St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-08-12
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THE PARTY,s INTEREST.

The situation of the Democratic par
tywith relation to the demand for the
free coinage of silver is rapidly clear
ing. We can estimate the strength
Of that movement on it's merits today
far better than ever before, and are
! in a position to consider it's relation
to the interests of national Democ-
racy without favor or prejudice. 1t
is apparent today that the free silver
sentiment is dead in every Northern
state. Had not Mr.. Hinrichsen called
his snap convention in Illinois when
he did, the free silver faction of the
party would not be able to get to-
gether a corporals guard. They will
be outnumbered and showed under
whenever a real convention of the
party meets. In Indiana, although
both senators from that state have
pronounced free silver views, and
Mr.. Turpie's name was attached to
the manifesto sent out after the
Memphis free silver meeting, it has
been found impossible to create SEN
timent enough to warrant the calling
of a state convention. The Indiana
Democrats will repudiate free silver
whenever they have opportunity to
give expression to their will. The
Iowa Democrats did the same with
hearty unanimity at their state con-
vention.
In the South, on the other hand,
the free silver movement has been
strong enough to capture or obtain
control of the party organization in
many states. 1t will be noted, on
examination, that this is due strictly
to the necessity that local politicians
feel Of maintaining the pretense which
they themselves have set up, and
of arranging the machinery for con-
tinuing themselves in power. Moth
ing could be clearer to the observing
eye than the fact that the free coin
age campaign in the Southern states
Bland and Senators Cockrell and
Vest have an interest as of old in
holding control of the party machin-
cry of Missouri, and securing offices
for themselves in the future. They
are already openly committed to the
free silver movement. In their state
public opinion is not yet crystal
liked into absolute rejection of free
coinage. They have shrewdly con-
trived, therefore, to use the free sill
yer issue, which is the only available
one at their command, to get con-
troll of the party organization in the
state. That is the object of their
scheming, and they would have used
any other question that contributed
to the same result as readily as they
have used the free coinage argument
The situation in Missouri is a
duplicate of the situation in half
dozen other states. Take Kentucky,
for one. Nobody who knows Senator
IoldchDuIn InllhS lndC ne would
stake his political future on his be-
lief one way or the other about a
national financial policy. Mr.. Black
burn assumed, perhaps not without
reason at the time, that a
majority of the Democrats
of Kentucky desired free coin
age Of silver. That was the reason
why he made it the keynote of his
campaign: and, although beaten in
the convention, he is compelled by
the logic OF events to stand by his
original position. That Mr.. Black
burn would advocate with equal
facility and earnestness the gold
standard If he were not on record,
and if he We're sure that a majority
of Kentucky Democrats would ap-
prove his position, is hardly open to
doubt. In Georgia, in Mississippi, in
Louisiana and in other states of the
South, the same thing is true. Mr..