| Show I CROKER HAS SPOKEN t Tammanys Boss Says Silver Question Ques-tion Is Dead + NEW YORK AGAINST IT 4 1 DIREFUL EFFECTS OF ANY PUB THEP AGITATION + Wall Strests Goldbugs Will Send Their Money to Europe and the West Will be Unable to Run Into I DebtBut Tammany Will StandBy Stand-By the Party > t = I New York Jan 10 Richard Croker In an Interview tonight said The 36 to 1 question is a dead l33ie I This was proven conclusively by tho expression ex-pression of the will of the people in IKJi when they elected Mr McKinley rrHI l dent of the United States Now the Democrats of the west and I other sections of the country are trying to foist this dead issue upon he Democratic Demo-cratic party and to make lie oil ucd cii of 1C to 1 the Democratic slosa1 In I 1W > WWhy should we carry a deal weigh in that campaign The times of four years ago arc past Teday the times are diKur I ent and the issues are not the same Sneaking for this section of the country coun-try I say that if the 16 to 1 itu2Stija Is again brought before the people there will be felt again throughout tij nation tOO same distrust that prevailed I m ISo Curing lsgtSrt f hnl ing the fall of that year while the am paiyn was In progress cver man with a dollar of surplus wnethr he was millionaire mil-lionaire or workman hoard his tivifcb in fact locked them up tj securely that there was actually no moncv in circulation circula-tion As a naturil nrcutnsianoe tho times then became vhl nigh tlc perate Look at the winter of lt f rid see aiat the mere rumor of sliver r inngp ai the ratio or IS to 1 did to this country You could not get money in tlie banks you covil not laite money 0 ny 11111 I of sc curity and the result vas tho vcry hardest hard-est kind of timer From the south and west there always al-ways comes the bus and cry against New York because it is ne money ce Her of the United States But vmnuer thjre iJ any great public Improvement to no made In any section ot this ciimtry the flrjt look for help is i viri ubucl t > w Yctk They rush to our sreat city to raise the moioy They c > xe for hj means to util1 i their railways to construct their water worv o erect nlais o ia < < sn I vie and bond their cities for any kind ot improvement improve-ment lnt1 no til t J h > v mica Ln lit is > derived from this 5in of the co i try there is always the ame howl against he great city because it is the money center tnat very ieier witnovt Which public inmovement woud bu an Impossibility it this silv2r question rm ° a aM before I be-fore the Deop ard is mad a factor in the national putforn the motioyv i men of tho east will leek lor investment ujoioe this country and the barjks in cither states In the Union will h uiat to borrow bor-row money in the east The result will Ie that ne poor will be the greatest sufferers suf-ferers The free silver Issue s merely a Kcal 1 I Issue In the sections where tree sver will benefit the residents It s but iiatUi for them to declare for 16 to 1 However I In my opinion the money qiitlrm should bo settled by coijriess But here in New York we must see to It that the osition of our party on the money Question must meet the requirements require-ments not of any one section but of every section of the United States When in convention assembled the majority of the delegates demand a certain cer-tain standard or a certain reform New York will as she has fall fully In line withqut a moment of hesitation or a murmur mur-mur of urotest But the Democratic platform of 1900 has not yet been written |
