The Butler weekly times., 1892-04-20
The Candidate and His ln~trUct OF 8.

missing against free coinage thu n
Httris IN would be"
If Mr.. Cleveland is elect.l prest-
dent on free coinage Pattern, he
will sign a free coinage bill. If he il
a candidate for president h" will b"
bound on the PLATFORM on which his
party puts him before the people.
This is absolutely reliable
Mr. Cleveland is not "A mol ometal
ist. He is a bimetalist He believes
in the coinage Of the two precious
metals on parity. He may OF ii
may rot believe that the coinage a.
to between them should be read
| justed. He has believed that free
coinage of silver by the United
States alone at the present coinage
ratio would result III a monometailic
standard-the single silver standard
He believed that this would be the
case under given Conditions IN the
past. What he think, OF present
conditions we do not know. He has
not expressed himself recently, Ior
is it at all necessary that he should
do so. The democratic party IS en-
tirely competent to handle this mat
| ter.
The democratic party will deter
mine the course of its candidate by
instructing him, aud if these ins,ruc-
tons are endorsed by majority of
the states he will be bound by them.
SO the question is of the action Of
the democratic party-not of its can
didate, whether that candidate is to
be Mr.. Cleveland or som cone from
the west
There will be a coinage instruc-
ton in the Chicago platform, and we
expect that it will be full. clear and
satisfactory to all bimetalls ts-to all
who believe as most demo Gratis do,
in the double standard. based on the
free use of gold and silver coin, at a
ratio 50 adjusted as to keep them in
circulation at par with each other.
Those who have democratic sue
9ss most at heart, while at the same
time they are familiar with the poll
tics of the pivotal state of New
York, have hoped that this issue
would not be pressed into the cam
paign this year;but it is very evident
now that it is in the campaign, and
that the democratic party in nation
al convention will declare itself on
it. The probable action of the con-
vention is already outlined in this
resolution adopted by the democrats
of Minnesota in platform indorsing
Mr.. Cleveland for the presidency.
To hold, in accordance with a
traditional policy of our party to the
sole function of the government is to
examine the relative value of the
metals of coinage as established by
the commercial world, and if there
has been a sufficient fuctuation in
the value of either to make the exist
, ing ratio unequal, then to readi Just
, the ratio SO that the number of
: grains of either metal in the unit of
, coinage, the dollar, shall be equiva
lent in value, and then to permit the
| free, unrestricted coinage of both
, metals.
This puts the whole question
where it should be-on the proper
coinage ratio between the two met
E ais. We have never seen a clearer
or more concise statement of the
: traditional policy of the democratic
2 party.
'. OF course we cannot undertake to
$ say in advance what the Chicago
{ convention will do. but we believe
0 that it will put the party in posi-
e ton to take the aggressive against
e the republicans on this issue as re.
enforcing tie tarifissue. Indeed il
: can DO nothing else. For it is not
A now question Of whether tLi, issue
y is desirable for the campaign 1t j:
already in the campaign and the
:. democratic party will meet It as il
. does all other issues forced by The
people.