St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-03-13
SILVER TO The FORE
Leaders Of the New Party
Preparing For a Long
Campaign. 81
SIBLEY GIVES HIS VIEWS.
The Silver Party Will Have
Nothing to Do With the =
Vagaries Of Pop ulism. 80.
PLANS FOR MINNESOTA.
Prominent Men Of All Par-
ties to Be Invited to &c
the Work.
PLANS FOR MINNESOTA.
Special to the Globe.

ness proposition. They are mostly
silver producers, naturally enough,
but they have money, and they are
going to use it in preparing and
planning the campaign of 1896. Elk
Congressman Sibley, the presiden-
tial candidate to be, is very wealthy,
and, while in some respects he is
regarded as a good deal of a crank
he is man who has never concealed
his position on anything. He is
dreadfully in earnest about this sill
yer movement. AT the present time
he is spending almost all of his
time in conference with his follow
ers, but when asked by the GLOBE
correspondent for his opinion re-
garding the prospects of his party,
he said:
SIBLEY is CONFIDENT.
care we going to win? Of course
we are. Nothing can prevent our
success next year. The people of all
sections are going to be aroused as
they have not been since the time of
jackson. The So-called silver states
are with us now, as well as a good
part of the South, and even in the
East we already have a surprising
following, not enough, perhaps, to
carry any state now, but we are pre-
pairing for a campaign that will
reach every citizen of the republic.
1t has already commenced, and it
will be kept up until the polls close
on election day in 1885, n
Although, as will be seen by the
interview of Mr.. Sibley, he is not
only in earnest, but enthusiastic, he
In no wise differs from his co-labor-
ers. One of the most prominent of
these, at least when it comes to the
matter OF raising campaign fund,
is Byron b. Shearer, of Denver. Ten
years ago Mr.. Shearer was a poor
young lawyer in a Colorado mining
camp. He dropped law and COM
menced dabbling in mining prop
erty, and now he is
WORTH MANY MILLIONS.
In the last etnction IN Colorado he
was the Populist choice for Tinted
States senator against Senator VOL
colt, but as they were in the minority.
he failed to get the seat He is not
much disappointed, strange to say, be-
cause as a silver man he thinks VOL
colt will do about as he would. VOL
colt Is a mine owner, thoroughly de-
voted to the white metal, more devoted
to it than he is to the Republican party,
and so Mr.. Shearer is satisfied.
From close friend of Mr.. Shearer
comes the story that in Senator Tel
ler'S last contest it was none other
than Shearer who furnished the money
to make the winning fight. He did it
because he thought that Senator Tel
Ter could accomplish more than any
other man in Colorado for silver. 1t
was simply business proposition with
him as it is with the protected manu-
facturer who contributes to the Re-
publican campaign fund in Pennsyl-
vania. But this silver party has any
number of men like Shearer, and they
are going to give the country the
LIVELIEST KIND OF A CAMPAIGN
during the next eighteen months. A
rapid business revival will annihilate
thc moven,en Id f r this the Repub-
lican leaders who have been working
and voting against legislation that
would help restore confidence are now
praying and praying more earnestly
than ever before. In the event that
the monetary conference results in
nothing the next session of congress
will witness a Republican split on the
silver question that will discount the
Democratic disagreement in the last
congress on that question.
In the senate not only will the Re-
publicans be divided, but they will be
engaged in one of the most bitter in
ternecine struggles in the history of
the party. Teller, Wolcott, Dubois.
Mitchell and others agree perfectly
on this question with Senator Jones.
of Nevada, the acknowledged leader
of the new silver party, and If the
Eastern Republicans press them too
hard there is a great probability that
they will all stand together in the cam
pa1gn of next year. The nomination
OF Tom Reed would certainly lead
to thi; split
NO TIME FOR POPULISM. a
The leaders of the silver party are
very careful to have it understood
that they are not Populists, and that
thy ara not a1rying load of ''isms.,,
They want Populisr votes, of course.
as they want republican and Demo-
cratic votes, bu' hey will steer clear
of government ownership of railroads
and all such schemes as set forth
in the Ocala and Omaha dec
larations Of principles. For this rea
son the leaders of the Populists are
not making wild rush for the new
party. They have the reins of theirj
present organizati ton and are lust a
little afraid that some one else viii
succeed to the positions in the nav
party. =
Senators Stewart and Jones. of No
vada, have in the past year or miro
been regarded as Populists by the pub
lie generally, but they have never called
themselves Populists. On the con-
trary, in the past two campaigns in
Nevada they have worked for the cleo
ton OF candidates nominated by the
Silver party. By this party Congress
man F. G. Newlands has been twice
elected to the lower house, and it has
controlled the legislature for three
years in that state, and two years ago
elected Mr. Stewart again to the sen
ate. In both campaigns the Populists.
Republicans and Democrats have
placed tickets in the field against the
Silver party, but the latter has won
on every occasion. Thus it will he
seen that the Silver party is not new.
but, as now being organized, is but an
attempt to do in all the states what
has been so successfully accomplished
in Nevada.
MINNESOTA MEMBERS ALARMED
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