San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-08-05
NATIONAL POLITICS.
SOME PERTINENT COMMENTS FROM
WASHINGTON.
Senator Stewards Speaking Will Help
McKinley-Tawney Says Min
nesOta Will go Mckinley.


beginning to come in showing that
the efforts of the silver mine owners,
whose paid employee Bryan is said to
be,-te corrupt the unthinking masses
with fallacious arguments and prom
Uses of something for nothing will end
in defeat for the party of anarchy
and Reputation. Every day informa-
ton is received from communities in
which it had been supposed that the
silver sentiment had full sway show
ing that the sentiment in favor of
honest money and protection to Amer
lean industry, which is solely cham
pioned by the Republican party is on
the increase. This, too, in the face of
the fact that the Republicans have
just begun the sharp shooting of the
great battle which is to be waged in
the interest of our right to have an
honest currency and the right to earn
it by honest toll.
In the campaign literature that is
being sent out by the Republican con-
gressional committee every argument
that is being advanced by the advo-
Gates of the free and independent coin
age of silver by this government is
being fully met and refuted, but
protective tariff, which most Repub-
licans believe to be the thing in which
the country stands most in need of
and from which it will derive the
most benefit, is also being advocated
just as strongly as though there were
no such issue as silver in the cam
paign Had there been no Democratic
tinkering with the tariff law which
the Republicans left on the statute
books, the silver question never
would have risen to the dignity of a
national issue, Notwithstanding the
extensive and expensive agitation
which has been carried on for several
years at the expense of the men who
own the big silver mines-the only
men who would be largely benefited
by the free coinage of silver, now
standing at a ratio of 81 to 1, at
ratio of 16 to
There are a number of senators
whose prosy and monotonous style of
making speeches on hackneyed sub
jects never fails to clear the galleries
whenever they speak, but for some
time Senator Stewart, of Nevada, has
held the record for clearing the gal
leries oftener and quicker than any
of his colleagues. Senator Jones, of
Arkansas, chairman of the Democrat
'ic national committee, knows this and
that is why he is in quandary as to
what to do about Senator Stewards
offer to take the stump for Bryan. If
he declines the offer he will offend
Stewart and some of his personal
viii make more votes for Mckinley
than for Bryan, if allowed to speak
in his own way. ...
Representative Tawney, of Mime
sofa, now in Washington on business,
said: Il believe that we will be able
to carry Minnesota for Mckinley, but
it win require hard work, as all the
elements opposed to Republicanism
are going to effect thorough fusion.
Nelson carried the state in '94 by a
large plurality, but very small ma
jority over the combined vote of the
Democrats, Populists and Prohibition
lists. There are signs of reaction
against the free silver movement and
1 believe there will be many changes
among voters who have been Temporal
rily misled by the fiat money delusion.
The advocates of silver have hurt
their cause greatly by raising the
sectional plea of southern and west
ern alliance against the east. They
have also done themselves harm by
publishing detached sentences of a
speech made by Mr. Blaine, contain
ing artfully picked out expressions
speaking of both silver and gold as
the money of the constitution, and
suppressing what he said in the same
speech about the dishonesty of stamp
ing a dollar as such when it contain
ed less than one hundred cents, and
allowing the bullion owner to appro-
pirate wrongfully the difference be-