The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-06-14
POLITICAL GOSSIP.

| Professor Robert ELLIS Thompson, James
| Dobson, Henry Carey Baird and many
| other prominent residents of Philadelphia,
| Quaker City opponents of gold monomet-
| allism have just organized a Bimetallic
association, with the following declara-
| ton of principles: "Q) The supply of both
| gold and silver which Is available for the
| worlds coinage Is not in excess of the
| worlds needs l2) The relative amount of
silver in this supply is greatly inferior to
| what 1t was fifty years ago, when the two
| metals maintained staple ratio of 155 to
| /. go The change in the comparative
value has not been produced by any eX-
cess in the supply of silver, but by its arti-
| fetal exclusion from the wants of the civ
| iliZed world. (D This exclusion has pro-
| duced an equal appreciation in the value
| of gold by throwing upon it the burden of
| affecting the worlds exchanges and or
| ganizing its productive forces. 5) The ef-
| feet of this rise in the value of gold has
| been to force down the nominal value of
everything 1t measures, thus making 1t
| impossible for the producer to pay his
| debts at the present gold prices of his
products, and adding vastly to the general
| burden of public Indebtedness. (G 1t is
| not in the interest Of any class of silver
miners, but in those of the producers of
urge the prompt restitution of silver to
| its place in the money of the nation. %
| While 1t is most desirable to have this ef-
| fectcd by an internationl bimetallc agree
ment, America cannot afford to wait for
| this, for delay threatens to prevent prompt
relief of our producing classes. She must
| act herself, with due regard to the reten-
| ton of her gold currency alongside silver,
| and with view to commencing or even
| compelling similar action on the part of
| other countries. On these grounds we de-
| clare our purpose to work for the resump-
| ton of silver as the money of the coun-
| try, on the same footing as during the first
| three-quarters of century of our na-
| t!onal existence"
| According to Walter Wellman, the fight
which Senator Brice is making to secure
| his reelection two years hence is creating
| considerable amusement in Washington.
"Brice early perceived" Mr. Wellman
writes to the Chicago Times-Herald, that
| the only show there was in the thing for
| him lay in Republican quarrels and fac
| tional chickering's, and he has left no stone
| unturned that might by any possibility
embitter one Ohio Republican against an
other. Evidence is at hand to prove con-
clusively that there is much more quarrel
| ing among Ohio Republicans in the news
papers published outside the state than
| there Is within the borders. Brice and his
| coworkers have succeeded in convincing
| a great many people that Mckinley and
| Foraker are just cutting one another $
| throat-everyone except Mckinley and
Foraker and their Ohio friends and follow
| ers. 1t Is known here for certainty that
| Brca even went so far as to send his rep
tot trN ft,a ID
vention at GAINESVILLE, and these agents
| were well supplied with money to use in
| furtherance of the game of cross-purposes.
| They did not bribe anyone but they
| bought beer for the boys and wine for the
| heads of messes and put in their poisoned
words at every opportunity. 1t Is sharp
| politics, and II shrewdness and manipula-
| ton Will actually stir the Ohio Repubi-
| cans into factional war and give Brice a
| Show to save himself the country may rest
asured that the trick will be turned" But
| the chances are that the Republicans of
| the Buckeye state, to use q vulgarism,
ARE onto" Brice.
Charles Theodore Murray, in letter to
| the Washington Post reviewing the prog
| ress of the silver fight in Indiana, Illi-
nois and Missouri, reaches the conclusion
idea will turn all these states over to the
Republican party. Mr.. Murray quotes q
prominent st. Louis politician in this wise:
Say 100 represents the natural Demo-
cratic vote of Missouri rs the Republican,
and 25 the fioaters, or odds and ends. A
cast-ron free coinage machine will drive
| 10 out of the Democratic ranks into the
opposition and 10 will remain at home.
The Republicans will catch the floaters,
who, for one reason or another, always
| land on the top side. This would leave
| the political equation thus: Is Democrat,
| 1876 Republican. That Is not supposed to
be the exact proportion, but that Is the
way it works. This state will undoubt-
edly go Republican under the new test Of
Democracy" but how about the Repub-
| lican silver menu was asked. "They are
not invited to get out of their party be-
cause the majority Of that party may dis
agree with them on coinage. They will
have the option offered by the Ohio plat
form. They will stick to their own ban
ners, as usual Divide the enemy and
conquer is an old military proverb. We
shall be in the position of having divided
ourselves, and we shall be everlastingly
| lioked."
The conclusion which the Washington
| Post draws, in long review of the silver
| crusade, with reference to Pennsylvania,
| is that 1t Is the Republican party which
Is being rent because of the silver issue.
| Senator Cameron, lifelong Republican,
an ardent advocate of FREQ coinage, and
an aspirant for the presidency, is moving
| heaven and earth to bring the great mass
Of the Republican voters to his way of
thinking. His friends say that his mis-
at,
marked success. Certain it is that he is
| gaining hearing today for his silver
views where not so very long ago he ad-
| dressed deaf ears. His daily mail is filed
| with inquiries for information and he
keeps at his Office in this city great pile
| of speeches for silver, including his own,
| which he gladly distributes to anxious
| seekers after knowledge" The Post sums
the matter up by saying that "some curl
| GUS political alignments in Pennsylvania
| in the future are not unlikely" which is
conservative way OF putting 1t.
| The Philadelphia Evening Bulletin Is
beginning early to make faces at Senator
Cameron. 1t says: 1T Is reported that
Senator Cameron and his friends will en-
deavor to enlist the aid of the Pennsyl-
vana delegates to the programme of the
silverltes, at least to the extent of pre-
venting them from making genuine ex-
preston Of Pennsylvania opinion on the
silver issue. We hope that there will be
no such exhibition of cowardice and stulti-
fication. Cameron's silver opinions are
not shared by his party in his own state;
he is in ptiable and constantly dwin-
ding minority. and the Pennsylvarians in
the convention could do the party no bet
ter service than to repud!ate his financial
sophistrles with all the emphasis Of which
they are capable"
Kentucky's Republican gubernatorial
candidate w. o. Bradley. who for fifteen
years has refused to speak to Congressman