The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1892-10-04
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''If after congress shall have acted
on pending tariff Legislation it shall
appear that under the general treaty
making power or under any special
powers given by law our trade with
the states represented in the confer.
ence can be enlarged upon a basis Of
mutual advantage it will be promptly
DONE"
In the chapter on the force bill
there is manifest disposition to run
away with the issue. 1t is stated that
the republican party sis in no sense
committed to this bill or to any other
particular method of curing the evil
of dishonest elections" Anticipating
such an attempt to get away from a
troublesome issue we have collected in
the democratic text book some utter
ances of leaders of the republican
party TO show, as we 50 loudly pro-
claimed only year or two ago, what
support of the federal control of cleo
tons is of the very essence of modern
republicanism. For instance, Senator
HOar said in the Forum for April,
1891, that the republican party chad
promised to do its best to secure hon
est elections by the exercise of the ma
tional legislative authority, and that
the purpose to keep that promise is
the one essential thing that constitutes
republicanism.".
The senator added: 1.-The mission
of the republican party will not be ac-
complished until that promise shall
have been kept" The people will ac-
cept this honest and direct declaration
rather than the surrender of the issue
by the compilers of the republican
text book.
As recently as last July, Senator
Hawley wrote in the Forum: 1.-The
republican party can never forget its
duty to exert national power to pro-
tect national voting"
Those who understand the menace
to free government which turks in
such proposal, will not forget the re-
publican position, however much cam
paign managers would like to have
them do 50.
One of the most significant features
in the book as indicating the ideas of
those who now control the policy of
the republican party is that upon
currency and coinage"
This contains studied attempt to
show the silver producer that their re-
publican party is his hest friend, evil
IDENTITY with the view of holding the
votes of the republican silver states of
the west. The claim is made that
every measure of the: past thirty years
looking to the larger use of silver has
been carried by republican votes. The
Bland bill is denounced because it was
mot in any sense an honest free COIN
age bill. and because sit was never
intended to help American silver pro-
ducers." Another paragraph is head
ed ''No help for silver" and it is again
urged that ''instead Of helping silver
producers this democratic measure
would have been the worst for them
that he conceived"
The republican party has now be-
come so used to looking at public
measures from the standpoint of their
effect upon special interests that it re-
CARDS the great question of silver COIN
age primarily from the point of view
of the silver mining interest. This is
entirely consistent with the republican
platform of 1888, which denounced
the later democratic administration
for cts efforts to demoralize silver"
Under the heading 1.-The silver
measures of Republicans" an attempt
is made to show that the price of silver
bullion has been better under repub-
lcan administrations than under dem
Ocratic. 1t is claimed that with the
election of President Harrison silver
began to recover steadily, and his first
message made it clear that he did not
believe in "depreciating a product of
American mines" The Sherman Sill
yer act Of 1890 is boldly justified, al
though even its author has repudiated