The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-08-15
HENDERSON ON SILVER.

I LII ~ lew udNS Unere Will De "a feIrSl-
ment before Comptroller Bowler over
the sugar bounty question, and for the
purpose of participating in lit ex-senator
Henderson lis in the City. His main
interest i'm the case is ito protect the beet
sugar growers of Nebraska. Throughout
his term of service in congress he al
ways evidenced much more than average
ability, and owing to his prominence as
a political leader anything he says on
the leading questions of the day will
! be of interest. Since his arrival here
! he has submitted TO an interview in
which, after discussing THE condition of
affairs i'm his own State at considerable
length, in answer to a query as to the
present western feeling ON silver and as
to whether lit was as strong as few
months since, he said:
81 don't think it is quite as strong.
l believe that even i'm the silver-produc-
ing States q good many of those who are
interested in the mines are beginning to
! feel THAT it will NOT be to the advantage
of the country NOR to their own personal
interest for this government alone to
undertake to maintain the free coinage of
silver. | thing that a great manyare
beginning to understand that there are
two sides to the question, even when APP
piled to their own private concern as sill
yer producers"
do you think that the Rocky mountain
States are going to cause much trouble
in the Republican National convention 2"
"Of course they are going to make a
very determined effort to commit the
convention to silver. The delegations
from these States are going to be very
firmly in favor of free coinage of silver
and are going to fight for it all they know
how"
DO you think they will carry it to
the extent of bo,ting the convention, if
Things do NOT go as they want"
NO, l have no idea that there will be
any bolt from the convention. l think
that they will see there is nothing to be
gained by such a course, and that having
done adj they can for the cause they rep
resent, they will reluctantly acquiesce to
the action of the convention. do not
for a moment think that they will be
LACKING in loyalty ITO the Republican
parity"
'What do you think of the third term
talk for Cleveand?'
Il do not attach Importance to it. In
the first place. do not believe that Mr..
Cleveland desires a third term. l don't
think that his experience during this
term has been such as to render the pros
pect of another four years in the White
house particularly tempting to him. His
first term was very comfortable, and there
was good deal of glory in being the
first Democratic president after long
term of years. But his second term has
not been q bed of roses for him. The
roses have faded away and he is lying on
the bare thorns. He is unpopular with
his party; there are many things to trOu-
BILE him. There is discord around him,
and no hope of harmony. In the second
place he and everybody else must appre-
ciate that the people of the United States
are opposed to third term for any one.
Even as strong an organization as the Re
publican party did not dare put up even as
popular man as Grant for third term.
The strongest party in the country, with
every thing else in their favor, could not
discredited party could not expect to do
this"
81 do not think that there is any proba-
bility of silver legislation in the next con-
gress, though a majority of the senate
will be in favor of the free coinage of sill
yer by the United States alone. l be-
heve that majority of the house will be
i'm favor of sound money and opposed to
such action. Moreover, the president will,
of course, veto a silver bill if passed.
Therefore there will be mo encourag-
ullelI lCT lree SILVER dSlldlIOII jill CohSIesS
during this and the following session.
AS to the tariff. the senate will not be
Republican on that question. The Popu-
lists with the possible exception of Stew
art are free traders. and it would proba-
bly, be impossible to pass protection
measure through the senate. 1t would be
useless. therefore. for the house to at
tempt any general revision of the tariff"
"What do think ought to he dome to
increase the revenue and relieve The treas
lry from its present embarrassment
no INCREASE THE REVENUE.
ga merely partisan view of this might
pe that the Democratic administration !
should either take the Republican pre-
scription or else be their own doctor. But
the situation is such that mere partisan
ship cannot control. No matter where the