Evening star., 1895-06-14
THE SILVER OUTLOOK
No Party Split Likely Until After the
Conventions
ConcessiOns for the White Metal
This VIII BE the Demand of the
Silveritcs-PopuIists Pleased.

The fight for silver will be prosecuted by
both democrats and republicans with
view to capturing the national convention
of one or both of these parties, and will
not be carried beyond party lines, if at all,
until after presidential nominees have been
chosen.
1t is believed by democrats in this city
that the failure of the silver convention at
Memphis to adopt a resolution in favor of
forming a new party will settle once for
all the idea of extremists among the free
silver men that old parties should be
abandoned, and that silver should be made
the one issue Of a new organization. Ex-
Representative Bryan Of Nebraska, during
the latter days of Congress. was careful
to make it known that he believed in car
rying on a silver fight within the demo-
cratic party, and that he thought the ma
tional convention could be captured by the
SilverlteS.
But Mr.. Bryans action at the Memphis
convention has shown that he has grown
restive under the powerful influence WELD
ed by the SCI nd money men of the admin
istraton, and thinks it is about time the
party harness should be cast off. Mr.. Sib-
ley of Pennsylvania, 50 long mentioned as
a good leader of the silver party and as a
presidential possibility along populstlc
lines, came cut boldly in favor of severing
party affiliations.
No Headway for New Party.
But Senator Harris and other prominent
democrats at the convention saw the dan
ger into which the party was drifting and
were as forcible in pronouncing against
any dissolution of the party organization
as they were in arguing In favor of free
coinage of silver. The effort was being
made by faction of the convention to se-
cure the adoption CT a resolution which
would result in a formation of a new silver
party. Word was passed around among the
speakers at, the convention, 30 that in the
action took occasion to cor denim it, and 1t
was not possible to make eny Roadway on
the part of the new party men.
This action is regarded as keynote for
silver men in both the democratic and re
publican parties. Members, both republi-
cans and democrats, Of silver tendencies
now expect to stand firmly within their
party lines until they go to their conven-
tions. But they will have 1t clearly un-
derstood that they will get important con-
cessions at these national gatherings or
they will look outside the old parties for
man and a platform to vote for in 1896
Populists Are Pleased.
This course Of action is looked upon with
great favor by populists. The populsts
think that if silver meu wait until after
the national conventions in order to deter
mine whether they will bolt or whe ther
they will support the party nominee that
there will be no time to effect a satisfac-
tory organization for the nomination of a
man to lead the silverites in national
fight. The populists are inclined to believe
that by the time the conventions are held
their party will have received important
accessions from both democrats and re-
publicans and that their organization will
have increased SO in strength and import
ance that silverites will not think it neces-
sary to look elsewhere for party to car
ry out their ideas.
That SO mary democrats at the Mem
phis silver convention were loud in talking
down the movement to form a new party
is regarded by very many silver men as an
evidence that these members of the party
believe that they can carry the national
convention and adopt silver platform and
nominate a man for the, presidency who
will favor either the free coinage of silver
or who will pledge himself not to veto any
free silver legislation by Congress.
Whatever the outlook for silver may be-
there is a feeling of satisfaction among
strong party men of the democracy that the
sentiment shown in the Memphis convention
against a split of the party indicates that
at least until after the national convention
the sound money and the silver wings of
the democratic party will flap together.