The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-04-29

tho presidency In 1900. Ito and General
Warrior, OF Ohio, wore horo In that in
terost lilo IL already tho nominee OF
tho blmG,allic league. Tlioy nut him
forward At Washington lust before Con.
rress adjourned. sibley Ia n millionaire
rx'conaressman and his barrel 10 under
stood to BIO o on tap for tho iufthor-
ance Of his presidential ambition. ilo
mado n Vague speech hero+-a kind OF
crazy Quilt atrair-principally anecdotal
aud point.nO.point at that
General Warner made tho speech Of
tho OCCASION, as lar rs anything worth
nearing was snid. and this Ia not saying
much Tor tho occasion. Senators Jones
II Stewart, who W aud ropre.
sont tho Nevada silver mines, wore 10
have boon horo. but did not come,
and The people wore much disappointed
IN consequence. Jonca 10 Il man OF do.
cidcd ability aud conceded to DO tho
ablest exponent Of tho silver idea In
this country. II would have boon a
treat to hear his ideas instead Of tho old
platitudcs that General Warner has
nude monotonous 10 tho country for
tho Inst fifteen yearo. I say thia with
nil respect to tho general, for no Ia n
man OF good deal OF ability. | give
him credit tor %forboaring to endorse In
his speech tho crazy statement OF his
presidential nominee, TO tho effect that
frco coinage would, after tho manner OF
grocnbacks, act as q tariff. That was
an awful htab ut ailver 10 compare tho
enoct OF ito lroo coinage In tho future
TO tho working Of deprecated and
i~rrcdecnable paper money in the past.
Undoubtedly II would hayc that eiIoct,
but what sort OF an argument Ia that to
make rs a plea for rosorling 10 1t. Why
not resort to Mckinloyism direct In.
esoad OF poisoning tho currency to pro-
duco an Initiation to produce q tariff?
However. I do not intend to co into n
discussion OF tho silver question. l AM
now writing current newspaper history.
l will mention. however. that In q talk
TINT | had with General Warner after
tho meeting, nj hia rooms at .he hotel.
| venturod 10 ask him how II como tina.
wc had so much higher prices years ago
and after tho demonstration Of silver,
too,) on 80 much smaller pcr capita OF
money than We have to-day. His reply
was to tho effect that there wcro other
factors than tho more volume OF money
that entered into the prices OF com.
noditics. or cour,e, this is true, but
at tho samo timo 1t shows how do
cepti7e ia tho moro money argument.
Why might not q Republican just rs
vol Bay that it was the advent OF the
Democracy to power in lS90-92 that
produced present prices as for General
Warner 10 assume that silver restriction
produced them? In other words. no
concedes largely the whole argument as
to the reliable coincidence OF prices
with tho volume OF money when he ad-
mits other factorships into tho account.
THE PROPOSED NEW PARrY.
Tho plan Of Moisrs. Warner and sib.
Icy here. was for the tormatirn OF n new
silver party-a party Of c~onie.outera
from all othor partics-to come
together on tho one single issue
OF the free coinage OF sil.
yer at tho old sixteen 10 one ratio.
Their contention was that experience
had shown that the restoration OF silver
to Tree coinage could not DO had
through any platform that tho Repub-
lican or Democratic parties might adopt
They wcre split on that question
both Of them-and would remain split,
and therefore thefe was now q great op-
%porsunity for all who believed in tho
restoration OF silver to unto and achieve
n victory that would restore old prices
and old prosperity.
There is. it must be admitted, q good
deal OF q disposition in Colorado at this
time to act on this advice, and possibly
also in all tho other silver states. What
may come in 1896 in the shape OF a
greater or less tendency in this direction
will depend largely on tho condition Of
business next year. The panic OF 1878
immensely increased the spread Of the
%greenback heresy. You remember how
nearly it captured the Republican party
in West Virginia The ISTELLIGEScER
was n OF a %corporal's guard that fought
it. In like nannor the panic Of '93 has
immensely increased the spread OF the
silver h~eresy-the heresy embraced in
the idea OF this country, single handed
and alone, opening its minis to the free
coinage OF the silver Of all the world at
a ratio OF less than one-half Of the actual
commercial ratio OF the metal. This is
n madness similar TO that Of old Bill
Aliens cry, in the midst OF tho green-
back craze, for more money and less
misery" aud with the coming Of good
crops this year and next, and the better
employment for tho labor of tho land.
history will repeat itself, and We shall
500 in 1895 what We saw after tho good
crops Of 1889, and tho resumption OF
specie payments on the lst OF January
OF tho Inter year, viz: a release Of tho
country from the grasp Of q great delu-
sion and a return OF the saving common
sense OF the American people. 4. W. C.
La GRIPPE is hero again with all its