The Daily Texarkanian., 1896-04-08

THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY'5 REC
ORD ON SILVER.

OAlD YIN OIL LA.
Before a JOINT session of the two
houses of the Georgia legislature,
recently, Hon. Charles f. Crisp,
speaker of the U. S. house of rep
resentatve, delivered a powerful
financial speech. In the speech he
gave the DEMOCRATIC PARTY's REC,
ORD IN CONGRESS, on free coinage OF
silver. The populist papers cannot
successfully disprove what Mr.. Crisp
uttered. He said:
''Now, let us see some Of those
votes. In December, 1876 we had
a vote of the house on free coinage.
The yeas were 1853 and the nays 3d.
The democratic yeas we're 1874 and
the democratic nays were H. One
hundred and twenty-four democrats
favored free coinage in 1876 and
seventeen opposed it in the house
of representatives. Those were
tie representatives who were
elected by the people and those are
the representatives who speak the
will of the people IN louder tones
than any platform made on any oc-
casion. applause and cheers)
In 1877, one year thereafter,
another vote on free coinage was
taken. The democratic yeas were
81, democratic nays 10, Ninety
seven to ten was the proportion at
that time of the democrats who
favored the free and unlimited
coinage of silver
"On the Bland-Allison law in 1878
the democratic yeas we're 122, nays
III. One hundred and twenty two
were the friends of silver.
con the free coinage.bill in 1886
the democratic yeas were SO, nays
10. The nays, you see, we're then
increasing, but still a majority of
the democrats stood for the free
coinage of silver,
In 1890 the free coinage demo-
Gratis were 1O1, nays 13. In 1890
the democratic party stood that
way. In 1890 again the vote was
liz yeas, p nays, in favor Of free
coinage
'In March 1892, on a motion to
table a free coinage bill, the yeas
were 148 and the nays III. ! was
speaker at that time and voted
with the nays and that made tie
and the motion failed (AppIause.)
"In August, 1893, the free coin
age democrats were l0l, nays 1903
For the ffst time in the history of
the democratic party in 1893, a
majority Of the democratic repre-
sentatWes in congress- majority
of two-yoted against free coinage.
They voted against free coinage
then because that was a proposi.
ton to repeal the Sherman law,
and they were urged to let that
proposition stand by itsilf, and
when it was disposed OF farther
| legislation should be had in relation
to silver. Following that, in March
1894, we had the seignorage bill,
more legislation in the interest OF
silver, and bow did that result?
Democratic ayes l35 aud nays go.
The hour had come when something
should be done for silver, and many
of those gentleman who had voted
against free coinage in 1893 on the
seignorage bill, voted in favor Of
silver. So that the vote was demo-
Gratis 1876 to 50, and when the bill
was vetoed the democrats voted
yeas III, nays 30.
Taking ali these votes together,
my DEMONSTRATING the face that
silver was demonetized in repub
lican CONGRESSMAN | not justified
in saying that the establishment Of
the single gold standard in the
United States was a republican
measure and has never met with
the approval Of the majority OF the
democratic party2" (Applause)
The sick man knocking at the door
of health gets in if he knocks the
right way, and, stays out il he
doesn't. There are thousands of
ways Of getting sick but only one
way to get we'll DO whatever you
will, if you do not put your diges
tion IN good order, and make your
blood rich and pure, you will not
get well. Rich, pure blood is the
only thing that can bring perfect
health Constipation is disease
of the blood. A large paIt OF all
diseases are traceable directly to
nnnnriiies I'm The blood. and can be