The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-04-03
"SLIPPERY BILL"
Gives His Views On the New Sill
yer Party.

ltrOm the Chicago Times Herald
Washington. March I4-"The actual
purpose for which the new silver party
was organized does not seem to be we'll
understood throughout the country"
said ex-Representative Springer to-
day. "That party was organized for
the purpose Of forcing one or the 9TH
er of the old parties to adopt the l6 to
1 silver platform. The silver men in
Washington put their heads together
and declared that they were going to
so manipulate things that one or the
other of the old parties should not
straddle the silver ques tion. One Of
the most important maneuvers Of
next years campaign will be the dates
of the Democratic and Republican
conventions. According to tradition
the Democrats, as the party in power,
m ust hold their convention first, but
it would be good politics on the part
of the Democratic leaders to make an
effort 20 have their nominating con-
vention after the Republicans shall
have acted OF course this is game
which both may play at, and l expect
some sharp jockeying by the national
committees of the two parties, The
silver party is merely club held over
the Democrats to force them to 1f
to standard. / personally know that
the very men who have engineered
this movement intend to remain in
the Democratic party fighting for
delegates to the national convention
and making tremendous efforts
4 h fru n a
majority of the convention. They
hope to get control of all the southern
states, Of practically all the delegates
from west of the Missouri River. and
perhaps one-half of the delegates from
Illinois, Iowa. Minnesota, Michigan,
Indiana, Ohio and Pennsylvania. II
they are not disappointed in their ex-
pectations they will easily control the
great maj ajorty of the voting strength
of the convention. They will have
possession of the committee on plat
form, and in all probability will be
able to dictate the nominations as we'll
as the resolutions.
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''If they succeed in their efforts to
take possession of the Democratic
party" continued Mr. Springer, 1.-The
proposed new party will disappear as
if by magic. That will be the end Of
it, and large blocks of the Republican
party in the western states will wait
TO see what their national convention
does before giving their allegiance to
either ticket. l am convinced the
Democratic convention will be. con-
trolled by the silver people, and if the
Republican convention is held later
there will remain nothing for it to do
but to take the opposite tack, adopt a
conservative, sound money platform
and nominate some man like Allison,
who is salts factory to the silver peO-
pie. 1t looks to me as if this would
be approximately the outcome of the
maneuver. The silver question will
overshadow everything and thus
naturally kill off both the proposed
silver party and the old Populist par
ty, and combine within the Demo-
cratic ranks all the silver elements in
the country. On arsound money plat
form the Republicans will be able to
carry every state in the East, includ-
ing. no doubt, New Jersey, and the
next presidential battle will be de-
termined in Michigan, Illinois, In
diana and the states further West.
Instead of three or -four candidates in
the field. | expect to see square light
between the two great parties, with
silver atl6 to.l as the issue. pelleVe
Allison .lasA much better chance to,
ba,vhe Republican, nominee than any
other man, land 4 also believe the
nnemhcfatic capdidate will be found IN,
the 'West.'t'. <S -. ..:"'
-. Brave Bob Dunn.
/. State Auditor Dunn seems to be
verifying the predictions of his
friends and of the press, and is after
the pine land raiders in earnest. He
claims his examiners have discovered
over 3OO,OOO,O0O feet of timber which
were sold by Mr.. Biermann without
having advertised it, on the ground
that it was in danger of destruction
by fire,a pretense without foundation,
rendering the sale fraudulent ana
void. The sale will be annulled and
the state will be gamer. Bravo, Bob
Dunn. Keep at it and you shall have
the backing of grateful people.-Al-
bert Lei Standard.
w. ID. ANDREWS,