The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-07-27
ADVICE TO 4 DEMOCRAT.
BY tho Lowell Headed Chairman Of
the Central Committee Of
Colorado.
Matter Ut Record That the Repub-
licans Are Unalterably OPP
posed to Silver.
Tho Only Hope OF Free Coinage Lics In
the Success Of tho Democratic
Party.

The following letter Vas written BY Ho,
Frank r.. Arbucklc. chairman Of the dem'
cratic central committee OF Colorado.
reply TO 4 letter asking what a democrat
: western state should do this fall:
DENVER, Colo. July 21.-Hon. L. G. Pad
dock, Boulder, Colo: Ny Dsar SRA
open letter addressed 10 me, and publishs
In the Boulder Tribune over your siRnatul
ts before me-.
The unselfsh and indefatigable servic
which you have constantly given the demo
cratic cause and the courteous treatmen
received by all democrats for many years =
your hands, demand that your inquiry. a
follows: II ask your candid opinion a. I
what a democrats should do. and how b.
should vote when his party has proved rec
reant to its trust and violotsd a principle al
vital to ito organization a. that Of self-9ov,
eminent be replied to.
You put the question in such a way AZ te
make 1t a hard one to nswer especially sc
as ii ID based on a charge of recreancy Of
party, and violation of a vital princi lie, the
particulars OF which you do not state in
your letter.
] assume. friend Paddock. that you are
not pleased with the financial plank in the
democratic platform. which causes you to
mako the query h~ereinbefors quoted.
It is unanimously conceded that the fol-
lowing extracts from the democratic ma
tional platform Of 1892 are good democratic
doctrines:
THE principles OF the party as formu.
lated by Jefferson and sxemplifed by the
long aud illustrious line of his successors
in democratic leadership from Madison to
Cleveland"
"The policy of federal control OF cleo
tions, to which the republican party has
committed itself, ia frauRht with the gray
would result from q revolution practically
establishing q monarchy on the ruins of
the republic"
Republican protection is a fraud and q
robbery OF the great majority of the Amer
lean people-for the benefit of the few"
1.-THE ullnesa and distress, the wage re-
duction and strikes in the iron trade. are
the best possible evidence of the results of
the Mckinley act: a policy which fosters
no industry SO much az 1t does that of the
saeriff."
1.-The nomination of a president Gas in
the recent republican convention) by dele
gates composed largely of his a%ppointees
holding Office at his pleasure. il a scanda-
lous satire upon free popular institutions
and a startling illustration of the methods
By which a president may crafty his AM
1--WE favor the maintenance of q navy
strong enough for all purposes of q ma
tional defense and to properly maintain the
honor and dignity of the country abroad"
"We tender our profound and earnest
sympathy to those lovers of freedom who
are struggling for home rule and the cause
OF self government in Ireland"
appreciate the patriotism of the
soldiers and sailors of the union. and we
favor just and liberal pensions for all dis
sbied union soldiers, but we demand that
the work OF the pension Office shall be done
honestly" |
Free common schools are the nurseries
of good government; freedom of education
being an essential of civil and religious
liberty"
1--WE are opposed to all sumptuary laws
as an interference Of the individual rights
of the Citizen"
Iapprehend that there ia no democrat in
Colorado who will hnd fault with a single
on of the selections quoted; and if this pre-
mise is correct. the only question 10: Shall
We lay aside all of these articles of faith for
the purpose of finding fault with the fl
nancial section of the democratic platform, |
which is as follows:
I'VE hold to the use of both gold and sill
yer as the standard money of the country. !
and to the coinage of both gold and silver. |
without discriminating against either metal
IA ShhAk ~ u u dtsiAH UHia :
of coinage of both metals must be of eouai
intrinsic and e~xchangeable value, or be ad-
justed through international agreement, or
by such safeguards of legislation as shall
insure the maintenance of the parity of the
two metals and the equal lower OF everv
dollar at all times in the markets and in
payment of debts. and VIZ demand that all
paper currency shall be kept at par with
aud Reasonable in such coin"
Is this not be-metallism?
I make the broad statement now that
every democrat in Colorado ia heartily and
unequivoeaiiv in favor of the free and
unlimited coinage of silver; md the cues
ton that dlstracts the party in this state at
this time. is how to secure free COINAGE
withou. a sacrifice OF the many other dem
ocratic principles stated in our national
platform.
The masses of the democratic partv bava
always been in favor of the FREQ coinage of
SILVER. During the present year thirty-four
democratic state conventions have so de-
clsred. Every silver proposition that has
ever been brought before the American con-
gresH has Invariably been supported by a
majority OF the democratic members and
has always been opposed by a majority of
the republican members.
The stewart free colnRg bill was pasaed
through the senate by eighteen democratic
and eleven republican votes; against the
Stewart bill in the senate we ind eighteen
republican votes and only seven democratic
votes. which proves conoiusively that the
democratic party passed the Stewart bill in
Inc senate. Unfortunately the Stewart hill
was killed IN the house. An analysis of the
vote WILL show who committed the crime
there were lis democrats and only EIGHT
republicans IN the house who voted in favor
OF the Stewart bill; ninety-four democrats
and sixty republicans voted against the
measure.
In 1873 silver was demonetized nv tina
republican party. There has never hsen n
time since that date when the democratic !,
|'aIty has controlled the power TO replace il
IN the position in which it was held hv ths
democrats Tor 30 many years prior to its
decentralization.
At this time l desire to prove bv clinn;n,s
from The leading 'epublican papeIs
of the United States that The
republican party ls unaiterablv opposed tn
silver. Many more could be tprnishad
bet space forbids.
Philadelphia Inquirer trep.): 'There
VIII be no free silver bill ct this session of
congress. The action of yesterday settIes
the question:. The majority was not larps
against making free silver q special order,
but 1t WAS large enough.
but one thing is very apparent. But for
the aid OF the republicans we should have
been plunged into another debate and a
square vote on the free coinage issue. It
might have been better for the republicans
TO have allowed consideration. The vote
would have shown the democrats to have
been the party of free silver and the repuh-
lioans to have been opposed to such a poi
lay
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