Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-06-15
NATIONAL POLITICS.
HILL HAS A SCHEME.

New York.-Senator David B. Hill is
understood to be preparing scheme of
action designed to prevent the disruption
of the party over the coinage question at
Chicago. It is not generally believed
that Senator Hill will lead bolt or en-
courage one, unless he is convinced by
the developments of the local situation
in New York that no other course will
keep the party together in the coming
campaign. It is generally believed that
Senator Hill will make strenuous ap-
peal to his party associates at Chicago to
be conservative in the framing of their
silver platform and to leave eastern
Democrats something to point to in the
platform which will commend it to mod
crate Democrats who dislike at once to
leave the party or to see it absolutely
committed to the free coinage of silver
at predetermined ratio. A heavy con
servative influence against declaring for
the ratio of 16 to l will be exerted at
Chicago, but it is feared that conserva-
tive influence will be exerted in vain.
Senator Hill will have to consider some
of these questions and ascertain the
temper of the various elements of the
party in New York before the meeting of
the state convention, about two weeks
hence. 1t is said to be one of his am
bitions to frame financial plank for the
New York state convention which will at
once commend itself to the gold standard
sentiment of the state, and have some
chance of adoption by the national con-
vention at Chicago. The proposition to
retire the greenbacks and substitute an
elastic banking currency based upon gen.
eral assets, instead of upon securities, is
likely to be part of this program, but
doubt is felt, even among those who ad-
vocate these measures, whether events
have not gone too far to check the free
silver movement aud make palatable a
banking currency at this time.
Senator Hill has always been an advo-
cate of the European coinage ratio of l51a
to l, instead of the old American ratio
of 16 to l, and he probably will secure
the adoption of a platform recommend
ing that the determination of the ratio
be left to commission, or that it be
capable Of djustment in case parity is
not maintained under the ratio of l6 to !.
COL. MoRnIsoN's VIEWS.
Washington-Col.W William r. Morrison
expects to see the two old parties hold
together in the west this year in much
the same manner as in former campaigns.
He has Just returned from Chicago, where
he went on business for the interstate
commerce com mission, but he says that
every body wanted to talk politics.
"Do you fnd," asked correspondent,
"that the silver tide is likely to take a
great many Republicans away from their
party in favor of a silver candidate?"
"If spoke from surface Indications"
replied Col. Morrison, II should say yes.
There is great deal of talk about silver
on the one side and gold on the other.
expect, however, to see most of these Re.
publicans get back into line and vote with
their party when election time comes,
and l expect ma'h the same thing from
the sound money Democrats. The con-
test in Chicago between the sound money
and silver Democrats has become largely
one to control the party organization.
It originated in silver, but it ia in the ma
ture Of contest for supremacy. have
personal friends in both factions, and
listened to all sorts of arguments. /
think that when election time comes,
while the sound money Democrats, 80
called, will grumble and fret, and some of
them will stay away from the polls, there
will not be such bolt as some anticipate.
There are many who feel that there are
other issues for which the party stands
than silver, and they will not leave the
party ranks. I am not looking for
great revolution in either party on the
silvar nneation. except. perhaps, in the
mining states"