The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-02-25
SILVER AMID IT'S FRIENDS.

The Republican majority in the house
OF representatives is trying to wriggle
the party out Of the dilemma it was
put in by the st. Louis convention in
It's desire to placate the silver element
in it, while yielding to the gold stand
ard men; an effort that illustrates
afresh the difficulties attending an eff
fort to ride two horses at the same
time, especially if they go in opposite
directions. The invention Of an inter-
national conference to get international
plmetalllsm is returning now to plague
its inventors. What was evident in
the convention, more plainly seen in
the campaign, and now made manifest
in the house is the fact that the domi-
nant element in that party will have
nothing further to do with or for silver
in our coinage except On the same
terms that copper or nickel is used.
The senate promptly passed the VOL
colt resolution for conference of the
powers and sent it to the house where
it went to the committee on coinage.
where it is being talked to death. Rep
resentative Fowler, of New Jersey, con-
sumed a couple Of days in talking it
towards its prdestined end. He would
have no further agitation Of bimetal
Hsm because sit keeps capital out Of
the country" He took no stock in
the proposed conference because at
would only end in talk" Asked by
Cooper, Of Texas, why, if bimetaIlism
was an exploded theory, the ST. Louis
convention declared for it, Mr.. Fowler
replied that ''the party has been evoIv-
ing out Of it, but. unfortunately, at
! st. Louis, left one foot in the past"
! Then Mr.. Towne. our own Towne
! speired Fowler the question whether
! the party had not formally declared
| that it would use it's best efforts to Sc
cure bimetallism among the nations,
and Mr.. Fowler deity lodged by avow-
ing that he did not know what bimetaI-
Iism meant
Then Quigg, Of New York, Lemuel
Eli Quigg, addressed the members Of
his faith on the committee True the
party at St. Louis made q promise to
do something for silver in an interna-
tional way, but-the ever equivocating
| butt was a promise to be construed
by the representatives who had been
chosen on that platform, not by those
whose terms were about to expire" To
| them the courier sent by Mr.. McKin-
ley to secure information would make
| his report, and it would be time to act
when that reconnoiterer of the enc
mics camp had returned with his in
| formation Then, too, this agitation
| might jeopardize that wonderful. pros
perity-restoring tariff bill the Dinglev
committee was Matching, and, anyway,
Mr. Mckinley ought to have the
chance to find some less disturbing
way than q conference to achieve re-
suits" Finally Mr.. Quigg and his COL
! league, Brewster, stated that some Of
! the largest money lenders in the coun-
| try desired to appear against the bill.
and asked pOstponement This had the
desired effect upon the committee and
a postponement was taken. Very inter-
esting, "awfully funny it is to watch
this sQuirming and lodging, this hem
ming and having, to get off the hook
| set last June to catch silver Republi-
cans But the second scene of the
farce upon which the curtain will rise
in March will be a side-splitter.