Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-04-21
COL VIM. r. MORRISON
What is Said at the Capitol ss to His Re-
cent Uttsrsncss


The utter; noes Of Col william R. Morri-
son on the financial questions furnish as
interesting a topic for discussion among
the politicians today as yesterday, when 1t
was talked Of on every side. II even led to
several conferences among the silver lead
ers in the House, who talked il over to see
II there was still much Morrison sentiment
among the silver men of the House. Two
months ago there was a decided Morrison
boom among the House politicians, and it
grew In Washington as we'll as outside. 1t
looked like Morrison would be the compro-
mise candidate of the warning democratic
factions for the nomination. Today the
same men who vowed eternal support of
the distinguished Ininoisan are casting
about fer another choice. These fieeting
opinions are characteristic of the times and
the turbulent and uncertain conditions of
affairs. In another month there may be
another boom for Morrison, but just now
his plea for conservat isrn is wasted, so far
as influence is concerned, on the leaders of
each side
How They Look mt II.
The House and Senate democratic lead
ers ak freely on the matter when IL is I'M
derstood that their remarks are not TO be
printed. The silver men declare that Col
Morrison has put himself In the ranks of
the gold standard advocates while the
sound money" men do not Ike his criti-
cisms Of Mr. Carlisle and the administra-
ton. Summed up in a few words, the ex-
tremists of both sides are dssat isfied with
the stand taken. They think there is no
middle ground in this contest for a man.
They forget, it is said. that a little over a
month ago. when each side was afraid the
other would control the convention Col
Morrison was extolle6 as a man who could
harmonic all factors. and as a statesman
who had the confidence of the country At
that time. when there was more doubt
than now, the ability, the integrity and the
conservatism of the man were fully recog-
nized and appreciated.
Would He Accept Itf
The silver leaders assert that there is no
probability that Col Morrison will be
nominated at Chicago. They will have
nothing but a silver man. The question has
been asked: Would Col. Morrison accept a
nomination from a divided party? Would
Pc accept 1t IL the silver men themselves
nominated him? A prominent gold stand
ard leader of the House is authority for the
statement that Col Morrison would not &C
cept a nomination from the silver men IL
they control the convention and declare for
silver unreservedly. He says he knows
what he is talking about. Leaving aside
the extremists the opinion is that Col. Nor
rlson would accept the nomination and
that he would agree that the will of the
majority should be supreme IL he should lie
elected President II the majority of the
democrats in the next Congress should de-
clare for silver and could get a law
through in behalf of the white metal Col
morrison would respect that as the wish of
the party IT, on the other hand the gold
men should be able to get through bill he
would respect that as the wish of the
party. In other words his friends saw. Col
morrison is an old-time democrat. who be-
ileves that the will of the majority of the
party should be law. He doesn't arrogate
TO himself all the knowledge of his party
on the financial questions. He doesn't ask
10 De dictator of the democratic party and
doesn't claim TO be the custodian of all the
brains of the party. He will support the
party no matter who the nominee and will
DO all he can in the capacity of leader or
follower to promote the welfare of the party
and the country.