The herald., 1897-06-29
Requested by the Silver
Republicans
THE NEBRASKA SILVER MEN
DETAILS FOR THE
FALL CAMPAIGN
Boies Of Iowa Thinks Free Silver Is
Dead, and Wants New
Issue
Associated Press Special Wire.

Associated Press Special Wire.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, June 2s-The
Democratic Convention, which meets to-
morrow, Is already attracting delegates
and candidates. John r. Mclean, Of the
Cincinnati Enquirer, secured such a
large majority Of the delegates that
there is no more opposition than there
was to Senator Hanna last week. There
are eighteen known candidates for Gov
ernor, Of whom Robert T. Hough IS the
favorite. The convention is almost 10
unit for free silver and no candidate
will be considered whose record Is not
clear on that issue.
With the unusually large number of
candidates and their workers here to-
night the ante convention contests were
very animated. The field has concen-
trated against r. r. Hough as the favor
lite for governor, and will fight him to a
decisive ballot.
While the fighting for the state ticket
position to John r. Mclean for senator.
There was recently organized state
legislative league of Silver Republicans
in opposition to what is known as the
Palmer-Buckner Democrats This or
ganization has its representatives here,
demanding that the lieutenant-gov-
ernorship be given to a Silver Republic
an but 1t is not likely that the second
place on the state ticket will go to any
Republican who may have voted for
Bryan and Sewall.
NEBRASKA SILvERITES
LINCOLN, June 2s.-The Nebras-
ka State Central Committee of the Sill
yer Democrats met today and arranged
details for the fall campaign. A su-
preme judge and two university regents
will be elected. AS the gold Democrats
will have a ticket in the field the COM
mittee appealed to the silver Republi-
cans and Populists to fuse. Bryan will
stump the State.
BOIES' BAZOO
WATERLOO. Iowa, June 2S.-"For
one, do not believe it possible to sue
ceed on a platform that demands the
unqualified free coinage of silver at the
ratio of 16 to 1 with gold. We have
fought that battle and 1t ie lost. We can
never fight it over until circumstances
are more favorable to ourselves. If we
are to succeed WE must abandon this ex-
treme demand"
In these words Horace Boies, former
Governor of Iowa and erstwhile Demo-
cratic Presidential aspirant, addresses
the voters Of the United Statee who de-
mand the free coinage of silver. He does
1t through the medium of his letter to
Colonel D. M. Fox of Des Moines, which
the latter will print in his forthcoming
book.
''The friends Of silver, although once
defeated, are not yet demoralized. This
will not be true after a second defeat"
he warningly says. "In our next bat
tie we must win or our cause is lost"
Although Mr.. Boies has in private fire.
quently expressed hostility to the 16 to
plank of the Chicago platform this
is the first authoritative declaration
from him to that effect. In publicly de-
claring it to be dead issue, he gives
at length his reasons for asserting 1t to
be SUCH He says the voters buried it
under the belief that it meant silver
monometallism, pure and simple, which
would increase instead of diminish the
misfortunes attributed to the single
gold standard.
at matters not" he says, chow we
convince the people the gold standard ie
wrong unless we convince them that
what we offer in its place is better in
stead of worse"