The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1897-11-24

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Secure II Democracy wnl Win Ia rne
Next Campaign Senator's L>,tsr.
Editor OF The Washington Pest:
Since my letters 10 TIE Post OF Au-
gust u and IS, two importsnt events
have happened, (D the elections OF
November 2, snd, (2 the English re
fusal 10 now promise to reopen the
India mints to the coinage OF silver as
an in6ucement to internstior 81 blne1-
aIlism.
1. As to tie elections, they prove
with reasonable clearnss SIS that the Re
publican party permanently acquieS
ces in 1.-The existing GOLD standard ,
and gives up the struggle fer bimetal
ism that party Will be defe&ted IN the
congressional elections CT 1895. and II
the presidential election Of 1860. The
silver monometallists will then tske
possession of ali branches OF the ns-
tional government, and a free coinage
bill, with silver made the tender Tor
all debts, public and private, domestic
and foreign, will pass bo.h houses Of
congress and be signed by President
Bryan.
Greater New York city being in the
hands of Tammany Hall, that organi
zation will unite with the national
Democracy in the demand for free
silver coinase. and it is not withir the
bonds OF possibility that the rural Rs
publican bimetalIists will give votes
enough upon single gold standard
platform to place the State OF New
York back in the Republican column.
There may be infatuated individuals
who think, in view of the elections of
last Tuesday in Iowa, OHIO, Kentucky,
and Nebraska, that the western Re-
publican States can be kept in lire if
future party platforms shall complete
~ yield to gold, and give up the ef
fort to remonetize silver, but the wis
er and safer view is to assume that with
the issue so framed the Republican
party will meet with overwhelming
political disaster inflicted b., solid
south and 8 west almost solio, aided
by Tammany Hall ard the free silver
Democracy Of the Empire State. This
comes very near being country OF
free voters, and our elections come
very near being honest Transactions.
and an intelligent psople, with their
votes freely cast and honestly counted,
will never adopt or submit to the per
manent demonstration of silver and
the fixed ascsndency of the single gold
standard prescribed by England, So
the pathway of safety is only in one d.
rection. Mr.. Mckinley was elected only
because his platform and his previous
utterances promised efforts to secure
bimetalGsna. We lost the United
States senate because those promises
were not sufficiently in earnest, and
were distrusled by many Republican
voters. We did not promise to estab
ish bimetallism il We could, beliving
it to be a bad thing, but becsuse we
believed it to be good thing. If We
now faishlessly abandon the pursuit
Of that good thing we doom ourselves
to political annihilation. So there is
no course open to us but to bring to-
gether the independent nations OF the
western e nisphere and to unite tte y
in one grand and irresistible 6emand
for the money OF the ages, Gcd's
money, as Secretary John Sherman
devotionally and reverently called it;
silver and gold, joined together at a
fixed ratio as the basis Of all paper
money and credits, and as the worlo's
time -honore6 measure OF the worlds
values.
2. But the recent English refusal to
agree 10 help bimetaliism by promis
ing to reopen the India mints will be
referred to as proving tEat the interaa
tional agreement is an impossibility.
Since the refusal there have been writ
ten innUmeraole articles pronouncing
the doom of silver" saying that
s'silver is dead issue,' and jeering at
all Republicans who still bslieve that
the pledges of their platform Of 1895
and prior thereto are yet living AID
binding promises. It is impossible to
avoid the continued comparison OF |
these prophets to those who, in 1852
in perfect accordance with the plat
forms Of the two great political par
ties, proclaimed the doom and death
OF the anti slavery agitation, Jet in 10 |
short years saw slavery doomed and /
dead on American soil and the world
over.
Even a British ministry has been
known to change its mind. Lord
Salisbury very emphstically declared
that he would not arbitrate the vital
questions in the Venezuelan contro
yersy, yet with true wisdom and states
narship, and with nc impairment OF
British prestige. he changed his mind
hen he realized that one British
declaration could not doom or kill
great living subject; namely, the
Monroe dactrjne.
It is true that the present answer OF
Lord Salisbury is disappointing. il
Is contrary to previous ministerial ss
sertions upon which bimetallists every
where had the rieh confidently to re-,
ply. In the letter to the London Times
of October of Lord Aldenham and Mr..
3. r. Grenfell, there is brought out |
in vivid colo1s the English promise.
On March II, 1895, the house OF com
mons unanimously declared that the
bSst interests OF the country had been
Injured by silver's 6emonetiz alton in
1873, and urged the government to do
all in their power to secure an inter
national asre In the debate
the chancellor of the excneouer Sir
W. E. Il. Beach) promised that the
governments would obey this IL lnc
tion. The first lord of the treasury Mr..