The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-07-18
THE SENTIMENT IS GROWING

THE SENTIMENT IS GROWING
Whether the restoration of silver
through unlimited coinage, woulC
make the burdens to the masses les
irksome. the belief that it would b.
is gaining ground among the farming
communities especially, and the sign
of the times are that there will be i;
stampede to the bann,r of the white
metal this fall. Throughout the Wes
and South the sentiment for free coin
age has gained ground SO rapidly, tha'
there is scarcely state where 6
majority favor the gold standard; and
the silver sentiment is making rapid
strides In the far East as we'll. Ever
In New York. where it has been con
sidered that the gold standard adYo
Gates had the firmest foothold, the
goldites are waveing, al d silver is
gaining favor with the farmers, re-
gardless of party throughout the EN-.
'pire state.
In recent issue, the New York
Herald. firm advocate of the
gold standard, printed long article
on the growth OF the silver sentiment
in New York. The article was deemed
so sensational that it was telegraphed
in its entirety to number of Western
papers, and bas been reprinted broad
cast. Below we give a few extracts:
"Portentious and menacing a
political specter has risen in the rural
counties of the state, threatening to
overshadow parties and conditions
and obliterate partisan lines from the
Pennsylvania boundary to the St.
Lawrence and from Lake Erie to the
Hudson. The farmers are worshiping
the silver calf. In many of the coun-
ties there is no actual organization of
the friends of free silver. An organi-
zation and an active free silver cam
paign would make many of the strong
est republican counties in the state
doubtful in November"
Continuing the Herald says that
even without an organization the free
silver farmers knocked the sound
men off their feet in many
places In the state in the recent demo-
cratic primaries and proceeds to en-
umerate localities where this has been
done. prominent among them being
such counties as Lew and Genessee.
The latter is the home of sB6b" Max
well, leader of the Cleveland democ-
racy in Western New York.
From St. Lawrence county the
Herald correspondent telegraphs that
that rock-ribbed Gibraltar of repub-
licanism is one enormous debating
society, and the only subject debated
is free silver; the tariff. has been for
gotten. The writer portrays the de-
plorable condition Of the farmers of
that section of the state, and says that
tremendous fall in the prices of farm
produce has made the scarcity of
money in the rural districts almost
grotesque.
From Watertown comes the word
that the spread of free silver senti-
ment is astonishing, and bids fair to
unless something is done to
counteract it. The editor of the
Watertown Times, W. D. McKestry,
formerly one of the civil service COM
went over the county and
afterw1rd stated that what he had
learned about free silver in that part
Of the state astounded him. If the
,ilver-me only organized he thought
,he result would be doubtful for the
The Herald's corres-
,ondent further said that he dis
covered the farmers were no longer
linking of the tariff but of the benefit
o be drived from free silver; one re-
publican candidate for sheriff and
wo TOR treasurer were making a can
ass on the out-and-out free silver
,latform; the cashier of the leading
nancial institution of Watertown was
or free silver and republicans farmers
7ere pouring into Watertown's book
torres for free silver literature; that
he one great topic of conversation, in
act the only topic is the free coinage
I silver and the beneficial effects it |
7as declared to be sure to have on
rices.
AS the correspondent writing from |
,swego puts it, that county has ''gone
aft" on the question of free silver TO-
ether with the other northern coun-
les of that state. The movement does
OF appear to be confined strictly to
lther party. A free silver league of 100
lembers has been organized and is
oreading free silver literature and
lodging farmers to support no candi-
ate for the presidency unless he
lodges himself to free coinage of
liver at 16 to /.
The correspondent concludes with
le significant statement. 1.-The thing
ae most notices in talking to the
rmers in this country is growing
ltipathy to Wall street. ltis simply
sign. but it is portent of sectional
.ejudices that bids fair to run wild
'on. One hears farmers say on every 1
ind that what Wall street wants they
g opposed to. This feeling has trav-
ed rapidly east from the wheat fields
the West"
From Lowville, another section of
q state. the Herald gets the word
at party lines are badly broken by