The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-04-12
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WANT TO MAKE CONVERTS.
Silver Leaders plDnning to Make an
Energetic Campaign.

Energetic Campaign.
| From the Chicago Herald.
Washington April Announcement Is
| made by the managers of the silver party
| that they are going TO make an aggressive
campaign in the east. Their plan is to in
terest the labor organizations, and, work.
ing through them, to make converts from
the ranks of both the old parties. They
believe that the existing unrest and dis
| satisfaction among the laborlng classes
can be utilized to excellent advantage in
furthering their plans. They will charge
| that much of the trouble of the laboring
classes Is due to what they term a con-
tracted currency and TO the monopoly of
gold men, as they say. The socialistc
classes will be arrayed against the gold
standard as being synonymous with cap
| ital and monopoly. Wall street and the
Rothschilds will be set up as the bugbear
of the workingmen, responsible for all
their ills, and the free coinage of silver
and an enlarged circulating medium sug-
gested as the only cure for existing
troubles
Politicians profess to see an excellent OPP
portunity in this plan of action for making
political capital, and say that times were
| never more auspicious for the establish
ment Of a. new political cult 1t is claimed
| that the idea of the financial policy being
responsible for troubles heretofore
charged to other causes will take well with
the restless and dissatisfied ones. The
first move in the direction of eiciting the
attention of the people upon whom the
new party Is working Is dissemination
of vast amounts of free silver literature.
Hundreds of books and pamphlets present
ing the silver question In n popular way
and In a manner calculated to appeal 10
the prejudice of the people are being circu-
lated throughout the country. Every time
an eastern man, usually a theorist, makes
a declaration in favor of free coinage the
promoters Of the new party seize upon II
eagerly and give 1t the widest circulation.
President Andrews Declaration.
a case in point is the recent statement
of President Andrews, of Brown univer-
sity, who declared that national free coin
age would result in "a tremendous re-
vlval of business" money turned loose,
factories going full capacity and trade of
every silver country coming our way.
The fact that Professor Andrews IL an
eastern man and a warm friend and ad-
mirer OF President Cleveland is utilized to
It's fun advantage by the silver men In cir
culating his statement. on the other
hand the assertion of Senator Sherman a
linancier of worldwide reputation, % prac-
tical nnancler ana not a theorlst to The
effect that free coinage would result In
the most tremendous financial panic this
country has ever known, and that II would
paralyZe business and trade beyond any
thing ever known in the history OF any
nation in the world" Is hooted at as be-
ing merely the ravlng of u gold admirer
Next Saturday Mr.. Slbley, Senator Jones,
OF Nevada, and General A. j. Warner.
president OF the Bimetallic league, will
meet In Chicago. 1t Is expected that they
will be iointed there by three of four other
prominent apostles of free silver and the
party Will proceed to Denver. IT IL not
proposed to do any missionary work en-
route and an itinerary of their trip beyond
Denver has not been arranged. II 10
known, however. that several speeches
will be made In Colorado. and II Is expect
ed that invitations will be received there
from large number of cities where they
will be requested to address mass meetings
and expound the doctrines OF the new
party.
1t Is more than likely that the party un-
der the chaperonage of Senator Jones, will
continue their trip through Nevada, Cali
fornla, Washington, oregon. Montana and
1doho special point, It is said. win be
made TO spend some time In Utah and
leave no stone unturned which might con-
tribute to the selection OF two silver sena-
tors from that new state, and possibly
place It inthe fourth party column at the
next national election. Utah at this stage
OF the game would be quite valuable
addition.