Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-03-06

coinage of silver, to which all other interest in the popular mind are en- tireiy subservient. They claim that they are receiving overwhelming in dorsements of their positions from the people of their respective States, and that they have seen no reason to modify their attitude since their votes were east against the Morrill, motion.
 At the same time none of the quin- tet seem to view with pleasure the prospect of segregating themselves from the Republican party. While they insist that the failure of the next Republican convention to nom mate Il free coinage candidate on a free coinage platform is imminent, they profess to believe that such action of the convention will be in defiance Of Republican platform declarations, for their own interpre- tation of which they are standing, and under such circumstances it will be the party which will leave them and their constituencies, and not they who will leave the party. This is the keynote set by Senator Carter in his recent speech, and it is being used as an argument for all it is worth in Colorado, Utah, Idaho and Montana.
 The free silyerquintet express them selves as hopeful that a maintenance of their attitude on this line will be effective in creating a revulsion of feeling on the monetary question among the Eastern manufacturers and among the wool growers, who feel that a revision of the tariff is a question of paramount importance. If they are to be believed, they are in receipt of large numbers of letters from sound-money constituents, showing tendency to support free silver in the coming convention. on account of the menace to the protec- ted industries, with which they are threatened by the declaration of those who confidently assert that hereafter protection and free coinage must go hand i'll hand.
 This view is not, however, held by the majority of the free-coinage Republicans in the two houses. Many are already considering what shall be the best plan for separa ting themselves from the Republican party under the practical certainty that the convention will overwhel- mingly decline to place itself on re- cord for free coinage. Several propo- sitions have been suggest ted, of which one of the most thoroughly canvassed is tie organization of a new silver Republican party, with free silver and protection for watch words, and which shall nominate its own electors, without exaeting any pledge, except that fl elected they will vote for the candidate favorable to silver. Such a plan is urged on the ground that the organi- za.ion of the party before either of these two conventions meets will be likely to have much stronger in- fluence than the threat of a subse- quent bolt in case the platform did not meet the demands of the min ing States. Other advocates of free coinage i1 the party are, however, cOunseling moderation. These at present oatnumber the more radical, and are likely to be in the majority up to the time of choosing delegates for St. Louis. Much pressure is being brought to bear upon the more moderate free coinage men by their associates, and the organs of 16 to l opinion are using ever effort to bring home influences to bear in favor of the most radical course.