Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-11-10
THE FARMERS AND SILVER
A Representative Gatherin Declares
 Against It.

Representative Gatnerfn ASs
 Against It.
 Farmers of the United States have been holding national congress Ill Atlanta The body is supposed to be made up of representative farmers from all parts of the country. The delegates, it is understood, represent farmers of the kind that cultivate the soil and not of the kind, generally speaking, that cultivate political jobs. Therefore, their action on the silver question may be accepted as far ex- pression of the views of representative American farmers.
 A resolution was reported faVorably from the committee on resolutions on the silver question. The dispatch does not report the resolution in full, but states that in substance it depfeeates the present condition of finance in this country and calls upon the president to take steps looking to the assembling of congress of all nations willing tounite in the equal use of both gold and silver.
 The free silver delegates proposed to amend the final clause so as to read ''willing to unite in the equal use of both gold and silver at a ratio not to eX- eeed 16 to l." Upon a vote by states the amendment wasrejected by 1o45-14 yeas to 251 9-14 nays. Less than one-third of the delegates, it will be seen, voted for the amendment. Later in the day q resolution declaring opposition to any further issue of bonds or interest-bear= ing notes was voted down.
 Taking these votes together, they sig nifty a number of things in regard to the attitude of the farmers, congress: First, that the delegates are practically agreed upon the proposition that a bimetallie standard is desirable if practicable; second. that it is not practicable with out international cooperation; third, that it would be folly for this country to dictate a ratio in inviting other na- tions to join in a conference, and that the question of ratio is one to be settled by the conference in view of existing facts and probabilities; fourth, that the delegates are in favor of maintaining all forms of our currency at par with gold coin under all circumstances. This is plainly implied by the defeat of the res olutions opposing the issue of interest bearing bonds and notes.
 In action by national farmers con vention signifying all this there is not much comfort for the Harvey sort of fnaneiers, while there is much to con firm the statement of Secretary Car iisle that the free coinage movement has lost it's momentum and is no longer formidable or aggressive" Regarding the vote on the 16 to 1 amendment the dispatch says: "Georgia's delegation was divided. The states known as the silver states favored the amendment, and the east, the north and the south voted almost solidly against it
 The vote of the southern delegates will cause some surprise. It has been pretty generally supposed that south erners, and especially southern farm CTS, were wild for free silver at 16 to 1, if not for free paper at million or so to one. The attitude of southern men in congress has contributed to produce this impression. In certain quarters it has not been believed that southern farmers were so much charmed by the voice of the cheap-money siren as was represented. But to the friends of sound money generally the statement that the southern representatives at Atlanta voted almost solidly against the 16 to 1 scheme will come as a revela- tion and relief--Chicago Chronicle. a