The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-06-18
Every thing Depends Upon the
Nominee at Chicago.
he MUST BE A PLATFORM
In Himself if Populists and Re
publicans Vote for Him.
BLAND THE LOGICAL CANDIDATE
The Populists Would Rally to Bland and
Blackburn and the Dollar of
Our Daddies.

4 - tiiN i-bAItO1s III 1OuI SullOAAdI
entitled, Chicago VIII Lead the Way"
which appeared in the News and OBJ
server of June 10, you declare that the
ticket of the Democrats at Chicago,
will sweep the West and South, not
only because it is Democratic, but be-
cause the silver men in other parties
will see that it is wiser to throw their
strength to the greatest party rather
than divide and invoke disaster"
/ shall preface the remarks wish to
submit upon this matter by frankly
informing you that | am a member Of
that party whose principles preclude
the mere possibility of any diversity
of opinion upon the financial question
| ann a Populist and a living protest
against that party perfidy that violat-
ed platform promises and slew silver in
the house of its friends. My chief de
sire is to see a free silver President
in the White House and to witness the
complete emancipation of the Ameri-
can people from the control of foreign
bond-holders and their un-American
agents in Wall street. AS a daily read
err of your paper | am fully cognizant
of your convictions upon this great
problem and / am therefore encour-
aged to hope that you will permit me
to suggest that it does not necessarily
follow that "the silver men in other
parties will see that it is wisest TO
throw their strength to the greatest
party rather than divide and invoke
disaster" Everything depends upon
the record of the man who shall be
nominated for President at Chicago.
The platform will count for nothing
unless the Democrats shall name man
whom all the people already know as
a tried and true" champion of silver.
This is no time to entrust our leader
ship to such as Boies and Stevenson,
because the American people know to
their sorrow that the will of Presi-
dent may be paramount, notwithstand-
ing platform promises, and the Popu-
lists and free silver Republicans will
not vote for any man who is without
a strong record on free silver. Mr..
Editor. there are few men in the, Dem
ocratic party with a record sufficient
to Justify the expectation of endorse
ment bv the conventions of silver men
to meet in st. Louis, July %, and the
silver Democrats at Chicago should
accent no compromise candidate, who
NAV nroye another Cleveland, but they
should search till they find man who
can command the cordial support of
silver men of all parties. To my mind,
the ticket that would most certainly
capture the support of Populists ana
free silver Republicans would be Bland
and Blackburn, whose very names rem
der the financial plank of the PLATFORM
an absolute certainty. Anotner
strong combination would be Teller
and Tillman, but it is scarcely TO be
expected that a Republican Will be
chosen at Chicago, and | prefer to ad-
dress myself to the probable and log
zeal solution of this most Importance
selection of standard bearer Tor the
silver forces. No State has stronger
claim to recognition than Missouri be-
cause it is west of the Mississippi and
belongs to thatgreatempire OF the west
which has never yet been honofeu
with one of its sons in the presidential
chair. and because it IS also South
ern State. This campaign for the res
toration of silver is pre-emlnently the
contest of the South and West against
New York and New England and Ola
England, and the logical candidates
should therefore come from the South
and West. Missouris fayorlte son,
sSilver Dollar" Bland, would sweep
the West like a prairie fire, ana MS
Southern birth and Southern sympa-
thies would secure a solid South HIS
name is a platform and his record Is
better than platform platitudes. FOR
more than twenty years he mas stood
in the political arena and fought 1or
the restoration of silver and IT was
the silver knight, Richard i. Bland
who won the fight on every field. By
securing the passage OF the Bland Dill
in 1877 he became "the daddy OF our
dollars" while advocating the dollar
of our daddies." When the sherman
bill was repealed in Democratic
House by the influence OF a Demo
cratic President, it was "Old SILVER
Dollar that had the courage to DEFY
Wall street and court defeat in the
ensuing election by making that now
historic motion. Said he MIR. Presl-
dent, inasmuch as Wall street has no
further use for US / move that we now
adjourn" How could any true silver
man refuse to vote for such a man
The slogan of "Old Silver Dollar the
"daddy of our dollar and the dollar OF
our ddu0lGS, WOuIu dItuSS lilS S0lib
ment to white heat and awaken an en-
thusiasm such as has not been wit
messed since the Log Cabin campaign
and it would sound the death knell
to that ''sound money" monopoly with
which the Rothschilds would shackle
the American people. Mr.. Editor,
confidently believe that Bland as the
Democratic. Presidential candidate on
free silver platform. would be en-
dorsed at ST. Louis by the 5000 silver
delegates who will assemble there on
July 90. With that endorsement he
could be triumphantly elected, while
a candidate like Boies, without such
endorsement, is doomed to certain de.
feat. trust that North Carolina silver
men will not make the mistake OF
voting for Boies, whose only reputa'
| ton is due to his election as Governor
of Iowa by the saloon men on the anti
| Prohibition ticket, nor for Adlal Ste
venson, whose battle axe has been lalo
| to rest amid the relics of the moune
| builders. and whose political opinions
are safely secrcted in the innermosl
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