Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-04-18

SILVER MEN
Preparing for an Aggressive Cam
paign.

WAsHIAGfOk, -. C.y Aprii lo.-Free
silver men are going TO make an ag-
gressivs campaign and will begin OPP
Grafton in a few days. The leaders
expect to obtain theirgreatast strength
in the West, but will carry the fight
into the stronghold of Eastern gold
bugs.
On Saturday Mr.. sibley, Senator
Jones, of Nevada, iand Gen. A. J.
Warner, President af the Bimetallic
League, will meet at Chicago. 1t is
expected that they will be joined
there by three or four other promi-
nent apostles of free silver, and the
party will proceed to Denver.
Mr.. Sibley has organized an extern
sive silver campaign in Pennsylvania
and New Jersey, and aims to take the
field in the far West in person to
prove to the free coinage Republicans
of the mining States that it is absolute
Stiffness for them to expect the Ma
tional Republican party to do any
thing for silver. Mr.. Sibley will con-
front Senators Teller and Wolcott on
their own doorsteps and tell them and
their people that in dallying with the
Republican party they are betraying
the true interests OF silver. Sibley
will make seven or eight months
campaign in the mining States and
pay especial attention 10 the Repub-
licans. Then he viii head for the
South and campaign i'll that region
next winter and spring, and pay par
ticular attention to the Democrats.
1t is said to be the purpose of the
leaders of the Sibley movement to at
tempt to convert the labor element
in the East 10 the free silver doctrine.
They believe that existing unrest and
dissatisfaction among the laboring
classes can be utilized TO excellent
advantage in furthering their plans.
They will charge that much of the
trouble of the laboring classes is due
to the contracted currency and to the
monopoly of the gold bugs. Organic
ed labor will be arrayed against the
single gold standard as being the
most dangerous of monopolies. The
first move in the direction of eliciting
the attention of the people upon
whom the new party is working in
the Eastern States is dissemination
of vast amounts of free silver litera-
ture. Hundreds of books and pam
phlets, representing the free silver
question in a popular way and in
manner calculated to appeal to the
feelings of the people, are being cir
culated extensively throughout Penn
sylvania and the Eastern States gen.
orally. Every time an Eastern man
makes declaration in favor of free
coinage the promoters of the new
party seize upon it eagerly and give
it the widest circulation. A case in
point is the recent statement of Pres
ident Andrews, of Brown University,
who declared that national free coin
age would result in ga tremendous re-
vival of business, money turned loose,
factories going full capacity and trade
of every silver country coming our
way"
The fact that Prof. Andrews is an
Eastern man and warm friend and
admirer of President Cleveland is
utilized to its full advantage by silver
men circulating his statements.
x-Congressman Bland was to
have been in Colorado on a lecturing
tour when the Sibley party reached
Denver, but he has been compelled to
cancel his engagement on account OF
illness. Mr.. Sibley has been talked of
as the Presidential candidate of the
new party, but he is in favor of plac-
ing Mr. Bland's name at the head of
the ticket.