Birmingham state herald., 1896-03-27
March 20, 1896
OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.

From the standpoint of the public well fare the action of the president and the democratic senators in killing the house revenue bill Is absolutely indefensible.-- New York Commercial Advertiser Rep.
 The New York World confesses ''there Is very little ring in the money plank of the Ohio republican convention" It wasn't meant to ring to suit democrats. It was made for republicans-Chicago Inter Ocean, Rep.
 Senator Chandler's indignation over-the alleged fat-frying in behalf of Mckinley, and the ghoulish glee of the McKinleyites over Senator Chandler's opposition to fat-frying, looks very much as if the fun had begun in earnest.-Boston Herald, Dem.
 The present dawdling and do-nothing senate needs a master hand to guide and control it, man who has a genius for parliamentary law and courage that "mounteth with occasion" Such a man is Thomas B. Reed, and no public man would be more acceptable to the people of the United States as vice-president than he.-Chicago Times-Herald Ind. .,-
 It may be true that, as the anti-silver men of the south assert, their cause Is gaining strength in that section. But 1t Is a significant fact that nearly all the most prominent southern men in both houses of congress are as strong for freel coinage today, as confident that their cause Is right and will ultimately tr- umph as they were three years ago. Washington Post, Ind
 The speaker or newspaper asserting that the decline in government revenues came in with the Wilson bill perverts plain facts When the Mckinley bill was passed the surplus in the treasury was $105, ,000. 900; after 1t had been a year in operation the surplus was $37 ,00O 900; at the end of the second year 1t was $2,000.- GOO, and after the end of the third year the deficit was sS0000,000. These are the figures given by so leading a republican authority as Senator Sherman.-Des Mones Leader, Dem.
 Governor Mckinley goes on to read an extract from a speech made by him in congress as giving his "exact views" AS his speech was made i'll support of the Sherman silver law his exact views can today hardly be considered satisfactory. Meantime General Grosvenor, one of the Ohio "big four" to the St. Louis conven- tion, on being asked about the Ohio money plank, said: ''It Is possible that the republican convention in St. Louis may see fit to change that platform, but I don't think it will. If the gold men don't want to come to us they can stay away."-Springf1eld Republican. Mug.
 The one reason why Mckinley has forged to the front is that more money has been expended in booming him than has been laid out in favor of any other candidate and 1t seems to be generally conceded that whatever cash Is needed to secure his nomination will be forth coming. It is denied, of course. that 1t Is case of bargain and sale. but the de- nial is so feeble and the evidence against it so strong that nobody seems to take any stock in 1t. The plain fact is that the protectionists of the country are de- termined to buy their way back inte- con trol.--Detroit Free Press, Dem.
 
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