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The Wealth Makers and Lincoln Independent Consolidated.
VOL. VIII.
LINCOLN, NEBR., THURSDAY, Oct. 15. 1896.
NO. 19.
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Ml SITUATION
Ooldbugs of Nebraska Facing a
Very Decidedly Gloomy '
Prospect.
BEYAN S EXCELLENT CHANCES
Becent Republican Polls Give Him
a Majority of 15,000
Votes.
A SPECIAL AGENT ABBIVES
.And Pays the State Committee a
Visit in the Dead of
Night
"HE HEARS VERY POOR NEWS
Told That it 1b Impossible to Stem
the Tree Silver Tide
Here."."
The Plain Facts.
In the Chicago Record, in its issue of
r October 8th, appeared the following spe
v V ( $Tal telegram concerning the sitnation in
i jy Nebraska. That it is true in almost
yjr very particular and that the republicans
Sk v,re in a cold sweat, no one who under
Jf stands the situation at all, has any rea-
son to doubt:
' Omaha, Neb., Oct. 7. Bryan's tour of
the east has intensified the interest of
eastern people in the outcome of the
election in Nebraska. The fact that
7 V VNebraska has only eight electoral votes
jloes not in the least lessen the apparent
anxiety to know the exact situation in
the state where Bryan T-esides a state
which has given a good miajority for re-
publican presidential electors ever since
; its admission as a state in 1867. Certain
eastern papers have attempted to meet
the demand for reliable information con
cerning the campaign in Nebraska by
sending special representatives here to
feel the public pulse. They have talked
"with leading partisans on all phases of
. the situation, but they took account
J " only of the outcroppings; they could not
" ' get below the surface.
There can be no doubt of a desire
If upon the part of the eastern press to
tull the who.e truth with respect to the
4 situation in Nebraska. It caunot, how
everbe acquired in a visit of short
duration.
There is a gloomy prospect ahead of
republicans in this state. There is con
sternation in the councils of the leaders
amounting to demoralization. In the
first place a grave blunder was made in
picking men for the state central com
mittee. In the , most part they are re
garded among many party leaders as
. not only incompetent for the duties of a
hot campaign but they are personally
offensive to the voters at large because
of the records made by them in the past.
Stbe strong men of the party have been
fehced out and they view the situation
ftp utter hopelessness, A few days ago.
Wowever, an attempt was made to inject
Hiw; blood into, the campaign and
"Brad" Slaughter, an old campaigner,
was quietly put in actual control of the
jf. working forces. This gave some degree
J of confidence to the party leaders
I throughout the state and more efficient
I. work is being done; but the fear is enter
tained that the change was made too
late to enable republicans to recover
lost ground.
Ten days ago a poll was taken by the
republican committee which showed that
Bryan had a majority of at least 15,000
votes. This information leaked to the
opposition camp, and, in fact, the democratic-populist
leaders are now in posses
sion of the poll made by the republicans
covering a considerable portion of the
state."
The result of such a disclosure can
readily be imagined. In ess than
y ifelve hours the intelligence was flashed
over the state. Hundreds of voters who
act upon expediency father then princi
ple got. off the fence and are now march
ing with the army which they believe
will win the fight in this state. The rank
and file of republicans have not yet re
covered from the shock which the an-
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fjj 1 them. The enemy has put them in con
tusion. A rew 01 Major Alc&iuley s inti
mate friends, realizinir the danirer
threatened, lost no time in acquainting
him with the facts. These letters were
r promptly returned to the Chicago office
of the national committee and the com
mitteemen replied to them in an indiffer
ent way. Last week a confidential
agent oft be national committee came
into tie state and interviewed some of
the leaders in the dead of night. He was
told Cat the republican state committee
is powerless to stem the tide o! free sil
ver among the farmers.
Heretofore republicans have been
strong in the country towns and have
exerted srreat influence upon the farmer
vote, but this year, prices being so low.
and the nominee being a Nebraskan, the
country merchant could make nocon verts
as a matter of fact feeling rune so high
in the country towns that farmers boy
cott merchants who declare for there
publican platform. In previous years
Nebraska has been safely repnblicanand
the party leaders paid little or no at
tention to the farmer vote; now, when
they are in sore need of that element, it
is far beyond reach. Money cannot in
fluence it. The confidential agont was
also told ot the utter incompetency of
the state committee, which As a matter
of fact has hindered rather than pro
moted the campaign from a republican
standpoint. He was told that the com
mittee has been surrounded by
a horde of discredited camp fol
lower, obnoxious not only to the res
pectable element of the party but to
voters generally and that if the re
publican national committee expected to
win for McKinley the fight must be made
under new commanders. He was told
further that the committee had sent
only $ 2,500 into this state, which was
only a drop in the bucket. A heavy as
sessment had been levied upon the can
didates and the money thus derived had
been spent in getting a poll to pay
salaries of the drones who put in their
time around committee headquarters.
The upshot of it all was 'that the na
tional committee became fully aware of
the situation in Nebraska and republi
can, leaders began throwing ballast over
board. There was a panic in party cir
cles in Omaha. Leading business men
and capitalists met in secret meetings to
formulate plans for saving the state for
McKinley and "sound money," In these
conferences the fact was developed that
no dependence could be placed upon the
state committee, and, that being true,
any funds contributed by Omaha cap
italists must be disbursed by others.
' Meanwhile frantic appeals were sent to
the national committee for help, but so
far tbe committee has done nothing but
steer a few big speakers this way. There
is an indefinite promise of money, and
the latest rumor is that Senator Thurs
ton will from this time on stay at home
and direct the fight; that the national
committee will deal solely with the sena
tor in all efforts in behalf of the republi
can electoral ticket. The senator said
to a party of workers yesterday that he
had grave doubts of the success ot the
republican ticket in Nebraska. Every
body hopes that the national committee
will storm the state and make a hand to
hand contest, but there is little confi
dence that this will be done. Nebraska
has only eight rotes in the electoral col
lege, while other states have man'y votes.
Under such conditions the nominees
on the republican Btate ticket are in a
cold sweat. While it is possible for Bryan
electors to win and at the same time for
the republican state ticket to 'pull
through, there is little or no hope in re
publican circles for the success of the
latter. The sentiment now prevades the
state house that with the end of 1896
will come the downfall of the republican
regime which has ruled for more than a
quarter of a ceutury. -
Tne nominees met in Omaha Friday
evening last.. The purpose of the con
ference was to devise some means by
which Omaha maybe made to give a
heavy vote for the republican ticket.
The local campaign was put in charge
of William J. Broatch, an adroit politi
cian, and $8,200 subscribed and put into
the hands of Milton Barlow for the pur
poses of the campaign in Omaha. In
other words the state committee has
abandoned Omaha and will depend
solely upon the citizens' emergency
committee for big majorities here.
This is , tbe only encouraging
feature of the local situation.. - Omaha is
safely republican, but the statisticians
say that this city must give at least
5,000 for McKinley and that Lincoln
must give 1,500 or all is lost. A careful
house-to-house canvass, just finished
here, gives every reason to hope for a
majority of 5.000. Republican mathe
maticians say thut Bryan and McKinley
will come down to Ornaha neck to neck
and that Omaha's vote will be the
measure of the majority. But the ex
tent of the democratic-populist fusion
groundswell is greater than the republi
can weather prophets care to admit. In
fact, the Bran people are . confidently
claiming the state by 25,000 and the
alarm and dismay manifested in the re
publican camp give color to f he populist
predition.
A republican returned today from the
northern tier of counties traversed by
the Elkhorn road. He went to take a
survey of the field in the interest of a
candidate on the state ticket. He comes
back convinced that the fuxioii ticket
will sweep the northern portion of the
state, which includes the Third and
Sixth congressional districts, long since
conceded to the populists. His view is
only corroborative of the nmiiy other
reports from that section.
J. H. MucColl is the republican nomi
nee for governor and Governor Silas A.
Holcomb was renominated. The latter
defeated Tom Majors two years ago.
MacColl was defeated by Majors in con
vention and the latter charges MacColl
with perfidy. Majors has bad a knife
ready for MacColl ever since and his
friends are reported to be doing their ut
most to slay MacColl in the house of bis
friends. On tbe other hand populists,
silver democrats and silver republicans
are fighting desperately for Holcomb.
Were the election to be held tomorrow
the fusionists would win, hands down;
whether republicans can regain their
lost position within thirty days remains
to be seen.
PLAN OF THE GOLDDUG ANARCHISTS
How They Expect to Overthrow the Constitution
and Dely the Law
WILL BE DONE BY THE SECRETARY OF THE
TREASURY
It was Only an Order
Treasury That Established the $100,
000,000 Gold Reserve.
The Truth of
The republican platform of 1890 dif
fers from any national platform ever be
fore promulgated in this country in the
assumption that there now exists only
the one standard money and that is the
gold standard. Take notice the plat
form does not propose a doing away
of the silver standard but it assumes
that there is no silver standard money
and that there now exists the gold
standard only.
1 The difference between those two prop
ositions is immense as I will show. If
we have but the one standard, gold,
then all our money, consists of gold and
only such other kinds of money as are
redeemable in gold. If silver dollars are
redeemable in gold then they are not
standard money and the secretary of
the treasury has the power at any time
to do what never has been done in this
country as yet, and that is to redeem
silver dollars in gold. If the silver dol
lars are not by law of congress redeem
able in gold then they are standard
money and such redemption by the sec
retary of the treasury would lawfully
make the secretary liable to impeach
ment. . V
If there was a law of congress allowing
such redemption the secretary could go
at it any time, and he would have to
treat all alike, pay gold to all that he
con Id with silver dollars, there would be
no limit to the power of tbe golditesto
come and carry away tbe gold in ex
change for silver dollars and silver cer
tificates, the redemption of which would
task the gold of the country to its ut
most, the 1450,000,000 of the paper
money now being redeemed in gold would
be funded into bonds for want of gold to
redeem it, we could not coin any more
silver dollars for want of gold to redeem
them, and in very truth we should be on
tbe single gold basis, that condition
longed for by the great creditor classes
and monopolies, but extremely slavish
to the great mass of the people. This
business would not be pushed with in
considerate haste by the goldites, but
once admit the legality of the single gold
standard and they will be on hand with
any amount of plausible pretexts for
working it as fast as can be done with
out enlightening the people in the caus8
of their misery. '
On the other hand if the silver men by
their voices and votes stand by the four
hundred and thirty-three millions of
silver dollars now in the country and
defend them and maintain them as a
separate and distinct standard money
entirely independent of gold as they
truly are in law and in fact, then the sec
retary of tbe treasury cannot debase the
silver dollars by redeeming them in gold
without being lawfully liable to im
peachment. In this case we can go ahead with free
coinage, stop : the : making of gold ; con
tracts, and fast bring silver in fact as
well as in law into the debt paying
power equally with gold.
The reason why the republican party
in its platform and McKinley in his letter
of acceptance, have taken so much pains
to set propose a change from the double
standard to a single one, but simply to
ignore the existance of the silver stand
ard altogether and proceed as they say
to preserve the existing gold standard,
is that if it be established that there is
by law no silver standard, then the sec
retary of the treasury can proceed to re
deem1 the silver dollars in gold without
any act of congress on the subject, but
if there is a silver standard money, then
the doing of that away and the redemp
tion of the Bilver dollars in gold will be
such a great change as to require an act
of congress authorizing it to be done,
and the probability now is that no such
law can ever be gotten through the sen
ate, whatever maybe the result of the
coming November election in other re
spects fco that we see that tbe goldites
are in a desperate strait to sustain the
position that we have no silver standard
money in order that they may without
authority of congress, and by the dicta
tion of the secretary of the treasury only
precipitate the single gold standard
basis slavery upon the country. And
this is the reason why for several years
past this country from ocean to ocean
and in all its vast extant has been filled
with falsehoods to the effect that the
silver dollars and silver certificates are
redeemable and being redeemed in gold,
and when driven from this assertion by
clear proofs, then they declare that by
some indirect way tbey are so redeem
able, all of which is as untruthful as the
other. We see from the foregoing that
it is of first-class importance that the
voters of tbe country be correctly in
formed whether in fact the silver dollars
do or do not constitute a standard
money, that is whether or not the are
of the Secretary ol the
the Matter.
in any manner either directly or indi
rectly redeemable in gold. And this iu
auiry we will now consider.
NEVER WERE EITHER REDEEMED
OR REDEEMABLE IN GOLD.
This proposition will be established by
the following proofs. That there is no
law for such redemption and it has never
been done. On October 9, 1893, the
senate of the United States adopted the
following resolution:
Resolved, that the secretary of the
treasury be, and ho is hereby directed to
inform the senate, whether silver dollars
or silver coin certificates have been re
deemed by the treasury department, or
exchanged for gold or paper that is by
law or practice of the government re
deemable in gold.
Under date of October 17, 1893. J. G.
Carlisle, secretary of the treasury in an
swer to this resolution reported to the
senate that no such redemptions or ex
changes as described in the resolution
bad been made. Then in the same re
port be says:
"In the early history of the standard
silver dollar and silver certificate many
of the latter were paid out at San Fran
cisco, in exchange for deposits of gold
coin, but the amount caunot be given."
Here follows in the same report a long
statement of gold coin and paper re
deemable in gold received withiu certain
times at the treasury every year from
1880 t..-l 893 inclusive, in exchange for
the silver certificates and standard silver
dollars, amounting iu all to $100,436,
842 in silver certificates, and to f 67,
421,290 in silver dollars; total of both,
$168,858,132. And under all of this is
the signature official of J. G. Carlisle,
secretary of the treasujy. ; ,
The foregoing senate resolution and
report of secretary Carlisle in answer
thereto, are publish in full on pages 328
and 329 of the book entitled "Coinage
Laws of theUnited States, 1792 to 1 894."
Every voter should have a copy of said
book and can get one by writing to the
secretary of the treasury for it, Wash
ington D. C. ......
On April 22, 1895, 1 wrote to the sec
retary of the treasury asking him what
ppriod of time his report to the senate
above given should be considered as
covering; relative to redemptions of
silver dollars and silver certificates, to
which letter I received the following an
swer, ,
Treasury Department, Office of
the Secretary, Washington. D. C,
April 29, 1895. Mr. Marvin Warren
Dear Sir: Your favor of the 22d instant
is received, and in answer lhave the
honor to say that, so far as I know,, the
policy stated on page 328 of the volume
to which you refer has been pursued by
the treasury department ever since the
passage of the so-called Bland act.
Very truly yours,
i J. G. Carlisle."
From all the foregoing, it appears
plain that there never has been any re
demption by the treasury department
of either silver dollars or silver certifi
cates in gold or in any paper redeemable
in gold, but, on the contrary, it is shown
that between 1878 and 1893 inclunive,
there was brought to the treasury $167,
858,132 in gold and paper redeemable
in gold, and much more than this, the
amount of which cannot be ascertained,
in exchange for all of which the govern
ment, byrequestof the parties interested,
paid out silver dollars and silver certifi
cates. What, put these silver dollars and
certificates in such good credit that so
large an amount of gold and paper re
deemable in gold was brought ' to the
treasury with request that it be taken in
and silver dollars and certificates to be
given in return? Not that they were re
deemed in gold, surely, for they never
were so redeemed. It could be nothing
else but the power of legal tender ap
plied to tbe silver dollar, although made
of bullion worth much less than a dollar.
I direct special attention to the state
ment in the report that neither silver
dollars nor silver certificates are redeem
able in any paper that is redeemable in
gold. We see and hear it stated that
although silver dollars and (certificates
are not directly redeemable in gold but I
that they are indirectly so redeemable.
because that tbey are redeemable in
greenbacks and the greenbacks are re
deemable in gold. 13ut this plea of in
direct redemption of the silver dollars
and silver certificates is cut off by the
secretaries report because it shows that
they are not redeemable in any paoer
that is by law or the practice of the gov
ernment redeemable in gold.
1 have beard it said that although the
silver dollars and certificates are not re
deemed in gold, yet they can be traded
voluntarily with private parties or
banks for greenbacks or treasury notes,
and these are redeemable in gold. That
is true, but before they can be traded for
greenbacks or treasury notes something
must give them a value equal to the
greenback or treasury note, and that
something is nothing else than the legal
tender power given them by law, for
there is nothing else to give tnem such
value.
But here is proof indisputable, that
the silver dollars are standard money
by law and are therefor under present
laws absolutely not redeemable in gold
under any circumstances or conditions
whatsoever. I refer here to the aot of
congress of November 1, 1893, wherein
occurs the following words: "And it is
hereby declared to be the policy of the
United States to continue tbe use of
both gold and silver as standard money."
Page 77 of the "Coinage Laws," herein
before referred to.
Here in this act of congress is a clear
recognition that at that time the silver
dollars were standard money, and it is
there declared to be tbe policy of the
United States to continue them so. This
provision of the statute has never been
repealed or modified in the least.
The further proof of the standard
character of our silver dollars let any
one write to J. G. Carlisle, secretary of
the treasury, Washington, D. ft, and re
quest to be furnished with circular No.
123, dated July 1, 1896, and he will re
ceive a pamphlet, on the 12th page of
which are these words: "Gold coins and
standard silver dollars being standard
coins of the Uhited States are not re-
TO SUM THE MATTER UP, we now
have fonr hundred and thirty-three mil
lions of standard silver dollars in the
country, all of which are and always
have been entirely irredeemable In gold
either directly or indirectly, are entirely
independent of gold for their value, as
completely so as tbe gold coins are in
dependent of the silver dollars, and they
are par with gold and always have been
for the whole eighteen years since they
first began to be issued under the Bland
Allison act of February 28, 1878. About
$342,000,000 of these silver dollars are
in the treasury of the United States rep
resented . by just the same amount of
silver certificates in circulation. The
silver certificates are interconvertable
with the silver dollars at the option of
the holders, greatly to the convenience
of the people because it enables them to
keep in circulation such amount of the
silver dollars and such amount of paper
money in lieu of them as tbey see fit.
These silver dollars and silver certifi
cates, dollar for dollar enhance the val
ue of all property in the United States
more than any otherkind of money that
we have except the silver coins, gold not
excepted, becanse tbey are proportion
ately more in actual circulation than
any other money with said exception,
and by reason of the greater - propor
ate circulation they constitute about
half of all the actual money circulation
of tbe country.
resolution.
Notwithstanding the importance and
standard character of our silver dollars
Mr. McKinley and bis platform both aim
to make the Bilver dollars and silver cer
tificates redeemable in gold, invite the
worlds money wreckers to come and
carry away the gold in exchange for
them, degrade tbe silver dollars to credit
money, make every silver dollar a debt
to be paid in gold by Uncle Sam just as
often as any wrecker brings it around,
and as herein before shown reduce our
actual money circulation to naif what it
now is, to the actual gold basis.
And how does Mr. McKinley and his
platform propose to do all this? Do
they propose to procure a change of the
laws necessary tor it? isot in tbe least.
It is not expected that any . necessary
change of laws for this purpose can be
gotten through the senate for some
years, probably never. It is clearly the
purpose of the platform by its reading
and by Mr. McKinley by bis letter of ac
ceptance to do all tbis by a bold revolu
tionary defiance and subversion of tbe
laws as they now are relative to this
matter. If be can be elected president,
and a goldite house of representatives
can be elected that will not impeach his
secretary of the treasury, therefor he will
appoint a secretary of the treasury who
will redeem the silver dollars and silver
certificates in gold, and all the rest of
the horrible business - wu! corns - alGiig
sooner or later as a matter of course un
less such redemption shall be stopped by
injunction and the people will do well to
take no chances of an injunction in such
a matter as this, but do up their own
work in their own interest, and see to it
that neither McKinley or any . goldite
house of representatives y,oa luere.
mckinley's sayings.
In his letter of acceptance McKinley
says of the present silver dollars, that
tbe government bos promised to keep
"them as good as the best dollars we
have." Yes that is so, and it has prom
ised the same in respect to all silver dol
lars that it shall issue in the future,
Mr. McKinley to the contrary notwith
standing. And the government has uot
only promised this but it has stated how
it will do this, which Mr. McKiuley dares
not state because it would destroy his
single gold standard, that is bis redemp
tion of silver dollars in gold. All this is
promised in the act of congress of No
vember 1, 1893, which says:
"And it is hereby declared to be the
policy of the United States to continue
tbe use-of both gold and silver as stand
ard money and to coin both gold and
silver into money of equal intrinsic and
exchangable value." Coinage Laws of
the United States, page 77. We see from
this that the government has promised
to defend the silver dollars against the
very depredation that Mr. McKinley and
his platform are aiming to force them,
tbe depredation of tbe single gold stand
ard. McKinley says the government
has promised to keep them as good as
the best dollars we have. That is so.
To keep ther as standard dollars will
make them b ter by 500 per cent than
to make then, redeemable in gold.
Mr. McKinley ays that the promise of
tbe government extends only to the
silver dollars that we now have and
does not extend to any that shall be
coined under free coinage. The reading
of the statute above quoted shows plainly
that this is not so, but that the promise
extends to all silver dollars that shall be
coined in any manner by authority of
government It amounts to this that
the government will not tolerate the
depredation of either money metal by
making tlia other a single standard.
And see the statute above quoted goes
further than this. It declares to be the
policy of the United States to coin both
gold and silver into equal intrinsic and
exchangeable value. This means to
bring the metals into parity as well as
the coins. And this eannot be done, and
never was done in any way except by
the free and unlimited coinsgeof both
metals which thing Mr. McKinley aad
his platform are opposed to except by
an impossible agreement. . Ho we see
that Mr. McKinley and his platform are
hostile to the government , policy and
promises on tbe whole coinage subject. -
Mr. McKinley says "This legislation
secures the largest use of silver consist
ent with financial safety and the pledge
to maintain Its parity with gold."
He has no right to say this. NeSt&tr
he nor any other person has ever seen .
any signs that tbe silver dollars would
drop below tbe parity of gold even under
present laws and as they have existed
during the eighteen years of this money
existence, and he does not know bow
much could ' have been circulated nndar
the same legal regulation, but certainly
the quantity issued and circulated has
never tended in the least to impair the
parity and no doubt twice as much could
nave been circulated under the Eland
Allison law wit e parity kept firm.
; He tells us that the present amount
of silver circulation is all that can be
kept op In any manner with the parity
gold. Nonsense. In order to make us
believe that silver bos an equal chance
with gold under the law be tells us in
his letter of acceptance that silver dol
lars are a full legal tender to pay all
debts public and private, which they are
not as they are not a legal tender In
cases where gold is contracte for. Let
the gold contracts be abolished and let .
silver be a full legal tender to pay all
debts including tbe redemption of paper
money tbe same as gold, which silver re
demption is according to law now, but .
not according to the administration of
it) then can silver be coined freely ths
same as gold with tbe coins of both
firmly at parity.
11 silver dollars are to m made redeem
able in gold as Mr. McKinley and bis
platform aim to do then I admit that
the present stock of silver coin Is all that
can be sustained at parity and in a year
or so the goldites would clamor to hare
half of the present meager supply of
silver dollars destroyed to prevent de
pleting the treasury of gold. '
Mr. McKinley's letter of acceptance
contains many errors of fact. He says
that from 1880 to 1892 this country
was on a gold basis, which I have shown
to be untrue for by so much as we have
these standard silver dollars we are not
on a single' gold basis, and .that means
a long ways from it now.
Again he says "the only measure of a
genera! nature that affected the treasury
and the employment of our people passed
by the Fifty Third congress was the gen
eral tariff act." He forgets about tbe
repeal of the purchasing clause of the
Sherman act by which from 1890 to
1893 over $4,000,000 of treasury notes
were added to the currency monthly,
causing more than anything else, the
boasted prosperity so called of 1892,
and but for which repeal the Sherman
law, had it been administered according
to its terms, in redeeming the. treasury
notes with the silver purchased there
with and coined instead of gold, would
have been a measure promotive of great
monetary and industrial prosperity,
the goldites rebellion.
In the common business of life ths
debtor pays iu such legal tender money
as he chances to have or is easiest to
get and the creditor does not complain
of this, or if he does it does hint no good,
be must take it or get nothing. ? r
But against this long established order
of things there has arisen goldites, re
bellion having strong foot hold in En
gland and Amerieavl When these goldite
rebels commenced their stealthy tinker
ing iu tfc;s'couutry 1u1873, silver dol-r
lars were at a premium over gold at
three per cent. And uow when they
talk to us about the 50 cent dollar they
are simply expatia ting upon the results
of their own infamous work.
These rebels make ' great boasting of
their) love for parity. Now one thing
important to establish and maintain
the parity of tbe t wo metals as well as
coins, is for all debtors, and especially
the government, as between the metals,
always to pay in that kind that may be
legal tender for the oocasiop and already
in hand or easiest or cheapest to be ob
tained. In all ordinary matters tbe peo
ple do their business in this manner and
it is right that they should.
For eighteen years it has been estab
lished that by law the silver dollars
equally with gold coin, are a legal tender
to pay principal and interest of all gov
ernment bonds, and to redeem all paper
money redeemable in coin at all, except
coin certificates. And yet in all that
time these payments and redemptions
have all been made in gold except in a
few cases where parties have preferred
silver. Why is this? It is because every
president in all that time, (unless Gar
field was an exception) has been known
to the goldites before elected, as a friend
to their rebellious policy. Neither these
presidents nor tbe secretaries under
tbem, nor people in general were ever ac
customed to do their own business in any
such way as to allow their creditors to
dictate what money they should pay
their debts in. All these presidents and
the secretaries of tbe treasury under
them, being placed there to do the peo
ples business in a business way, have
simply violated the trusts reposed in
them by subserviency to a rebellious in
terest. And Mr. McKinley's subserv
iency as it is uow pledged is worse than
that of any presidential candidate ever
before the American people, and has to
be because his platform is the worst ever
promulgated. M. Warren.
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