The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-10-17
SHERMAN ON silver.
Boasts Of Republican Party's
Friendship for White Metal.
YAvoRs MORE SILVER COINAGE.

Honest Frissds OF sound Money should
= Awaken to the Fact That Republican
opportunism Cannot He Relied On
Only sure Way OF Voting for sound
Money IL by Casting Ballot for the Ma
tionsi Democratic Candidates, Palmer
aud Buckner.
One would suppose that tS :his time
John Sherman might have seen enough
Of the mischiefs resulting from the sill
yer agitation not to boast of the part
taken by his party and himself In
bringing those mischiefs upon the
country.
But not so. He stopped long enough
in Chicago the other day to make q
short speech, in the course of which
he said:
EFT is sometimes said that we Gre
publicans) are opposed 20 silver: that
we are in favor OF gold exclusively. On
the contrary. my countrymen. We have
done. as a party. more for silver than
any other party has ever done. II was
the Republican party that provided for
the coinage OF silver in 1S7S-the coin
age OF the silver dollar-and subse-
quently. In 1890 the coinage OF great
number.
"Betwssn those years the Republicans
gave TO the people more silver dollars tina,
were ever coined nearly AIRY times ~
many silver dollars n were coined prior to
that time. We msintsined them, too. Mt
par with gold, and we are in favor of more
Of them ~ We can maintain them Mt par
with goid.-
Thus, says the Chicago Chronicle.
John Sherman brags of the silver acts
Of 1878 and 1890 as the work of the Re-
publican party. He makes II his boast
that hts party has done more for sill
yer" than any other party ever did;
that Is, more TO spread the silver delu-
sion and craze. more to make IL
chronic disease. more to produce the
panic OF 1898, more to make II neces-
sary for President Cleveland to con-
vene congress In extra session to put
a final stop TO tie Republican policy
which had broug.Y the country to the
brink of the precipice which overhangs
the Mexican sunken plane OF silver.
Sherman boasts that his party main
tanned silver at par With gold coin. but con-
venientiy forgsts that = Democratic pres'-
don't had TO call congress together TO repeal
the sherman silver law, which had almost
destroyed tho parity. aud which, with the
Republics law ~ 1873, has made it neces-
sary to sell more than 0262, 600. 900 Of
bonds for geld with which to maintain the
parity.
He could not allude to these facts
| without making II disagreeably appar-
| ent that the Republican silver policy
l was not q thing to brag OF and that II
| had been pursued so far as to infict
| upon the country a considerable debt
besides q disastrous panic and immi-
| nent danger of precipitation TO the
| Dead sea level OF silver
Sherman gives conclusive proof that
| he is aware of these facts by his ex-
| IRENE care to suppress them. Yet
| knowing them perfectly, he deliberate
| " tells a club which Is supposed to be
| In favor OF sound money that his party
| is In favor of more silver dollars IL they
| can be maintained at par.
What excuse can he find for thus en-
| couraging the silver delusion at this
| timer There Is no excuse but political
| cowardice The country wants nc
| promise of more silver from any party
Least of all does II want any such
promise from a party which pretends
to be fighting the Populists. One party
promising more silver is too much.
when John Sherman on behsif Of the
Republics party promises more silver
those who know what sound money 10 will
naturally seek refuge In the Democratic
party aud vote for Palmer and Buckner.