Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-06-19


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 ''There are too many people in this country who are hiding their eyes to great facts. They place themselves in the position of the ostrich pursued by an enemy. They do not wish to gaze on what they term the specter of silver faces and cry out, I cannot see it com ingl'
 The speaker was an especially distin- gulshed senator, who expressed himself privately to the writer on the financial question. There is enough said in pri- vate here in Washington at the present time on the silver question to cause chill to pass over those whose conyic- tions and interests are wrapped i'll the single gold standard side of the contro- I yersy.
 People i'll New York and i'll the east have scanty conception of the strength ! of the silver sentiment at the west and south. The press which enlightens them | on public affairs is almost unit ill favor of gold standard. The real situation ] throughout the length and breadth of 1 the United States west of the middle { states is not comprehended in New York or New England
 ! If the private utteranees of public men on the silver question could be published as formal interviews, a portion of the I 1f,4xx t1x1,, | shock. 1 have conversed with numerous persons whose names, if I were at9lib. erty to give them, would be we'll known to every reader. The burden of axzhat | was said was that the silver n16veinent3 is gaining hand over fist throughout tho l country; that while there are aiversi;3 ! fled views as to the extent .dr 4h8 conii. ! tions under which silver is favored there is determination on the part of the majority of the politicians ofsthe seuth and west to make silver, and not gois. l the dominant element in the national ] currency.
 A leading Republican senator, who is l well known as an advocate of gold, de- 1 clared his belief to me that if the ques- tion of gold versus silver were to be ] submitted pure and simple to the peo- pie of the United States an overwhelm- l ing majority would be rolled up for the l white money.
 This senator would not dare to ex- press such an opinion for publication. "Nothing would tempt me- he said 1t would be ruinous for me to do so. " And this same fear of consequences de- ters many public men from even whis- pering what they think.
 General Charles Grosyenor, R MeKin- ley manager, recently informed all &C., quaintance that the silver movement was gaining in Ohio. He was merely narrating fact and not using 1t as an argument.
 The president of one of Chicago's great national banks recently stated that he had been studying the views of the 400 or more of his banker core spondents, and he has concluded that silver has got to come. This bank presi- dent is very wealthy He has begun to draw gold contracts and leases, and will put all his affairs on a gold basis There is no more ardent gold man in the country than he. A Democratic sound money senator, not Senator Brice, told me today that Ohio and Kentucky would be carried for silver.
 ''The convention at Chicago will be i'll the hands of the silver men, 2" he said. "I do not believe in silver except as l subsidiary coinage, but my political fu ture is uncertain unless my constituents change their views. '
 am assured by Pennsylyanians who know the situation thoroughly in that state that if the silver question were presented fairly and squarely to the peo. pie without being mixed with politics, and rid of interference by capital or manufactures, it would receive an enor- l nous vote.
 Senator Cameron has been in Mexico studying the condition of the country under silver. He returned more zealous than before l am informed by good au- thority that at recent meeting of the l Democratic state committee of Vermont the members wished to put some kind of a recognition of silver ill the platform of the convention just held. Bradley l Smalley had to use his influence to mug gle the budding desire.
 A New Hampshire public man stated in this city that he feared to think what would occur if the question of free silver were to be submitted on it's merits to the people of that state.
 talked with New England manu- facturer today who employs many hum dred operatives and who has been a par tisan of the single standard. He in l formed me that he has been shocked to hear of manufacturers about Boston who were willing to try silver in greatly enlarged relation with gold. Few men would dare to come out openly ill this way,'' he said "They would hear from their banks, if they did. "
 A Rhode Island manufacturer in- formed me that he would welcome sil- 1 ] ll l.