Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1900-09-28
FREE SILVER CERTAIN.
Election Would Make Sure
Free Silver Congress.

Clinton Sept. Ex-senator Allison
made his first speech in the cam.
paign in Iowa here tonight, He took
some pains to show beyond ali further
dispute that the country is in just as
much danger from the threat of Bry-,
an and his followers TO inaugurate q
free silver policy in this country as it
was in 1896. He demonstrated by
careful examination of the situation
in the states which Bryan must carry
to win the presidency that if he
should be elected president both
houses Of congress would at the same
time be given working majorities in
sympathy with his policy. On that
point Senator Allison said:
organs friends claim that he will carry
many states that he will not carry, but In
order to be elected there are certain states
that he must carry, and in some of these
United States senators are to be elected.
There is one senator to be elected this win
ter in each Of the states of Kansas, Ne
braska. Wyoming, Colorado, Montana,
Utah and Idaho. Republicans hope to carry
all these states. and believe will carry
most Of them, but Mr. Bryan carried them
all in 1896. and must carry them this year
to give him even chance Of success and
the same votes that will give him these
electoral votes will also elect legislatures
democratic. s s--
1.-THE currency law of the last session
was passed by Is majority. Senator Kyle,
OF South Dakota, being absent and un.
paired, did not vote, though having con-
sistent free silver. record in the senate
Senators Lindsay. of Kentucky, and Caf-
fiery. Of Louisiana, go out of the senate on
the 4th of March, and both their places have
already been filled by senators who favor
free silver. So that by that process the
majority of IS would be reduced on similar
vote to A. and, standing off Utah against
Pennsylvania (both these states having q
seat vacanD, If the six senators from the
states have named except Utah shall be
democratic the republican majority in the
senate Will be reduced to two, and If Sem
ator Kyle should vote for free silver, as he
has always done heretofore. the senate
would be tie on that question, leaving the
vice president to cast the deciding vote,
which he is pledged by his record, by the
platform and by speech to cast in favor Of
free silver. The democratic senator from
Delaware voted for free silver, and II the
democrats shall carry that state, where
there is now one vacancy, 1t Is fair to sup
pose that the senator elected would be for
free silver also.
THUS it is that on the doctrine Of
chances, leaving out Of consideration all
the other states claimed by Mr.. Bryan
In which senator's are to be elected, and
assuming that taking all these together
there may be one or more changes, there
would be majority, including the vote
of the vice president. for the repeal Of this
law without any changes other than have
| mentioned. i, 4
THUS; without discussing the question
whether Mr.. Bryan could or could not,
through his secretary of the treasury,
force upon thecountry the silver standard.
1t is plain to me that II he is elected with
the power he will WELD In his party as pres
ident, there will be majority in the house
of representatives. and large majority,
for free silver. and with the force and pow
er that lies behind free silver majority In
the senate will be secured for the repeal Of
the law passed at the last session, and
that law repealed. without Affirmative Leg
islation for free silver, it Is possible. in my
belief for president hostile to our pres
ent standard of money, to force the silver
standard upon the people"