Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-12-05
NOT TO So TRUSTED.

NOT TO g TRUSTED.
Republacan Presidential Aspirants An On
der o Cloud.
Senator Sherman In the role of TIL
.'enfant terrible, : Citing away tamil,
secrets. is rather interesting.
The assertion, already referred to
that the republicans were afraid t.
trust Mr.. Harrison to veto freedom
age bill in 1890 is onewhich may be LEFT
to Mr.. Harrison himself to determine
whether this distrust was we'll founded
Mr.. Harrison would have large an6
appreciative audience If he would nov
come forward and say that he woulG
have vetoed a free-coinage bill in 1890, i
congress had passed one. He woule
also be heard with some interest it he
should say he would have signed such
a bill There is third topic on which
he could get fair hearing. Why die
he sign the Sherman bill? Was be
afraid that he would otherwise sign q
free-coinage.b bill, or that he would veto
one? With Unlimited facilities for set,
Ting oil these questions, the silence OF
the ex-president is painful to contem.
plate.
But there is on this point no ground
of objection to Mr.. Harrison that does
not equally apply to his competitors
for the nomination. There is Mr.. Nc
kinley, who voted for free coinage
voted and spoke for the Sherman law,
and has denounced the democrats for
the repeal of the latter law. Mr.. Nc
Kinley is tainted with all the financial
heresies of his party, and at this time
is trusted by no party so far as the sill
yer question is concerned. No party can
say with any degree of certainty wheth-
er he would sign or veto a free coinage
bill. No one can say whether he would
sign or veto bill similar to the Sher-
man silver-purchase act, If presented to
him on its own merits. IF presented to
him as condition precedent to the re-
enactment of the tariff act that bears
his name, he would, of course, sign it,
as he voted for it in 1890 in pursuance
of the terms Of the bargain.
As to Mr.. Reed, there is nothing
known of his attitude which ought to
win the confidence of sound-money re-
publicans. He voted for the Sherman
law, and doubtless was concerned in the
trade by which it was passed to get
votes for the Mckinley bill. A man
who will thus give his assent to panic
breeding measures is not worthy of con-
hdence. But Mr.. Reed has gone farther.
He has approved proposition to inn
pose discriminating duties on imports
from such countries as will not go into
an agreement to rehabilitate silver. As
the Courier-Journal has repeatedly
shown. this would entirely destroy our
foreign market for agricultural prod
nets without accomplishing anything
for bimetallism. A man who is willing
to conciliate the silver miners by pol
icy that would put down the price of
wheat to 90 cents bushel, of corn to
ten cents, and of cotton to two, cents a
pound surely cannot be trusted by any
convention that has any regard either
for sound currency or the interests of
the most numerous class of our pOpula-
ton.
Mr.. Allison is handicapped at the be-
ginning of the race by the connection of
his name with the Bland-Allison bill.
The republicans have said SO often that
this act was worse than the Sherman
law that it would be hard for them to
take it back now. The truth is, Mr..
Bland is misrepresented when this bill
has his name attached to it. Mr.. BANDS
pill was for free coinage pure and SIM
pie, and Mr.. A1lison's bill was substi-
tuted for it, SO that it ought to have
been called the Allison law. Now, even
admitting that it was worse law than
that which bears the name of Sherman,
Mr.. Allison is responsible for it. The
contrary, of course, is true: the Sherman
law was immensely worse. This does
not relieve Mr.. Allison in the least: he
voted to repeal his own bill by substi-
tuting a worse one for it. It is clear
that he will not answer the demands of
sound-money republicans.
1t is plain that if sound-money men
dictate the next republican nomination
some other than the four leading candi-
dates must be selected. There is con-
siderable republican authority for the
statement that republicans of this class
are looking to Grover Cleveland. The
Globe-Democrat some months ago de-
monstrated that he is far more trust
worthy on the silver issue than any
prominent republican candidate. Will
liam E. Chandler, who is eoquetting with
the silverites, says he would get re-
publican vote for every democratic vote
he would lose. Republican newspa-
pers all over the country have been pre-
dieting that he will be again candidate
and this in the face of the fact that
the democratic party is pledged against
a third term. It would appear that
these men were paving the way to
rendering nomination to Mr.. Cleveland,
but they ought to know that he would
refuse to be their candi-
date. Not even their agreement to in
dorse him if nominated by the demo-
Gratis would induce him or his party to
violate the anti-third-term tradition.
Unless the republicans abandon the
idea and thus insure the
of democratic president, their
quest of candidate will be attended
with many difficulties. = Louisville
SILENCE OF HARRISON.
Che Republican President Played 'Possum
with His Party.
John Sherman in his book says, in
telling why the silver law of 1S90 was