The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1896-01-02
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Senator Sherman In the roIo of the
''enfant TERRIBLE giving away family
secrets, Is rather interesting.
The assertion, already referred TO,
that the republicans were afraid to
trust MIR. Harrison to veto freedom
age bill in 1890 Is one which may be left
to Mr.. Harrison himself to determine
whether this distrust was well founded
Mr. Harrison would have large and
ap2reciative audience II he would now
come forward and say that he would
have vetoed free-ooinage bill in 1890, II
congress had passed one. He would
also be heard with some interest II he
should say he would have signed such
q bill. There Is a third topic on which
he could get a fair bearing Why did
he sign the Sherman bill? Was he
afraid that he would otherwise sign a
free-coinage bill, or that he would veto
one2 With unlimited facilities for set
Ting all these questions, the silence of
the ex-president Is painful to contcm-
plate.f~ E3@s H%. .s-s t@E##sT v, x / ~
But there In on this point no ground
OF objection TO Mr.. Harrison that does
not equally apply to his competitors
for the nomination. There is Mr.. Nc
Kinley, who voted for free coinage,
voted and spoke for the Sherman law,
end has denounced the democrats for
the repeal of the latter law. Mr.. Me-
Kinley Is tainted with all the financial
heresies of his party, and Mt this time
Is trusted by no party so far as the Sill
yer question Is concerned. No party can
say with any degree of certainty wheth-
er he would sign or veto free coinage
bill. No one can say whether he would
sign or veto bill similar to the Sher-
man silver-purchase act, If presented to
him on it's own merits. II presented to
him as condition precedent to the re-
enactment of the tariff act that bears
his name, he would, of course, sign it,
as he voted for 1t in 1890 in pursuance
of the terms of the bargain.
AS to Mr.. Reed, there is nothing
known of his attitude which ought to
win the confidence of sound-money re-
publicans. He voted for the Sherman
law, and doubtless was concerned in the |
trade by which ii was passed to get |
votes for the Mckinley bill. A man |
who will thus give his assent to panic |
breeding measures Is noteworthy Of con- |
ndence. But Mr.. Reed has gone farther. |
lie has approved a proposition TO inn
pose discriminating duties on imports
from such countries as will not go into /
an agreement to rehabilitate silver. AS
the Courier-Journal has repeatedly |
Phown, this would entirely destroy our
foreign market for agricultural prod
nets without accomplishing anything
for bimetallism. A man who is willing
10 conciliate the silver miners by poll
icy that would put down the price of
wheat to 20 cents a bushel, of corn TO
ten cents, and of cotton TO two cents a
pound surely cannot be trusted by anyi
convention that has any regard either
for sound currency or the interests of
the most numerous class Of our popula-
ton.
Mr.. Allison is handicapped at the be-
ginning of the race by the connection of
his name with the Bland-Allison bill.
The republicans have said SO often that
this act was worse than the Sherman
law that it would be hard for them to
take it back now. The truth is, Mr..
Bland is misrepresented when this bill
has his name attached to ii. Mr.. BANDS
pill was for free coinage pure and SIM
pie, and Mr.. Allison's bill was substi-
lated for it, SO that it ought to have
been called the Allison law. Now, even
that it was a worse law than
that which bears the name of Sherman,
Mr.. Allison is responsible for it. The
contrary, of course, is true the Sherman
aw was immensely worse. This does
lot relieve Mr.. Allison in the least; he
oted to repeal his own bill by substi-
.uting a worse one for it. II is clear :
hat be will not answer the demands OF
republicans.
1t is plain thatif sound-money menl
iictate the next republican nomination
,ome other than the foiirleading candi-l Z
lates must be selected. There is con-
iderablc republican authority for the
statement that republicans ofths class 2
re looking TO Grover Cleveland. The )
lobe Democrat some months ago de- c
that lie is far more trust q
worthy on the silver issue thnn any 7
prominent republican candidate. VIII
lam e. Chandler, who is coquettng with
he silverites, says he would get a re- II
,ublican vote fer every democratic vote 7
e would lose. Republican newspa- y
ers all over the country have been pre- D
letting that he viii be again n candidate :
nd this in the face of the fact that II
he democratic party Is pledged against 1
third term. 1t would appear that a
hese men were paving the way to e
enjering nomination to Mr.. Cleveland, s
- %h.,, o,,,h4 to Ln,,v that he would G