The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-09-14
sILNER-pLArED GoLDBUGs.

Cincinnati Enquirer.
The campaign is becoming u cornedy of
errors. The noisy advocates of n gold
standard have divided into two parties
One has nom'na ed the "eN-silver lunatic"
Mckinley and the other has nominated
the "ex-slver unatic" JOHN NJ. Palmer.
Mckinley vo,ed for the free and unlim-
tied coinage of silver in the Bland Jill in
The house OF representatives in Novcm-
her, 1871, and the following year Is VOt. q
for the stanley Matthews resolution de-
cNr.ug all the bonds Of the United States
payable IN silver dollars. John NJ Pal
NOR. In 1913. published newspaper In
which he declared that If there can be
any such thing a dishonest dollar that
miserable shcll trick and traVesty OF
co n, gold dollar. exactly fills that dos
ignation,' He also said in the same
urt'cle-
ar there is any dollar more honest than
e3e SILVER dollar OF 51il. grains lof pure
sllVtr it has not been discovered in the
listed"
Not ch.a last 10 good honest talk, II
Senator Palmer mad continual to advocate
sound money he might have been the
demcnra't' nominee today He was then
81 Years Of age-;he age of discretion. lie
Me half Of Major Mckinley. The ma jor
was a the tender age OF 81 when he put
in his work for what he now calls a 30
cent dollar.
snatcr Palmer also said in his pews-
paper on the 2Dth OF January. 1875:
Democrats, IN. fight for the silver dol
lar Is more than forty years old We
under the lead of old Hickory and by his
bones Wen win ii again"
oi coarse we Will, you dear, blessed old
soul. What can have happened to you to
have led You astray in this your oiehticth
year? TO You know what they have bcen
doing? Have they given YOU some drug
that has made you take back all that
about Hickory ind In ri
money?
II the same article Senator Palmer said:
There Is not a man who opposes the
coinage Of silver who does not insist that
congress has the right to issue ls.al ten
der paper at pleasure, or who does not
est assured that congress has the right
10 farm out the privilege of supplying
Me people with currency through bank
ing corpora tons"
And now the very follows who wanted
the privilege of supplying the people with
currency igrmod ont to them have got no
a lArN 70 NOte down the silver dollars
ana sub itule The notes Of private bank.
ing corporations Was there ever Zach
an exhibition? II equals the turning of
ms coat by Secretary Carlisle who ~ now
tne serving man Of the gold syndicates,
resonta,ives thai the opponents to free
silver coinage were greater enemies to
mankind than war, pest!lence and famine
hau ever been. General Palmer ought to
We q nttle book to explain the influ-
once Hoi have caused his conversion. We
nave heard of an old man who said to the
mscn icvous boys OF mis- village. Take
me old man out and get him drunk aad
oaVe thn with him" II really would APP
lehf thai this grand old man of varie-
Sht.d noApcs mad passed through some
siich experience with the Fairchiids. Ncl;-
els Morons and the like
we sngg 81 a. Joint debate between Pal
mer aud Mckinley. in which thew shall
r. late their experiences ana explain to
NE pubic whether they were virtous
when they were for silver coinage. and
nav" now fallen from grace or whether
theY wrr' then wicked and have now becn
converted Bryan Is drawing immensely
~ A's meetings nut such an eNperipncn
m d, 90 we have suggested wonld