Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-09-22
FREE SILVER TRlcKERy.
Despicabie Methods of Thick and Thin
 pnrtisans.


 The fact that Secretary Carlisle within the last few days has seen fit to write a letter pronouncing absolutely falsen the charge that in the spring of 1893 he contemplated redeeming the treasury notes in silver, directs atten- tion, in a striking manner, to the un- scrupulous methods Of free silver dem- ocrats and a large element of the re- publieans in their malignant warfare upon the present secretary of the treasury
 That warfare has been waged by the silverites because Mr. Carlisle has pro- tected the credit of the nation, main- tained bimetalEc parity and prevented the currency from going to sil- yer monometallism and the country from going to ruin. It has been waged by the republicans simply because MT. Carlisle is democrat.
 In the spring of 1893, when the world was beginning to lose confidence in the maintenance of gold payments by the United States, and when in eonse- guenee the run on the treasury, through our vicions system of paper notes, had begun, at a time when the administration was doing everything in it's power to prove the governments ability and intention to keep every dollar as good as gold by redeeming the treasury notes and greenbaclxs in gold on demand, some scoundreI sent out from Washington what purported to be an interview with Secretary Car lisle, in which he was made to declare his purpose to redeem this paper in sil yer at his own option.
 As this course would have at once discredited our currency and sent it to a silver basis, thus bringing about the very result which MT. Carlisle was bending every energy to prevent the absurdity and falsity of the alleged in terview were obvious to every intelli- gent man who did not believe Secre- tary Carlisle to be an unqualified idiot.
 Nevertheless the interview was promptly disowned by Mr. Carlisle That ought to nave been the end of It. But it was not For over two years now the republican press has assailed the secre tary through the medium of this fal1ed interview, repeating the false charge aga1nst him time and again, some of these eminently fair editors keeping it up after they had more than once been reminded of Mr. Carlisle's repudiation of the interview.
 MT. Carlisle's recent autograph de- nial of that interview was provoked by the solemn repetition of the charge in book on the money question writ ten by republican. This gentleman says that he was ignorant that Mr. Carlisle had ever disavcwed the inter- view. although it does seem that man who sets up to instruct the people on so important question as finance should first inform himself regarding matters of such moment and publicity as this. But the majority of those who have used this abricated inter- view against Mir. Carlisle have not this republicans excuse of ignorance. They knew that AIr Carlisle had disclaimed the interview, but it suited their par tisan purpose to ignore their znowl- edge; and they will continue to ignore 1t whenever by so doing they think they can score a point against demo- cratic secretary of the treasury.
 Happily, however, their power for evil is small. The people are fast learn ing the character of the thick-and-thin partisans methods and how little value is to be attached to anything he says. Louisville Courier-Journal