The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1895-09-06

pie follow. In other words, he is a
leader.
He is going to make a speech in
Murfreesboro. It's dollars to
doughnuts the speech will be of
the high class order. He doesn't un-
derstand the art of making common
place efforts.
called ON him yesterday at his
room and secured the privilege of
reproducing some of his observa-
tions.
81 am for sound money!" he de-
clared, with emphasis, 81 am for
sound money because / believe in
it. have no political ak to grind.
| am seeking no promotion. / cOvet
no personal distinction. / am will
ling to go down personally as the
penalty for my views. They are
the result of earnest investigation
and an honest endeavor. However
much l may be in the minority up
on this issue shall not allow my
heart or my intellect to be sacrificed
to my aspirations.
'The Tenth Congressional Dis
trict is sound money district. l
am inclined to the opinion that Ten
nessee just now is free coinage
State. The Democratic convention
will not be held, however, for six
or eight months and great changes
may be accomplished between this
and that date. l believe they will
be accomplished.
Democracy doesn't mean cheap
currency. 1t doesn't mean wildcat
money. 1t doesn't mean worthless
greenbacks nor a SO or 75-cent dol
lar. The party has to change its
course if it finally concludes to go
off after free silver. It has always
been the one particular party to
stand behind and uphold sound mon
ey. Andrew Jackson was democrat.
He drove to the wall the national
banking system of his day and made
American moneys and American Sc
curities the best in the world. Ev-
cry line of the party's history and
all of its traditions are against the
populistic cry of blatant silVerites. !"
Ono, sir, l am not an interna-
tional bimetalist; that is, to the ex-
tent that / believe in its feasibility
or long-lifedness. Should all the
great commercial nations of the
world join the United States in a
bimetallic standard, would be will
ling to try the experiment. But |
wouldn't have any confidence in it.
There never was a nation that had
both gold and silver, but that silver
became the medium and commerce,
agriculture and the arts gasped.
Will sound money prevail? AS
sure as you are sitting there. The
great business interests of the coun-
try demand it. Let us go into the
markets of the world with a cheap
currency and our commerce suffers,
agriculture will fail and all of our
interests will become PROSTATE.
"The next democratic convention
may or may not be for the free
coinage of silver. The national
convention Is, however, the court
of last resort. By its decision l
propose to abide. Beyond it, so
far as the contests of 1896 are con-
cerned, there is no appeal.
"This matter of gold and silver
is, however, only an economic ques-
ton. 1t is not a constitutional is
sue. 1t cannot, therefore, alter a
democrat in his democracy. / am
a democrat now, have always been,
and will never, so long as | live,
cease to be. / believe, however,
with all my heart and intellect that
| am on the right side. 1t is GER
tainly my right to occupy seat at
the camp fire and at the councils of
my party. l am arguing for what
| deem to be the best for the party.
am urging sound money as best l
know how. / have no war against
democrats. In all of my speeches /
have never said one word calculated
to wound any soldier in the line or
disrupt the organization. The dem
ocratic party cannot die. 1t is too
strongly the party of the Constitu-
ton. | cannot be driven out of it.
and no other good democrat can,
Talk about the scarcity of gold
is all nonsense. From July /, 1894,
to July /, 1895, the world pro-
duced something more than two
hundred millions of gold which ex-
ceeded by fifty-fVe millions of dol
lars the worlds production for any
previous year, including the days
of Calfornia's wonderful output, and
exceeded the amount of gold and
silver combined for any year from
1850 to 1860.
The world produced during
the three fiscal years intervening
between 1892 to 1895, two hundred
and thirty millions of dollars more
gold than for the first forty years
of the nineteenth century; and /
have no doubt owing to the increas-
ed facilities for treating low grade
ores and the discovery of gold in
South Africa in vast quantities the
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