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THE GALVESTON DAILY NEWS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1896
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MORAL INTEGRITY BEFORE PAR
TV INTEGRITY.
The logic of events is steadily vindicating
the tenet, which The News has maintained
with unfaltering persistency for years, that
all good politics must go hand in hand with,
good morals. To direct the political activi-
ties of the people through parties organized
on immoral lines and wielded by immoral
methods is to provide inevitable shame and
calamitous miscarriage for their govern-
ment. It is amazing that The News slyuld
have so often been heard by amazed ears
when protesting against insincerity and
guile in political associations, and when in-
sisting that politicians who disagree with
each other and who detest each other
should not pretend to be harmonious and
friendly, but should unhesitatingly separ-
ate into distinct and opposing groups ac-
cording to their respective beliefs and aims.
It is amazing that>even well meaning citi-
zens should so long have clung to the hope,
in face of reiterated warnings of the press
and accumulated lessons of experience, that
something of substantial worth for the peo-
ple and of fair repute for the country could
come of deceitful and sordid deals through
cohesive appliances of mechanical harmony
between warring factions in either the
democratic or the republican party. The
progeny of such unnatural conjunctions,
obnoxious alike to elementary truisms of
common sense, common morality and com-
mon decency, is bound to be in Its hideous
deformity implacably true to its evil pa-
ternity. In current developments, fortu-
nately, there are signs that the long period
of political debauchery in which wholesome
considerations of moral integrity were sys-
tematically sacrificed to vicious considera-
tions of party integrity is drawing to its
close. There is even a contribution to these
signs to be seen in the threats of the free
silver democrats to bolt the ticket of the
cpming Chicago convention if it nominates
a gold standard candidate on a gold stand-
ard platform. It is particularly creditable
to the sincerity and candor of ex-Congress-
man W. J. Bryan of Nebraska, that for sev-
eral years past, while claiming to be thor-
oughly democratic in political faith, he has
unequivocally avowed his purpose to refuse
adhesion to the democratic party If It final-
ly and decisively declined to conform to the
demands of his free silver contention. "In
June, 1895," says Mr. Bryan, "I was dis-
cussing the silver question at Jackson,
Miss., when a gentleman in the audience
asked me if I would support a gold stand-
ard candidate on a gold standard platform
if the democratic convention should nomi-
nate such a candidate. I answered that
while I did not believe the democratic party
would take such action, I would refuse to
support the nominee in the event that it
did select a gold standard candidate on a
gold standard platform. It was this state-
ment to which Mr. Carlisle referred when
he, a few days later, called me a populist
and refused to debate the silver question
with me at Lexington, Ky. I have never
retracted what I said at Jackson and I do
not Intend to. I am now a private citizen
and my vote Is my own. Directed by my
conscience and by my best judgment, I
shall use that vote to defend my rights,
protect my family and advance the welfare
of society. No convention can rob me of
my convictions nor can any party organi-
zation drive me to conspire against the
prosperity and liberty of my country.
* * * Those who think the gold standard
a blessing and those who love their party
organization better than they do their
country, or who believe that the demo-
cratic party can do no wrong, may support
a gold standard candidate if they will, but
regarding the threatened destruction of sil-
ver as a crime against mankind I shall re-
fuse to be a criminal. * * * Men who
agree upon a principle can submit their
personal preferences to the arbitration of a
convention, but men who honestly differ
upon paramount public questions can not
be harmonized by a national convention.
Mr. Cleveland would not support a free sil-
ver candidate for the presidency anci he
should not do so if he really believes That
free coinage would ruin the country, be-
cause a man's duty to his country is higher
y to his party. Whenever we
ninating a sliver man we are
Hd lose the vote of the eastern
Why are the democrats of the
uth bound to support a gold
astern democrats do not feel
jund to support a biraetalllstr*
his sincerity and candor Mr.
e particular shows a strange
the
told that i
democrats
west and
bug, whec
themselves
But with
Bryan in
lack of either courage or consistency. Be-
lieving, as he vehemently affirms, that the
money question is paramount to all other
public questions, not excepting the tariff,
why should he dally with an organization
which has refused to subscribe to his be-
lief, and why does he declare his purpose
to attend the Chicago convention and go
into deliberation with men of the persua-
sion of Cleveland and Carlisle—a persuasion
diametrically and uncompromisingly op-
posed to his own—on the money question?
He admits the moral impossibility of any
arrangement through a national convention
of honest harmony between the respective
holders of these conflicting persuasions. It
would certainly seem that, as regards any
sort of mechanical or nominal fellowship
in politics with anti-free silver and gold
standard democrats of the east, ot the
south or of the west, Mr. Bryan and all his
school of free silver democrats should not
stand on the order of bolting, but should
manfully bolt at once.
MR. JOHN MORLEY.
The life of Mr. John Morley, who was re-
turned as a member of parliament for the
Montrose boroughs on Saturday last, is in-
terwoven with the literary and political his-
tory of Great Britain. Born at Blackburn.
Lancashire, in 1S38, he was educated at
Cheltenham college and at Lincoln college,
Oxford, where he graduated M. A. in 1873.
In the same year he was called to the bar
at Lincoln's Inn. Mr. Morley was editor
of the Fortnightly Review from 18Gt to
1882. He was also editor of the Pall Mall
Gazette from May, 1880, till August, 1883,
and of Macmillan's Magazine from 1883 to
1885. He unsuccessfully contested the burgh
of Blackburn in 1809 in the liberal interest,
and the city of Westminster in 1880. In
li*>3, at a by-election, he was returned as
an advanced liberal by the burgh of New-
castle-on-Tyne. On the formation of Mr.
Gladstone's home rule cabinet in 1886 Mr.
Morley was appointed chief secretary for
Ireland. As a minister who had never
been a coerclonist, Mr. Morley has always
held a position of exceptional strength in
parliament and in the country. In the lib-
eral cabinet of 1892 Mr. Morley again took
the Irish office, and, next to Mr. Glad-
stone, bore the burden of the protracted
debates on the second home rule bill. Mr.
Morley's principal literary works are "Ed-
mund Burke; an Historical Study;" "Crit-
ical Miscellanies," four volumes; "Vol-
taire," "Rousseau," "Diderot and the En-
cyclopaedists," "Life of Richard Cobden
and "Life of Walpole." Mr. Morley is an
honorary LL. D. of Glasgow university.
In a recent speech at Arbroath, Scotland,
during his canvass lor the parliamentary
representation of the Montrose boroughs,
Mr. Morley, referring to foreign affairs,
said:
They might look forward to the occupa-
tion of a great deal of parliamentary tune
by foreign questions, foreign questions if
unfamiliar in many details, were the most
shitty, most unsettled at this moment, and
most dangerous and most fraught with
pregnant consequences, not only lo us, but
to luture generations oi our children. Let
them do all they could to keep the pub-
lic spirit in reterence to these questions
strong and intrepid, but let them take care
that ihe public Judgment should be well
iniormed. and not only well informed but
wise, just and stable. He wished to talk
upon one or two of these foreign issues,
and he did so in the most serious spirit
that a man could address his fellow coun-
trymen in. Everywhere there had been
for the last six or eight weeks a drama of
events unrolling itself upon the eye of the
reader of the English and Scotch news-
papers. They were going through, and
were in the middle of a very distinct and
important crisis. It was a particularly un-
lucKy circumstance that three men in great
places in the world should have chosen
almost the same moment for making three
great mistakes. The first, he regretted to
say, was the prime minister or Britain.
The second of these men in high places
was the president of the United States.
The third was the emperor of Germany.
(Applause.) That was no arrogant dog-
matic statement, because he was perfectly
sure, that each of these illustrious person-
ages recognized to-uay how grave was the
mistake they made. (Applause.) In re-
gard to the Transvaal, the British govern-
ment did not by any means fail to do its
dutv, but did that duty promptly and
wisely. That crisis was now for the pres-
ent over, and he did not think that there
was any occasion for anybody to say any
more about the German emperor's mistake.
He did not think any right-minded man
could view without disgust the indecent,
undignified language which had been used
in some quarters oi society in London and
elsewhere against the German emperor.
He hoped that was now over. He was no
admirer of war lords, only let them take
care that in the reaction against war
lords abroad, they did not find springing
up amongst them in Downing street and
elsewhere, war lords in frock coats. He
did not like the war lord in jack boots,
but he liked the war lord in frock coat still
less, and when he read the speech of the
chancellor of the exchequer and other
speeches delivered during the last eight or
ten days, he began to fear lest this partic-
ular growth was going to appear on our
shore. The stronger and the more pow-
erful they were, the less need was there to
make a boast. (Loud applause.) The sym-
bol of British majesty was the British lion,
but he believed it was an undoubted fact
In natural history that the lion never
crowed. (Laughter and applause.) Deal-
ing with what he called the mistake of
the prime minister, Mr. Morley said the
president of the United States might have
known that to claim the right of the
United States to enforce any settlement
that they might choose in any dispute be-
tween Great Britain and any South Ameri-
can government was a demand which no
country with ordinary self-respect could
be expected to listen to. (Applause.) Lord
Salisbury's mistake—and Lord Salisbury
knew it now himself, and would probably
in private admit it—was in using language
which bore the interpretation that he was
attacking a certain Monroe doctrine, which
the United States were resolute in uphold-
ing. There was no dispute on the part of
Great Britain as to the Monroe doctrine.
Mr. Chamberlain, Mr. Balfour and Sir
Michael Hicks-Beach all said that they ac-
cepted that doctrine. And if he was speak-
ing—perhaps he had no right to do so—for
the other side of the house of commons, in
which he hoped soon to be, he would say
that the Americans might take that to the
Monroe doctrine there was no demur. They
could see that much depended on caution,
circumspection and no false step being
taken at this moment. On this depended
whether or not there would be desolating
strife between the two foremost industrial
communities of the industrial world. He
rejoiced to say that Great Britain had
shown during this crisis self-control, dig-
nity and anxiety that right should bo
done, and this in his judgment reflected
the greatest honor on the nation. This he
hoped our American cousins would recog-
nize. (Applause.) Why, they would not
meet a man to-day in any part of England
or Scotland, where the reference to the
possibility of war between us and our kins-
folk in the United States would not be re-
ceived as intolerable. (Hear, hear.) But
this brought them to the point—What was
to be done? It seemed impossible to ar-
range the dispute within any reasonable
time by Great Britain on one part and
Venezuela on the other, without external
arbitration. The attempt at mutual ar-
rangement had been going on by diplomat-
ists and others for the last twenty years,
and they were still no nearer a solution
of the question. There never was a case
since time began more fit for arbitration,
whether by some neutral European gov-
ernment—although he feared there were
not many neutral governments where Great
Britain was concerned—or by a commission
of arbitration of an equal number of com-
missioners from Great Britain and Vene-
zuela and the United States. They must
remember that the plea for arbitration was
not new, for in 1888 an American minister
of the United States had written to the
British minister in London on the subject.
That document, which he quoted, was, he
said, a good solid basis for arbitration and
he hoped that the golden bridge would
somehow be constructed between "Wash-
ington and London, for constructed it must
be. (Applause.) For, it must always be
remembered, this might only be the begln-
powerful trade rings fostered by the vicious
system of protection hateful to this great
free trade country. A good many years
ago when he was In the United States a
certain political economist had said—and
the doctrine was not rejected by his coun-
trymen—that a ten years' war between the
United States and Great Britain (it was i
hateful sentiment) would be the making of
the United States commerce. Then there
was the born jingo, a being who infested
all countries, who was overflowing with
the "old Adam" of violence and force, and
w ho would not be a bad fellow if he could
only recognize two things, first, that there
was a relation between cause and effect,
and second, that there was a difference
between right and wrong. (Laughter.) He
. id not, therefore, believe that the United
states would allow itself to be dragged
back to the barbarism of war. war with-
out an object, and which one man could
not explain to another. (Cheers.)
THE SEMI-CENTENNIAL CO* YEN
TIOX
Dallas has made a bold, brilliant effort
to inaugurate a movement which is ex-
pected to culminate in a striking and far-
reaching demonstration of the inherent
force and power of the commonwealth of
Texas. A determined effort by the live,
vigorous citizenship of Dallas in any direc-
tion is well worthy of public confidence, if
one is to judge by past achievements; but
in the proposed semi-centennial exposition,
which was the subject of deliberations by
yesterday's convention, It is apparent that
all Texas is ready and anxious to co-oper-
ate, and Dallas, sustained by the power
and wealth and intelligence of the state,
can not fail. The interest and patriotism
which predominated in yesterday's proceed-
ings are not to be underrated or misunder-
stood. For a long time it has been appar-
ent to the wide awake citizenship of the
commonwealth that a forward movement
is necessary to place Texas upon the high-
way to general and substantial prosperity.
It has been felt by many that development
in agriculture, commerce and Industry has
been hindered and hampered by a profitless
and stupefying dabbling in worn out or
preposterous schemes of political advent-
ure. Tho public mind has been drawn away
from matters of practical importance to
the immature and ill shaped theories and
vagaries of fledgling politicians and irre-
sponsible demagogues. This condition of
affairs could not last, if Texas is to keep
abreast with the civilization of latter years.
Men of brains and patriotism saw the sit-
uation and resolved to deal with it accord-
ing to the necessities of the times. Hence
yesterday's convention. The clcar cut, in-
telligent action of the delegates shows that
the movement Is an earnest one. All the
visitors thoroughly understood that it is
not a local venture, and that the connec-
tion of Dallas with it is of incidental rather
than of primary importance. Local preju-
dices were not in evidence, and all the
delegates seemed imbued with the broad,
patriotic view so eloquently expressed by
Hon. Frank Ball of Fort Worth at the
afternoon banquet. Now that a feasible
plan for the procuring of means to inaug-
urate the exposition has been adopted, let
the public spirited citizenship of Texas join
in the great work. Unity of purpose and
action means success. The vast interests
involved justify the effort and the expense.
In the work Incident to the inauguration of
the exposition The News will lend Its faith-
ful co-operation, which has never been lack-
ing in any undertaking of a public nature
having for its object the welfare of the
state and the prosperity and happiness of
tho people.
BATTLESHIP TEXAS.
Contributions to the fund for the pur-
chase of a suitable present to be given the
battleship Texas, named In honor of this
state, are coming in dally to the treasurer,
Mr. George Sealy of Galveston. Still, not
enough is at rhand and the committee de-
sires to know' by March 2 or 3 whether or
not they are going to be able to accomplish
the work for which they were appointed.
The following extract is taken from the
circular sent out by the committee:
The problem before is how to render this
subscription thoroughly representative of
our people, and give every county, city and
town an opportunity to be represented. We
have decided to address ourselves to one or
more citizens of each city and town, In the
hope that they will co-operate with us in
accomplishing this object, and take the lib-
erty of asking you to interest yourself and
your friends to raise the sum of $ and
remit same on or before March 1 to Mr.
George Sealy, Galveston, the treasurer of
this committee.
the
is being tl
y vessel «
great wo
greatest draught at
to slip half
irgument in
ley commlt-
the primary
tiles only to
ise of nomi-
at all easy
derived through
the nation and
y question. If,
ound authority
no
Galveston's public schools will continue
for the full term, closing the last of May.
This is made possible by the collection of
delinquent taxes.
As chairman of the slate democratic ex-
ecutive committee, Mr. Dudley takes up
the tight of one faction of the party and
proceeds to read the other faction out.
What a pity he was not Measured between
the eyes before he was elevated.
In an action for criminal libel brought by
William Brockman, president of the St.
Louis school board, against the city editor
of a newspaper, the special Judge called to
try the case dismissed It on the ground
that criticism of a public officer In a news-
paper was privileged, and that no action
would lie unless malice was shown.
At a meeting of the Washington Reform
club at Cleveland, 0., the speakers were
vigorously applauded when they made elo-
quent offers to lead companies of men to
hang to a lamp post any of the Cuyahoga
delegates who dared vote for the fifty-year
street railway franchise. The Cuyahoga
representative who stiffens his neck may
have it broken If he does not mind his eye.
"Nothing can be more painful to an
American citizen proud of his country
than the manner In which the attention of
the world abroad is called to the degener-
acy of our public men in high places by the
treatment of foreign affairs In the senate
of the United States," says Harper's
Weekly. It then takes up the wild utter-
ances of congressmen regarding the Ar-
menian question, audacious orders to the
powers as to the performance of their
duties under the treaty of Berlin, the de-
termination of the sen&te to take away
from the president the right to recognize
the Cuban insurgents as belligerents, and
other matters in which unscrupulous poli-
ticians have wasted time in efforts to
manufacture political capital for them-
selves. After exposing the windy frauds
fully, the Weekly concludes: "It is a fact
deeply humiliating to American pride that
the utterances on foreign affairs of our so-
called statesmen in representative places
are not taken seriously by the world abroad.
But where would be the end oI our per-
plexities if they were?"
If Dr. Nansen asserts that he has found
the pole, who shall be able to disprove him?
What this country needs Is a statesman-
ship that does not stumble over a garden
seed.
The gallant Mississlppians invented a
Whitney boom In order to jump on It with
their high heels.
Dr. John A. Wyeth of New York has been
for several years preparing a complete and
reliable history of General N. B. Forrest,
and will be pleased to correspond wllh any
person who has interesting Information on
the subject. Dr. Wyeth Is how verifying
Ills work by submitting same to old friends
and soldiers of General Forrest for correc-
tion, and before publication, will thus se-
cure reliable witnesses to every Incident.
The British ship Khyber, 1927 tons, draw-
ing 21 feet 3 inches, passed safely over
Galveston bar, The Khyber broke the
Hon. Bryan T. Barry ;
a dozen cogs In his lab
favor of the work of th
tee. He says it is In line
election law. As this la
elections called "for the
nutlng candidates." It t
to see how the committe
it authority to settle fc
the world the'vexed mc
however, the committer
to. institute this new method of settling
public questions, whence did It get tho
power to omit important issues oi state
politics and to make a selection especially
in the political interest of its own gang?
Where did it find authority to suspend the
registration law? Mr. Barry does not seem
to have read either the primary election
law or the proceedings of the Dudley com-
mittee.
At a general meeting of Yale university
resolutions were adopted favoring arbitra-
tion between the United States and Great
Britain, und the following petition was
sent to President Cleveland:
We, the democrats of the Young Men's
Christian association of Vale university,
an otaanization numbering over 1000 mem-
bers. believe war Is the worst method of
attempting to settle international disputes.
We have noted with pleasure that resolu-
tions favoring arbitration of differences
between tl* L'nited States and Great Brit-
ain have been passed by both houses of
congress and the house of commons. We
therefore desire to press the advisability
of properly concluding some wise method
of arbitration for the settlement of all dif-
ferences which may arise between the gov-
ernments of both countries and which can
not be adjusted by diplomatic agencies.
The Texas cattlemen mean business.
Dr. Jameson has arrived in London.
A large oat crop is being planted in Cal-
lahan county, and the general o.utlook Is
perhaps better than ever known in the
west.
According to statistics of United States
District Judge Ira C. Parker of Fort Smith,
the number of homicides in the United
States for a year past was not less than
10,500. There have been 48,902 homicides In
the past five years, and In the same period
there have been 727 legal executions and
1US' lynchlngs. Judge Parker holds that
increase of crime is "chiefly due to the
immunity extended to murder by the
courts, and especially to the obstruction of
justice in murder cases by the appellate
courts."
Referring to the third term question, ex-
Senator Ingalls has written a letter, in
which he says: "There Is no law, written
or unwritten, against a third presidential
term, and the people can be intrusted con-
fidently with the custody of this and all
other questions affecting the safety of
republican Institutions. An enlightened
patriotic publlct opinion is the final arbiter.
With free thought, free speech and a free
press, liberty is secure. Unquestionably
nothing but a great national emergency
would induce the people to consent to a
third term, and the tendency of thought is
toward a single term, with an extension,
perhaps, of the period of service."
Hon. Bryan T. Barry declares that the
command of the bosses Is "entirely con-
sistent with past practices of the party,"
and to prove it he adds, "for it is well
known that many counties in the state
have for years held such elections instead
of cpnventions." It is to be remembered
that such counties held their primaries
without being ordered to do so; that no
such order has ever been given in this
state before, and as he was once chairman
of the democratic static executive commit-
tee, Mr. Barry, ought to know that it is
not "entirely consistent with the practices
of the party." The people have a right to
hold primary elections or not to hold them
In the good old way, when and where they
please.
One reads between Commissioner Rea-
gan's lines that he sees the danger of this
Dudley mess.
The senate on Saturday last passed sixty-
seven private pension bills In a trifle over
two hours.
It is given out that the Hon. Adlai Ste-
venson prefers private life to the presi-
dency, but his silence does not indicate it.
Hon. Chauncey M. Depew declares that
the establishment of an International court
of arbitration "would help to bring on that
era of universal peace for which the
churches have been praying for 2000 years
past."
All the Manderson boom needs Is Infla-
tion.
Fltzslmmons seems to have been too
quick for the kinetoscope.
Senator Blackburn's supporters have in
them a zeal that should be devoted to a
better cause.
Party politics is now coming high In
Kentucky.
Poet Laureate Austin declares it. a glori-
ous thing to die for England, but he pre-
fers to leave glory of this kind to somebody
else while he writes verses.
Commissioner Reagan holds that if the
populists will join in his set can pull off
the offices once more.
The Pittsburg Dispatch holds that "abus-
ing Secretary Morton is probably the least
harmful amusement congress could indulge
in, but it reflects no credit upon congress."
The Houston Post has the following edi-
torial notice of Chairman Dudley's latest
deliverance:
The first suggestion as to Mr. Dudley's
address;, printed elsewhere, is that in large
part, it is nothing but self-assertion, and
should not have been put forth In official
form. For those who do not wish to read
the whole of it, the following Is outlined
and can be tilled In by those wno have been
made tired long ago by such stuff—once
hot, but now very, very cold: "Damnable
conspiracy—chains riveted—vampires—on
necks of the people—no heart to pity—In-
satiable greed—damnable act—stealth and
fraud—prostrate at the feel—ruined lor-
nm. s— crushed hopes—squalid hunger-
cormorants and blood-suckers—wars, pes-
tilence and t amine—darkest and most
damnable—band of conspirators—assassins
—plots—wantonly—playing with fire—per-
ish in the llames—deserters—bolters—polit-
ical corpses—tyrants—oppressors—chains of
bondage—little gang—Belshaxzar's feast-
handwriting on the wall—great slosher—
superannuated old Jerusalem high kickers
—Charles the First—Illustrious Grover—hell
on the people—can't bulldoze me."
SNAP SHOTS.
Life is a love story.
A bad reputation is rarely lost.
The Roentgen rays will not bring out the
mischief a man has In him.
The only way to make friends with some
people is to listen to them.
Sunshine is excellent capital in any line
of business.
When a scamp can not get around his
record in any other way he claims to have
repented.
Some people count the cost and then walk
off and leave somebody else to pay It.
Do not wear an air of triumph unless it
is becoming.
Some people are so light that nothing
but the center of gravity can hold them
down.
The government becomes dangerous as
soon a3 it assumes authority to go into
private business.
HAS STOOD BY SILVER
RECORD OF THE DEMOCRATIC PAR-
TY REVIEWED BV HON. JOHN
II. REAGAN.
FRIEND OF WHITE METAL.
Hon* Democrat* In Cimgreu Have
W orked For niitl Voted Ou the
Financial lNnues.
Uvea on
Austin. Tex., Feb. 24.—To the Public: The
gold standard democrats In Texas claim
that they ure the democratic party, and
generally class the bimetallic democrats,
who demand that gold and silver shall be
the standard money of the country, with
equal privilege of coinage at the mints and
eqqal legal tender quality, as populists.
The populists claim that theirs is the
only party which favors the free and un-
limited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16
of silver to 1 of gold, and that the demo-
crats borrowed this principle from their
party.
These two positions have been so often
asserted as to possibly have caused some
persons to accept them as true, as Is in-
dicated by an editorial In the Statesman
of the 23d Instant, a daily' paper pub-
lished at the state capital. In which, speak-
ing of my claim that the democratic party
had advocated the policy of the free and
unlimited coinage of silver for twenty
years, it says: "The old Judge is getting
to be quite amusing in his old age; the
democratic party advocating tVce coinage
for twenty years, forsooth. Who ever
heard of it until the populists sprung it on
the country a few years hence? Did the
democratic party advocate free silver when
Mr. Cleveland was elected in 1884? Not
that anybody ever heard of."
Now, whether It is the uged judge or the
youthful editor of the Statesman which "is
getting to be quite amusing" will be seen
irom the following statement from the au-
thentic records as to what the democratic
party has done on this question. And this
record is the answer from the record to
the claims of both the gold men and the
populists on this question.
The following is taken from the Con-
gressional Record and from the national
democratic platforms by the Hon. F. M.
Cockrell, a senator from Missouri, In a
speech made by him in the senate of the
United States on June 29, 1895:
"L6t us n6w briefly review the record
made by the democratic party through its
representatives in congress to restore the
true democratic bimetallic system. This
record, concisely stated, shows that In the
Forty-fourth congress, the iirst one with a
democratic majority in the house. 110 dem-
ocrats Voted lor the free and unlimited
coinage of silver and 16 against it; and
again. 123 democrats voted tor and passed
a free coinage bill and only 17 against It.
"in the Forty-lifth congress Bland's free
coinage bill was passed, y7 democrats, in-
cluding Hon. John (J. Carlisle, voting yea,
to only lu voting nay. In the republican
senate, the free coinage clause was stricken
out and a substitute agreed to for pur-
chasing not less than $2,000,000 nor more
than $4,000,000 of silver per month, and as
so amended was passed and vetoed by a
republican president and then passed by
congress over his veto by 118 democrats,
including Mr. Carlisle for, to 22 democrats
against it in the house, and by 25 demo-
crats for to y ugainst it in the senate, and
became the law of February 28, 1878. In
the came congress the concurrent resolu-
tion presented by Senator Matthews, after-
wards justice of the supreme court, was
passed in the senate by 23 democrats for
to 7 against it, and in the house by 110
democrats, including Mr. Carlisle for, to
23 against it. This resolution declared that
all L'nited States bonds Issued under the
refunding and redemption acts of July 14,
1870, and January 14, 1875, respectively,
could be paid at the option of the gov-
ernment in standard silver dollars of 412^
grains, without violation of public faith or
in derogation of the rights of public cred-
itors.'
"In the Forty-sixth congress, in the
house 100 democrats, including Mr. Car-
lisle, voted for free and unlimited coinage
to only y against It, and 107 democrats, In-
cluding Mr. Carlisle, voted ror to only 4
against an amendment, directing and re-
quiring the secretary of the treasury to
put out standard silver coin, the same as
gold coin, in payment of all coin obliga-
tions of the government.
"In the Forty-seventh congress the exec-
utive and congress were republican, and In
the Forty-eighth congress the executive
and the senate were republican, and no ef-
fort was made to restore bimetallism.
"In the Forty-ninth congress % demo-
crats voted for to 70 democrats against free
coinage.
"in the Fiftieth congress the tariff mo-
nopolized attention. ■ During these two con-
gresses it was well known that the presi-
dent was strongly opposed to the free and
unlimited coinage of the silver dollar,
which had decided influence with some.
In the Fifty-llrst congress 101 democrats
in the house voted for to only 12 democrats
against Bland's motion to recommit the
Windom silver purchasing bill with in-
structions to report a bill for free and un-
limited coinage of the silver dollar, and in
the senate i'lumb's free and unlimited
coinage substitute was passed by 27 demo-
crats, including Mr. Carlisle for, to 3 demo-
crats against It, and in the hiAise 113 dem-
ocrats voted for this free coinage substi-
tute to 22 against it. Every -democrat in
the house and senate voted against the con-
ference committee report, which became
the Sherman law of July 14, 18D0.
"in the senate in January, 1891, 24 demo-
crats voted for free coinage to one against
it.
"In the Fifty-second congress, in the sen-
ate, 20 democrats voted for to y democrats
against free coinage, and in the house, to
consider the senate free coinage bill, 118
democrats voted yea to 04 nays.
"In tho Fifty-third congress in the house
101 democrats voted for to 116 democrats
against a free coinage amendment to the
bill for the unconditional repeal of the
Sherman law, and in the senate 18 demo-
crat xor to 18 democrats against a free
coinage amendment.
"in the house in March, 1894, Bland's bill,
requiring the immediate coinage into stand-
ard dollars of the prolit or seigniorage In
the bullion purchased under the Sherman
law of July 14, 1800, amounting to $55,156,680,
and then the coinage of the remainder of
such bullion Into such dollars, to be used
in redeeming and canceling the treasury
notes of July 14, 1890, Issued in the pur-
chase of the bullion, then outstanding to
the amount of $102,951,280, was passed by 136
democratic yeas to 50 democratic nays, and
in the senate by 30 democratic yeas to 10
democratic nays.
"The bill was vetoed by tho president,
and in the house 118 democrats voted for
to 55 against, passing the bill over the veto,
and the veto prevailed, although over two-
thirds of the democrats voting in the house
voted to pass it over the veto, and three-
fourths of the democrats in the senate vot-
ed yea in passing the bill.
"This summary of the record of the
democratic representatives In congress
from 1875 to this time shows clearly that
they have used their best efforts to restore
bimetallism, and have, by decisive major-
ities, voted for the free and unlimited coin-
age of the standard dollar upon equal
terms with gold, just as existed prior to
1873, every time it was presented in all
these congresses, except only in the last.
Fifty-third congress, when it was proposed
as an amendment to the bill for repeal of
the Sherman law.
During all these congresses every presi-
dent with a veto power, equal to two-
thirds of the votes in congress, and every
secretary of the treasury have strongly
and openly opposed the restoration of the
silver dollar to the place It had In our
coinage laws prior to 1873.'"
At the present session of congress on the
vote of the senate, on the passage of the
free coinage substitute for the bond bill
of the house, the vote was as follows: For
the substitute 22 democrats, against it 13
democrats; for the substitute 14 republi-
cans, against 22 republicans: for the sub-
stitute 6 populists. This substitute pro-
vided for the free and unlimited coinage of
silver at the ratio of 16 of silver to 1 of
gold: that, silver should be a legal tender
for all debts, public and private, and should
be paid out of the treasury like gold to
meet the obligations of the government.
So here again we have the democrats vot-
ing for silver and the republicans against
it. On the above vote twenty states voted
for the silver bill, seventeen states voted
SHAFT TURNED ASIDE
HON. BtCK WALTON REPLIES TO
THE OPEN LETTER OF HON.
JOHN H. REAGAN.
trary by
record pi
pany wit
showing
party."
On every >
representati
twenty-one
third
•es the gold democrats In eom-
the republican party instead of
hem to be "the democratic I
vote In the senate and house of
from 1875 to the present, J
rs ago. except in the Fifty
the majority of the demo-
THE SIDE OF THE POPULISTS
rats voted for the-free and unlimited coin-
age of silver. That vote was controlled by
the desire to secure the unconditional re-
peal of the Sherman act. against the pass-
age of which every democrat in the sen-
ate and house had voted, and was cast
under the promise, made in both houses of
congress, as is shown by the Congressional
Record, that if the silver men should con-
sent to the repeal it should be followed by
satisfactory legislation on the silver ques-
tion. On this account it watf not a test
vote for and against the coinage of silver.
Even with that assurance 101 democrats re-
fused to vote against the unconditional re-
peal. insisting that the repeal should be
accompanied by legislation restoring silver
to free and unlimited coinuge. So that
was not a test vote on the silver question.
Senator Cockrell adds to the foregoing
extract the following- "Having briefly
shown the record of our party in congress
since 1875. let us now examine the record
or our party In its national platforms.
"Our party has held national conventions
every four years, beginning in 1832. and
adopted platforms in each convention be-
ginning in 1840.
"No reference was made to the coinage
of gold and silver in either of the ten plat-
forms— 1840-1870 inclusive. Why this omis-
sion? Simply because bimetallism, the
coinage ot both gold and silver ill to money
with full and equal legal tender, upon
equal terms, was conceded to be our con-
stitutional democratic system.
"The efforts made by democrats in con-
gress from 1875 to 1880 to restore the silver
dollar to its old place in our coinage laws,
had brought the question into discussion.
In our platform of is80 we declared for
honest money, consisting of gold and silver
and paper convertible into coin on de-
mand.
In our platform of 1884 we declared 'we
believe in honest money, the gold and sli-
ver coinage of the constitution and a circu-
lating medium convertible into such money
without loss.'
"In our platform of 1888 we declared 'The
democratic party of the l'nited States in
national convention assembled, renews the
pledge of its fidelity to democratic faith
and realtlrms the platform adopted by its
representatives at tho convention of 1S84,'
thus reaftirmlng 'we believe in honest
money, the gold and silver coinage of the
constitution.'
"In our platform of W2 we declared 'We
hold to the use of both gold and silver as
the standard money of the country, and
to the coinage of both gold and silver with-
out discrimination against either metal or
charge for mintage; but the dollar unit of
coinage of both metals must be of equal
intrinsic and exchangeable \alue, or be ad-
justed through international agreement, or
by such safeguards of legislation as shall
insure the maintenance of the parity of the
two metals and the equal power of every
dollar at all times in the markets and in
payment of debts, and we demand that all
paper currency shall be kept at par with
and redeemable in such coin.'
"The language of our platforms of 1880-
1884 and 1888 is plain and not susceptible of
misconstruction. They declared unequivo-
cally for true bimetallism, the gold and sil-
ver coinage of the constitution, not of the
one, nor of the other, but of both gold and
silver."
This shows the position of the democrat-
ic party on this question, as set forth by
its national conventions down to 1892, the
platform of that year declaring that "We
hold to the use of both gold und silver as
the standard money of the country, and to
the coinage of both gold and silver without
discrimination against either metal or
charge for mintage." And then it goes on
to throw a tub to the gold standard whalo
by the addition of other expressions which
give rise to a double construction of its
declaration, and has caused useless con-
fusion, and division in the party.
The foregoing is the record of the demo-
cratic party in this silver question. In the
face of this record how can the enemies of
the free and unlimited coinage of silver
claim to be the democratic party? And
how can the populist party claim that the
democratic party borrowed its position on
this question from the populists? And how
can we expect one so youthful as the ed-
itor of the Statesman to be correctly in-
formed on great public questions like this?
And in the face of this record, what be-
comes of the Statesman's inquiry and as-
sertion as follows:
"Did the democratic party advocate free
silver when Mr. Cleveland was elected in
1884? Not that anybody ever heard of."
From 1875 to 1884, the year of Mr. Cleve-
land's election, nine years. In every
vote in either house of congress, the
democrats by large majorities had voted
for the restoration of sliver to the place
It occupied before the passage of the act of
1873 by a republican congress demonetiz-
ing silver. Beside which the national dem-
ocratic platform of P*84, on which Mr.
Cleveland was elected, declared as follows:
"We believe in honest money, the gold
and silver coinage of the constitution, and
a circulating medium convertible Into such
money without loss."
As Mr. Cleveland, up to that time, had
never given expression to any opinions on
that questfon, democrats supposed his
views to be in harmony with those of the
party which nominated him, and with the
platform <on which he was elected. They
did not know that he accepted the republi-
can policy on that question until after his
first election as president.
JOHN H. REAGAN.
In Honor of the Late Mr. Cr«in.
Brownsville, Tex., Feb. 21.—Yesterday
was devoted by the people of Brownsville
to the memory of the late Hon. Wm.
Henry Craln. A solemn high mass for the
repose of his soul was celebrated at the
Catholic church In the morning, the dis-
trict court and city schools being suspended
In honor of the event. A massive cata-
falque was erected in front of the chancel
railing and profusely covered with hand-
some floral designs. Rev. Father L. Mau-
rel celebrated the mass, assisted by Rev.
Father Barrett as deacon and Rev. Father
Francisco as subdeacon. The church was
crowded with people of all denominations
and ail classes.
In the afternoon the district court held
a special session for the purpose of adopt-
ing resolutions expressing the sentiment of
the bar of the Twentieth Judicial district at
the death of Mr. Craln. After reading the
resolutions, which had been drafted by a
committee appointed for the purpose on
the first intelligence of Mr. Crain's death,
eulogistic addresses upon the distinguished
dead were delivered by Rev. Father P. F.
Parisot, Hon. J. B. Wells. Hon. J. 1. Klel-
ber and Judge J. C. Russell. All of the
speakers paid high tribute to the worth
and genius of the dead man. praising him
as a statesman, a citizen, a friend and a
Christian gentleman. Suitable resolutions
were adopted ami ordered spread upon the
minutes of the court.
Love for Crnin.
Washington Post.
"I never saw such manifestations of sor-
row. affection and honor for the departed
as were exhibited toward the late William
H. Craln by the people of Texas," said
Mr. J. J. Corrldon of this city, who accom-
panied the remains to their final resting
place in the Lone Star state. Long before
we got to Cuero on the train bearing his
body we witnessed evidences of this re-
markable finding by the crowds that gath-
ered at the stations en route, attesting by
their presence the love they bore their dead
representative. On the day of his inter-
ment all business was suspended and thou-
sands followed the funeral procession to
the grave, among them hundreds of little
children, who seemed to feel as though
they had lost a friend."
Teuehern' Institute.
Henderson, Rusk Co., Tex., Feb. 24.—The
Rusk county teachers' institute met at
Henderson February 21. An attractive pro-
gramme was prepared for the occasion. The
attendance was very good, more than forty
teachers being present. The enthusiasm
manifested by all who participated in the
exercises showed that the Institute is com-
posed of a body of wide-awake teachers,
and the subjects discussed were of an or-
der calculated to bring out the teacher in
his proper sphere.
Di»i«gre«s With the Judge and Con-
tend* That Free Silver Democrats
Sliould Join the PopullMts.
Austin, Tex., Feb. 24.—Colonel W. M.
Walton answers Judge Reagan as follows:
Austin, Tex., Feb. 25.—Hon. John H. Rea-
gan, Austin, Tex.—My Dear Sir: It is with
great respect for you personally and ad-
miration for your stern honesty and proved
patriotism that I note your appeal to the
populists to join with the sliver democrats
In their struggle on the inside of what is
called the democratic party to aid them In
thwarting that party from accomplishing
its own ruin and bringing destruction to
the interests of the great common people
of this country, which interests constitute
the foundation of all good government, and,
Indeed, is the corner stone of the temple of
liberty itself.
This 1 construe to be the heart of your
appeal, and to be the very object you seek
to attain. If this be not so theu the appeal
is not only objectless but meaningless.
You never write without a definite object,
nor In my opinion without an honest und
an intended worthy purpose.
That you believe that if the present ten-
dencies of what is known as the demo-
cratic i arty, as manifested by the revela-
tions of the federal administration, shall
accomplish its objective points, via., a sin-
gle gold standard in money, the funding of
all outstanding government paper money,
the issuance of an equal amount of inter-
est bearing gold bonds (thereby adding to
the national banks to that extent), the
placing of the money system of the gov-
ernment exclusively in the hands of and
under the control of that great but dan-
gerous money system, and letting the tar-
lif question rest where it Is, that the form
of our government will be tnereby changed
and our people no longer be a free people,
I do not doubt.
My belief that such would be the inevita-
ble result caused me to break away from a
party to which 1 had belonged all my life,
and to which my fathers before me be-
longed for generations. 1 did not move
rasiiiy nor without the maturest considera-
tion. There was no defeated ambition, no
heart burnings, no wish for place, position
or power, but a simple desire to ulign iny-
selt with organized men who had in view a
concerted eitort to uphold and foster the
best Interest^ of the country, and to pro-
mote the welfare of the people under tho
principles of the constitution and a fair
and impartial administration of all tho
laws according to their letter and spirit.
This party of men is yet young and con-
stituted of the common people, who uprose
and broke trom their necks the party col-
lar and the party chains and shackles by
which they were led and driven into men-
tal and heart slavery by the magnetism ot;
a name which had lost the charm and vir-
tue It used to represent. 1 repeat, it is yet
a young party, constituted of honest, unob-
trusive, but determined, patriotic men, who
are little experienced in framing platiorms
that have In them the essence of traud and
deception, placed there to mislead the peo-
ple. Their titterings may be crude, ' un-
licked into shape and smoothness," but
they are the utterances of honest men who
love their country ana have felt the goad
of oppression, wrong and Injustice flowing
from class legislation and a partial admin-
istration of the laws, whereby capital has
been fostered and labor in all its depart-
ments discrimmated against. When our
lathers declared for liberty they did not
wait for experienced leaders, but rose in
the might and strength of right. Leaders
came in the lime that Providence willed —
and leaders will rise up and lead the hosts
of this people to victory and enable them
to save their constitution and liberty in
God's own good time. We fear not, but
move forward, seeing victory from afar,
though defeats, persecutions and contempt
meet and assault us as we march. We may
have to rest in the straws made bloody by
the bare feet of soldiers—as at Valley
Forge—but Yorktown is ahead of us.
Your invitation is kindly tendered and
honestly meant, but the populist who is
honest and earnest may not accept; it is
impossible. To do so would be to volun-
tarily reweld on his neck the cast off col-
lar and again shackle and enchain him-
self, and thus bound, hand himself over
impotent and a slave to the enemies of his
country.
1 am afraid, my dear sir, that you aro
in a deep political sleep and have given
expression to a delightful dream, that your
honest heart and Roman nature would
tain have a true portraiture of real, pres-
ent, living facts, but, alas, it not so, and is
not to be so.
You say: "The democratc party, which
represents, among other things, a strict
construction of the federal constitution;
the preservation of the rigiits of the
slate, and the inviolability of the liberty
of the citizen; economy in public expendi-
tures; a tariff for revenue only, with equal
rights to all, exclusive privileges to none;
it represents opposition to monopolies; legal
restriction upon the powers of corporate
wealth, and ravors gold and silver as tho
money of the constitution, aud as the
standard and redeeming money of this
country, with equal privileges in the mints
and with equal tender qualities, supple-
mented by paper convertible into these
metals."
Is that true, Judge Reagan, of the demo-
cratic party, expressed m its platform of
to-day, or proved by one word, sign, act
or administrative measure of the present
democratic administration in power, or of
it, while it has been in power, when it had
full possession of every political depart-
ment of the government? Is not the very
contrary true, and is not the administra-
tion of the party drifting dally, almost
hourly, further and lurther from everyone
of the cardinal principles you lay down as
the tenets of the party, and Is It not also
true that the determination of those in
power and those who uphold those who aro
in power becomes lntenser and intenser
unceasingly, to consummate the revolution
of tne party and tear it away from all Its
constitutional landmarks and change it
from being the friend of the people into
thrtr piost deadly and implacable enemy?
is it not true that you and all those who
think as you think and who act in har-
mony with you are to-day denounced and
anathematized by the barricaded and in-
trenched gold wing of the party, as trai-
tors? Is it not true that you have lost
caste, standing and the respect of thoso
who control the national democratic party?
Are you not politically ostracized by these
political potentates, as much so as Is tho
"wildest-eyed" populist that ever shouted
at a populist camp meeting? You advo-
cate in good faith with the approval of
your great mind the doctrines quoted from
your letter, and for so doing you leave the
political bar-sinister branded on you, and
meet the sweeping condemnation of those
who are not worthy to buckle your polit-
ical shoes.
Sir, for years and years you have been
the great commoner of the people of Tex-
as. 'I hey have believed in you as few men
ever had the honor of being believed In,
by an honest, intelligent and patriotic peo-
ple. They love, they trust and largely con-
iide In you yet. and 1 warn you not to mis-
lead them. What are you proposing to do?
You are leading the silver democrats and
proffer to widen the leadership, and also
lead the populist hosts Into a light insldo
the democratic party to contest with tho
armies of the administration the question
of silver; nothing else. You yield to tho
funding of all the government paper
money, the Issuance of gold bonds, the llx-
lng oil the people of the national bank sys-
tem lor generations and other political
heresies strange to the people and by them
hated and despised. But, concede that you
and your co-workers and co-thinkers deem
the silver question the question of all
questions, and address youreslves with all
your force singly to that (and so thinking
it Is not out of reason you should do so),
and you go Into the convention of the na-
tional democracy and over your utmost ef-
forts, with right, reason, justice and hon-
esty behind you and supporting you, you
are overwhelmed and a idatform is adopt-
ed affirming that the gold standard Is the
principle of the party on the money ques-
tion, and that sliver shall remain as It is,
token money—sheared of all power aa
money of redemption or final power of pay^
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