Show OPPOSE D TO A REPEAL of if the sherman act unless free coinage Is substituted senator vane 0 writes a letter to the farmers alliance and states state where he ila stands R RALEIGH N C july 31 senator Is st week wrote a letter to the farmers alliance in which in reply to a question as to his position on the silver law he said be e was unalterably opposed to the slier her ion man act unless some substitute was pro tided he ile was severely criticised criticized for the tone oi of his ils letter he says the charge that a democrat emo cratis I 1 s at variance with his ilia party rho who refuses to favor the unco unconditional D a I 1 recal of the bherman sherman law depends on the tile ruth of what the laid down in the platform platform at chicago if promises or pl elmount ledges amount mount to a anything ny thing tho tile chicago p I 1 la llorin demands the repeal of the law as an n obstruction to the free coinage of silver the he obvious meaning Is if the law were out at of the way we could have free coinage that hat Is one of the things I 1 propose to put ill n place of the tile sherman Sher naan law and I 1 pro propose bosc to vote against repeal unless that be done if f my toy party Is opposed to that then the ut Ite I 1 rances at chicago I 1 were intended to deceive if it was sincere then I 1 am trying to stand on the platform ilat form I 1 it t pledges the he party to the he use of both gold an and d all silver em without Z ih ut d nation if we cease to coin one and nd refuse to tender it in payment even of obligations which bv by contract would be payable therein we do discriminate at a zain ait that metal men of common sense who are loyal to the purposes jes they profess will ill not surrender the tile advantages of their position oi tion the law now in can call be e kept thus by the tile non con concurrence carrence of either the house honse senate or president to its ts repeal whereas the sherman aher nian law once repeated epe aled measures which are to take it its place lace would have to be passed by ive tive legislation requiring tho the concurrence of f all three branches of the lawmaking departments part ments and no sensible sen nible isible man ac ted with the tile situation can believe hese these measures could be passed and under bersuch such circumstances |