Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1896-02-08

bimctallist committee returned from
Austin to-day. He said to the Gazette
correspondent.
In the Austin correspondence of to.
day read this paragraph The oh.
iect of Chairman Blake's visit to Aus
tin during the meeting Of the state
Domccrative executive committee a..
cidentally leaks out tonight. The in
formation comes from a member, OF
the committee that Mr., Blake, to state
all In n few words, and certain silver
ties received Instructions from Joseph
Sibley the free silver leader OF Penn.
sylvan.a, to use their influence to have
only one convention In Texas. They
came here to carry out the instruc-
lions and yesterday with the able as
slstance of Judge Reagan came very
near succeeding. Their failure to do
so was somewhat of disappointment,
although In reality they have but
slight cause for complaint
"Rcplying to the statement that Mr.
Blake was working under the instruc-
ton of Mr.. Slhley / desire to say most
einphatlcally that II is untrue In every
particular. Mr.. Blake has had no
communication whatever with Mr.. Slb.
Icy or anyone else representing an in
dependent bimetalNc organization. and
the effort TO make 1t appear that he
was working at the dictation of Mr.
that have appeared In print during
the past few months relative to those
favoring the free and equal coinage
of both gold and silver without dis
eliminating against either metal. Why
newspaper correspondents can not
truthfully report whatever may con-
Germ those who favor tho cause OF BIZ
metalllsm / am unable to say, yet II
seems to be a fact that In Interview
and anonymous letters as well as
in editorial expressions of great
number of papers, the movement has
been maliEned and m'srepresented from
Its inception We are a patient and n
long suffering people. yet sometimes
torbearance ceases to be a virtue. We
are Democrats md do not propose to
affiliate with Popullsts or Republicans
or anybody else. The advocates of FREQ
silver cheerfully accept the test pre-
scrihed by the Democratic executive
committee through Its chairman and
/ his call for the national convention.
1 and those who do not like 1t and re.
fused to abide by 1t. should not throw
stones.
Evidently the Austin correspondent
OF the News Intended to create the
impression that the officials at Austin
dictnted the Garden resolutions ano
he seemed to lay especial stress upon
me alleEed fact that program had
/ 80" ~ .n.u'''eu VI tue granite capitol,
typewriter on state tinted paper by a
government expert or course the Oh
1ect sought in this allusipn was to
prejudice the people AGAINST the BIZ
metnllists, This, too like the stories
ABOUT sibley. was not true. No gov
eminent expert, either Typewriter or
otherwise, wrote solitary line OF the
Carcen resolutions and doubt n the
resolutions were ever In the granite
capitol
The bimetalhsts have no complaint
70 make OF any legitimate criticism or
enort 10 disprove their arguments but
thev do protest against being further
ma'isned, u those who are now ON
tne mouse tops proclnlming us free
silver lunatlcs, Populists. etc, had been
as faithful to serve the Democratls..
party as the bimetallists. Instead ~
55VVO plurality we would have had
1900 majority" ""u