The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1896-10-02
cARNAcK,8 CONTRADICTIONS

CARNACK'S CONTRADICTIONS
The following circular Las
been issued from Headqua~-
tiers Democratic Copgrcssion-
al Committee, Memphis:
z. ". Carmael,, the inde-
pendent candidate for con=
gress in this district, has a
record upon public questions
which is but a succession Of
contradictions.
Within little more than
three years he has occupied
positions, Numerically oppo-
sed, upon % the silver ques-
ton, (2) Mr.. Cleveland's ac-
ton in using Federal troops
at Chicago, 80 Col. Josiah
Patterson as a representative
of this people, (4 the inte;li-
gence, honesty and patriot
ism of the populists, and %
organized labor and its lead
ers.
Read the record and see if
the impression o. Mr.. Car
mack's craftsmanship is not
due more to recklessness of
statement and vituperatiOn
than to strength of reason in
maintaining positions upon
great public questions.
As editor of the CONNER
cial, the following upon the
currency question was writ
ten by Mr.. Carmack:
LOOK BEFORE THE LEAP.
'The Commercial has not advo-
Gated and does not now advocate,
the free and unlimited coinage of
silver at the present ratio. The
Commercial believes in the utaliza-
ton of both metals in our currency,
but it recognizes that it is not pos
sible for this country single-handed
and alone to maintain the parity of
the gold and silver dollar at the
present ratio. June 90, 1898.
FREE COINAGE AN OVER RATED CUES
TION.
cit seems to us that this
question has been given a promi-
hence out of all proportion to its
merits. Free coinage would not
bring the disaster predicted on the
one hand, nor the blessing prophe-
sled on the other. It's not worth the
noise that is made over it by either
party to the controversy, and - Is
the height of folly for the GemO-
cratic party to advance it to the
front in the coming campaign, and
especially To send the tariff to the
rear TO make room for it. March
%, 1892.
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY's DANGER.
seas the Commercial predicted,
when Crisp was elected speaker
the tariff question has taken
back seat in this Congress. 1t
has from an early day been over
Swallowed by the silver question.
1t has been virtually aban-
doned by the friends of tariff re-
form, who have turned their tickle
affections to a new favorite, the sill
yer question. They defeated Mr..
Mills and put a creature of their
own in the Speakers chair. They
sent the tariff question to the foot.
They put the silver question at the
head. They twirled their fingers at
Grover Cleveland and shouted,
'Where is your tariff issue" You
are against free coinage Of silver,
are you? Well, we will make free
coinage a democratic issue. That
will dispose of YOU They laugh
ed in high glee. He (HilD had
already put the free silver lunatics
upon the box and gave them the
reins. In order to unhorse
Cleveland, they have delivered the
democratic party over, bound hand
and foot, to a lot of political mani
acs. March %, 1892.
COMMON SENSE AND THE CURRENCY
QUESTION.
eff all hands would join in an
honest effort to reach an agreement
on the question of bimetallic stand
ard, without confusing the consider
alton of the question by making it
a party issue, there would be bet
ter chance for an early and satisfac-
tory settlement. The currency
question is not a political issue. 1t
does not touch any of the essential
principles upon which the two great
parties are divided. 1t is nonsense
to say that a man who believes in
strict construction of the Constitu-
ton, who holds to Jeffersonian prin-
ciples as to the functions of govern
ment, who is opposed to centraliza-