Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-10-15
''COLD" Law SOON
REPUBLICANS INTEND TO KEEP
THEIR PROMISES.
TO CLEARLY DEFINE "C0iN"
MR.. BRYAN AND MR.. JONES NEED
TO GET TOGETHER.
j. G. Stowe, of Kansas City, Not Like
ly to Have the Proposed Oppor-
tunity to Arbitrate the AM
glo-TransvaaI Diff
ferences.
TO CLEARLY DEFINE "C0lN''

| drich, chairman of the senate finance COM
| mittee, and other prominent Republicans,
| II is evident that gold bill will be among
| the leading legislative features of the next
| congress. Whether considered from a po-
| litical an economic point of view, it
| seems to be good move on the part OF
| the Republicans 10 stand pat on the sound
| money issue, and, if anything, to strength
| en- their position on that platform feature
| by direct legislation. As a partisan move
! ment 1t cannot be successfully assailed un-
| less the lessons of the two campaigns
| that of 1886 and that of 1Sss-are to go for
nothing. In both these contests the issue
| was free silver against sound money, and
| in both instances the Republicans were vic
| torious. The predictions of evil that were
| made by the Democrats have failed. Pros
| perity has come in spite of the Ominous
| forecast that il free coinage We're ignored
| domestic disaster would be inevitable. If
| anything, public faith in the Republican
| policy of Keeping the silver circulation
| within the safe limit of coinage on govern
| ment account, under which more silver
was coined and circulated in one year than
under eighty years of Democratic free
| coinage, has been strengthened to a degree
! that warrants the taking of the next i'm
| pOrtant step By a congressional declaration
| that all obligations Ot the government
| shall be payable in gold. and the removal
| of all doubt as to the meaning of payment
! in coin. in regard to government paper
| 1t is doubtful il the thinking Republicans
! of the country would welcome any issue
more ardently to battle over in 1890 than
| that of sound money against free coinage
Of silver. and In this light the declaration
of Senator Jones, chairman of the Demo-
| cratic national committee, Oh returning
| from Europe. that free silver would again
| be the issue of the next campaign. is
| hailed with supreme satisfaction by the
| opposition leaders.
II Republican visions Of success in 1850
| were at all obscured it would not be BY
any doubt how the voters of the country
| will cast their ballots on this question. A
| far more disturbing factor in their calcu-
lations has been the doubt how the for
eiSn policy OF the administration Will be
! accepted by the people.
! Mr.. Bryan himself has shown a DISPOSE
| ton to relegate silver to a subordinate
place in the next Democratic platform II:
favor OF an anti-mperiaistic piank-only
| so far, Of course, as he dared go as the
prophet of free coinage of 16 to !. without
the consent of any foreign nation-for it
| must be borne in mind that the rank and
| file OF his followers is still as rabid on the
! question with the inoculation they have
| been receiving in heroic doses for the past
| two years as they were in 1886, when the
campaign II Senator Jones had first con-
| suited Mr.. Bryan on the aGyisa ability Of
again making silver the overshaiowing
| issue in the next campaign. after his alb
| sence in Eur ope. he would perhaps have
modified his expressions. and left CON
| venient loophOe for silver to slip out
and Imperialism to take its place.
According to leading Democrats, Senator
| Jones calculates that Il delicate little bit
by adhering. to this policy Free silver.
they say. will hold the orthodox element
| in line, while to the undergraduates it
| can be easily explained that with a senate
| safely Republican for the next eight or
ten years, free silver is impossible OF legis-
lattve enactment even with BRYAN In the
ment in the Republican party opposed to
| the war in the Philippines. can support his
| candidate without fear Of disturbance 70
the domestic interests of the country. So
far as the views of the leading Republic
| ans have been ascertained. they favor an
| out-and-out gold bill in order to con2en-
| trate Democratic assault upon that issue
| and delegate expansion to subordinate
| place in the next campaign, which prom
| tory of the country since the election OF
| Abraham Lincoln. According to the pres
| ent sign, Democratic leadership IS again
favoring Republican plans.
Unusual pressure is being exerted from
many quarters In this country ana EUROPE
| services as Il mediator in the differences
between the Boer republic and Great Brit
| and repeatedly TIE IIiiIIe VI NOIOIItL
| J. c. Stowe. American consul general at
| Cane Town. has been urged as the most
| qualified American for the Office of arbI
| traitor From the tenor of the latest dis
| patches detailing the South African situa-
ton the rupture has passed beyond the
| reach OF arbitration. and Colonel Stoves
| services is Il gO-between Will doubtless not
| be required. Yet it IS very gratifying to
| the many friends Of the popular American
| consular representative in South Africa
| to know that II mediation had been re-
! sorted 70 he would probably have been
| selected for the place of arbitrator. 1t
| can be stated good authority that this
! government made no official offer to Great
! offending the English government, whose
| friendship is highly valued by Secretary
| Hay The friends of the Beers in this
| country recall the fact that at the out
| break OF the with Spain. the foreign
| Representatives at Washington We're called
| together at the British embassy and, with
| Sir Julian Pauncelote spokesman, pre-
| sented their offer of mediation at the
! White House. which. though courteously
| rejected. gave no offense to the United
! States though Il was afterwards attempted
| to do with il, and that the act was die
| tsted by desire to save Spain at the cost
| of an implied humiliation to this govern
| rnent.
In spite of the unusually fair treatment Of
| the South African situation by the Asso-
ciated Press. and the evident desire of the
| American papers to get reports from the
scene OF action that shall be free from the
biased coIor!ng Of English interests In the