Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1896-07-25
RLAcKFooT. IDAHO, JULY .. 1880.
FoR PRESIDENT,
WILLIAM ]. BRYAN, Of Nebraska.
For vIoE-PREsIpENT.
ARTHUR ]. SEWAn. Of Maine.
DEMOCRATS AND SILVER.
As Taken from the Records at Wash.
fngtOn.

Ex-Commissioner s. M. Stockslager,
of the General Land Office at Wash
ington. D. CT has searched the records
on file at the Nations capital and
writes his home paper in Indiana as
follows about the position of the Demo-
cratic party on silver:
II promised to give the record of the
Democratic party on the silver ques-
tion. which will now proceed to do.
From March 4. 1901, to March 4,
1861, that party dominated and con-
trolled the policy of the country. Dur
ing all that time, and until 1873, we
had the free and unlimited coinage OF
both gold and silver, full legal tender,
at the ratio of first is to /, and then by
the laws of 1S34-7, reducing the guam
tity of gold. making the ratio l6 to l.
I'm 1873 this was destroyed and the
single gold standard adopted.
I'm the 44th Congress, elected in
1874, and the first one after the war in
which the Democrats had majority,
ITO Democrats voted for free coinage
and only 16 against it; and 1873 Demo-
crats voted for and passed free coin
age bill and only II voted against it.
I'm the 45th Congress, BANDS free
tonnage bill was passed, 81 Democrats,
including Carlisle, voting for Ii and
only 10 against it. AS amended by the
Senate it was passed over Hayes veto,
118 Democrats in the House voting for
1t. and only % against it; In the Senate
25 Democrats voted for it and against
1t.
Stanley Matthews free coinage res-
blution was passed in the same Con-
gress, 116 Democrats in the House vot-
ing for it and % against it, and in the
Senate % Democrats voted for and 7
against it.
I'm the 46th Congress 100 Democrats,
including Carlisle, voted for free COIN
age, to only 8 against it. And 107 DEM
ocrats, including Carlisle, voted for, to
only against an amendment directing
and requiring the secretary of the
treasury to pay out standard silver coin
the same as gold coin in the payment
Of all coin obligations OF the govern
ment.
SIN the 49th Congress 96 Democrats
voted for, to 10 against free coinage.
I'm the 51st Congress, 101 Democrats
In the House voted for and only IL
against instructions to report bill for
free coinage; In the Senate q Demo.
Gratis, including Carlisle, voted for and
only 3 against Plumb's free coinage
substitute.
Every Democrat in the House and
Senate voted against the Sherman act
of 1890. In the Senate, in January,
1891, "a Democrats voted for free coin
age and only against it.
SIN the Sind Congress, in the Sens
ate, 20 Democrats voted for, to against
free coinage, and in the House to con-
slider free coinage bill, lis voted for
and "a against 1t.
In the 53rd Congress, 101 Democrats
in the House voted for and 116 against
q free coinage amendment to the bill
repeating the Sherman act, and in the
Senate IS voted for and is against It.
"This is the record of the party. It
will be seen that from 1901 to the time
when Mr.. Cleveland exerted the whole
power and patronage OF the adminstra-
ton, in the midst of panic, to the un.
conditional repeal of the Sherman act,
the repeal OF which its author said at
the time would restore prosperity In
ten days; the Democratic party, as rep
resented in Congress, has been uni
formly in favor of the free and unlim-
tied coinage Of both gold and silver at
the ratio established by law"