Birmingham state herald., 1896-06-30
BLUFF, BRAVE HORACE BO|ES
Answers MT. Whitney at Some
 Length.
NO SILVER MEN FOR SALE
If Disruption Means to Undo Injustice to the Polling Millions of This Nation,. Dis
 ruptio1 Must Come.

Waterloo Ia., June 29-Ex-Governor Boies returned this afternoon from his Grundy county farm where he went im- mediately on his return from Illinois.
 Vixen asked if he intended going to Chicago soon, he replied that he had not determined whether he would attend the convention or not.
 During Governor Boies' absence the in- terview with MT. Whitney was published, and on his return his attention was call ed to a telegram from the New York Her aid asking his opinion in regard to the assertions made in 1t. He wired his re- ply tonight as follows:
 MT Whitney is entirely right in his conclusion that there is no disposition on the part of those who will represent the silver sentiment of the south and west in the Chicago convention to further discuss the matter at issue with men whose views are diametrically opposed to their own on the currency question. He is en- tirely correct in his conclusion that it is now too late to accomplish any practical results by discussion of that character. Through the south and west that discus sion has been extended and thorough, and the views expressed by MT. Whitney have been put forward by many men who entertain them and they have been fully considered and weighed, and after all of this the judgment of an over whelming majority of the party in these sections Is in evidence by the class of del- egates who have been chosen to represent it in the Chicago convention. Not one Of the men can now disregard the known sentiment of those who selected him without betraying trust, and not one of them in my judgment will ever do so.
 MT. Whitney is entirely wrong in as- suming that free silver democrats are forsaking the fundamental principles of democracy or that what he terms sound money democrats are defending these principles in their endeavor to commit their party to gold monometallism. Un- til the republican party met in St Louis a few days ago there was never line written in a national platform Of either of the great parties that justifies the claim that the one or the other of these parties was committed to that doctrine. Over and over again the democratic party in national convention assembled has put itself on record in the clearest and most comprehensive language possi- ble to use in favor of bimetalliSm; in fa- vor of the restoration of silver to its place in our financial system as standard mon- ey, and never for a moment in the con- gress of the United States has majority or anything like a majority of the repre- sentatives of that party wavered In its devotion to the principle so clearly enunciated in the party platforms.
 '"To assume now that adherence to that principle is abandonment of an es- tablished doctrine of that party is to defy history and ignore the most plainly writ ten of all its declarations of policy.
 Tt is useless to claim that a tender of the good offices of the party to secure an international agreement for the free coinage of silver is the fulillment of it's pledges so often made in this respect.
 ITO the sincere believer in bimetallism for the United States an effort Of this character is little if anything less than
 x1NI2 Af pledge by a great political organization.
 If this is all MT. Whitney and those who think with him can offer it will be vastly better that they offer nothing. When MT. Whitney says the mainte- nance of our present gold standard is essential to the preservation of national credit and redemption of our public pledges he ignores great truth of which he cannot be ignorant. He knows there Is not single obligation of this nation outstanding today that by it's terms is payable in gold coin alone, and he knows that right upon the face of the bulk of the bonds 1t Is written in substance that they are payable in coin of the United States of the standard weight and fine ness of its coins before silver was de- monetized, and that, therefore, by their own express terms they are payable in our present silver dollars. if the govern ments elects to so pay them.
 eff to undo what law has done to add to the burdens of the toiling millions of this nation and double the fortunes of the rich within 1t is to disrupt the demo- cratic party disruption must come. The majority of that party threatens no wrong to any one and if those who com pose that majority can avoid it all may be assured they will submit to no wrong such as the permanent establishment of single gold standard would impose up- on the great mass of the people of this nation
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