The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-05-11
WANTS TO BE PRESIDENT.

| ing. All of these men have made a
but an unexplainable change has come
| over the spirit Of their political dreams
and convictions. Whether it is the
| gold propaganda, their threats ald
boosted power, or honest conclusion,
the body of the Republican party have
not yet made out. Before such an
impending front the great silver Car
| Isle fell down. Mr.. Allison is Il west
ern man with a silver record equalling
that Of Carlisle's, either of whose utter
ances and speeches of Il short decade
ago would have made a consonant
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But Mr.. Allison. like Mr. Carlisle,
seems to have forgotten. Mr.. Allison
has made speeches in the past which
if made by sim today would place him
in line with silver crankS VIII he
lot please explain? The volume of
silver literature is growing apace. and
the arguments. claims and convictions
of its advocates are sweeping over the
country like great wave, SO irresiSt-
ably that a national administration has
thrown up its hands in despair. it's
! cuckOos grown hoarse, and its gold
bug hackers gone wild in their frantic
efforts of endeavOring to say or do
something important enough TO attract
public attention.
AS for Mr.. Allison. to prove to him
and his friends, as also to those who
demand western silver man as the
Republican candidate for president, we
quote from n speech and colioquy re-
ported in the second session of the
fIfty-fifth congress when he had the
floor in the senate chamber. If any
western or southern man can be found
more radical in his present views on
the great question than was Mr.. ALI
son at that time we fail to recall him.
Mr.. Allison advocated then just what
the Lawrence Journal denounced the
Eagle for only last Week. i. T., re-
duction in the weight o. -la gold coin.
in the event that the rehabilitation of
silver should not appreciate its value
to the standard of gold. But we quote
from the Record:
AIr Allison . 'sRut when tbe
secret history of this bill of 1873 comes to !
be told, it will disclose the fact that the
house of representatives intended TO coin |
both gold and silver. and intended to place |
both metals upon the French relation in !
stead of our own, which was the trle !
scientific position with reference to this |
SIlEIaRt " hut. hot J.; =
was doctored, if L may use the term. and 1
use 1T in no offensive sense of course"
Mr.. Sargent-It was amended in the sem |
ate and went to committee of confer |
ence, if that is ''doctored,'' and the report |
Of the committee of conference was con-
CURED in by the two houses. I should !
like to know If the word "doctored" APP |
plies to our legislation here where there !
has been three or four days debate?
Mr. Allison-I said / used the word in |
no offensive sense. It was changed after |
the discussion, and the dollar of 42D grains /
was substituted for it. ! have here, if the /
senator from California doubts what | 4
say, the report of Mr.. Ruggles to the
chamber of commerce Of the city of New /
\ ork, showing that it was the original /
intention OF the promoters of the bill of (
1873, that both silver and gold should |
be coined. and that they should be placed
upon the French ratio. He says:
The bill, rs introduced. proposed to
change the weight of the silver dollar from
412l5 grains to 3S4 grains The chamber
of commerce of the state of New York,
on examining and considering that pro-
vision by resolution duly transmitted to
congress in June last, respectfully recon-
mended that the weight of the silver dol
lar should be made precisely equivalent
10 that of the first France coin of Europe,
etc"
Mr.. SARGENT am not doubling the
senator's facts. l was simply Directing
TO his epithet
Mr.. Allison-"But 7 was only stating the
history of this legislation in answering
a question of the senator from Delaware.
THE senator from Michigan Gfr Chris
tiancy) said the other day that these de-
basers of the coins would themselves be-
come debased.'
Mr.. Webster reduced the gold
dollar from 24S4 grains TO 2322 grains of
fine gold, thus reducing the gold dollar
of 1894 % per cent, and made no arrange
ments with reference 10 the creditor class
in this country. In other words. there
was debasing of the coin to that extent
by actual reduction Of the metal from the
gold dollar
From 1922 up 10 1877, and again by
the legislation of 1884, silver coins of
Mexico and the South American states.
and of France and Spain, were made a
full legal tender in this country, and some
of them continued to be fun LEGAL ten
der until 1851. Therefore for nearly sew
enty years of our country'S history We not
only had legal tender of our own silver |
but the silver of other nations was a full
legal tender in our country.
We had of fun coined silver
money more than hundred millions coin
ed ar our mint between those periods. 7 /
think Slle GO. coo. and We had all the silver
Of the world made legal tender in sddi-
ton. Who is there that from
1884 TO the present moment has ever raised
one word of adverse criticism with refer
euce TO the reduction of the gold dollar
of 1881? Every committee that
reported on the question reported in favor
of a relation of about to l5.625, and the
bill was 50 changed at the last moment
and the relation of Is to ! fixed.
The result was that in 1888 we had
no silver coin in existence Ii this cOunIrE
or very little, aud congress tfr=1 year pro-
vided for 4 debased subsidiary coinage in /
order that this subsidiary silver might
continue in circula ton. '-(Cougress.onal
Record, volume Z. part . ForJy-fifIh con-
sress, second session, pages loss and
1852
SIMPLY = QUESTION OF vERACITY.