Show I DOES NOT HEAR THE OFFICIAL BEE William C Whitney is Not a Candidate 1 l AND H WILL NEEVR BE i KJTCCATIOXAIi CURRENCY C1Ij I 1G NEEDED j 1 U the Silver Men Carry the Next I Democratic Convention i AVill Split the 1nrty Democrats Must Stand For Sound Money Thinks HarrIson Would Like to lie Xoiu limted Republicans Will Xot Open the Tariff Question Boston June ExSecretary of the Navy William C Whitney was interviewed inter-viewed at the home of his mother In Brooklyn last night He said I am not and will not be a presidential presi-dential candidate I the silver men should carry the next Democratic convention I will split the party The Democrats must stand for sound money There are a good many sound money men in the west and south and the Memphis convention I think has helped the cause along Carlisles speech at the convention was an excellent ex-cellent one and deserves to be widely read I has undoubtedly had an influence in-fluence in the south I think the people peo-ple will eventually treat his question the same as they did the greenback question They want money now just as much as they did then Mr Whitney said he felt however that the free silver question was liable to assume the same proportions or even greater ones than did the greenback green-back question He intimated that an organized educational movement was what was necessary to counteract the spread of the free silver craze I do not think the Republicans will care to reopen the tariff question again he said they see they would gain nothing by i The money question ques-tion will dominate everything in the next campaign unless there is a radical radi-cal change in sentiment within the next year Mr Whitney does not think any of the eastern states will follow the Illinois Democrats In the matter of calling state conventions to consider the financial question In answer to the question whether the United States should continue to build its navy as i has said in the last few years Mr Whitney saidYes Yes but I think what we should confine our attention 1 now is the building of large battle ships of the best type Mr Whitney does think the United States could very well recognize the Cuban insurgents as belligerents When exPresident Harrisons movements in New York and Philadelphia were spoken of and reference was made to the Depew dinner Mr Whitney smiled and said Yes it looks very much as if ex President Harrison were after the Republican Re-publican nomination I was suggested that there would be probably hard work for him to do in the next convention and Qlr Whitney Whit-ney smiled as he said Well 1 shall be in the struggle if there is an intellectual one for sound money you may be assured |