The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-07-16
SILVER IS DEAD. DEAD!
Chiefs Satisfied With Work
of Democratic Convention.
THURMANS VIEW GIVEN
Says Silver Mems Prophesy
Has Come True.

Columbus. o.. July l5.-The Ohio Dem
ocracy will open its campaign early this
year, and the battle viii be fought with
unusual vigor. The followers OF Grover
Cleveland and the friends Of X. J. Bryan
all profess to be pleased with the result
of the state convention. and prophesiez of
victory at the polls are numerous. The
state central committee viii meet at the
Great Southern hotel in this city on Sat
urday. July %. 10 organize and select
an executive committee. Who win be
| chosen is entirely unknown, and there
are prospects Of another fight
The free silver howlers Of this city all
seem to be taking their defeat and the re-
pudiation Of Colonel Bryan in good part.
They claim to be well satisfied with the
platform and the candidates. and there
seems to be little chance that there viii
be many desertion to Populism In Frank
lin county.
Hon. Allen ". Thurman, who has talk
ed free silver at the top Of his voice for
five years or more. today answered a
question as to the reasons for the conven-
tons refusal to endorse the Kansas City
platform as follows:
principally on account Of the silver
plank in it The great production of gold
that has and is still taking place IN the
world has eliminated the collage as q
political issue. Not only has it done this,
but it has shown that the silver men Were
right, because all they ever cOntended
for was an increase IN the quantity Of
the basic money, for without It there
could be no prosperity.
I'VE did not believe that this could
come from the coinage of gold alone, but
time in this regard has proven that we
were mistaken, for the production Of gold
alone If it keeps on, win b double that
of both gold and silver at any previous
time in the history of the world.
"A continually approaching currency al
ways has and always viii bring tndustr1-
al paralysis and vice versa. This Is
proven by the prosperity we now see.
In other words, our gold money is not
only cheaper money than it was four or
five years ago, but it is becoming cheaper
ever day.
Under such conditions there was no
sense in putting silver at Is to l, or any
other ratio into the Kansas Ciey platform.
It was a milestone about our necks and
we didn't propose to have it there again.
''NIr. Bryan, notwithstanding he be-
lieved In II, would not take the Kansas
city platform without the silver plank
we would not take it with it. If he could
refuse to endorse It without this one
plank. why couldn't we do the same
thing?
There was a place here for the plat
form, and there would have been no OBJ
lection to it. II we could have reafirmed
It without the silver plank, but this could
not be done.
The Ohio Democrats did not repudiate
Mr.. Bryan or the national platform. We
built a platform to suit the state cam
paign and conditions"
Plain Horace Chapman, Of Jackson,
once a candidate for the governorship,
takes the same position. He said today;
1--WE did not repudiate Bryan or the ma
tional platform. We made q platform OF
live issues. The silver plank had no place
in the platform and everyone recognized
this point Mr.. Bryan is not an issue this
year 1 say this, and no man in Ohio is q
stronger silver man than I. The ratio
question ought not to have been put in
the platform last year"
Even Mayor Hinkle, who has been con-
sidered as a rather defective mouthpiecs
for John R. Lentz. saws he is well pleased.
He SEXES the opportunity to draw at
tention to himself by announcing that it
was he who persuaded Mr.. Zimmerman TO
withdraw in favor of Colonel Knbourne.
AS for Lentz himself, he is stretched out
in his political coffin. and no one has had
the heart to disturb him.