The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1896-09-17
Palmer, the BOIter, on Free Silver.

OlnCo VIC culbOI VI INC DHuueE HAS |
got his friend Palmer on the track as
decoy duck for the candidate of the
proprietor of the Banner, it is in order
to let the only sanctifed and holy peo-
pie who follow the Banners lead in
politics know what Senator Palmer
(the unresigned) thought when he was
only one of the people. Here are some
excellent extracts, culled especially for
the edifcation and enlightment of the
Banner and its readers.
In the State Register, a paper he
owned that year, the following extracts
appeared among others
"There is not man anywhere who
opposes the coinage of silver who does
not insist that congress has the right to
issue legal tender paper at pleasure, or
who does not rest assured that congress
has the right to farm out the privilege
of supplying the people with currency
through banking corporations. Dem
ocrats, the fight for the silver dollar is
more than forty years old We won it
once against the national banks under
the lead of Old Hickory, and by his
bones we'll win it again. Senator
Palmer, in State Register, Jan. 20,
1873
The Banner will please let its band of
political saints know that Palmer said,
"We won the fight for the silver dollar
once under Old Hickory, and by his
bones we will win it again. "
Old Hickory was not much of n gold
bug in the opinion of Senator Palmer,
though it may shock the saints to run
against this truth so suddenly and un-
expectedly.
Listen, Gideon, listen at your candi-
date :
"Scratch an opponent of the coinage
of silver and you will find a supporter
of the national bank system, and you
won't have to scratch very hard. y
Senator Palmer in State Register, Jan.
25, 1878. FE
| The old man knew what he was talk
ing about, and his words uttered then
are as true as the gospel to day.
Here he goes again;
cit is all very well to abuse the
friends of the silver dollar as infla-
tionists, thieves, regulators, and all
that sort of thing, but really the friends
of the gold dollar ought to pay the same
attention to the members of the conven-
ton who framed the United States Con
stitution, and who made the silver dol.
lar the unit and standard of value in
this country Senator Palmer in
State Register, Jan. "a, 1878.
No man living could have said it bet.
ter. Let the editor of the Banner droI
on his knees when he reads this, and
pray forgiveness for the prosecutions
which he has heaped on the honest mer
who framed the Constitution, and OF
their descendants who are denounced
as thieves, infationists, repudiatorl
and all that sort of thing" because they
believe in the silver dollar of tn,
Constitution.
Now, Gideon, listen to the words O
truth and soberness which follow
eff there is any dollar more homes
than the silver dollar of 3714 grains
I (of pure silver it has not been dis
covered in the century or more that til,
$ nation has existed. If there can be any
such thing as dishonest dollar tina
miserable sham trick and travesty of
. coin, a gold dollar, exactly fills tina
designation. Senator Palmer, il
State Register, February, 1878.
Senator Palmer was then in tn,
; prime and vigor of manhood, now he il
= in his dotage.
e Really, Gideon, do you think it i
worth while for him to resign. Nash
vile Sun.