The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-11
PLAN OF THE NEW PARTY
Laboring Men Interested in
the Movement in the
East.
VIEWS OF SENATOR DUBOIS.
Voters VIII No Longer Be Fooled
by Meaningless Phrases In
Platforms.

WASHINGTON, D. G., April 1o.-Sen-
ator Dubois, who has just returned from
New York. says:
at requires but little effort to discover
that the silver sentiment is making rapid
progress throughout the East. Mr.. Depew
is reported to have said that the East was
almost unanimously in favor of a single
gold standard; that SO out of every 10C
people in the East were gold mono
metallists.
UNLESS he was misquoted he has GER
tainly not been very observing. | will
venture the assertion that large number
of the employees of his road favor full
restoration of silver by this country alone.
Probably the directors and large stock
holders do not. l have taken some pains
to talk with cardrivers and conductors and
laboring men in New York City during the
past six weeks, also with a very consider
able number of business men, and know
there is most decided free-silver senti-
ment even in New York City.
''The producers, wage-earners and bust
ness men of moderate means do not listen
any longer with patience to advocates OF
the gold standard. They are no longer
frightened by stock phrases of Cheap
money! '50-cent dollars Silver
Barons,' etc. They know they are hurt.
They understand that times are hard and
see no prospect of their getting better.
"People realize now that the prosperity
promised did not follow the repeal of the
Sherman act and they understand that
we are on a gold basis and that the money
holders intend to keep us there. They
know that there is not sufficient gold to
serve as safe basis for money and that a
large majority of our people will continue
in want and suffering until silver is again
placed alongside of gold as basis for cur
rency.
I'm my Judgment the outlook for silver
is brighter. A great majority of voters
to secure what they want. They will not
be fooled any more with meaningless reso-
lutions in national platforms, nor by poll
icians who talk one way and vote another"
The leaders of the new silver party are
said to be laying plans for the attempted
conversion of the labor elements of the
East to the free-silver doctrine. They are
credited with the opinion that the existing
unrest and dissatisfaction among the labor.
ing classes can be used to excellent advan.
tage in furthering their plans.
An outline of their intentions, furnished
to-day, contains the statement that they
will charge that much of the trouble of the
laboring classes is due to what they term
contracted currency and to the monopoly
of the goldbugs.
Secialistic classes will be arrayed against
the gold standard as being synonymous
with capital and monopoly. Wall street
and the Rothschilds were set up as the
bugbears of the workingmen, and were re-
sponsible for all their ills, and the free
coinage of silver and enlarged circulating
medium will be suggested as the only cure
for the existing troubles.
Hundreds of books and pamphlets pre-.
senting the silver question are being cir
culated throughout the country. Every
time an Eastern man makes declaration
in flavor of free coinage the promoters OF
the new party seize upon it eagerly and
give it the widest circulation.
On the other hand, the assertion OF
Senator Sherman that free coinage "would
result in the most tremendous financial
panic this country has ever known, and
would paralyze business and trade beyond
anything ever known by any nation in the
world is hooted as merely the raving OF
"goldbug."