Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1896 — They Are Hedging. [ARTICLE]

They Are Hedging.

Senator ‘Billee’ E. 6handler, of N.w Hampshire, has written a letter to the National Keview, an English publication, in which he takes the ground that the silver question has not been settled, and that it will not be until silver is remonetized. AmoDgother ibinge he says: “That the United States is opposed to the single gold standard, and is in favor of retracing in due course and with careful regard to the national honor the steps taken in the demonetization of silver, until both geld and silver shall be admitted to free coinage at the ratio of 15£ to 1, and made the standard money of the world, and the measure of the values of the world—is a proposit ion which wo’d receive the suffrages of four fifths of our voters, if this proposition alone could be fairly presented to them, even without further debate. “To suoh convictions entertained by a vast majority of American voters committed to bimetallism, the friends of such a monetary system may confidently appeal.The question is not one of lour years, nor yet of a decade. It may take as long to remonetize silver as it has taken to realize the paralys zing influence of demonetization. But the fact that 6 out of 13,000,000 of American voter* have given their ballots for the wild projoct of immediate free silvei coinage bv the United States alone shows that** the question is one of which must be compromised anc adjusted in eome way. I’he advocates of gold monometalism are crying out that the silver question is dead. They hope, but do not really believe that this is true. Never was it more important for bimetallists to exert themselves. Mr. McKinley is pledged by his own words to cooperation with us." » Palmer and Buckner did not carry a county in the United States Mr; Bayan had thirty-six more, electoral votes than Mr. Harri* son.