Birmingham state herald., 1895-11-24
DEMOCRACYS ONLY HOPE Is In q Free Silver Platform and
 Candidate. CARLISLE'S TWO SPEECHES The One at BostS and the Other at New YorlS'Contradictory.
 N FREE COlNte. AGITATION NOT SUBSlDED Says t4 Secretary and He Urges Co huance of the Missionary .,v Work in the South and
 the West.
E COlNfcS. AGITATION NOT SUBSlOED

Washington, Nov. 21.-(Special Corre- spondence. )-That the joy and hilarity said to have been indulged in by the president and his advisers around the "tea table" over the recent democratic Waterloo was but the first fitful fancy of gilded dream Is evidenced by the re- marks of Secretary Carlisle at the cham Der of commerce banquet in New York on Tuesday last, when he admitted that the agitation over the free coinage of silver had not been entirely subdued. When MT. Carlisle spoke in Boston some time before the voice of the neople rang out in no uncertain tones on November 5, he was of the opinion that the silver question was no longer factor in poll tics. In fact, he said 1t had been rele- gated to local issue in the western and southern states. Now at New York he urges his co-advocates of the gold stand ard to continue their missionary work in proselyting the western and southern contingent with whom they have deal ings.
 That Banker Benedict, when he declared that he would vote for no democrat for president who did not pledge to advo- cate the retirement of greenbacks, had al- ready had assurances from his friend, Grover Cleveland, that such would be the main theme in the first presidential message to the Fifty-fourth congress is not doubted, now that MT. Carlisle has made his second speech advocating the placing of an interest bearing debt upon the people in place of the non-interest bearing debt of the greenback and the contraction of the currency $30O,O00,O00.
 The republicans are waiting anxiously to see what MT. Cleveland will propose in his annual message. They say if MT. Carlisles remarks are to be taken as an indication that the president Is to urge the retirement of the greenbacks and the substitution of state banks of issue. This scheme is more obnoxious to the repub- licans than free coinage itself, and they are saying without equivocation that never with their consent shall state banks be rehabilitated From what your correspondent can learn the republicans need not be losing sleep over MT. Cleve- land ever recommending state banks. When that question was up in the last congress prominent Alabamian, then on the stump defending the presidents course, said MT. Cleveland would, in his message to congress, urge the repeal of the 10 per cent tax on state banks, but Wall street had the country by the leg" then, and there is no reason to think the pulling" has ceased or will be until a democrat, removed from its baleful in- f1uence, has been elected president of these United States.
 The greenbacks will not be retired. There is clear majority in the senate in favor of the free coinage of silver and against the further contraction of the currency, and under no circumstances can anything like measure on the lines of MT. Carlisle's Boston and New York speeches be carried out Senator Du- Bois, republican, has the following to say, that shows how easily democracy may win in 1896 if the proper platform is adopted and the right man placed on it, holding aloft the standard declaring for the money of our fathers:
 Secretary Carlisle is right when he says the question of free and unlimited coinage of silver is not dead. He will find, if he only waits long enough, that the national convention of his own party will adopt a free coinage platform next spring"
 But the administration is now work ing in every state to secure anti-silver delegations which shall prevent that ac- tion."
 ''very true" was the senator's com- ment, but it will not succeed. The ad- ministration has lost its power. Up to this time MT. Cleveland has been able to command the support of large num- Der of democrats because they believed that, somehow or other he would pull them through. Others stood by him be- cause he had immense patronage to be. stow He has forfeited the confidence of. the one, and he Is no longer feared or courted by the other. He has dragged down to defeat men in his own party like Blackburn. and those whose heads are still above water will now try to save themselves without regard to him.. He can no longer threaten or cajole. The majority of the democratic party today is for silver, and the south and west where this sentiment Is especially strong, will not allow the north and the east to dominate. In my opinion, the next national democratic convention will declare for free coinage and will nom- nate strong man in accord with that platform. If 1t does, he will carry every state west of the Missouri river and every southern state will come back into line. This is the only way in which the democratic party can rehabilitate itself. The republicans. who now want to makef the tariff the issue and ignore the silver question, will be forced into the fight A campaign in which free coinage Is preached from every stump and the ben be extremely popular, and believe that 1t would result in the election of the silver candidate"
 Personal and Pertinent
 Were the assembling of congress two months off a new issue of bonds to pro- tect the gold reserve would be made in- side of week. As it Is MT. Cleveland is' waiting until he can ask congress to give authority to issue gold bonds, which he knows won't be done, and then he will go ahead and satisfy the craving Of the bankers and brokers in New York. who, like the Horse Leach's daughter,s are ever crying .'more! more.'
 Several of tile congressmen are in the city looking up authorities on their con- tests. The committee on election will have it's hands full of work during the Fifty-fourth congress.
 On the night of Saturday. November 90, the republican caucus will be held to nominate the officers for the house. Tho different candidates are here and have opened headquarters. and the incoming Inemhers are hesleged as soon as they arr