Evening star., 1896-06-22
EVENING STAR MONDAY, JUNE 22 18se-rwELvE PAGES

coinage of silver within the limits of the
British empire, for a population. greater
In number than theC populations Of Ger
many, France and America put together
Into this long, ana nBw just about to be
successful. struggle for the establishment
of the joint standard. II is proposed that
tablish it alone AgsinsH this proposed ac-
ton on our part these earnest believers
in, and workers for, theccause strenuously
protest. They say to US you cannot sue
ceed. and your failure, will discredit the
cause. n
.The same feeling Of indisposition to COM
promise with the matter for Votes or any
thing else is as active and dominant in our
party as 1t was found IN the republican,
when it bore down Land overpowered the
Mckinley machine. Personally, it is my
opinion IL the democratic party goes on
that platform at this time they will meet
the most disastrous defeat that any party
has ever had in this country.
His Own Candidacy.
''It ought not to be necessary for me to
say anything of a personal nature. 1 find
myself, however, spoken of here and there
as a possible candidate-not very seriously
or prominently-but sufficiently to attract
attention, ii 1 should fail to notice it. 1t
sometimes affects ones influence in cases
like the present. have no personal motive
in entering this fight. l have said that 1
would not be candidate. l will add, copy
ing the emphatic language once used by the
late General Sherman q think remember
1t correctly, will not run If nominated,
nor serve If elected. -,.-
Il am not foolish enough to suppose that
any eastern man could be nomina ted by this
convention, much less that l could. l SYM
pathize thoroughly with the feeling in the
south that has caused this uprising and will
find it's expression at Chicago. but as to the
principle brought forth, and the issues
being framed, l entirely disagree.
(SigneD civilian c. WHITNEY"
Comment on the Letter.
Wharton Barker, commenting on MI.
Whitney's letter, says, in the New York
Journal:
mo gold democrat can either be nomi-
mated cr elected. Mr.. Whitney speaks for
the money cliques, whose aim has been TO
make the United States subservient to
Great Britain. and his advice will neither
be asked nor needed by the bimetalists in
the democratic party, who will control the
Chicago CONVEX ton.
Il have no doubt bimetallists clearly out
number sirgle gold standard men in the
great central states of Pennsylvania, Ohio
Indiana and Illinois, as Well as in the
south aid west. l believe the Chicago
convention, controlled as it will be by pa
triotic democrsts and binetallists, resolved
on freeing America from subserviency to
foreign money cliques and our producing
classes from the tEraldom of virtual slav-
cry, will arise above partisanship and act
not as democratic convention, but as a
convention representing the bimetallists of
all parties. and that they will nominate a
presidential candidate acceptable to all BIZ
metallists.
The fight is not sectional. 1t is a strug-
gle between those who mean America shall
have financial and Industrial, as we'll as
political, independence on the one hand,
and those money cliques whose profit is in
forcing our country deeper and deeper into
debt to Great Britain, on the other"
Senator PETER says: Il think Mr.. Whit
ney wise in declining a nomination. This
is not a democratic year If all friends Of
silver unite in the campaign they can name
the next President. AS to the success of
the. silver cause running the country. that
is nonsense. We are all Americans"
60 Senator John p. Jones says: In view of
Mr.. Whitney's figures, 1t was to be expect
ed that he" would make a statement He
wants the public to know in advance that
his proposed visit to Chicago is hopeless.
I have tie greatest respect for Mr.. Whit
ney, and l regret he has been forced into
his present position. 1t was not his fight