The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1897-11-26
Senator Bill Chandler on Silver.

William Z. Chandler who foremost as a leader n the United States senate,
n th whom there is not a shrewder, nor a more foxy republican member of
that body, is out today in an open letter, the third ofa series to his party, emit
tied; THE next duty of republican bimetalists in which, discussing the late
elections he says; Il told you So" He says
Since my former letters to important events have happened-th elections
OF November 2 and the English refusal to reopen the India minis to the coinage
of silver.
THE elections prove with clearness that If the republican party permanently
acquiesces in the existing gold standard and gives up the struggle for hdmeta
|hsm, that party will be defeated in the congressional elections Of 1893 and in the
presidential election of 1900
"The silver monomealists will then take possession Of all the branches #
the national government aud a free coinage BILL with silver made the tender
fr all debts, public and private, domestic and foreign, will pass both houses of
congress, and be signed by President Bryan. Greater New York city being in
the hands of Tammany Hall, that organization will unite with the national de-
.mocracy in the demand for silver coinage, and it is not within the bounds Of DOS.
abiEty that the rural republican hmetalists will give votes enough upon a
single gold standard platform to place the state OF New York back in the repub
ican column. E# 81 .sts+
There may be infatuated individuals who think, in view Of the elections
that the western republican states can be kept in line 1T future party platforms
shall completely yield to gold and give up the effort to remonitze silver; but the
wiser and safer view is to assume that with the issue 50 framed, the republican
party will meet with overwhelming political disaster inflicted by a solid south
and a west almost solid, aided by Tammany Hall and the free silver democracy
Of the Empire State.
This comes very near being a country Of free voters and our elections come
freely cast and honestly counted. will never adobt 0 submit to the permanent
of silver and the fixed ascendency of the single gold standard
prescribed by England. So the pathway Of safety is only in M direction. Mr.
Mckinley was elected only because his platform and his previous uttersncs
promised efforts to secure bimetallhm. Welost the United States senate because
these promises were not sufficiently in earnest and were distrusted BY many re.
publican voters We did not promise to establish bimaallsm, believing II to be
a bad thing, but because we believed it to bel good thing. II we now faithles,
ly abandon tht pursuit eff that good thing we doom ourselves to political annihi
So there is no course open to nj but to bring together the independent
OF the western hemisphere and to mite them in one grand irresistible de-
for the money Of the ages-Gods money, as Secretary Sherman devotional
and reverenty called it silver and gold Joined together at . fixed ratio ~ the
basis Of all paper money and credits and as the worlds time honopd measure Of
worlds values
Senator Chandler at length discusses the refusal Of England to help bimets-
ism by promising to reopen the India minis and argues therby that an interns.
agreement isl impossible. He says:
'Iti the duty Of all republicans who desire the continuance Of power Of
party, and who do no propose to bolt their platform, to renew their pledges
bimetalism and devise ways and means for fulfilling them Only those who
never at heart for bimetallsm will stop o account Of the British miniMrysI
negative. The people Of the whole western hemisphere, by immense
majodties re in favor of the demonstration Of silver :