Delaware gazette and state journal., 1896-03-26
Not a rake. But a Fact.

that there has been no combination
whatever between tho protectionists
and the free silver coinage advocates"
and then it proceeds TO explain the
famous conference held in Washington
on Thursday last, in tho following
puerile manner.
When the men who were inveigled
into attending the conference at Wash.
ington discovered that their presence
had compromised them they ut once set
themselves straight before the silver
apostles When they concluded in OK
planning their attitude upon tho ques
tion under discussion there was no mis-.
understanding wnere majority of the
Republican manufacturers of Philadel-
phia stood. There are some few Re
publicans in that city who have the
FREQ coinage theory in their heads, but
it is not rooted there deep enough to
induce them to vote for the Democratic
policy Of tariff for destruction. They
are protoctionists first. But tho rank
and file of the manufacturers and tho
rank and flo of the voters of Philadel
phia are for sound currency" and
protection, Those two ideas 60 hand
in hand.
While the protected manufacturers
who attended this conference were no
doubt actuated by selfish motives, it
is an insult to their intelligence to
charge that they we're inveigled" into
the affair. On the contrary, the con-
ference was arranged by a prominent
Pennsylvania manufacturer, who do
sired to secure the support of the sill
yer Senators for the pending Tariff bill.
1t was furthered largely by the Manu-
facturers' Club of Philadelphia, and
Mr.. Robert Dornan, president Of the
club, was one of the speakers who
openly assured the silver Senators Of
his sympathy with bimetallism. James
Dobson, the leading carpet manufac-
turer of Philadelphia, and Henry A.
Frye, also of the Manufacturers Club,
spoke in the same strain. And as far
as the sentiment of this club is CON
cerned, it is notorious that its special
organ, the Manufacturer, edited by
Charles Heber Clark, and published
under the direction OF a special com.
mittee nf the club, has long been an
advocate Of the free and unlimited
coinage of silver. To prove this, we
reprint some of its declarations on the
money question, taken hap hazard from
recent issues
1t is tolerably safe assertion that
the Republican national convention
will not nominate for the Presidency
any man, however pure and able, who
openly favors the British gold system.
just what the convention will have to
say upon that general subject is of
course quite uncertain Probably ii
will endeavor to formulate some sort of
an utterance which will tickle both
the gold men and tho bimetallists,
with the consequence that it will
otfend both. But, unless the leading
men in the party have lost their senses,
surely they will not flatly repudiate
the bimtallic plank in the platform of
1892, and thus forfeit the respect and
confidence of the mu,titudes of Repub-
licans who desire bimetallism more than
they desire tariff protection.
Parity of the different kinds of cur.
rency is destroyed by gold monometal
lists, and while the gold standard is In
full operation.
Japan is upon silver basis, and
while upon that basis it has leaped
INTO a place among the great nations of
the world, developing both military
and industrial power with celebrity and
~ such measure az have astonished
mankind. What has Turkey accom-
plshed meantime, excepting TO sink
deeper into the 9uagmire of shame
less and hopeless narbarism? And yet
Turkey has that glorious gold system
which is denied to Japan.
There is no possibility Of maintain
ing the gold standard but by pursuing
TINS cruel and destructive policy, or
by tho equally cruel and destructive
policy of contracting the currency so
as to deprive the people of the means
q doins business with facility
We have been hoping for second
Mckinney tariff after Grover Cleye.
lands retirement from Office. What il
now the promise of such hencraction
If the Republican party shall adopt and
adhere to Mr.. Cleveland's currency
4 policyY
What can even tho frank and filo"
4 Of the Manufacturers Club do against
such expressions from paper that il
owned by the club, is acknowledged To
be It's special organ, and has been an
advocate Of free silver coinage for years.
Tho rank and file, " Under these dir
cumsiances, can no more claim to he
misrcpresented by last Thursdays con.
ference, than Messrs. Dornan, Dobson
and others can claim to have been ain.
veigled" into attending it, The Manu-.
act'rers' Club has been in favor OF pro
lection and FREQ silver coinage right
along, and that is all that tho confer.
enee Of last week at Washington en-.
phasized.
There is no indication that the Re.
publican party will make a fight fol
sound money this year, On the con.
trary, there is every prospect that the
financial plank of the ST. Louie platform
VIII contain the Ohio twadde about
the "dolar Of equal value, whether Of
gold, silver or paper II there il
any change at all it will be in the di,
rectIon Of a positive and nslstent de,
mand for free silver coinage. This i.
as near sound money as the Republican
party can get.
Tho bicycle policemen in New York
are proving success, They not only
run down and capture the scorching'