New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-04-28
A GROUP OF SILVER MEN,.
ADVOCATES OF THE WHITE METAL IN
THIS CITY.
THE BASIS OF CONSIDERABLE WORK IN THE
FREE COINAGE PROPAGANDA GOOD STORY

r,,, n,s,s OF CONSIDERABLE WORK IN THE
FREE COINAGE PROPAGANDA GOOD STORY
Ry REPRESENTATIVE TAwNEY.
~, ..,. -, sryar mon in New-York are boil
tn, o,.or with Indignation Their feelings have been
NV. o,d they do not hesitate to say 50. There Is
inst nov quite Creditable representation OF INC
silver element in this city. They have been WorA
ING hard and talking freely. but their ieeIlnss do
hnr, now and it is probable that they Will not
be so oquac;ous in the future. In the Nane ""''
that Is now here the following:
4, the GDsev House, Senator John ?. Jones. OF
Nevada the high priest of the cult, is holding forth
Senator Mitchell Of oregon, is at the MarIoorouHn
FxGovernor Hauser. of Montana; Evan T. ho"e'
of Atlanta; Byron +. Shear and Colonel Gillespie
~ colorado and Ex-Governor Hogg. OF Texas. shorn
of his whiskers view the situation with practlsoo
owes from the Fifth Avenue. c. l.. Bonner OF Mon
tana revels In the luxury OF the NaIdori anu
silver sentiment at the same time. Ihomas T.
Ochiltree listed among the doubtful listens 10 the
torrent of convincing arguments from his fellow
statesmen This little coterie can be found almost
any night seated in the Waldorf cafe discussing
the situation. senator Cameron. OF pennsylvania
and possible Presidential nominee on SILVER tlCh-
ct is the latest addition here to the ranks OF the
advocates of the white metal lie is at the wal
dorf
What has brought confusion and annoyance 10
the silver men is a story that Representative Taw-
new OF Minnesota. has been telling. ana Whlch re-
fleets on the silver men. Mr.. Tawneys story IL as
follows: "Out in my district there is good deai
Of swamp land. and at night the musical croaK OF
the frog can .be heard through the land. one time
a stranger to that part OF tho country lie
wandered around among the swamps and listened
10 the frogs Finally he decided that IL would be
good idea to catch some OF the frogs and sell them
His heart bounded high with hope, and he went
10 the proprietor OF the hotel and said:
Don't you want 10 buy a carload OF frogs legsF
ho mt KIN yxha
in the world he would do with so many. But the
fellow persisted. He said:
well make IL a wagon-load.'
The hotel man said that he had for them,
but that he might about dozen or so.
".Au right said the fellow. I will bring them
In tomorrow.
The next day he wandered into the hotel with
four little frogs legs and a sickly smile his
face. The proprietor looked at him and said:
81 thought you could get carload"
THE fellow said: I thought that would be dead
easy from all the noise that they were making out
there. but this is all | could find
That" says Mr.. Tawney. rs the way with the
silver men. They making a great fuss. but
when you 80 to look for them few stragg!ers
are all that can be found"
1t is doubtful whether any reckless citizen would
have lived TO tell Of his experience had he attempted
10 relate the story 10 silver group In this city
But the story in question came 10 the group through
a Washington paper l. has been read carefully
and branded attempt 10 delude people Mr.
Tawney has been execrated as an unbeever in
the redeeming powers Of silver, and the concerted
defence Of the silver men Is that the gold men are
saying nothing because they have nothing to say
and that the silver men are SO laxative because
there IS end TO the convincing arguments that
can be advanced in support Of the silver theory,
There is something significant in the presence OF a
certain number OF silver men in this city all
lately The silver men. while free In eXpatiatins on
their creed. nevertheless equally retrent in
speaking Of the actual work that Is being done II
has been learned that In the ast three weeks the
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sands upon thousands OF circulars for distribution
over the country. Members Of Congress and SEN
aors. in going through their States md that their
coming has been preceded Dy Hood % silver liter
allure. a silver man said yesterday. There Is A
sort OF working understanding among the repre-
sentative silver who In NcwYOrk to-day.
The idea in their argressiveness IS TO intmidnt" the
old parties. They wish to make a demonstration OF
strength that will the National conventions
OF the Old parties into recognizing them They fear
that they will be unable to secure such concessions
as they wish. and II they do not. they stand ready
al the right moment TO cut loose from the old par
ties and put a silver candidate IN the field This
will BE the last resort. Mr.. Clevelanas letter has
precipitated the campaign year ahead Of time. and
| Il will be nip and tuck from now on