The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-03-13
NO OTHER WAY OUT.

NO OTHER WAY OUT.
The Silver Men Have Nothing Left TO Do
Except to Unite with the Peoples
Party.
1t was never before as plain as it is
now in Washington that both of the
old parties will declare at their nation
al conventions this year for sound
money. And it was never so clear that
those who imagine that free coinage
of silver is the greatest of issues in this
country will have to seek it through
the third party movement This is
what can be heard on all sides. It is
agreed that harmony through a COM
promise of the financial question is
out of the question
The proceedings In the senate showed
the drift of things It is never safe to
say that the United States senate will
or will not do something. That de-
Lucrative body is given to reversing
itself. But the issue was very squarely
made between the sound money and
the silver republican senators by the
action of the latter in refusing to al
low the tariff bill to come before the
senate. The manner as we'll as the
republican division is expected to last
out this session of congress There
will be no more unity of action on the
republican side until the republican
national convention shall have de-
clared the financial policy of the party.
and until it shall be known whether
the silver senators propose to take
themselves formally into the third
party.
The action of the administrat ton
brings the democrats face to face with
the same kind of division in their
party. The presidents private utter
ances during the past few days and
Mr.. Carlisle's semi-oficial expressions,
with the multiplying evidences every
where in administration circles, give
the party notice that there must be no
compromise at Chicago. Democrats Of
the peace-loving, conciliatory, not to
say compromising kind, who have until
now hoped for some peaceable way
around the platform-making at Chi
cago, confess that a split seems una
voidable. They are convinced that
what they have hitherto been willing
to accept is true, and that is, the ad-
ration from the sixteen to one demo-
Gratis rather than any yielding.
Eastern republicans say that there
will be no further efforts on their part
to win over the free-silver republicans
at this session. They take the posi-
ton that until the party in national
convention declares the party policy,
it is useless to have any dealings with
these silver senators. The latter, on
their part, talk just as vigorously, and
even more definitely. They regard
| party utilization with the sound money
| repu blicans as at an end, and declare
| that no overtures shall come from them
for the resumption of friendly rela-
tons The language of sound money
republicans toward silver republicans
and of the latter toward the former is
disagreeably plain and bitter as deliv-
cred upon the floor of the senate.
1t is no milder outside of the senate.
Teller and Dubois are especially en-
phatic. They announce positively
and finally that the silver senators
will permit no tariff legislation un.
less coupled with silver legislation.
They claim that Carter and Mantle
and Cannon, who voted with them,
will stay with them, and that other
silver republican senators are with
them in sympathy and will be with
votes whenever it is necessary. These
senators claim that since they took
their former stand against tariff legis-
lation, unless coupled with silver, they
have received assurances from the
people that their states are with them
on the proposition. That, they say, is
enough for them, and they care moth.
ing for such condemnation as they re-
ceived from the eastern senators. The
republican senators regard the split in
their ranks as esta blished, to SO remain
until the ST. Louis convention.
Practically the split has come in
both parties The silver democrats
have suspected for some time that the
administration meant to show them nc
favor in the Chicago convention. They
know now that it is open war, and tina,
unless they can show a majority in the
convention they must bolt or accept a
sound money platform-''devote all
possible efforts to persuading the re-
publican and democratic national con.
ventions to adopt anti-free silver plat
forms, thus forcing the free silver ad
vocates into independent action"
This is the language Secretary Car
Isle is reported to have used ut New
York in the conference of bankers and
brokers representing the chamber OF
commerce committee on financial legis
lation. 1t accords with the reports OF
recent private conversations with the
president. It is in line with the secre-
tary's letter to the democratic boilers
against Blackburn at Frankfort, en-.
couraging action independent of the
party caucus.
The administration has no interest
in candidates, but from this time
forward the whole influence of it will
be directed in favor of the strongest
possible sound money platform at Chi
cago. A high teasury official is author
ity for the statement that administra
ton people will endeavor to secure
from the Chicago convention n declara
ton in favor of the present standard
and an Endorsement of the proposition
to retire the greenbacks The .presi
dent and his advisers want the dem
ocratic convention to go further thar
the republican convention is expected
to go. They favor such action at Chi
cago as will drive cut Of the conven
tion the poDulistic and radical sixteer