Birmingham age-herald., 1895-06-16
MISSOURI ALL RIGHT.
U.icr Failure of the Snap Silver Convention
 SSheme.


 Special to the New York Evening Post.
 St Louis. June 12.-Missouri is all right for sound money and sanity. The le- gIimate party organization of the state is in the hands of men who are not in the habit of going off at a tangent, and since the state committee declared against a convention on the Illinois plan, the wisdom of it's course has been vindi- cated To be sure, a convention will be held by the fanatics, but it will be farce of the broadest kind.
 The free silver convention crowd were going to do great things after the state committee adjourned. Already thirty nine county chairmen had signified by letter to J. W. Paris that they were in fa- vor of independent action of the counties provided the committee did nothing, and the bolters assumed that several chair men who were just "honing" for con- vention were holding off to give the ac- credited representatives of the party time to act either by issuing the call or re- fusing to do so Now" quoth the bolt CTS after the committee adjourned, you'll see letters will simply rain in on Paris. The boys have just been hold ing back"
 But the expected eloudburst did not come. He got a few communicat ations, but many of them advised moderation and requested that haste be made slowly. Most of the county chairmen have one eye on the county constituencies and the other on a berth in the county court house, and they deplore the threatened party schism. Even few of the thirty nine who rushed in before the commit tee met wrote again suggesting that 1t would be better to bring further pressure on Chairman Maffitt and do things in regular order.
 The most distinguished flop of this kind is by Governor Stone, who spent a part of last week in St. Louis. He says he is not now in favor of independent action by the counties. Everybody un- derstands that his change of heart IS due to the fact that he has concluded that the power behind Farris throne is Bland Stone and Bland are in each E others way.
 This man Farris was in St. Louis last Saturday enjoying the ephemeral noto- riety as much as a southwest Missouri boy enjoys a new pair of red-top boots. He is a halting, hesitating, mild-man- nered man who permits some one else to think for him. He would never have been heard of outside of his own county had not Dick Bland coached him into his present position as leader of the bolt CTS. He is not at all sure of his ground, could not make an argument on the money question if his life depended on 1t, and was painfully frightened all the time he was here lest some one would chal- lenge him to an impromptu discus
 
 Farris will no doubt be the fitting char man of the farcical convention with which the bolters. if they carry out their present intentions, will celebrate the Fourth of July.
 But Missouri is all right Democratic National Committeemar John G. Prather does not mince words in discussing the subject. He said to me immediately after the Illinois conventions:
 No, the national committee will not do any such crazy thing as to call con venton in a non-election year for the purpose of fomenting discord in our ranks. It would be worse than politi- cal mistake, it would be political crime. Fhe action of such a convention would stand for nothing. The national nomi- hating convention meeting later would have perfect right to revoke whatever such body would do. All this unoffi- cial and unauthorized action is the work of few blatant demagogues who con slider what they are doing a short cut to fame. am unalterably opposed to the free coinage of silver at a ratio of l6 to l. or any other ratio. So is the democratic party of this state.''
 Colonel Prather has been on the na- tionai committee from this state since 1SS0