Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1895-06-28
FAIR PLAY FOR SILVER.
IN THE QUESTION is NOT DYN
OUT.

INTEREST IN THE QUESTION is NOT DYING
OUT.
In response to telegram from New
y ork. saying that interest in free silver
is dying out, William II. Harvey of
Chicago. author of Coin, sent the fol-
lowing reply the other night:
In reply to your telegram, the report
that the silver movement is dying out is
not true. 1t is reported so by gold
standard papers for effect. During the
heated season less interest is maifested
on the surface on any subject claiming
public attention, and this may be true
in part as to the national campaign of
1896, that may be said to have already
begun west of the Allegheny mountains.
The movement is growing constantly
and reflects a deep-seated conviction
among the people that an increase in the
primary or redemption money of the
government is necessary to restore
prices and save the property of the
debtors from passing INTO the hands of
the creditors. The question has assumed
an importance with the people far be-
yond mere allegIances to parties, and
the feeling is such as results from con-
viction that the Republic itself is in dan
der.
Political leaders as a rule, however, in
the two old parties are trying to keep
the question down and save their parties
from disruption. The silver movement
is among the people and not to any
great extent among politicians.
a vote taken here by the Morning
Record of legally authorized city voters,
closing yesterday, at which about 49,
900 votes were pOlled, showed nearly
two to one in favor of free coinage and
independent action of this government
The agricultural papers published in
this city are all for free coinage and in
dependent action, and CLAIM that vote
outside of the large cities will give re-
suit of four to one in favor of that pol
icy.
Congressman Towne of Duluth,
Mimi, who passed through here yesteT-
day en- route to the Cleveland cOnven-
ton. tells me that he and other Repub-
licans of Minnesota will at an early date
call a convention in his State similar to
the Democratic free coinage convention
that was recently held in this State.
He further says that the movement is
spreading in the northwest, that nothing
can stop it, and that he and his people
believe that liberty itself is involved in
the issue. Similarly reliable informa-
ton indicates conventions in all the
States from Indiana west. A mass
meeting to continue for one week Is
being arranged for at Nashville, Tenn,
for September. My mail Indicates the
greatest number of conversions of any
one class to be among the clergymen,
and in the next six months with a large
number of people the movement will
assume a religious form.
This is to be accounted for when you
understand that those who have gotten
at the bottom of this question consider
that a great moral wrong was committed
when silver, the money of the people,
was deprived of its legal tender and re-
demption qualities, and these powers
gwen to gold alone, which has since
been cornered by the money changers,
who are responsible for what is regarded
as a crime in destroying silver as real
money. 1t is a blow at the integrity of
the nation, and is regarded as a national
crime.
Prominent Republicans and Demo-
Gratis from several States in the central
West and South, who expect to be dele
gates at the next national conventions,
tell me they will bolt their conventions
if platform is adopted that straddles or
compromises on the subject.
Our people will understand that the
money power acting in concert is making
money easy purposely and doing all it
can to boom business, and will keep it
up till the election next year if it can
keep the Rothschild gold syndicate be-
hind the government that long. And
the people understand that the same
power that is doing this can crush bust
ness by making money tight whenever