The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-06-04
FAvORS FREE SILVER
Vice-PreSident Stevenson is tor
the White Metal.
SO SAYS SENATOR PUGH
And Predicts His Nomination
by the Democrats.
ON A STRONG SILVER PLATFORM
Some of the Silver Men Think DR..
Mott is Hired by Republicans
to Divide Democratic

Washington, June 3.-(SpeciaD-
Senator Pugh, of Alabama, predicts
that Vice President Stevenson will be
nominated by the Democrats at Chi
cago upon free silver platform. He
is not an ayowed candidate" said Mr..
Pugh. ''and he has not declared him
self upon the currency question, but
he would nevertheless accept the nom
nation and | know that he fayors free
coinage. He is a man OF practical
common sense and if elected would
consult with members of Congress
about matters Of policy and patron
age. His cabinet would be made up of
our ablest men and he could be relied
on at all times.
''In my opinion continued Senator
Pugh, mot single Democrat could
be elected to the Senate except on a
statement that he favored free coinage
of both metals. Public opinion in the
Democratic party has been moving
steadily that way for some time. 1t
will be almost impossible to stem the
tide I look for the success of the
free silver doctrine at the Chicago con-
vention, and | do not expect bolt
by the Eastern delegates. | look for
the success of the other doctrine in the
ST. Louis convention. | am glad it is
so. The issue must be clearly made
p-bimetalliSm VS.. Recommendation
/ mean by bimetallism the free coin
age of both metals, not simply their
use want the issue put without eva
sion or compromise. 1t is best for the
country to have the matter so placed
before the people that they can vote
on the question directly. A compro-
mise is not desirable. 1t is. believe,
not possible at present"
The address of DIR. j. ]. Mott, chair
man of the silver party, in which he
gives out the idea that the members
of the silver party will not support
the Democratic nomineee, if silver
man. is most displeasing to the other
members of the silver party. There
is but one thing the silver party men
want, and that is free coinage. They
don't care continental which party
gives it to them. They will throw
their strength to whichever of the
strongest party Will make the fight
for silver. And DR.. Mott will do the
same thing when the time comes to
act.
Gen. Warner, who was the origina-
tor of the National silver party, and
who presided over the convention held
here in January. does not seeem to
agree fully with his address. In re-
cent interview Gen. Warner declared
that the silver party, Populists and
Prohibitionists would support the
Democratic ticket put out by the sill
yer men at Chicago, and this is the
feeling OF many other silver leaders.
Gen. Warner, however, insists that the
Chicago nominee shall be solid silver
man. whose record has not changed
and against whom there is no DOUBT.
1t liz said that Chairman Motifs adj
dress is intended more az warning 10
silver Democrats than anything else.
IT is further said, on good authority,
that if silver man of long standing
is nominated at Chicago DR., Mott will
be one of the first men to advise the
silver men Of the country to support
him. The warning he means to con-
vey to the silver Democrats now is
that there must not be compromise
at Chicago.
Some OF the silver men do not trust
DR.. Mott fully. The Washington cor
respondent of the New York Times
wrote yesterday:
sJust as some Of the Mckinley men
are beginning TO be anxious about the
tenacity of the Mckinley delegates to
St. Louis, the silver men are wonder
ing whether the boom tor silver may
not turn out to De ''noiser than II Is
numerous" That the advocacy of
free liver is to have nothing to do
with parties, and therefore is not to
be considered an effort to maintain
- :, integrity of the Democratic party,
Is urged to-day in the letter 10 every
hodv sent out by that ex-Republlcan
Collector of Revenue DR.. j. j. Mott,
who without occupation other than
that Of a silver agent, has been run
MING an expensive silver bureau for
months and now insist. that to be
rood silver man in the coming cam
paign one must be ready to abandon
old associations and devote himself
solely to the restoration of the white
metal.
IF it be true, as reported some time
aoo. that DIR. Mott was paid by the
Renublicans to run his silver bureau
in order to divide the Democratic
marty and elect Republican, he could
not labor more energetically Thou
sands of dollars have been spent III
circulating the literature from TINS
silver headquarters, and in educating
t the people lp to believe that the coming
of silver which they do not own some
how will help them to be rich, yet it is
known that the organization Mott
nominally represents has not peer
able or willing to expend any money
to help him out"
Daniel s. Pickrell, who was fount
dead on the street in this city yester
day. was the husband Of Miss Nelli
Manly, formerly Of Raleigh. She ha
Two children and holds a clerkshil
under the government here. He wa
addicted to drink and had not live
with his wife for some months.
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