People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 July 1895 — A LIE NAILFD. [ARTICLE]

A LIE NAILFD.

Secretary Carlisle Convict* lllniHelf of Lying. CARLISLE IN 1890. CARLISLE IN 1895. “Hon. W. M. “As long as there Smith, Mayfield, appeared to be reaKy.—Dear Sir: sonable ground Your favor of the for the hope that 13th just received, silver could be Every Democrat in raised to a parity the senate voted of value with gold against the silver at the ratio of 16 bill, as it was final- to 1 by the sepaly amended and rate action of the reported by the United States, 1 conference com- was willing to mittee, because we make the experibelieved it was ment, but I was , worse than the ex- never willing to istlng law. If the make it by legis- | Farmers’ Alliance lation providing of Graves county for the ’free and believe that this unlimited coinage Republican meas- of silver’ at that ure, which sub- or any other rastantially stops the tlo.”—John G. Carcoinage of the all- lisle In his speech ver dollar after one at Covington, Ky., year, is better than in May, 1895. the Democratic law of 1878, they are of course enn titled to their opinion, but I do not agree with them. When the original house bill was under consideration in the senate, I voted to amend it so as to provide for the free and unlimited coinage of the silver dollar, and that amendment was adopted. The house, however, refused to agree to this amendment, and then a conference committee was appointed which struck out free coinage entirely, and this is the bill I voted against. I send you by mall all three of the bills. Very truly, “John G. Carlisle,” In a letter to Mr. Smith, member of the Kentucky legislature, June, 1890.