The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-06-30
BOlES ON THE PARTY BATTLE.
THE sILVERITEs WANT NO DISCUS
SION AT CHICAGO.

SION At CHICAGO.
The Governor Says MIR. whitney L.
Right fn His Conclusion That IL Is
Too Late for the sound Money Men
TO Accomplish Anything by De-
bHte-BimetaIiism Declared the
Historic Policy of the Democratic
Party.
Waterloo. Ia, June 29.-Ex-Gov. Boies
returned this afternoon from his Grundy
county farm, where he went Immediately
on his return from Illinois. When asked
/ If he intended going tO. Chicago soon. he
replied that he had not determined
whether he would attend the convention
or not
During Gov. Boies' absence the inter-
view with Mr.. Whitney was published and
on his return his attention was called to
a telegram from the New York Herald
asking his opinion in regard to the asser-
tons made in II. He wired his reply to-
night as follows;
Mr.. Whitney IS entirely right in his
! conclusion that there is no disposition on
the part of those who will represent the
silver sentiment of the south and west in
the Chicago convention to further discuss
the matter at issue with men whose views
are diametrically opposed to their own on
the currency question. He Is entirely cor
rect in his conclusion that it is now too
late to accomplish any practical results
by discussion of that character. Through
the south and west that discussion has
been extended and thorough, and she
views expressed by Mr.. Whitney have
| been put forward by many men who en-
| tertain them and they have been fully
considered and weighed, and after all Of
| this the judgment of an overwhelming
majority Of the party in these sections
| Is evlcenced by the class Of delegates
| who nave been chosen to represent II IN
| che Chicago convention. Not one of the
men can now disregard the known sen,i-
| neut OF those who selected him without
| betr6ying a trust, and not one Of them,
/ in my Judgment Will ever do so.
| Mr.. Whitney Is entirely wrong In as
| suming that free silver democrats are
| torsaking the fundamental principles OF
! democracy or that what he terms sound
! money democrats are defending these
| principals IN their erdeavOr to commit
! their party to gold monometallism. Un-
I'll the republican party met in st. Louis
| few DAYS ago there was never a line
| written in a national platform OF either
/ OF the great parties that 1usthes the
CLAIM that the one or the other OF these
| parties was committed to that doctrlns.
/ over and over again the democratic
party in national convention assem- bled
| has put Itself on record in the clearest
| and most comprehensive language possi-
BILE to use in favor of bimetallism, In favor
| of the restoration of silver to
4 its place in our financial system as stan
dard money, and never for moment in
| the congress of the United States has a
majority, or anything like majority OF
I the representa- tives of that party waver-
| ed in It's devotion TO the principle so
clearly enunciated in the party platforms.
/ adherence
| principle is abandonment of an establish
| ed doctrine of that party Is to defy history
| and ignore the most plainly written of
/ all its declarations OF policy. 1t is USE
| less to claim that a tender of the good
| offices of the party to secure an interna-
| tional agreement for the free coinage Of
| silver is the fuifillment of its pledges, so
| often made in this respect To the sincere
believer in bimetallism for the United
| States an effort of this character is little
| if anything, less than an unqualified vio-
| lation of a sacred pledge by a great polit
| ical organization. If this is all Mr.. Whit
ney and those who think with him can
offer, it will be vastly better that they
offer nothing.
when Mr.. Whitney says the mainten-
| ance of our present gold standard is es-
| sentiai to the preservation of our ma
| tional credit and redemption of our pub
| lie pledges he ignores a great truth Of
which he cannot be ignorant He knows
| there is not a single obligation of this
nation outstanding to-day that by its
| terms is payaDle IN Bold alOues ana ne
| knows that right upon the face of the
| great bulk of the bonds of the government
| it is written in substance that they are
| payable in coin of the United States of
| the standard weight, and fineness of its
coins before silver was demonetized, and
| that therefore, by their own express
terms they are payable in our present sill
yer dollars, if the government elects to
| so pay them.
1T is since the most of these obligations
| were issued that silver has been demone-
| tiZed, whereby If they are to be paid in
| gold alone their value has been doubled
! and the burden of the great industrial
| class who must provide for their pay
| ment has been Increased two-fold. To
| talk about a violation of national honor
| when no party in the nation has ever
| suggested its failure in the least degree
| to meet every obligation 1t has assumed
| according to the strict letter of the con-
tract it p.ade, is, to say the least a
| strange sound to those who heed the uni
| versal cry of distress occasioned as they
| believe. by doubling the purchasing power
| of money and cutting in twain the mar
| ket price of the products Of labor. II
! to undo what law has done to add to
he burdens of the toiling millions of this
| nation and double the fortunes of the
| rich thin it, is to disrupt the demo-
| cratic party, disruption must come The
| majority Of that party threatens no
| wrong to any one, and If those who COM
| pose that majority can avoid it all map
| be assui ed they viii submit to no wrong
such as the permanent establishment Of
| a single gold standard would impose uu
on the great mass of the people of this
| nation. Horace p. Boies."