Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-02-25
STEVENSON AND MATTHEWS.

Vice President Stevenson has at last
broken his long silence. Noticing the re-
port that he is about to announce himself
a free silver candidate for the presidency,
he says: II am not candidate for any
office whatever, and the statement to the
fact that contemplate running for presi-
dent on free silver platform was not
authorized by me in any manner, shape
or form. My first iptimation of such an
intention came from the publication in
an afternoon paper, which had no sane
ton of mine. Nor is it true that / con-
template writing letter defining my po-
sition on the finance question" This is
plain enough. 1t let's Gen. Stevenson out
of the race and will strengthen Gov.
Matthews candidacy in every part of the
south and west. By the way, in speaking
of Indiana's universal favorlte, his pane
and the broad and mprehensive prn-
ciples for which it stands is beginning to
"grind" somewhat on the sensitive nerves
of the goidite Democracy at the east.
among the shrewd old politicians there
is suspicion that Matthews is being
used BY the eastern or New York element
of the party to divide the west, in the
event of an eastern candidate coming out
for the nomination before the meeting of
the convention" says New York press
dispatch of Thursday last. This is the
miscbievous plan the Washington press
correspondents who are under the dictum
: of the goldites propose to use il their eff
forts to strangle the Matthews boom.
But it is plan that will fool nobody.
Gov. Matthews is candidate for the
presidency. He has the solid and earnest
support of Indiana's Democracy and the
Dem ocratio press of the state. He has
never known defeat since he left his farm
and became candidate for the legisla-
ture in 1876. His political career has been
| phenomenal for its success, its purity and
its unfaltering loyalty to Democratic
principles. He stands right on finances
az on the tariff and all other issues. On
the former, which specially interests the
people of the southwest, he expresses his
views thus:
"There is reason TO believe that posi-
tive position taken by our government as
to the coinage of silver, and firm decla-
ration that it shall continue to be the
money of our people, upon an equal
footing with gold or other money, would
90 far to establish it's circulation through
out the commercial world. I have not
that faith in international congresses or
agreements that would cause me to patient
lY await such movements. They are too
far in the future, and too doubtful of
coming. believe the government of the
United States, with its 100000 of peo-
Pile, with its commercial enterprise and
wonderful resources, is great enough and
strong enough to take the lead, and map
out way for the world to follow. Al
least, in the interest of the debtor classes
of this country, constituting by far the
larger part of our citizens, whose inter
ests should surely be dearer to us than all
the world besides, without further delay
we should declare our faith in silver, re-
storing it to it's old position prior to its
cunning and outrageous reinforcement by
the Republican party in 1878, and proceed
to the coinage of both gold and silver
without discrimination against either"