People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1894 — Some Silver Planks. [ARTICLE]

Some Silver Planks.

The gingerly manner in which the silver question is being handled by the conventions of both parties suggests that the sagacious politician really believes that he can fool all of the people all the time. Except in the silver-pro-ducing states neither democrats nor republicans have made honest declaration either for or against true bimetallism. The “if” and the “but” are the essential features of these Delphic utterances. There seems to be not enough courage in the whole tribe of platform makers to make fair and frank pronouncement of any position on the currency question—either the position of the advocate of the single gold standard or that of the bimetallists. —Chicago Times.