Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-04-15
THE BATTLE GROUND.
Illinois the Center Of the silver Fight
Morrison Commends--The Secre-
tary Will Make speeches.

Morrison COmmendS--The Secre-
tary Will Make speeches.
Washington, April Is. = The interest
the administration takes in the campaign
against the free silver movement is un-
disguised.
Secretary Carlisle will deliver two
speeches on the sub ject of currency, but
largely devoted to silver. He will prob
ably speak once in Kentucky and once
in Tennessee early in May. His Ken
tucky speech may be delivered at Louis
vile, although there have been requests
from his old home in Covington to talk
TO the people there. In Tennessee he will
speak at Memphis or Nashville.
Other members of the cabinet will also
speak on the silver question, although
no place has been fixed on. They be-
lieve that campaign of education on the
money question will have the effect of
checking the movement toward free sill
yer, which they believe has become
serious menace to the integrity of the
Democratic party.
WILL GET TOGETHER.
Springfield, Ill.-The following state
ment was made by Chairman Hinrichsen,
of the Democratic state central commit
tee, regarding the Democratic state con-
vention called for June s:
"The call for state convention to con-
slider the currency question, is meeting
with general approval from the Dem
ocrats of the state. With the exception
of Senator Palmer, not single prominent
Democrat has expressed himself as op-
posed to the movement, unless indeed it
be members of the national administra-
tion located at Washington. l am in re-
ceipt of letters from nearly every county
in Illinois approving the action of the
predicting that free silver delegations
will be sent to the capital on June 5. OF
the 200 Democratic papers in Illinois,
only about ten are opposed to the conven-
tion, and a less number than that are OPP
posed to free silver.
"The movement 80 far as the state ia
concerned outside of Cook county is over
whelmingly in favor of free silver. In
Cook county the men in the shops, fac
tories and railroad yards are aim ost unit
on this question. The movement takes
in number of the prominent business
men of that county.
"The only object of calling the conven-
ton was to get the Democratic party
together on some one thing"
HORIZONTAL BILLS VIEWS.
Waterloo, Ill.-Hon. VIM. Morrison, of
the international commission and pres
idential possibility, is here at home for
few days en- route to the Rocky noun
tains. The administration friends have
been counting on his supporting Senator
Palmer in opposition to the Democratic
silver movement in this state. He said
that during the canvass last year he had
made several speeches, and in one dis
cussed the silver question freely, fully
stating his own views.
The Importance of this ubject is Sec
ond only to the tariff. It's unsatisfactory
and unsettled condition is believed to
have aggravated the financial and bust
ness difficulties through which we have
been compelled to pass. The place which
silver shall occupy in our monetary sys
tenn, it seems, is question which will
not down. The efforts to settle it through
the Sherman bill, by the Republican
party, was confessed failure. The party
hastened to join in undoing its work.
The sentiment in favor of larger use of
silver and on terms interchaL geable with
gold, seems to be growing both here and
abroad.
Apparently nobody in Europe is cour-
ageous or relentless enough to attempt
the double standard without Englands
consent. We can safely do this with Eng
land and all Europe opposing. It is not
the legal tender quality that makes our
silver dollars more valuable than the sill
yer in them. 1t is because, under the
practice of our financial system, they are
interchangeable with gold through the
treasury. When silver was discredited
by being left out of the coinage laws of
1873, there was nothing in the relative
values of silver and gold to Justify it.
This is not the only reason, but it is
one reason why the commercial value of
silver is not more that it is.
sIBLEY AND WARNER IN DENVER.
Denver, April 15.-Ex-Congressman j.
G. Sibley and Gen. A. j. Warner arrived
here this morning to open the bimstal-
lie cam mpaign. They were met at the
depot by a committee of prominent Den.
verites and conducted to the Brown Palace
hotel, where they spent the day resting
and receiving the calls of friends. Every
thing is in readiness for great recep-
tion tonight.