Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-06-30

Minnesota and 4 from Kansas, in addition
to the 26 from his own state of Iowa. Mr..
Russell has his own states 80, Connecti-
cuts II, New Hampshire's and Yer
mont's s. Gov. Matthews, of Indiana,
has four from Kansas in addition to his
support from his own state. John K.
Mclean, of Ohio; ex-Gov. Pattison, of
Pennsylvania; Senator Tillman, of South
Carolina, and Senator Blackburn, of
Kentucky, have developed no strength
port is current here that the "favorite
son" idea is by no means In Bland's IN
terest, aud his friends are quite aroused
on the subject. At this hour Matthews
or Boies are making the heaviest advance.
Boies has at his back the northwest and
some eastern following. Matthews has
strong foot-hold in the west and south,
and should his neighboring states, as is
expected, throw their votes to him he will
develop a strength that will lead both
Boies and Bland. The friends of the lat
ter are especially Watching Matthews
boom.
MINERS VIEW.
Helena, Mont. Friends of w. A..
Clarke, millionaire copper miner of
Butte, both in Montana and in the east,
have been urging him for several weeks
to announce himself as vice-presiden-
tial candidate at Chicago. Mr.. Clarke
has had the matter under consideration,
and in letter to Charles F. Greenfield,
this city, received to-day, he announces
his decision. Mr.. Clarke says:
will ho q hQf0r6
national convention at Chicago for the
nomination of vioe-president. I think
this Office should 90 to some doubtful
state. I am sure that it can be used to
better advantage in the great cause of
silver than to give it to Montana"
Clarke is a delegate to Chicago, and
will leave for there July l.
BoIEs TO THE EAST.
Waterloo, Iowa.-"Do you really believe
the United States able, if free coinage
were adopted, to maintain our currency
at par with gold unaided by any other
nation?"
In response to the above query from
the New York World, Gov. Boise has sent
the following:
~ do not profess to be able to state
with absolute certainty whether it would
or would not. The great mass of the
friends of silver. in the south and west
believe it would. They reason thus:
Coinage laws fix the commercial value of
gold by providing an unlimited demand
for it at a given price. Like laws would
fix the price of silver, provided only that
the demand should remain Unlimited for
all that would reach our mints. The sill
yer of the world would not come there, as
sensationalists argue. More than two
thirds of the people of the world are
now on single silver basis. They
must continue to have silver for their
use. The gold standard countries
used silver largely as token money.
They can not spare what they have
or ourtail their necessities for more.
Silver is extensively used in the arts.
Much of its value in this case is in the
labor bestowed upon it. To send it to
our mints is to destroy this. 1t will not
come, but instead of this silver bullion
will continue in the future as in the past
to be largely used for that purpose. The
silver mines of the world outside of our
own are insufficient to supply the de-
mands of the nations other than ours for
these purposes. A large percentage of
our own product will continue to be used
in the arts in our own country, and much
of it must 60 to other countries. 1t is,
therefore, the surplus product alone of
the mines of the world, after all other de-
mands are supplied, that can possibly
come to our mints. For this we will
furnish an unlimited demand for an in
definite period, if not for all time. To
make room for it we can, if necessary, re-
tire every national bank note, every
greenback and treastry note, and supply
their places with silver certificates, non
interest instead of an interest bearing
currency, 80 far as national bank notes
are concerned. Before we have filled this
void silver will have reached CONNER
cial value equal to gold at 16 to l; other
nations will have opened their mints and
the trouble will be over. Personally, l
believe Webster and many others of the
most eminent of American statesman of
the past were right in their conclusion
that the constitution of the United States,
fairly construed, requires of congress
that it shall by law provide for the coin
age of both gold aud silver as standard
money-that it can no more rightfully
demonetize one metal than both; and l
believe also that the constitution re-
quires that measures shall bs adopted by
congress which will enable the coins made
from both metalsto circulate side by side
as part at least of our medium of ex-
CHANGE"