The Meeker herald., 1896-06-06
SILVER SURE TO WIN
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New York. Nay 30.LTAe following
from The Waahinston correspondent Of ths
World Of this city. which p . goad organ.
viii be Of special interest to saver men:
There are too many people In Ills coun-
Try who are hiding their EYES 10 great
facn They place themselves In ths pod
tion Of an ostrich pursued BY an enemy.
They do not wish to gaze On what they
term the specter Of alver.' 30 they hold
their hands over their faces, and cry ou,:
4 cannot zee II coming The speaker was
was an especially distinguished senator,
who expressed himself privately 10 the
writer on the financial question.
There i enough said in private here In
Warrington at the present time on tie
oliver question to cause chill to pas over
those whose convictions and interests are
wrapped in the single gold standard dde
Of the controversy. People in New York
and in the East have scanty conception
OF the strength Of the aiver sentiment at
the West and South. The pres which
eniightens them On public Affairs - almost
q unit In favor Of the gold standard. The
real situation throughout the length and
breadth Of the United States, west OF ths
Middle states, Us not comprehended -
New York or New England.
"If the private utterances Of public men
on the silver question could be published
as formal interviews, this portion OF the
country would receive tremendous
shock. have conversed with numerous
persons whose names, If were at liberty
to give them, would be well known to ev-
cry reader. The burden Of what was said
was that the silver movement Is gaining
hand over fist throughout the country;
that while there are diversified views 40 10
the extent or conditions under which sill
yer d favored, there Is determination on
the part of majority of the politicians Of
the South and West to make silver and not
gold the dominant element in the national
currency. A leading Republican senator,
who . we'll known as an advocate Of gold,
declared his belief that II the question Of
gold versus silver were to be submitted
pure and simple to the people Of the Unit
ed States, an overwhelming majority
would be rolled up for the white metal.
"'I believe he explained, that the 16
to 1 standard might not prevail, but bi-
metallism, under conditions that would
not meet with the approval Of Us who IA
vor the gold standard, would be favored.
I believe in more than one-half the states
the vote for silver would average more
than two to one
"The president Of one Of Chicago's
great national banks recently stated that
he had been studying the views Of 400 or
n1ure or ms bunker corresponding, and
he has concluded that silver has got to
come. This bank president b very veal
thy. He has begun to draw gold contracts
and lenses, and will put all hi AFFAIR." on
a gold basis. There s no more ardent
gold man in the country than he.
"A Democratic sound-money senator,
not Senator Brice, told me to-day that
Ohio and Kentucky would be carried for
silver.
II am assured by Pennsylvania man
who knows the situation thoroughly In
the state, that II the silver question were
presented fairly and squarely to the peo
pie, without being mixed with politics
and rid of Interference by capital or the
manufacturers, 1t would receive en- enor.
nous vote. The people known Senator
Cameron d man Of great wealth, who
has banking, real estate and railway In.
terests. That the Cameron family alwayl
love money is understood in Pennsylvania
and the people argue that Don Cameron
would not risk his property by failure In
silver, IL there was any real danger froM
It. Senator Cameron has been in Mexico
studying the condition Of that country
under silver. He returned more zeaiou1
than before.
II am informed by good authority
that at recent meeting of the Democratic
committee of Vermont, the members wish
ed to put some kind Of recognition of 81
yer in the platform of the convention Jus,
held. Bradley Smalley had to use bis In.
nuence to muzzle the budding desire. ]
talked with New England manufacture,
to-day who employs many hundred oper-
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