New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-02-17
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Washington Feb. 16.-The more carefuily sns
mon who howl about "the crime OF 1873 ana
stand for the free and unlimited coinage OF
silver study and analyze the vote In the House
of Representatives Friday. the more clearly
must they perceive II they are Intelligent ana
intellectually honest, that they are In nope
less minority That vote must have etagsereo
even Senator Stewart and his rule or rum
free silver associates and allies In the senate-
both Democrats and Republicans-who threaten
to bolt the Presidential tickets OF their respec-
tive parties unless the National conventions OF
both parties unequivocally declare In favor OK
free and unlimited coinage OF silver by the
Tinted States. regardless Of the policy OF all
the other chief commercial nations OF the worio
The record shows that every Representative
from the States east of Ohio and north or Vir-
ginia Is opposed to free coinage and that only
one United States Senator from that vast region
had the hardihood to vote for II. Those states
are twelve in number-more than one-fourtn OK
all the states-and they will cast 134 electoraA
votes or 30 per cent OF the entire NUMBER
Against a free silver candidate on a free silver
platform. an uncertain candidate on t"o'
faced platform, those States will etand In NOE
tle unbroken array. The Representatives ITO"
four other States-Indiana. Iowa, North Da-
free coinage. and those States have altogether
forty-three electoral votes. Here are sixteen
states-more than one-third OF the entire num-
ber-with 1T electoral votes solidly arrayed NOT
only against an out-and-out free silver candi'
date and platform, but also against an uncer-
tain candidate on dishonest PLATFORM ike t"e
Democratic platform Of 1892
The Presidential candidate who may receive
this year 224 electoral votes more will be
elected. He will not. therefore. actually need
more than forty-seven votes in addition to the
1T votes from the sixteen States already re-
serred 10 OF course no sensible man would
hold that the two Ohio Representatives who
voted for free coinage on Friday against the
nineteen who were opposed TO 1t; that the two
Michigan Representatives who so voted against
the ten who were opposed to 1t; that the two
Illinois Representatives who so voted, against
the twenty who were opposed to 1t; that the
one Minnesota Representative who so voted.
against the six who were opposed 70 It; that the
solitary Populist Representative from Nebraska
who so voted. against the five who were op-
posed to 1t. fairly represented the prevailing
sentiment on tine silver question In their re-
srective States. Those five States are as solid
for sound money as are the states all OF whose
representatives IN Congress are opposed to free
votes. which. added to the III votes already
mentioned, make total of 253. or twenty-nins
votes more than majority OF the total eiec-
toral vote.
In 1894. Missouri. which will cast seventeen
electoral votes this year, elected ter Republic
can Representatives and five Democratic Repre-
sentatives. All the Republicans and two OF the
Democrats were and are sound-mOney men, and
opposed To free and unlimited silver coinage.
One OF the other Democratic Representatives.
has taken the same stand since his election,
AtA1a ,gf . fh.a Gora 70 Snh
stitute so that Of the fifteen Representatives all
except two are opposed to free coinage. There
is no reason TO expect or believe that MISSOURI
will abandon this year the stand that she took
in 1874 In that year the Republican State
ticket elected. The Republican platform
was sound on the money question, and the
financial plank Of the Democratic platform;
which was manufactured by Silver Dick"
Bland expressed his views on the silver ques-
ton.
In 1895 elections were held in several States.
the results of which, related to the silver
question. possessed great significance. In Ken
lucky in 1892 Mr. Cleveland the Democratic
sound-money candidate. standing on platform
the financial plank Of which was gold on one
side and silver on the other, received plurality
OF more than 10000. In 1895 the Republican can
didate for Governor, sound-mOney man standing
on a sound money platform. was elected by
plurality of nearly 5000 votes over free-silver
candidate standing on the Democratic National
platform OF 1892 Another significant election
was that held In the XVIIIth Congress District
OF Illinois. in November. 1895 In 1892 the coun-
ties which compose this district gave Harrison
a plurality OF S95 votes. In 1895 Lane. the Demo-
cratic candidate for Congress. who had already
served eight years as member of the House OF
Representatives from a district composed OF
counties which formed part OF the present
XVIIIth District and who had been an active
advocate Of free silver during that period Of
service, was defeated by the Republican candi-
date. who received a plurality Of $3.50 votes. A
few months afterward the Republican Repre-
sentative-elect died and special election was
hal IN fll the Lane again the
Democratic candidate. He forced the fighting on
the silver issue. and Hadley. the Republican
candidate standing on a sound-money. anti-free
coinage platform. by plurality OF 3.251
votes-a gain OF 66l votes in a single year. and
that at special election when there was no
Presidential State contest.
LOSSES IN VARIOUS PLACES