The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-08-05
WILL MR.. CARLISLE
BOLT THE TICKET
Ualess Signs Fail He viii Support Nc.
kinley and Hobart.
AN INTERVIEW WITH LOGAN CARLISLE
The Son of the Secretary Does Not
Hesitate to State His Own Position
on the Currency QuestiOn..Will
Vote for n Sound Money Ticket,
Even If II Is a Republican Ticket.
Bureau of the Tribune,
601 Fourteenth street, N. w.

II Secretary Carlisle does not come
out squarely and bolt the Chicago
ticket all signs fail. Up to the present
writing the secretary has maintained
dignified silence on the question. So
has President Cleveland and the mem-
bers Of his cabinet with the single ex-
ception of Hoke Smith. who has openly
declared his intention of supporting the
mongrel tickets nominated at Chicago
and st. Louis. But that does not say
they will continue to remain silent.
Their hope for defeating Bryan and the
Anarchistic- Populistic platform upon
which he stands lies in the placing of
third or sound money Democratic
presidential ticket in the field. If that
II not done the chances are largely in
favor of Mr.. Cleveland and his entire
official family. with the exception of Sec
retary Smith. walking up to the polls
on November Sd next and casting their
ballots for Ex-Governor Mckinley and
sound money. That is the way things
look now.
had talk with Logan Carlisle, chief
clerk OF the Treasury Department. and
son Of the secretary today. He Is an
out and out gold standard advocate.
and has no hesitancy In saying that II
he had vote this year he would cast
1t against Bryan. Sewall and Watson.
(By way of explanation / might say
that the reason Mr.. Carlisle will not
vote at all this year Is because he has
no legal residence) To begin with Mr..
Carlisle does not regard Mr.. Bryan as
a very good Democrat. He says the
Nebraskan and the platform upon which
he stands saver too much Of Populism
and Anarchy to suit him. During the
conversation Mr.. Carlisle very adroitly
lodged all questions which were cal
culated to place his distinguished father
on record. He said he could only speak
for himself; his father could do like
wise. But the secretary Is not talking
for publication these days. That Is the
difference between father and son. Fol-
lowing is what the son thinks Of the
Chicago ticket and the platform, and
he no doubt reflects the sentiments of
his father:
Secretary Carlisle has not yet stated
his position as to the Bryan-Sewall
ticket. Several statements have ap-
peared. as II emanating from him, as
what his attitude will be, but all of
them have been unauthorized and In
most cases unfounded. l will tell you
where stand, however. ! am now and
have been for years a sound money.
low tariff Democrat. Ten years ago /
made sound money, low tariff speeches
in Kansas, where the feeling against
both was pronounced. l cannot be-
lieve that free silver will do otherwise
than seriously add to the present busi-
ness and commercial situation and 1 do
not believe the people will endorse 1t
at the polls in November. do not con-
slider the Chicago convention as Demo-
cratic convention, for it was not made
UP Of Democrats. nor did it employ
Democratic methods in the making of
Its nominees. l am for sound money
Democratic ticket. If not that then the
sound money Republican ticket, McKin-
ley and Hobart.
II do not pretend to deny that busi-
ness depression prevails, but free sill
yer. In my opinion, will create even
worse conditions. If patient be strick-
en- with diphtheria should his physician
expose him to smallpox? That, it
seems to me, Is precisely the kind of
methods the advocates Of the free and
unlimited coinage of silver would en-
ploy, and with similar result. There
Is too much of the free gold, free silver
and leetle more counterfeit clamor
that Bob Taylor. Of Tennessee, speaks
of in his campaign.
II do not believe free silver will win
I IN nf
the craze have been exaggerated. Re
ports receive from Kentucky indicate
the election Of Mckinley and Hobart
electors there, although the free silver
men do not even rate the state as doubt
full. In one Kentucky county GA men.
Democrats, who have heretofore voted
the Democratic ticket, have signed a
statement pledging themselves to vote
for the Republican sound money ticket,
and think on election day there will be
thousands of Kentucky Democrats who
will go to the polls with clothes pins on
their noses and cast their ballots against
the Chicago nominees and platform. l
have heard much talk of Kentucky Re-
publicans boiling their party's ticket
Tor free silver, but have been unable
to secure Identification of such boilers.
Names are never given. The managers
OF the Democratic campaign assert that
they will carry the state for Bryan by
10000, but they do not tell how they
will accomplish the political revolution.
"The men who would debase the cur
rency point to the fact that the present
business depression exists under the
gold standard. the standard of Eng
land as they term it. True. but does
Il not exist also under other standards? =?
We have the English language, for In
stance. as well as the English monetary
standard. They seem to overlook the
fact that we have enjoyed something
like sixty-four years Of almost uninter-
rupted and marvellous prosperity under
the gold standard. I cannot but believe
that by November 8 political conditions
will have SO adjusted themselves that
victory for a safe and secure currency
over an unsafe and insecure one will be
assured" w. RIB.