Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 198, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1913 — Open Revolt Against Currency Program of Administration. [ARTICLE]

Open Revolt Against Currency Program of Administration.

• Democrats have always... had trouble with currency legislation and since their cure-all policy of free and unlimited coinage of silver iji 1896 the party has been unable to unite on a program. President Wilson sent a message to congress severel weeks ago setting forth that currency legislation was necessary as pn adjunct to the tariff measure which has occupied the attention of the special session for more than four months. He suggested that a measure embodying his Ideas and certain to be just the thing for the nation’s welfare had already been formulated. He urged congress to stay on the job during the hot weather and keep right at the work of "rescuing the country.” They have stayed and that is about all that has occurred 1 except that now it is admitted that many of the prominent democrats have found that the currency measure that had Mr. Wilson’s endorse ment and which probably had the approval of that marvelous currency expert, the secretary of state, will not stand for It. The currency craft Is going to pieces and if a measure is to be agreed upon it will have to be a vastly different one from that introduced at the earnest demand of the president. The tariff measure still hangs Are. Democrats seem afraid to pass it It is the "iniquitous” Payne-Aldrich tariff bill, but democrats in special session have spent more than four months In an effort to revise It or substitute another measure for it. In the beginning they proposed to have It completed and be adjourned by the first of June. And congress Is s|ill “staying” and also staying still so far as doing anything is concerned.