Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-07-13

We would say to the Rocky Mount
Times Democrat that the Dispatch is firm
" convinced that 1t has pursued the
right course all the time so far as the Sill
yer question Is concerned. When we see
the free-silver candidate for the oniteu
States Senate in Kentucky called down
from the stump and sent home because
his speeches injuriously affected the cause
Of the Democratic party in that state
we feel confident that we have not gone
too far in our advocacy Of the policy or
keeping silver out of the Virginia cam
paign Of this year. When we see Con-
gresham Lawson, OF Georgia, and others
OF the best Democrats in the land de-
ploring the policy OF trying to INTRO
duce free coinage into this country with
out cooperation on the part of any other
country. we are more than ever persuad-
ed that we have done right in advocating
as We have advocated from the day OF the
closing OF the minis in India, the policy
of international free coinage. lnterna-
tional or cooperative free coinage Is the
only common ground upon which all the
Sllverites can meet.
our Rocky Mount contemporary Is hon.
est, we know, In its advocacy
Of unlimited free coinage: but we
cannot now, and never have been
able to believe that the United
States Government. standing by ITSELF
could, by legislation. bring gold and sill
yer to a parity. We cannot see how
such result could follow from any legis-
lation which this country could adopt
England, standing alone, could more
easily accomplish this result than couid
the United States, standing alone. In
fact. If any one country could accom-
plsh this object, England Is that country.
and as England has more interest than
any other country in bringing about the
parity of gold and silver. We may be sure
that the statesmen Of that country have
what they consider sound financial rea-
sons for not undertaking the task.
The Times Democrat does not concur
in what we have said az to the results
of the recent Kentucky State convention.
We explained beforehand what those re-
suits would signify if the outcome OF the
Kentucky State convention should turn
out to be what we foresaw 1t might be
namely, a sure indication that the free
silver battle would soon end in the defeat
Of the advocates of the policy OF free sill
yer coinage at ratio Of 10 TO without
international or cooperative coinage. Our
forecast stands good. If anybody doubts,
let him await a time with patience and he
will learn that the truth of that forecast
needs no confirmation. The facts VIII
speak for themselves.
our Rocky Mount contemporary thinks
that the Dispatch and the other metro
politan papers are not In touch with the
masses of the people. We have no fears
as TO what the people will say in the end
on this subject; but we know of no way
of bringing the Times-Democrat over to
our way OF thinking.
In the following paragraph our Rocky
Mount contemporary talks as we like to
hear all true Democrats talk. We quote
its words as worthy of being repeated:
'.There is one more prophecy We want
10 make. and we ask our respected con-
temporary please to remember 1t.
at Is this: II there Is any boiling done
in the next National Democratic Conven-
ton, II will not be done by the Silver men.
They are by far. in the aggregate. the
most loyal elements Of the party. For the
most part they are actuated by high ana
patriotic motives.
Give US this assurance and we ask no
more at present.