The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-05-21
SILVER IN THE WEST.
Boston Newspaper Man Cots n Few Tips
on the Greatest OF Political Movements.

Boston Newspaper Man Cots n Few Tips
ON the Greatest OF Political Movements.
Henry Haynie, a correspondent sent
out by the Boston Herald, is learning
the truth about the silver cause and,
what is really astonishing is printing it
i'll series of letters in that big daily of
the Hub. In recent letter from Den
yer he says, among many other inter
esting things which fill over three COL
umns, the following:
There are several small parties and
associations among the political people
OF this western country which are dis
tlnct from and outside Of the two old
parties. It is these several associations
that count for most in the coming cam
paign-that is, if they become united
but as yet it is by no means certain that
these several groups will ever be able to
unite in the silver issue. 1t is claimed.
however, that if every party and per.
son favoring the rehabilitation of silver
as money were to sink all minor issues
and ambitions-were to put away the
idea of fealty to old parties and unite
with the one object in view, that of BIZ
metallism-their cause or candidate
would win next November. I have yet
to meet man or woman, except up in
Wyoming. who is not irrevocably COM
mitted to the silver issue-that is, if
their own words go for anything.
However, q third party will not DO
summoned into life until after both Of
the old parties have had an opportunity
to refuse plank asking for the free
coinage of silver on the ratio already
mentioned, and the Populist convention
was called purposely several weeks later
than the regular conventions so rs to
afford the Republican aud Democratic
parties this opportunity. One thing is
certain. the politics of this third party
are i'll the hands of trained politicians,
and they are not going to hurry or make
many mistakes, if any. Men like Sena-
tors Teller, Stewart Jones, Morgan,
Allen, Butler, Cameron. Warner, Pence,
Mott PETER and Tillman have no am
bition to crafty, but principle to es-
tablish There is no question but that
the west and south want free silver, but
it is question whether for the sake of
it they will throw aside all differences
and march under ono banner
what we need," tolerably we'll to
do farmer in Kansas said to me, "what
we require, are higher prices, but so long
as single standard, and that one gold,
is maintained, higher prices are impos-
slble Without higher prices tho Ameri-
can people cannot pay their foreign
debts. and unless we pay those debts we
cannot maintain the gold standard, for
the dragnet of the foreign creditor will
take it all. In short, sir, continued
gold standard means our ruin, Just as il
also means the ruin of your manufacture
ing people i'll New England, and a mon
etary system which is rapidly drawing
tho producing classes of the richest ma
ton on earth into tho vortex Of financial
destruction is neither sound nor honest,
and no amount Of banking defamation
or party platform can make it So The
complete restoration of silver to its
former place as q money metal will
check the rising value of gold, deprive
silver standard countries Of the advan-
tages in exchange which they now pos
sess and give the toiler and producer
something like fair return, and this
can be done only in one way-the mints
must be opened to free coinage again. "