Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1895 — THE HARRISON BOOM. [ARTICLE]

THE HARRISON BOOM.

Hie Frfends of thoTtc-PireMdeat HhtaA'lt Is v «ry Healthy. An Indianapolis dispatch to the New York Herald, Apr. 22. says: The story that there Is a movement on foot to make' Benjamin Harrison the Presidential eanlidate of bimetallists seenap to .reflect truthfully the hopes and plans of some of ihe former President's friends. It is in the Western States that the sentiment for Harrison’s renomination is the strongest. 80 far as ! can learn. General Harrison Is not a party to the movement, but he seems to be giving it s die encouragement by remaining silent. Many attempts to get from him some expression on the currency iuestion, as well as a statement tn reference to his candidacy, have recently been made. He seems determined not,to break his rule not to talk for publication. He will never say rriore than Abat no person is authorized to speak of his plans. One of his friends said today: “I doubt If the sx-President will talk on the currency question between now and the Republican National Convention. He is willing to stand by his views expressed In the Colorado speech, He believes that his position is well understood. He will not seek the nomfafctio&for the Presidency, bud if his friends should push him as a candi-.. date on which the opposing factions can unite he will not object. ” These managers of Mr. Harrison have resurrected' the speech he. made In La Junta, Col., while on his Way to lecture In the Lelapd Stanford University Jast year, arid'hreilrcufaiirig it through the West, as evidence that! Mr. Harrison Is “all right.” so far as tha silver people are concerned. The paragraph in the speech to whlph, special attention H -fiairigcalled I?: “Npw,T say io yon today what I said when I was President, and what >1 hate. always believed—that a larger use of silver for money and. free coinage of sHvete, upon a basis to be agreed upon that would maintain its- parity with gold; was good for the whole world. I do not believe that we could run free coinage ourselves when the governments were pursuing the policy they hive been pursuing with silver. l but, my fellow-citizens, thdre, are clear indications now in England and ip Germany that they-are feeling the effects of a scarcity of gold a,nd its prostrating effects, upon the iriduStrieS. “I believe these two great .countries ars nearer right today than they have been' for the past twenty years. They are all considering favorably the question of a larger and freer use of silver as a money metal,and bimetallism has gained strength in England, and that energetic and young Emperor of Germany is himself considering the question of bim'dtrilllsm.”