The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-08-30
TAKE UP THE GAUNTLET.

The Peoples Party Must Lead the Fight
for Emancipation from Metallic Rule.
Every republican has reason to feel
proud that his party is practically q
unit to-day in favor of honest money.
The doubt and the danger are of dem
ocratic origin. All the contest that is
going on, all the uncertainty and dread
as to what congress will do, arise sole
~ from possibilities of democratic &C
ton. It is the tremendous effort of
Mr.. Cleveland to carry with him
enough democrats to make, with the
republican members of congress, ma
jority in favor of restoring business
confidence that now engages attention.
It is the fact that the salvation of the
country to-day depends upon and will
be brought about by republican votes.
1t is that party, and not his own, to
which Mr. Cleveland must look for the
support necessary to carry out his
financial policy. In every
calculation of what congress is likely
to do the solid vote of republicans will
be found supporting the cause of hon
have put themselves on record as favor
ing the repeal of the Sherman law.
They will be found supporting the
cause of honest money and sound
finance, no matter by whom or in whose
interest proposed.-St Paul Pioneer
Press (Rep).
If we had nothing to consider but a
game of politics, one question might be
played against the other. But the bus
mess interests of the country demand
relief from the continued operation of
the silver purchase. and there can be
no hesitation, on the part of republic
ans, in responding to this demand. On
the silver question, unfinching support
of the president against the majority
of his own party so far as the presi-
dent is right And again, if the presi-
dent plants himself without reserve up
on the policy of the unconditional re-
peal of the purchasing clause of the
silver law, he should receive so far as
that issue goes, the unanimous support
of republicans.-Boston Journal (Rep).
ThoSe politicians who serve their
country best serve their party most
This is a proposition that republican
members of congress should not over
look. 1t is the solid ground upon which
they should stand, and it is unques-
tionably their duty as a minority in
democratic congress to vote as they
would as a majority in a republican
congress. The course of republicans,
therefore, should be to stand firmly by
their principles, favoring sound money,
and shake hands over the chasm with
a democratic president and democratic
members of congress, who agree with
them.-Cincinnati Commercial Gazette
There will be no middle ground. The
question lies between gold standard
and fat money. Republicans will
rally around money and conservative
democrats must come to Grover Cleve-
lands position. Others will gravitate
to fat money and join the populists
The contest will be between
gold and silver standard, and when
gold wins as it is bound to do,
and free silver coinage is defeated
once and for all, there will be general
breaking up of silver men, the few
sensible advocates coming over to the
safe ground and the others finding an
asylum with the sub-treasury calamity
howlers. Topeka Capital, (Rep.).
If silver is demonetized in the face of
party pledges the party doing so will
pass into history. The gold men may
as we'll take warning. If once the peo-
pie are forced to break away from their
party traditions and attachments by the
confscation of silver it will not stop by
It's restoration. The final result will be
tie adoption of the treasury note as the
legal tender money Of the leading pow
er on the globe. As soon as the one is
accomplished the other will follow AS
one man the common people," as the
intelligent'masses of America are called.
will arise and do this work. These gold
brokers and their allies have no concep-
ton of what an aroused American sem
timent can do.-Kansas City Journal
(Rep.). R. T. Van Horn, editor, fat
money man, who fondly dreams of f.
nancial reform through the republican
party.