Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1896 — Skinning' Dan and Dave. [ARTICLE]

Skinning' Dan and Dave.

From the. New York Sun. Both claim to be Democrats. Both are misrepresenting the state of Indiana by recommending the

m . j free coinage of silver. Voorhees ia n TOAm nul* rtf ilvA Annn/»A Arvm. iu a mtrmwtJt t/t tuu UjiHulu cutll-t mittee. Until a few days ago he was chairman of the committee. Indiana is a sound money state. There is not a line in the Democratic platform of thfe last state convention of Indiana, held on' August 16,1894, which can be eoastrncted even by Voorhees and Turpie to mean a demand for the free coinage of silver. The. platform demands that both gold and silver shall be used as money, It is a sort of bimetalio idea that, the Dembcrats of Indiana advocated on that occasion. Voorhees and Turpie are well aware of this, and yet they persistently and willfully continue to misrepresent, the great industries of their state and constituents at large. There is some consolation, however, in the estimation of Democrats that Voorhees will be retired to private life on March 4, 1897, and _that Turpie will walk the plank two years later. Voorhees has been in the senate since 1877 and Turpie since 1887. In all those years, after careful research, it is not possible to point to a single act on the part of either of them which by the most generous impulse could be stretched into an interpretation of statesmanship. Even when Voorhees was chairman of the committee he was secretely the langhing stock of some of his colleagues. They had known him as a fiat-money man, a greenbacker, and heaven alone knows what. This Indiana statesman is not infrequently nodding in his chair in the senate.