The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1896-06-02
SILVER MEN WILL CONTROL
The Gold Men Will Certainly Bolt
"A Gold Standard Organ Gives II
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The Gold Men Will Certainly Bolt
A Gold Standard Organ Gives |
Up.
The Philadelphia Times, which /
one OF the strongest gold standar
organs In the East, gives up the figh
against free silver. 1t prints tabl
showing 42O delegates for gold and 49,
for silver, and thinks perhaps it give
the gold men too much strength II
Georgia, Louisiana, Ohio and Virginia
and believes Kentucky likely to g,
into the free silver column.
1t acknowledges that the silver mer
will control the Democratic nationa
convention-in fact, proves by its owr
figures that all the efforts OF the admi
nistration and other gold standard in
huences to prevent this must neces
sarily fall
The acknowledgment The Times
makes has created much consterna
tlon among the advocates of the gold
standard, who have all the while
pinned their faith to the prophecies OF
this and other gold papers which have
been declaring that gold would surely
win at Chicago. But now the newt
able Is presented to them in most con-
vincing shape, and that, too, by au-
thority which they cannot question.
The Times clearly sets it forth as
the intention of the gold. democrats to
bolt the convention. There is no mine
is all the more significant because the
paper is supposed to reflect the senti-
ments of the administration Demo
Gratis OF Pennsylvania and, indeed, of
the East.
The language is plain. After pre-
senting its table, The Times points out
that the only possible way by which
the gold Democrats can hope to con-
troll will be through concessions made
by silver Democrats, in the hope of
keeping the gold men in the conven-
tion.
The certainty of bolt of the sound
money men in the event of the adop-
tion OF a free silver platform at Chica-
go may influence enough of those who
incline to free silver but who would
not follow it to the disruption of tho
party to give the sound money men q
majority of the body"
We have made the foregoing list
as liberal to the gold standard as the
1acts seem to warrant at this time. 1t
Is doubtful whether Georgia shall have
sound money Democrats out of the
28, but it is possible, and we count
that number, and it is very doubtful
whether one-half OF the Indiana dele
cation will be in favor of the gold
standard. We rank Kentucky with
the sound money men because the last
Democratic convention so declared, but
1T Is admitted that the battle in that
State Is not entirely free from doubt,
and the 26 votes placed in the gold
column may be transferred to the
othef> side We regard it asa very
liberal estimate, 10. divide the Louisina
delegation evenly. There is no like
lihood that more than half tic. dele
CATION will be for sound money, and
1t is possible that less than half the
delegation will be for sound money,
and it is possible that less than that
number will be faithful in the end.
There IS q contesting delegation
from Nebraska that is in favor of sound
money, but it is the creation of bolt
ing convention, and there.is little like
hood that 1T can be recognized. Ohio
is quite uncertain on the money issue,
and the chances are more than even
that two-thirds of the delegation from
that State will be for free silver. The
Virginia delegation will not have more
than votes for sound money, with 20
against it, and West Virginia may
have more than of the IL votes cast
on the side of free silver. There is a
shade of doubt as to Wisconsin, but
the chances are much in favor Of q
solid delegation against the free silver
craze"