People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1895 — Slim MEN ANGRY. [ARTICLE]

Slim MEN ANGRY.

A THREATENED BIG SPLIT IN THEIR RANKS. Presidential Boom Started for Gen* Sibley Finds No Echo in California —Leaders There Enter a Formal Protest. San Francisco, May 15.—1 tis greatly feared by the leaders of the silver party here that instead of the great results for free coinage aimed at, the visit to California of Gen. A. J. Warner, of Ohio, head of the American bimetallic party, and Congressman Joseph C. Sibley, of Pennsylvania, named by that organization for President in 1896, has apparently been productive of opposite effect. The effect is the flat secession of the state silver league from Gen. Warner’s national organization. The trouble was caused by the attempt of Gen. Warner and several congressmen enthusiastic for the remonetization of silver to make Sibley the presidential candidate of the white-metal party in the next campaign. The expressions of antagonism toward Gen. Warner’s booming of Mr. Sibley were so many and loud that a meeting of the executive committee was called at Los Angeles last Saturday afternoon. The entire matter was submitted to a subcommittee of five, whose report characterizes the members of the Sibley caucus as “persons claiming the right to dictate the party nomination for President of the United States” and "seeking a division of the bimetallic party by a wrongful use of party machinery to force indorsement of the said candidate, regardless of the wishes of others in the party as to what the issues should be when appealing from the money power to the intelligence of the American people.” The report plainly Insinuates that the Warner-Sibley plan of advocating silver is dishonest, and says Mr. Sibley's adherents are “evading a vital issue.” The committee recommended the adoption of some plainly-worded resolutions condemning Gen. Warner and Mr. Sibley, appealing to sister states to organize like the California league and to protest against the caucus method, and caling for a national convention of state leagues to meet at St. Louis March 16, 1896, to nominate candidates for President and Vice-President. The report charges Gen. Warner, as chairman of the “self-styled national executive committee," with “establishing rival organizations in this and other states to force the favorite of the condemned caucus upon the American people." It is alleged that the California organization proposes to move henceforth independently of Gen. Warner and the national party, and it will do its utmost to brink about a national convention of its own in St. Louis next March, which it hopes will adopt a platform and nominate candidates upon the lines it lays down. The State Silver League also finds fault with Gen. Warner for limiting his efforts to an attempt to secure the unlimited coinage of silver at a ratio of 16 to 1. The league contains a large number of Populists, and they do not think any financial platform would be complete unless it included a provision for an issue of greenbacks and an explicit declaration against the national banking system and the issuance of any more government bonds.