The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1896-10-14
Was James G Blaine An Anarchist 7

and fraudulent demonetiz alton of silver
the Honorable James q. Blaine declare,
in the United States Senate that he die
not know at the time Of its passage tina
the act OF 1873 d .monetiz ID silver III,
was the Speaker of the House of Repre-
sentatives at the time, and had a pretty
good opportunity Of knowing what wal
going on. lie was in the chair wher
to suspend the ruiz, 8 and pass new mini
bill, which he then for the first time
presented. Mr.. Brooks, of New York
, demanded the reading of the substitute
Mr. Hooper strenuously opposed the
r. a ling Of it. MIR. Baine suggested Il
Mr.. Hooper how he could so amend his
motion as to prevent the substitute from
being read MIR. Hooper adopted his
suggestion, and Mr.. Blaine as Speaker
then put the motion to suspend the
rules, adopt the substitute, and pass the
bill without a reading OF the substitute.
The Ioll was called, and, while a major.
ity voted for Mr.. Hooper's motion, it did
not receive twothirds vote, and was
therefore lost. Mr.. Hooper then moved
to suspend the rules and to have the
| substitute read, and then that the bill
pass He then succeeded in inducing
the House to pass the bill without the
reading of The substitute by his ass u
rarc es that it had been amended so as to
be satisfactory to all those who had pre-
viously objected to the bill. Two OF its
seventy'one sections provided for the
demonetiz ltion of silver. Thus Mr..
Hooper de ceived Mr.. Blaine, who sat in
the Speakers chair, heard all that Mr..
Hooper said, and aided him in bringing
the matter to vote. Mr.. Blaine's dec.
laration ought to satisfy everybody that
the House was defrauded into passing
the bill.
In 1873 Mr.. B'aine supported the res
toratiOn of the i YER dollar to the money
system of the country as a full legal
tender, and two years later, in discussing
the silver question in the United State
Senate, he used language almost identi-
cal with the utteranc Of Mr.. Bryan is
his public speeches Of this year. We
quote few examples. Remember now
it is Mr.. Blaine who is speaking and not
Mr. Bryan He said:
IL believe the struggle now g'ing on in this
country and in other countries FIR single gold
stan IA would, if uccesslul, produce widespread
dis ,ster in and throug cut the comm rca world"
How familiar this sounds, but no long
er from Republican mouths. Continuing
Mr. Blaine said:
The destruction Of silver as money and estab.
fishing gold as the sole urit of va.ue must have a
ruin us cff,ct IN all forms OF property except
those inye,tmen which ,ield fixed income in
IN .ney These would be enormously enhanced in
value, and would gain di proportionate and uu-
fair a vantage over every other species Of prop
erty."
Ii this is not downright anarchism,
then Mr.. Bryan is not an anarchist.
Mr.. Blaine went on to say
III as the most reliable siatsliciins affirm, there
a eady seven thousand millions of coin and bull
lipn ia the wo Id, We y equal divided betw cen
gold ard silver, it is imp ssble to strike silver
Of existence as money without results that will
prove distr, ng TO millions, and utterly DISASTROUS
To tens # thousands "
And yet Mr.. Blaine was allowed to re-
main in the Republican party after thus
showing that he was wholly possessed
with 1.-THE silver craze" But the half
has not been told. Let the gold Shrek
ers read further from Mr. Blaine. He
said:
IL ble god and silver coin to be THE MONEY
or the CONSTITUTION; indeed, the money Of the
American pc lplc ante rior the Constitution which
the gr, at org nj; law recognized as quite indie
pendent of It's own existence. No power was con-
f-rrsd on Congr declare eitl er metal should
rot be morey. Congo has. therefore, III my
Judgment no Io'er to demone'ize either IL,
tie ef IRE, silver has been demonetiz, d, | am in
favor Of renonetizing it. If its coinage has been
p ohibtel, am in favor Of ordering it TO be re-
sumed. am ia favor OF having it enlarged"
If these utterances Of Mr. Blaine had
been incorporated in the st Louis plat
form last June how different would have
been the tone OF the present campaign.
The Populists of the South and West
would have Endorsed the Republican
platform and the candidates The silver
sentiment would have prevailed at Chi
cage, and thus both Of the great parties
would have been for the free and I'M
limited coinage OF silver. The syndi-
Gates and Mr.. Clevelands Administra-
ton could have hocked together in a
little select party by themselves, and We
should have heard very little about silver
lunatics and anarchists.
We suggest to our Republican friends
who have not bowed the knee to the
Wall street Baal that they cut out this
article and keep it with them to exhibit
to their old Republican associates who
support Mr.. Mckinley and the St. Louis
platform. Mr., Blaine knew pretty well
what was good R-publicanism in 1880,
and no man is an anarchist now who be-
lieyes Just as Mr.. Blaine believed then,
unless Mr., Blaine, too, was an anarchist.
Mark Hanna and Pierpont Morgan are