The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-04-21
Senator Blackburn of Kentucky
Makes Declaration
NO SECRETS IN POLITICS
The Southern Statesman Dcc'a-cs Him.
self Openly
He Claims That His Views on TIL, Monty
Question Are WcIl-known and
Issues a Challenge

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the silver question and boldly throws
down the gauntlet to his opponents for
similar candor on the same subject. With
his usual aggressiveness. the senator a.
most dares his opponents to meet him on
the issue he represents and it may be
assumed the issue will be promptly ao-
cepted.
Senator Blackburn has writer with h S
own hand the statement of the exposition
on which he expects to stand or fall in
the senatorial race. He declares his posi-
ton as follows
eff | have shown no d disposition to be
interviewed by the daily papers o. this
CITY it has not been because OF my pur-
pose to conceal from the people my views
on any public question but because | was
anxious to avoid if possible a perversion
and distortion to which my utterances
have generally (of course unintentionaily)
been subjected.
II never had have not now and never
did intend to have any secrets in politics.
| am at a loss to understand how anyone,
especially in Kentucky, can remain in ig-
norance al 30 my sentiments upon the sill
yer question if they feel enough OF. inter-
est in the matter to desire such informa
ton. For the last twenty years in con-
gress and on the stump. anywhere and
everywhere, | have earnest ly and persist
emily insisted upon the restoration of sill
yer metal to that place in the money SyS-
tenn of the country which it held prior to
the passage OF that disastrous act of de-
monetization in 1878.
eff there is one man in public life in all
the country whose views on the subject
were entitled to be known to all men by
+ aSOn of his acts and utterances, L had
reason to believe | was that man. Upon
this subject | have never held an opinion
or made an utterance that | have in any
degree altered or modified in all these
years. Yet if there are still any uniformed
who desire to know my views | will re-
assure in the shortest space possible by say
ing | am in favor OF opening the mints of
this country to the unlimited, coinage of
silver metal on equality with the coinage of
gold. | am opposed to monometallism and
Just as much opposed to silver monomet-
allism without reservation. am
bimetallist. | want and mean to con-
tinue to insist upon the use of both metals
on even terms as the redemption money
of this country. | would be glad to see
this result brought about by the action of
an international conference. provided it
could be done without delay. | am OPP
posed to this government waiting for any
such conference to act. Our experience
with such agencies has not been such as
to give us either confidence or hope of the
attainment of this purpose.
Mnllc III fnly ne TRUE tIldb Tile TeSbOTd-
ton of silver to it's place of unrestricted
coinage legal tender function may not
prove panacea for the ills that we now
suffer am convinced it will 40 more and
go further in that direction than any
one piece OF legislation that has been
suggested. A. ;o s.
the silver metal at the ratio of Is to l,
believing in the light of an experience
that covers century, such restoration
will establish and maintain permanently
the parity between the two metals. | be-
lieve we should take this action at the
earliest day possible. independent of the
policies or views of other nations. l
have an abiding faith in the ability of
my country to establish and maintain its
own monetary system as that which |
cherish in its ability to defend its own
soil from invasion or it's institutions from
assault.
I'm my judgment we are as independ-
ent of foreign dictation or domination in
the one as in the other.
1.-The American people are not to be
hoodwinked or deceived further. They
are at last thinking, and the result OF
their investigation will vindicate the
right. No employment of patch phrases
will determine the popular verdict. The
people are rapidly coming to know that
ths issue before them is not gold mon
ometallism upon the one side and silver
monometallism on the other. but it is
rather a contest between TIE advocates of
single gold standard upon the one hand
and those who demand the use OF both
silver and gold upon the other
my friends in Kentucky [ am sure
knew my position upon this and all other
public questions and are satisfied with it.
Now if there be one on the list of an
nounced candidates for the Senate who
will avow himself an opponent of silver
n0tn adVOnntn 81 GOLD stand
ard, or in other words who is not in ac-
cord with the views held and advocated
by your paper and will 50 declare him
self, 1 will ask and urge every friend of
mine in Kentucky holding those views,
and who in spite of the fact is now sup
me and give it to the candidate who has
been bold enough to make such declar-
alton, but | apprehend that no one of
these worthy gentlemen will make such
an avowal unless he couples with it an
announcement of his withdrawal from
the canvass
Senator Blackburn s interview has called
forth an editorial from the Evening Post
calling upon Secretary Carlisle to come
out and answer the Senator. The Post
says;
administration is challenge which Mr..
McCreaTy cannot meet and which must
be met by gentleman from Kentucky
who is by invitation of Mr.. Cleveland, scc-
rotary of the treasury.
ct should have been met before. Under
the defiance of Mr.. Blackburn and Mr..
Proctor Knott, the silence of the secre-
tary of the treasury savors too much of
tmidity.
1.-The fight for sound principles, for
reason. for Democracy, must be made and
made before the meeting of the state con-
vention in June.
Hard money demanders have waited
for Mr.. Carlisle to speak; they have
waited for some indication that he was
in earnest. He is the natural leader in
this contest and he cannot open tho cam
paign too soon, nor put into it too much
of the fighting qualities.
1.-The crisis is upon the Democratic
party in Kentucky and it cannot be
averted."
CHICAGO April 2O.-Judge Samuel
Mcconnell, who recently resigned the
presidency of the Iroquois Club, the pow
erful Democratic organization, owing to
his avowal of a strong belief in free sill
yer, announced this afternoon the with
drawal OF his resignation. In an inter-
view Judge Mcconnell said that he had
found that his stand for free silver would
not necessitate his resignation. and that
he had found the members OF the club
perfectly willing that he should hold the
presidency with his free silver views.
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