The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1896-07-09
BOIES TO WHITNEY.
He Discusses Silvcr--I'rcc Coinage Is
Dcmocratic-ThcP Party Must Stitch,
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a dispatch from Waterloo, Iowa, of
last geek : .ys: Ex-Governor Boics re-
| turned this afternoon from his Grundy
county farm where he went Immediate
| ~ on his return from Illinois. When
asked If he intended going to Chicago
soon, he replied that he had not deter
mined whether ho would attend the
convention OF not. During Governor
! Boics's absence the interview with Mr..
Whitney was published and on his re-
turn his attention wa3 called to n tcle-
gram from the New York Herald ask
ing bis opinion in regard to the asscr-
tions made in it, He wired his reply
tonight 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 fur
thcr discuss the matter at issue with
men whose views arc diametrically 0p-
posed to their own on the currency
question. He is entirely correct in his
conclusion that 1t is now too late to ac-
complish any practical results by Il dis
cusslOn OF that character. Through
the South and West that discussion has
been extended and though the
views expressed by Mr.. Whitney have
been put forward by many mon who en-
tcrtain them and they have been fully
considered and weighed, and after all
OF this the judgment OF an ovorwhclm-
ing majority OF the party in these Sec
tions is in evidence by the class Of del
cgatcs who have been chosen to repre-
sent it in tho Chicago convention. Not
one OF the men can now disregard the
known sentiment OF those who selected
him without bctraying Il trust, and not
one OF them in my Judgment, will ever
do so.
whitney Is entirely wrong in aSsum-
ing that free silver Democrats are for
saklng the fundamental principles Of
Democracy, or that what he terms
Sound money Democrats" arc defend
ing these principles in their cndcavor
to commit their party TO gold mon0mct-
allism. Until the Republican party
met in st. Louis few days ago there
was never Il line written in Il national
platform .! citho" Of the great parties
that iustitics the claim that one or the
other OF these spartics was COM
mittcd to that doctrine. Over ana over
again vhe Democratic party in nation
al convention assembled has put itself
on record in the clearcst and most com
prchcnsive language possible to use in
favor OF birictallism, in favor of the re-
storation Of silver to its place in our
financial system as standard money,
and never for moment in the Congress
OF the United States has a majority or
anything like a ma aj0ritY of the repre-
sentativcs OF that party wavcrcd in IS
devotion to the principle 50 clearly
enunciatcd in the party platforms. TO
assume now that adherence to that
principle is abandonment OF an cstab-
lishcd doctrine of that party is to defy
history and ignore the most plainly
written OF all its declarations OF policy.
ut Is useless to claim that IL tender
of the good Offices OF the party to Sc
cure an international agreement for
the free coinage Of silver is the fulfill
ment OF it's pledges so often made in
this respect. TO the sincere believer
in bimctalliSm for the United States an
effort Of this character is little If any
thing less than an unqualified violation
OF Il sacred pledge by ii great pplit
organization. If tnj', ia all Mr.. whit
ncy ana those who think with nim can
onor, it will be vastly better that they
offer nothing. Wncn.Mr. Whitney says
the maintenance OF our present gold
standard is essential to the prcserva-