why did they not utilize it ?
One of the reasons may be found
in Mr.. FlemiDg's analysis of the sill
yer plank of '92, which follows:
"The simple truth is the Chicago
platform contained two declarations
on money. One was the free coin
age plank, the other the parity plank.
One was meant to hold the South
and West in line. The other was
meant to attract the North and
East"
We believe Mr.. Fleming made
some speeches during the Presidential
campaigns of '92 and 1913. Did he SO
proclaim to the people, or did he use
"aptly turned phrases to beguile the
people?" An honorable man like
Speaker Fleming would tell the truth
in a campaign year as boldly as he
would proclaim it through the news
papers in an off year. Certainly he
would.
"The Georgia State platform of
1894 was merely an ingenious para
phase of the Chicago 'straddle,
agreed upon under stress of danger
imminently threatening the prosperi-
ty of the State"
The photographers define the word
paraphrase, as an amplifed transla-
ton, an explanation consisting OF
many words. According to our re-
collection the silver plank of the
Georgia platform consisted of few
words while the silver plank in the
Chicago "straddle" was prodigiously
prodigal with the queens English.
Therefore, as the Georgia platform
did not explain, it could not have
been paraphrase of the "straddle"
in the Chicago platform. Perhaps
it was an "Equivocation." ~
The cause assigned by Speaker
Fleming for resorting to Gan ingeni-
GUS paraphrase of the Chicago 'strad-
die" deserves some thought. What
"danger imminently threatened the
prosperity of the State" at that time?
AS there were only two political