Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-06-08
NATIONAL POLITICS.
LOOKING FARTHER.

Washington.-The Democrats are now
locking beyond the money question.
They feel that if the people take hold of
the silver question in dead earnest and
elect free coinage president next fall
that free coinage house of representa-
tlves will be swept into power with them.
It would be the duty, it is held, of the
new president to settle the question
promptly by convening congress in spe-
cial session, for the purpose of passing a
bill providing for the free and unlimited
coinage of silver. That disposed of, of
course, other questions would naturally
arise, and it would be of the highest i'm
portance to the Democratic leaders that a
man in entire accord with Democratic
principles should be at the helm of state.
So far as the free coinage Republicans
ara concerned, they are willing, it is said,
to swallow Democratic principles straight
if they can get the free coinage of silver
through the support and grace of the
Democratic party.
An interesting point at present under
discussion relates to how soon and in
what way the silver Republicans will act
at st. Louis in case the financial plank of
the platform is not satisfactory to them.
Will they walk out of the convention and
thus sever their connection with the
party at once, or will they "take the
papers," as judges sometimes do and an
nounce their decision laterY Mr.. Teller
and his Republican followers are entirely
frank in their attitude. They put silver
above all other considerations in this
campaign. They have only to be as
sured of how they may best serve silver
to at once embrace the opportunity. 1t
is assumed, therefore, that whatever they
do at st Louis will be calculated with the
view of advancing silver's cause.
Would it best serve silver's cause for
them to bolt, in case they don't like the
st. Louis platform, or for them to stake
the papers, and await the action of the
Dem ocrats at Chicago? If they bolt
they burn their bridges behind them.
There will be no other place for them
but in the Democratic party. Would
that tend to give them any influence in
the shaping of the work at Chicago? But
if they "take the papers" wouldn't their
indecision have weight, both in the draft
ing of the Chicago platform and the
naming of the Chicago tickets The
Democratic silver leaders would then
have the additional string to their bow.
They could point to these men as stand
ing ready to support the Democratic
ticket if only it is composed of silver
men pledged to silver's cause and there
by adding to the party's strength in the
campaign.
GRosyENOR FAvORs A sTRADDLE.
Chicago.--A Washington special says
Gen. Grosvenor and other close friends
of Mckinley have given a strong intima-
tion in the last few days that the St.
Louis platform will be compromise on
tine money question. Gen. Grosvenor
believes that unless some concession is
made to the silver sentiment the Demo-
Gratis may endanger McKinley's election.
When somebody suggested to the statis-
tician of the Mckinley boom that a
straddlipg vote would ALLEVIATE gold men,
he naively remarked
"They will have no place to go. The
Democrats will nominate 16 to l candi-
date, and Mckinley will come nearer rep
resenting bimetallism than any other
nominee in the field"
Gen. Grosvenor makes no concealment
among his friends of his belief that the
st. Louis convention should not declare
for the gold standard.