People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1895 — DEMOCRACY OF VEST. [ARTICLE]

DEMOCRACY OF VEST.

The Ml*«ourl Senator Arrive* in Washington and Give* his Reason* For The Recent Defeat. MUST HAVE MORE MONEY. Cannot Have Prosperity With Increasing Population and Diminishing Volume of Currency. The President, Surrounded by Incense Rumers, Who Tell Him He Can do no Wrong, Relieves Recent Elections Repudiate the Half of Democracy he Does not Represent.

The following interview with Senator Vest sounds a good deal like a change of front for the sly old “coon” on the money question, andalittleatvarience with his recent voting and talking on silver legislation. Perhaps the shrewd politician sees the hand writing on the wall from the late interesting tussle that the populists gave his party in several states, and, with every impartial judge who understands the situation in Texas, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and possibly Missouri, he anticipates the inevitable defeat of the democratic party there next fall by the people’s party. Comprehending what that means to his career he may be building a little populist fire under his political pot. At least it is interesting to see what a number of sound populist heresies he is now in favor of and how boldly he condemns the very things his party so recently aided in doing. This is what he is reported as saying in Washington last Monday: “The defeat of the democratic party at the last election was due chiefly to hard times caused by a scarcity of money. We will never have prosperity, until there is free coinage of silver and our volume of currency is increased. No country can be prosperous with an increasing population and a decreasing circulation. We might have weathered the storm even under these conditions butfor the unfortunate and ineradicable differences in our party upon the financial question and the tariff. Ido not care to discuss these differences in detail. The president unfortunately rejected all offers of compromise from those of us who differed with him on silver and refused positively to use the power given him by law to rebuke the gold speculators and protect the gold reserve by tendering silver even as part payment when greenbacks and Sherman notes were presented at the treasury for redemption. I beieve that Carlisle at one time contemplated such action, but the president, who just before his inauguration talked reasonably and conservatively, suddeny became obdurate and ordered the payment of gold exclusively. This, of course, placed the treasury at the mercy of the speculators, and the logical result was the veto of the seigniorage bill, the issue of gold jonds and the paying tribute to a foreign syndicate. “The president,surrounded by a lot of incense burners who told him he could do no wrong, demanded an unconditional surrender by the silver men in congress, and that the volume of money should be reduceds4o,ooo- - annually by repealing the purchasing clause of the Sherman act without putting anything in the vacuum so created. In other words, he demanded that we should indorse the single gold standard. The same incense burners are now telling the president that the recent elections demonstrate his foresight, and one of his cabinet has come out in an interview gloating over the result.” From the above it seems probable that Senator Vest will be one to fight for the perpetuation of the greenback, which the incense smelling party master of the white house proposes to have wiped out at once. One thing is certain the people of Missouri demand that the greenback he preserved and more of them issued.

Scratch pads one cent up at Meyer’s drug store.