Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-06-29
NATIONAL POLITICS.
FREE COINAGE SENATE.

Gallinger, in an interview at his home in
Concord, comedies a silver senate.
81 fear for tine control of the senate"
he said. "a full senate now numbers
ninety members, and we shall need forty
six for majority, though, inasmuch as
the existing vacancy in Kentucky will
continue until 1899, we can get along dur
ing the next congress with forty five.
"We now have forty-four senators who
are nominally Republicans. but of these,
Mantle and Cannon-refused to act with
US in the passage of the Dingley emer-
gency tariff last winter, and suppose we
must now add to them Senator Pettigrew,
of South Dakota, because he left the st.
Louis convention with other seceders.
This reduces US to thirty eight straight
out Republicans who are for protection
as against protection yoked with free sill
yer, and We shall need seven more to en-
able US to pass the revenue bill, which the
country demands.
"Some of our gains are already made,
as in Maryland and Ohio, and we shall
elect in New York, Illinois and Wiscon-
sin. This will give us forty y-three or two
short of majority. Among our danger
spots we must include North Carolina.
Senator Pritchard's seat is likely to be
lost, because he was first chosen by a fu-
sion movement, which probably will be
hard to effect again.
"In Utah, also there is danger of losing
Senator Brown, who refused to act with
the silver men in dead locking the Ding
ley bill, and who now has been confronted
with an issue in his fight for reelection,
which will either defeat or cause him to
coalesce with Senator Cannon in policy
of opposition.
SIN Colorado Senator Wolcott is in
similar danger, as he has been subject to
venomous criticism because he would Aot
go so far as Senator Teller in his devo-
tion to the white metal. Add to this the
not altogether remote chance of losing a
Republican senator in North Dakota and
California and the claims of the Demo-
Gratis that We can not elect in either Kan
sas or Illinois, and the outlook is not
rosy. must admit that can not now
satisfactorily outline the method by
which we shall be able to hold the senate
for protective tariff without tree sill
yer rider"
SILVER IN NEW YORK.
New York.-A state convention of silver
men, to be held in this city on Friday
July 10, will be called within few days
1t is expected that full set of delegates
and alternates will be present from each
of the $50 assembly districts in the state
These will elect four delegates at-large,
four alternates- at-large and sixty eight
district delegates and alternates to attend
the silver convention which will meet in
St. Louis on Wednesday, July 20.
1t had been supposed generally that the
Democratic state convention in Saratoga
last week would be the last state political
gathering preliminary TO the presidential
cam paign. But the friends of silver have
taken hope from the reports from rural
New York, and they now intend to have
this state fully represented at ST. Louis
next month.
"For the present" Senator Bixby sale
to-day, 1--WE are holding back until after
the Chicago convention has finished its
work. When our state convention meets
three days after the Chicago convention
we shall adopt a platform embodyinl
Iour v,ews.~on the currency question.
"Yes, if free silver candidate and {
free silver platform should be secured a
Chicago, think 1t is quite likely that w
shall indorse both and urge our delegates
to the St. Louis convention to work fol
an Endorsement of the Chicago ticke
there. If the silver people don't defea
themselves, we shall elect the next presi
dent, and carry the state of New York"
Silver conventions will be called soo1
in all of the assembly districts to elec
delegates to the state convention. Th'
votes cast for delegates at these conven
tions will give fair idea of the strength
which the silver men may have acquired
in this state.
BIG CONVERT.
Boston.-Presiden Andrews, of Brown
university, declares for the free coinage
of silver in the following letter:
"BRowN UNIVERSITY,
Providence, June %, 1896.
"Stephen w. Nickerson, Boston, Mass;
"My Dear Sir-In yours of the 20tf
inst, after adverting to Cernusohi's lates,
position touching the policy of the United
States in freely coining silver at l6 to
without waiting for an internationa
agreement, you ask what, if any objec
tions would urge against this policy.
reply that would urge none. The vas
new output of gold in recent years a
com pared with that of silver convince
me that free coinage by the United Stat
alone would not lead to the displacement
of our gold; that, therefore, free coinag
would be safe. If it Is safe, it is certainl
desirable. OF course no one can be abso
lutely certain that We could proceed witt
silver free coinage and yet retain ou
gold. therefore do not dogmatize, bu
leave that to the gold men. To my mind
however, the overwhelming probabilit
is that gold would stay with Us. l hav
noticed of late no serious arguments t
show that it would not. Cordially,
"E. BENJAMIN ANDREWS"