The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1896-08-06

the republican party for the presidency.
He is now unable to understand how
any honest man could think of paying
government obligations in anything
but gold coin. And yet there has
never been any change in the law from
the day he voted for this resolution. The
Hon Amos Townsend, a prominent |
from Ohio, also voted for the
The Hon. J. W. Keifer of |
Ohio, voted for the resolution and was
afterward honored by the republicans
with the speakership of the house of
representatives. His vote in favor of |
the right of the United States to pay
its bonds in standard silver dollars |
seemed no impeachment to the bestowal |
of this high honor by the republican
party, which now calls men who hold
such opinions anarchists" and ere
pudiators. Hon. J. d. Cox, of Ohio,
secretary of the interior under General
Grant, also voted for this resolution
On the democratic side of this same
house of representatives, and voting in
favor of this same resolution, we find
the Hon. Hilary A. Herbert, the pres
emit secretary of the navy, and par ex-
cellence the head goldbug of Alabama.
Also the Hon. John G. Carlisle, the
present secretary of the treasury. He
voted that the bonds could properly be
paid in silver dollars. He then stood
shoulder to shoulder with Joe Black
burn in favor of theresolution. 1t will
be observed that among those who
supported this resolution were two
men who subsequently became mem
Der of the United States supreme
court, namely, David Davis, of Illi-
nois, and Stanley Matthews, of Ohio.
1t will also be observed that it en-
braced the names of two gentlemen
who subsequently became secretaries
ofthe treasury, namely, Charles Foster,
of Ohio, and John G. Carlisle, of Ken
lucky, and who afterward toed the
chalk line made by the gold ring as
obediently and submissively as the
camel stoops to receive its burden.
The resolution was debated for near
ly two months, and all the influence of
the money power and of the Hayes adj
ministration, with John Sherman as
secretary of the treasury, was brought
to bear against it. 1t was q legal
proposition. The preamble constituted
at once a statement of the case and an
irresistible argument. And with all
possible light thrown upon it we have
seen that it passed the senate and the
house of representatives by more than
two-thirds vote in each house. Let
the reader look over the names of those
who voted aye and then say what he
thinks of cause whose advocates de-
nOunce such men as anarchists, lunatics
and repudiators.
The following is another important
record: On the 9Th of November,
1877, the house of representatives
passed bill to authorize the free coin
age of the standard silver dollar and to
restore its legal tender character. This
bill provided for the restoration of the
law of 1887, providing for the free
coinage of silver, which had been re-
pealed by the act of 1873. It provided
for the free and unlimited coinage of
silver at the ratio of sixteen to one with
out any conditions whatever, on the
same terms as gold bullion is coined /;
and it repealed all conflicting laws.
On the passage of that bill the vote
stood 1853 yeas, "a nays and not voting
90. Among those who voted in the af-
frmative, we find the names of the
Hon. John G.. Carlisle, the present
secretary of the treasury, Hon. Jacob
d. Cox, of Ohio, the Hon. Charles
Foster, afterward secretary of the
treasury, Hon. H. A. Herbert, present
secretary of the navy, and Hon. j. w.
Keller, afterward republican speaker
OF the house of representatives, and
the Hon. WILLIAM MCKINLEY,
who was marked and branded with the
gold standard trade mark at the st.
Louis convention last month as the re-
publican "sound money" candidate for
the presidency, and many other promi-
nent gentlemen.
This bill was amended in the senate
to conform to the wishes of the Wall
street gold fraternity. The provision
for free coinage was stricken out, and
substitute, known as the Allison
amendment, was inserted, under which
the secretary of the treasury was in
structed to buy silver bullion enough
to coin not less than two millions nor
more than four millions of standard
silver dollars per mouth. Of course,
all the silver bullion owners were thus
thrown into competition with ON an
other for the sale of their bullion, and
the lowest price at which it was offered
was the price paid. The bill degenera-
ted from public measure for the pub
lie good, under which silver would
have been restored to its former place
as money metal like gold, and silver
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