Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-05-23
PRESS COMMENTS.
No DOdging Will he Tolerated.


If any of the Republican leaders are
still clinging to the deusion that, while
the Democratic party is demoralized on
the silver question, their party is in a
happy state of harmony as to that issue,
they would do we'll to let go their hold
and, bracing up their courage, try to face
the facts of the situation. We have here
tofore shown that the Republican candi-
date for governor in Kansas was able to
beat the Populist nominee last November
by making his campaign fight for free
silver. No intelligent observer of Kansas
politics doubts that the Republican party
in that state is free coinage party.
No party can carry Colorado on any
other than free coinage platform. Sena-
tors Wolcott and Teller are as earnest in
their fight for free coinage as are their
colleagues in Nevada, Messrs. Jones and
Stewart. The Denver Times, a promi-
nent Republican paper, IN recent issue,
said
"When Senator Teller announced that
he had cast his last vote for any presi-
Dental candidate who was opposed to
free silver or luke-warm in its interests,
he did it with the knowledge that the Re
publican party of Colorado stood as one
man at his back. 1t is free coinage or
disruption of the national Republican
party in 1896. Which will you choose?"
The San Francisco Chronicle is the
leading Republican organ of the Pacific
coast. Its proprietor, Mr.. M. H. Dc
Young, has long been recognized as one
of the most sagacious leaders in his party
and his paper is one of the ablest adyo-
Gates of Republican principles. The
leading editorial in the Chronicle of the
10th inst. begins with the remark that
Senator George, of Mississippi, made II
shrewd and correct observation when he
remarked that the aroused interest in the
free coinage question, which is now so
apparent throughout the country, is rath-
er a disclosure than growth. "The
masses of the people," the Chronicle goes
on to say, shave never been reconciled to
the demonstration of silver, and there
has been no time since 1877, when the
subject began to be discussed, when the
people would not have voted for the res
toration of silver to its full right as one
of the money metals recognized and
named in the constitution" The Chron-
icle adds:
"The political aspect of the uprising
for free coinage becomes more Interesting
and more significant every day. In the
first place, it is now absolutely certain
that neither of the parties will dare to at
tempt to straddle the free coinage ques-
ton, as has been done in the past. The
people will not be put off with the usual
twaddle about party of values and inter
national agreements. They have become
convinced that all such talk is for delay
and to divert attention from the only real
question which is: Shall the United States
restore the free coinage of gold and silver
the money of the constitution
But Mr.. De Young's newspaper has a
plan for disposinR of this question before
the presidential campaign begins. He
says the Republicans hold the game in
their own hands, and here is his neat and
handy device for getting the Democracy
in hole:
Srhey (the Republicans) have ma
jority over the Democrats in the senate,
and hold the house by an overwhelming
vote. The Republican members of the
house from the middle and Pacific west,
with number from the south, are COM
mitted to bimetallism. 1t is within their
power to take the coinage question out
of the campaign next year by disposing
of it during the long session of congress.
The senate will pass q free coinage bill in
any event. That is one of the certainties.
Let the Republicans send it to the presi-
dent. If he vetoes it, there is nothing to
prevent it's being passed over the veto
nothing but Democratic votes. The Re.
publcans can either settle the silver
question or force the Democrats to
stultify themselves"
Without venturing to question the sa-
gacity of this plan, we may be permitted
to doubt its adoption by the Republicans
in the 54th congress. In all probability
the silver question will stand in its
present shape when the national conven-
tions meet next year. Whether or not
the alternative of "free coinage or dis
ruption" will then be forced on the Re-
publican party remains to be seen. But
it is getting to be very evident that no
lodging will be tolerated. Washington
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