Birmingham state herald., 1896-11-08
NAMES COUNT NOTHING.
SAYS SENATOR MORGAN IN AN IN-
 TERVIEW.
Silver Must and Will Receive It's Proper Postion.-The People Say So and
 Must Be Obeyed

Washington, Nov. Tn an interview with a reporter of the Southern Assocl- ated Press today Senator Morgan of Ala bama, said:
 MT. Mckinley carried Illinois, Indiana, West Virginia, Kentucky and Maryland with the help of the solid negro votes, and the Indianapolis bolters. These can not be combined to sustain his policy as they were to elect him. In congress there is no point of union between them. Force bills and bounty-fed sugar will not eoalesce, and northern people, even will feel that there is too much Solid South In the solid negro vote. McKinley's camp has the same hostile element in 1t that the democracy found in the minority at Chicago. and they will continue to be the mugwump element that exists only to destroy where they cannot rule.
 Having destroyed the bimetallic creed ancient and moderu-of the true democ- racy they will have the support of the gold lords and the national banks Tn re- sistng higher tariff taxation as substi- ute for the issue of bonds, which they desire above all things. The American people are opposed to the further issue of bonds and to increase the burdens of taxation on the industrial classes, which the gold lords are exempt from those bur dens, and are intrenched behind tenn porary ruling of the supreme court.
 "They are now organized, alert, agSres- sive and determined in their opposition to, further issue of bonds. They were firm in their demand that the existing law which reads: Section 3519-any owner of gold bullion may deposit the same at any mint, to be formed into coin or bars for his own beneflt'-shal1 be amended by inserting the words or silver before bull Hon. so that the law will read any owner of gold or silver bullion may deposit the same at any mint etc. In the success of either demand, the friends of silver will restore that metal as it was In the times of Washington, Jefferson and Jackson
 'Mr Mckinley has frequently voted in congress for the free coinage of silver. equally with gold and his earliest and best hopes will be gratifed if that result is accomplished. The tariff was not an issue in the recentu election and the h. dianapOlls mugWumps hope to win him to a course of moderation on that policy, in consideration that they and the ne- groes elected him. Such a course means more bonds and less money; about which the people still have a word to say
 These burning questions are too simple to be misunderstood, and too hot to be played with by mere politicians. The people will lead themselves along the middle of so plain q road, and will no stop to inquire into the pretensions of any man who claims the honor of O drum major or any party organization that claims the patronage of the officers.
 Names count for nothing in the ranks of the heavy battalions who do the fight ing when the battle is on. Past records are obliterated when the men who touch elbows are moving to the front; and those who scent the spells in the smoke of the battlefield are marked by their comrades as Johnny Hooks was by the people in the war of the first revolution. The silver men will stand together whoever leads, and their victory IS assured.