The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1897-10-21

FREE SILVER HAS
BEEN ABANDONED
DEMOCRATIC LEADERS BAN ITS ADyO-
Gates rROA TnE STUAr
Anxiety 10 Washington as to the Future oi
the rArty, While the Factories
Ate numminG

Washington. H. G.. oot 10. ono Of tho
interesting doyulppmrnta of the cam.
paignH. whioh arc now within three
wooia uf thcdr ulosc In tho absolut"
disalpraranoo OF tho silver issue. pno
ypur ago II wan tho leading feature ~
ths campaign. Three months ago % Was
d5termlnel by tho silver leaders that n
must hu a loading iHzuo IN tho campaign
~ lsD, wherever ptaIo and local can
palEnH wrw to bo madn In OHIO. IL
Iowa, IN Kentucky. and In nundry other
atatoH Il waa made tho leading. u may
bo sald tho ohiof. feature OF the demo
cratic platform In lsg;. In Maryland the
aHtutu uVrman. scoing the lurn OF pub
ilo sentiment against tho Issue wh.ch
WA no popular year agu. adroltiy
shclvui It In tho platform which tho
state convention fram~i lusa than ninety
days ago In Now York It WAS adopted
by segment of tho democracy. Ia
Mass, ohuaoltn. tho urorgo Fred Wu.
iams clcn'cn, of tho dcmurr.b, adopted
a. La ohio. Virginia, Kentucky. Iowa.
Nebraska. AMI other stat"n It Nae made,
an already indicated. tho chief. AMI Ia
many oassa solc. lsauv Of Tho ala,c plat.
form.
Al this happsnod within tho pas, four
monUhn In that p-rriod tho democratic
oohr Ga tons N haig a dpsoa leading cltioa
10 the tniun mada tho ftoo AMI unllm.
ltui coinage of silver tho chief feature
Of tb"ir platforms. ana IN ovcry state
adopted dociara tlnns which squin,rd In
that direction. to SAY thS least within
thirty days Of that action On their par,
tho republican congress passed tho Ding.
10y protective tarln Law. republican
pr'aiion' signed It, and It became tho
law ot tho land
whs, was Tho rrauit1 Factories startrd
up all over tbp United sJa,cr. Where
thousands and hundreds ur thaunand, Of
mon wvru employed whofu labor had
bean without occupation. suddenly the
smoke II factories mado ila appearance.
Tho busy hum OF industry waA heard.
lab"r'nE mrn hy 'so hundreds or Ihous.
anis AMI mllllonA found employment the
lomand for the products of tho farm
Increased and io' prosperity prevailed
among not only thc laboflug men in tho
manufacturing c"nt~ru. but among the
farmers Of the country rrlc-u adj
vlnogd, No, alone the prlco ~ wbc,,
BOO which There was "rhor,,se
abroad" but tho prlor " corn. and rye.
and harley and wool. ami iohaeso. and
everything which the farm produces.
simultaneously with Ihin advance In
farm priooo silver went down An ounce
OF silver. which in June. when demo
cratic conventions wrro assembling. was
worth "a ccntH. dropped by September
TO 81 cunts and did that In the face OF "a
CONTINUOUS and vigorous advance ln
p'lov ~ AL farm products Everything
produced by ,hn farm advanced In those
short months Of June. Juy and August.
and whiiu thiS was happening. silver
'lrpI-i l5 pcr cent In value
Tho result waH a paralysis Of the silver |
ISSUE Il had bccn mad, tho leading .
fctturu n state platforms In nearly an |
OF Tho leading aatoa In which cnmpalgna |
wcro 10 ti,kc puco. The Platforms were |
made and could not bn rccnLcd. Yet. |
h'dore tho campaign could open. had |
Vom" n fall of Is pcr cent In the price
W silver and u Cargo advance In the .
prcH of rarm produ'ts.
As rcrult thcro was nothing to do
hut to dodge-in fuct. abandon thu silver
Issue. although Il hnd been made a lead |
ing feature of tho platforms AdvIccs
hom an tho states In which campaigns
ara In progress show this programme has
hcon adopted. A hns already been IN
Hicplcl. Chairman Jones and other lead.
ing llghis In the silver organization have
ndvis,d the abandonment of silver ns an
issue. And that advice is being adopted.
The leading advocMtcs Of the silver cause
arr rgidly excluded from the states In
which campalgns arc In progress. A
strict quarantine has been established
against Mr.. Bryan. Mr.. Towne. and the
uthor statesmen whose voices have been
exclusively devoted ~ tho service OF the