The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1897-12-31
). HARRIS, Editor.
Great Leaders Of the Party Want no
New Issues.

toflaii advising BRYAN 10 drop Tree
ser aud take up other issues. The
respondent says the trend Of senti'
.ut seems 10 be that Mr.. BRYAN
aid not, II 30 disposed, withdraw
issue 81 free coinage Of silver, and
Al the future light must be made
ON old lines.
2txAroR Jas. X. JOKES, chairman
lhe democratic national committed
ids
.srhe demotratic party In its ma
tlonal platform declared the free
coinage Of silver a. the leading Is
sue, and Il b the duty Of Mr..
bryan aud every other democrat
10 support that view. ] should be
amazed II MR. BRYAN were TO do
anything else. His action upon
this matter has been perfectly
right and proper. Great as the
power which Mn. BRYAN has with
the democrats Of the country, he
would be utterly powerless to in
duce the party to abandon this is
sue. He is incapable of attempt
ing to do so. l have no doubt that
the democratic party will reassert
the Chicogo platform and that
Mr., BRYAN and the party will
stand on the same ground that
they stood on the last time"
SENATOR FRANCIS M. CocKRELL
Of Missouri, said;
1MR. BRYAN could not, If he
would, haul down the standard OF
bimetallism. Any action on his
part repudiating it would only
tend to his own destruction. The
democratic doctrine of bimetal-
llsm was stronger than MR..
BRYAN. Last falls elections
prove nothing, as local issues gov
erned. Bimetallism was not de-
feated."
SENATOR JOHN W. DANIEL, of Viz
ginia, said:
nThe World does not al all seem
10 appreciate thesituatioE.. There
Is indeed an abundance Of money
piled up in New York, but real es-
tate. outside of q few favored GEN.
fers Of commerce or manufacture,
continues to go down and the
basis CT general national prosperity
II continually declining. The
reason why people stick to BRYAN
Is because he better appreciates
the causes OF our troubles than
those whose successive annual
prophesies are followed by success
sive annual refutatious. Were we
to retire greenbacks now and con-
tract our currency, as the gold
standard men recommend, we
would precipitate another panic.
There is not enough money in the
south to give the people living
chance, and to talk about less
money with the present low prices
prevailing for our products seems
like the language of frivolity or
satire. 1t is useless to talk against
trusts aad monopolies when the
gold trust, worked by a syndicate
of which the English monarchy
Is at the head and other European
lnonarchs the directors, IL produc-
ing stringency and decline of
prices the world over
REPRESENTATIVE JAMES ID. RICH
ARDsoN, Of Tennessee, said:
"MR. BRYAN has nailed the flag
Of free silver to the mast and
never will lower 1t. AS an honor
able man he will stand or fall on
the platform on which he ran.
He will make free silver his
watchword from now until the
next presidential election.
"While apparently some gains
were made by the republican
party this fall, still they were not
victories over free silver. I see
no reason for MR.. BRYAN to do
what Mr.. MCKINLEY has done
n repudiate his PLATFORM
SENAToR STEPHEN NJ. WHITE, o
NJ nIfornia, said:
at. ( think Mr.. BRYAN will be the
next President of the United
n fftes and will be elected on the
numocralic ticket. / may doubt
Fe phraseoIogy of the Chicago
- atform upon some subjects, but
I cannot, as | now view matters,
conceive Of anything that can
bring about declaration in ia
vor Of gold recommendation by the
democratic party. The express
sions In the Worlds editorial of
to-day aud kindred statements in
other so-called democratic papers,
demonstrates the common faith
In Mr.. BRYAN's ability and recti-
tude. The Western republicans
supported Mr.. MCKINLEY upon
the theory that he was friendly to
bimetallism. The Eastern influ-
ences which elected him pinned
their faith to the idea that re-
publican success meant gold
mono-pledges could not be main
tanned. Mr.. GAGE represents the
gold monometallic view, whose
advocates furnished the sinews
OF war In the late battle. The
PRESIDENT, In his message, while
commenting the secretary's plan
as worthy OF consideration, avoids
ENDORSING 1t. He suggests minor
matters Of financial legislation,
none of them novel. It seems
plain that Mr.. GAGE's view will
not be backed even by the House
OF Representatives. The repub.
lican orators will not be able 70
defend the failure of their marty
70 respect ante-election pledges
by the statement that the senate
has interviewed. The republican
house-a house more preponder-
atingly republican than any we
shall meet for some years-will
not agree upon a gold standard.
"a view Of all these things and in
.a face of many considerations
I cannot here express,
confident that Mr..