Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1895-05-07

"~"fN~NN"af hAN EA"NNAA Ah"N BDAA
is the only money standard and
who start out with an untrue hy-
pothesis that silver has depreciat-
ed instead Of the fact that gold
has appreciated, have clearly de-
fined the issue for 1896. From
all appearances today the south
and the west will stand together
for the free and unlimited coinage
Of silver. Speaker Crisp has been
interviewed in Atlanta, Georgia,
and his clear cut views will inAu-
ence many whose minds have new
er been made up on the money
question, He says:
"From the time Of the tariff
commission of 1880 down to a year
ago tariff reform had its varying
fortunes, resulting at last in a o
vision acceptable to the people.
The disposition of the tariff clears
the way for the settlement of the
silver question. That question Is
now fully before us. It will be
the one issue before the people
next year and in such a way that
il must be settled openly. The
fact thet progress IN silver reha-
bilitation is slow should not be
discouraging. This is a big coun-
try, from the Atlantic to the Pa
cihc, with probably 100000 Of
the most civilized people in the
world. When, after years Of dis
cussion, they made up their minds
for tariff reform, there was no
power on earth strong enough to
resist it. The silver question is
going through the same course of
public discussion. just as in that
fight, the silver men will have
their battle royal, when the Amer
lean people will award the victory.
The majority of people in both
parties are in favor Of the free
coinage of silver. They are today
behind the free silver movement,
and they wall push it on to sue
cess and have silver reestablished
on its old equality with gold. This
financial question will be settled
by the democratic party. In the
next campaign the rehabilitation
of silver will be the controlling is.
sue upon which democracy will
appeal to the people. Party plat
forms should always be plain and
direct. Whatever reason existed
for different constructions of the
platform of 1892 should no longer
exist, and for this purpose, that tc
be adopted in 1896 should be 81
plain that even a school boy car
understand it. The platform
should declare for the free coinage
of silver.
We should select some good mar
from the west, some man with a
military record, and so forth will
confidence to victory which the
people give to those who are brave
enough to fight for it. The only
fear l have is, not that the people
ara not in favor of free silver, buI
that the free silver people who are
in the majority, may divide into
factions, running two or three can.
didates, in which event the election
would be thrown into the house
where the Republican would b,
elected. Such a contest as / have
outlined would cause many people
to make new party alignments
There are Democrats strongly wed.
ded to the gold theory and many
Republicans just as strongly we'd
ded to freesilver. OF course, these
men would have to choose between
their old party and their conyic-
tions on this issue.
"Of course" said MI. Crisp
"there is a contingency in which
the people might not be called
upon to settle the question-tha
is probable action of an interna.
tional conference. That would b,
the best and easiest method Of re.
establishing silver and with lesl
Of the element of experiment in it
IL such a conference should be-
called, and it took action restoring
silver so hat the people would be
satisfied, we would have no imam
cial issue for 1896. la the mean
time, however, the people of the
United States will be moving along
to that result in their own way
The people want the freedom o.
silver. 1 am 10 favor of its free
coinage, as l have always been, anc
the Democratic voters will declare
for it next year.