The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1895-07-19
ROANOKE, VA, FRIDAY MORNING, july ". 1sg5

! record Of the vo,es OF Democratic Sen.
asors on the several bills and resolu-
tions relating to this subject thas have
passed that body beginning 1877, with the
resolutions offered by Hon. Stanley
Matthews. then epublican.from Ohio,
making all United States bonds payable
at the option of the governments in
standard silver dollars, for which
twenty-three Democratic Senators
voted aye and seven nay. Next he
read the votes Of the Democratic Sena-
Hayes veto Of February 80. 1878 to re-
monesize silver, known as the Bland
| Allison law, In which he showed that
there were twenty-five ayes to nine
| nays. Next tho vote in the Fifty-frBt
Congress OF the Democratic Senstors,
June II, 1890, on bill to provide for
the free coinage OF gold and silver and
for other purposes, showing the vote to
have been 26 yeas to nays. Next the
| vote on MIR. Vests substitute to the
| bill of January s. 1891, to provide for
the contraction of the currency and
| for other purposes, by Mr.. Stewart,
showing the vote to have been "a Demo
cratic yeas to l Democratic nav, Next
he gave the Democratic vote on the
bill OF July 1, 1892, to provide for the
free coinage OF gold and silver bullion
and for other purposes, showing the
| vote to have been l6 yeas and nays.
The Democratic vote In the Senate to
repeal the purchasing clause Of the
Sherman law Of July IA, 1890, was yeas,
| 20, and nays 10.
ION this vote" said the speaker,
| voorhees,, Turpie, Mills. Hunton,
Camden, Faulkner and Ransom, who
are to-day as firm for free coinage as
Thurman or Beck ever were, went with
the Sherman Republicans because thew
hoped to save our party from perma-
nent disagreement with the Presidents.
| Several Democrats, including myself,
were paired against the bill These
test votes. taken in four Congresses,
and covering a period OF sixteen years,
show that, from the beginning the bat
tie for the restoration of silver TO free
coinage and full legal tender power, MIR,
Sherman, the destroyer of silver money
and the ally of Great Britain, in setting
up the single standard, was in full &C
cord with every Democratic Senator
from New York and throughout New
England, except Mr.. Hill.
| In 1878, the Democratic votes cast
against silver money were z against 90,
In the second votes OF 1873, they were
9 against 25. In 1890 they were 90
against 90. In 1891 there was l vote
against "a. This WAS after Mr.. Cleve-
lands defeat. when we were mastering
our forces to regain power.) In 1892,
after MIR. Cleveland's second nomination
they we're against 16
"Thus we see that on all the test bal
lotings-hve in number-from 1878 10
1893, Democratic Senators voted ia
votes for silver, and 81 votes that are
claimed for the single gold standard,
and are 30 justly claimed, when the final
result Is considered, Notwithstanding
their Oft repeated observations that
they were the friends of bimetallism. I
do not criticise them. but as to the
| Democracy of the situation, feel COM
Portable that my votes were numbered
with the ia against the 81.
II do not believe that Democrat
was ever In better company than when
| with such men as Thurman, Beck,
Harris, Bate, P.gh, Grover, Wallace,
Salisbury. Voorhees,, Nc Donald, With.
ers, Daniel, Hunton, Vance, Gordon,
Oolquill, Walthall, Bate, Jones, of Ar
kansas; Berry. Coke. Maxey, Here
ford, Davis, of West Virginia; Kenna,
Faulkner. Turpie, Ransom, Jones, OF
Florida; Call, Pasco. McCreery, the
elder and greater; Johnson. Dennis,
Merrimon, Baily. Cockrell, Vest. Eus-
Ills, Hill, OF Georgia; Gibson, German,
Payne, Hearst, Black burn, George,
Hampton. Butler, Blodgets, Mills, Rea.
gan, Barbour, and Hill, of New York,
and others. who, II they had been then
In the Senste, would have voted for the
free coinsg OF silver ST the ratio Of
16 to l, with the full legal tender power
OF redemption.
That door Of escape is always open to
an honest man, but, occasionally, some
try to escape under ground. I have
named Garland and Lamar, who were in
Mr.. Clevelands first cabinet. Garland
voted for free silver and would, after
wards, have died of neglect, but that
brave and good man would not die until
God has called him. He is still very
much alive in his voluntary retirement
from public life. which the South deeply
regrets In letter to the president OF
the Memphis convention, he makes a
critique on Mr.. Carlisle, of the second
Cabinet Of Mr.. Cleveland, which l will
quote
"'Mr. Carlisle, true, now SPEAKS in
language differing essentially from tn st
used by him in 1878; and we must not
answer him with sheer or q contempt.
ious boot, but meet his arguments now
with his arguments then. To my mind,
after reading both-then and now-his
reasons and arguments then are far
superior in logic, in force, and in direct
explanation, to those he now sends
forth. He was then about 40 years old,
his intellect keen and at It's lest, and
his environments all told him to know
we'll and study closely the wants of the
people; snd so completely did he do
this that he came to the Senate, and q
great mantle fell upon him, which to
wear was honor and fame enough for