The Kosciusko star. (Kosciusko, Miss.) 18??-1898, 1895-03-15
FREE SILVER OR BUST.
Thirty-One congressman issue
n Silver Manifesto to the
Democrats.
WILLIAMS AND MONEY
Arc the Only Missississippians VINO
Sign 1t.

The following interview with
Congressman Bland of Missouri
9eader of the free silver forces, re-
Gently appeared in the Washing
ton Post;
There will be a new alignment
of parties in the next Presidential
campaign,' said Representative
Bland. Of Missouri. yesterday
1.-THE free silver men intend to Gel
together and nominate a man who
reflects their sentiments"
Suppose" it was suggested
.'that after contest at the next
Democratic convention, a candl-
date should be selected who is op'
posed to free silver, what would
You and other gentlemen who en-
certain views on this subject SINH
Jar to yours, do in that case?"
ave would not support him."
1--WE want no halfway candi'
date. We want free coinage
man or nobody"
"You think then that the mon.
,ey question will be the overshad-
owing one i'll the next campaign"
1T will be II only issue. 1t
ought to have been the principal
issue two years ago. but we were
lust then emerging from the shad-
ow of sectionalism and the force
bill. ana il was no time to divide
on linan"ial questions. But that
time has now arrived and the next
contest will be waged between the
free coinage men and those who
oppose that proposition. Party
lines will b. obliterated, and this
will be the one thing which will
divide the voters Of the coun-
try"
About this time the BimetalliC
league was holding u great meet
ing in Washington forming u new
party that should have lreG' coin
age of silver for the only plank in
it, platform. For a time it seem
ed that scores Of men Of all parties
would tumble into the new con-
Germ. But, when it came to the
scratch, men hesitated. Congress
man Bland and Senator Teller, OF
Colorado, We're each in turn asked
10 head the new movement as a
candidate for President, but each
tinally declined the place.
Bryan, especially, was very
anxious for the formation of a new
party; but when he saw that it
would not have sufficient follow.
ing. he and Bland and others rot
together and issued the following
manifesto to the Democracy:
70 tho Democrats OF the United
States:
We, the undersigned Democrats,
present for your consideration the
following statement:
We believe that the establish
ment OF gold as the only monetary
standard and determination of sill
yer as Il full legal tender will in
crease the purchasing power Of
each dollar, add to the burden OF
al debts, decrease the market val
fue of all other property, continue
and intensity business depression
and finally reduce the majority of
the people to financial bondage.
We believe that no party can
hope Tor enduring success in the
United States SO long as it advo-
Gates u single gold standard, and
the advocacy OF such financial pol
icy would be injurious, especially
20 a party which, like the Demo
cratic party, derives its voting
strength from those who may with
out rcprooch be called the common
people, and we point to the over
rwhelming defeat of the party in
1894, to 'he opposition aroused by
l'be veto of the seignioragc bill,
and to the still more unanimous
protest against the issue of god