Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-07-03
A DEMOCRATIC VIEW.
OPINION OF A MEMBER OF THE PREsI-
 DENTS CABINET.

Nscess3ry Fut UP a Ticket Acceptable
 to the Gold Standard Men.
 No compromise at Chicago-fght to the bitter end, ;" is the programme of President Cleveland and the admins. tration. There is talk of a compromise. of some sort of a straddle like that of both parties in 1899, but it does not come from the administration. Presi. dent Cleveland's s views were expressed today by member of the cabinet, who said:
 There can be no compromise on this question. Either the silver men will control the convention or we will con- trol it. If they control it, I hope they will declare for free and unlimited coin age at Is to l. There is no sense ill try ing to patch up peace by which the peo- ple.can be fooled again. Only two things are possible in our system We must have the gold standard, with as large use of silver as subsidiary money as we can support, or we must have silver monometallism without any gold in our currency at all. If we and our friends obtain control of the convention, we will declare for the gold standard and the use of silver as subsidiary money. If the other fellows get control, we hope they will go to the full length and de. clare for silver monometallism
 We want no compromise, no jug gling, no straddle. There is no use try. ing to keep the party together, as som4 people are pleading, unless the party is good for something after it is held to- gether. The Democratic party can do no good to the people of this country by wabbling on the silver question If a party has no principle to fight for, it had better disband or go out of business till 1t gets principle to stand on I do not claim to represent the views of the president, but it is my opinion that If the party cannot stand for the gold standard it will be best for the party and for the country to let 1t go over to free and unlimited coinage. Let the ex- tremists try the experiment. before the people. They will be so badly whipped that we shall have an end of the silver craze as dominating force in our poli- tics If we give a square test of the strength of silver ill this year S cam paign, an ultimate solution of the vex- ing question will be expedited The country can never have peace and con- fidence until the silver goblin is laid away i'll its grave, and the sooner the better ''
 Do you concede that the Chicago convention is to be controlled by the silver men?D was asked of this member of the cabinet
 T do not, was the reply. While the outlook is not bright, the battle is still on. Our reports from Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio are not diseouraging. We believe we are going to carry those states or two of them at least Illinois appears to be dominated by local ma chine, which suppresses the voice of the members of the party. If the Democrats of Chicago stand on their rights and re- fuse to submit to such outrageous impo- sition as that put upon them by the ma chine, they will do exactly right. If & man proposes to hold 6 primary with me, he must give me chance to vote. If the Democrats of Illinois stand on their rights and appeal their case to the national committee, believe the na- tional committee will sustain them. If | they have justice on their side, they | will be given seats in the temporary or ganization of the convention, just as the gold Democrats of Nebraska, Colo rado and other states will be seated !"
 ell ok fo,. trol of the convention notwithstanding the national committee and go for free coinage at 16 to 1, will there be anoth- CT Democratic ticket in the fieid?"
 No matter which side obtains con- trol of the convention I believe there will be two Democratic tickets The silver leaders have already threatened to bolt if they cannot rule We do not make threats, but it is obvious that Democrats who believe free coinage will ruin the country cannot vote for free silver candidate for president. Nor do we want to vote for Mckinley. There seems nothing to do but to set up tick ct of our own and give sound money Democrats place to stand on and some thing to rally around. 1 have no idea whom we would nominate in case we find it necessary to put ticket i'll the field. If this were the presidents first term, I am satisfied he would be will ing to run again, deliberately saeritic- ing himself for the good of the country and the party. But the prejudice against a third term changes the case material ly, and 1 doubt if the president would be willing to serve. He would care nothing for defeat if he could be of any real service to his party and the nation He is too big and courageous for that But he would be accused of possessing an ambition which stops at nothing, while we, who know him we'll, know his ambition is satisfied and that noth ing but great sense of duty could in- duce him to have anything more to do with politics Washington Special to Chicago Times Herald.