The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-03-13
IT Is JUST BOOMING.
THE MONEY-ISSUE TEARING
EVERY THING TO PIECES.
Even the Republicans Alarmed
The Advance of the Inevitable.

The Advance or the inevitable
Here is q recent message from
Washington to that able Republican
paper, the St. Paul Dispatch:
Special to the Dispatch.
Washington, March 7.-Republican
leaders here in conference since the
demise of the late Fifty-third Con-
gress sniff danger in the attitude as
sumed by the ultra free silver ele-
ment. While greater portion of the
free coinage contingent, who have
| joined the new party fathered by
Bland and Bryan, are Democrats and
POpulists the next Congress will con-
tain considerable number of kepub-
| licans who are committed to the silver
cause, and who will align themselves
accordingly. There were few in the
last Congress, but being in the min
GRITTY, it was easy enough for the party
leaders to keep them in check. 1t is
announced by a subcommittee from
the new silver party that the call for
the coming national convention will
be issued at least three months
earlier than that Of the other parties.
The PopulistS have about decided to
join with the silver men, and this is
the hope of Republicans that the
movement will not prove disastrous.
The call will invite all persons who
believe in free coinage to send dele
gates to the national convention.
| in Colorado, Nebraska and the Da-
kotas, Idaho, Wyoming and the
Northwestern Pacific states. The
Cleveland wing Of the democracy see a
possible opportunity of throwing the
next presidential election into the
house of representatives., and for this
reason will soon begin to concentrate
their efforts in organization.
The first great fight will come off in
Ohio this fall when the adherents Of
| Cleveland are going to make hercu-
lean attempt to elect Congressman
Paul J. Sorg governor. There is some
friction existing between the Repub-
Iican factions in Ohio. The Mckinley
men are in full control of the party
machinery, but an element headed by
Bellamy Storer will contest for the SUI
premacy in the next state convention.
The Storer faction is Tom Reed or
ganization, and has considerable fol-
lowing. Col. Conger long ago declared
for Reed, and, it is claimed by several
of the Ohio residents Of the national
capitol, that the state is by no means
Paul J. Sorg is one of the two
Democrats saved in Ohio last fall,
He is German millionaire, and will
be strong candidate if nominated.
On a free silver platform the Coxey
and all other agrarian elements stand
ready to join with Sorg, and the Ohio
campaign will be hot one from the
start.
In Missouri the free coinage men
governorship. The Cleveland wing
will support Seth Cobb, congressman
from one of the st. Louis districts.
Should Bland be elected, he will be
the nominee for the presidency on the
free coinage ticket next year.
Should the free silver sentiment
prevail in the state elections to be
held previous to the assembling OF
the Fifth-fourth Congress, the Re.
publican managers will have to con-
tend with much difficulty from the
start. For with the least sign OF
popular approval free coinage bill
will flop through the senate to the
exclusion of every other legislation if
it once gets the right of way. Voor-
hees and Mills and all of the Demo.
|
this free coinage move, and if Bland
and Bryan land anything out Of the
next election we will see the ancient
Brahms Of silver, like Harris, Mills
and Voorhees,, joining in the process
sion And they will be augume nted
too, by at least fifteen Republican sen.
ators from the extreme Western
states.
The financial issues, therefore is tC
be paramount, and the first blood will
be shed by the silver patriots in Ohio
and Missouri next November.
F. A. J.
And the St. Paul Dispatch is adver
Using that radical free-silver boob
"Coin's School of Finance" and offer.
it as a premium, and endorses it tt
the echo. And John Lind is making
free-silver speeches, and the Mime
; apolis Tribune comedies that The
whole battle of the future is to turr
on the financial question; while thu
Pioneer-Press, like a toothless ole
ogre, bowls with impotent rage fo
increased purchasing power Of gold
for lower prices for commodities ant
harder times for the people, Bank
! rupt itself it is labOring to bring tn,
whole world to it's own wretched con
dtion.
Now comes the tug of war. 1t il
easy enough to fight honest opponents
but when the enemy comes, profess
ing to believe just as we do, but ready
ITO put the knife of treachery unde
the fifth rib of our confidence, ther
indeed is the issue doubtful.
Let the honest men cling to eacl
other, and "beware of the Greek.
bearing gifts" 1t looks as if in 1s9,
, we should have three parties pretend
in to favor free-silver and only one
that actually desires it..
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