The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-06-30
BO|ES FIRES A BR0AEIDE ON THE VIEWS OF WHITNEY.

silver proposition would receive less sup
port from the working people than from
any other class. That was the case also in
the tariff fight. The greatest gains made
by the Democracy on the tariff reform
proposition were made by the Iaboring
classes and not among the farmers of the
country.
The working people in the cities and
towns, Mr.. Eckels observed, read the
daily papers. and thus kept themselves in
formed as to current events. Not so with
the farming population who receive their
political education from the country
weeklies. The metropolitan press, which
is the educator of the laboring people, is
largely against the free coinage of silver.
With regard to the probable action of the
sound-money Democrats in case of the
adoption of the 10 to free coinage plat
form, Mr.. Eckels said tnat he did not
think any of the gold men would bolt the
convention. He did not believe that the
proposition had been discussed. What
ever had been said on that subject had
been said by the silver men and not by
the gold men.
1.-THE East will not be carried for sill
people of the manufacturing centers be-
ieve in q stable monetary standard. They
want good dollar. The East, more than
the West, is in position to see the effect
upon the business interests of this coun-
try, which are related to foreign business
interests, of changes in the stability of
the currency. There is no such thing as
having an independent commercial and
financial system for any country unless
you can inclose it within Chinese wall. !"
In reply to question as to whether the
tariff would not be an important factor in
the campaign Comptroller Eckels said that
the tariff question would not cut much of
i figure in the contest. The currency
plank would be the all-absorbing one.
When 1 asked about the reported candi-
dacy of Vice-President Stevenson for the
Presidency Mr.. Eckels said that he had
not heard Mr.. Stevenson's name connected
with any nomination in the gift of the
people.
By the way, it is whispered that these
gentlemen of the administration who are
just now absent from their posts by per-
mission of the President have wary eye
upon Mr.. Stevenson's chances, and that
they will not strain any tendons In work.
ing for Mr.. Stevenson's success. In fact,
the only things strained in the matter are
said to be the relations between President
Cleveland and Vice-President Stevenson.
Mr.. Boies and other representatives of
the silver wing of the Democratic party do
not agree with Mr.. Eckels. Mr.. Boies says
fatty that, with the exception of the Wall
street influence, the great mass of the
Democratic party in the Eastern States
will be unanimous in favor of the restora-
tion of silver to its original position as pri-
mary money. Mr.. Boies expressed this
opiniont
''Personally believe Webster and many
others of the most eminent of American
statesmen in the past were right in their
conclusion that the constitution of the
United States, fairly construed, requires
of Congress that it shall by law pro
vide for the coinage of both gold and
silver as standard money-that it can