The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1895-08-24
SILVER AND THE EAST.

TIE respected father of our editor,
being "a close student of politics,
writes from Ohio, saying hat the
silver question is the paramount is
sue of the masses. Parties may con
troll conventions, build platforms, or
proclaim policies, but the party
which promises the free coinage of
gold and silver, will receive the
votes.
The writer above quoted is IA line
republican. He is in position to feel
the public pulse, and to know where
of he speaks. Senator Cal. Brice
succeeded in steering the democratic
state convention, but his henchmen
as we'll as his sound money hobby,
are being turned down in all the
county conventions, which goes to
show that Mr.. Brice has as yet no
clear title to a seat in the next sem
ate.
Public Opinion, published in New
York, being non partizan and free
in expression, suggests the follow
ing as a digest of the financial posi-
ton.
'The four state democratic on
ventions which were held last week
have been widely commented upon
by the press. The silver question
has been uppermost in all the dis
cussion, considered however, rather
with reference to its bearing on the
outcome of party politics than on its
own merits. The Mississippi con
v~ention was given comparatively lit
tie prominence, and hat of Texas
was nearly ignored, but the other
two were the scenes of such fierce
factional contention, and the results
seemed to be SO far reaching in their
effect, that much significance has
been attached to them. In Iowa the
result does not seem to be such a
marked victory for sound money
as some partisan organs would make
it appear. The opposition was APP
parently strong, and there is an in
dication that the fight will be con
tinued during the campaign. A very
large proportion of the sound
money papers Of the east and north
proclaim that the silver craze is
fast dying out. The reader must
decide for himself what it really
means when three out of four demo-
cratic conventions in one week take
a decided stand for free silver coin
age, while the other is content to adj
here to a declaration which nearly
every one admits to be capable of
several opposing interpretations, not
all of which could be held to imply
a sound money policy"
A monster vessel may scatter the
waves, and pillow the raging pillows,
but she can't stop the Gulf stream in
its majestic course. From the above
patent suggestions the silver ques-
ton is a yeritable gulf stream in ou1
political ocean, against which nc
party ship can successfully run.
Senator PETER of Kansas d%enounces
the partisan press for garbling his
words in a recent interview. He
says emphatically the silver craze is
not dying out but fast widening its
field. 1t is like IA volcano which
could not be suppressed by the coy
ering of the crater. The belief in
the east that it is dying out, he add
ed, is due to the fact that it has now
passed the p%yrotechnic stage of noise
and demonstration.
1t is we'll known that the gold
forces are united. 1t is plainly not
iced that they work in harmony, and
confidently expected that they will
join hands in the next national cam
palgn, in favor of any party which
stands ON that side of the issue.
What are silver men to do? H
they approach the polls disorganized.
their ballots falling in two or more
directions, their defeat is inevitable.
But if they rally to one standard, lay
aside their preiudices and vote for
n candidate, their success is sure.
We are near enough to the cam
pal On to predict that there will be
but one gold party, one goldbug
candidate. Can the silver men
unite: Can they bury their petty
side issues and party prejudices, and
in N campaign march together:
Or will there be two silver parties to
dissipate the silver vote and prolonp