Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-09-05
LOCAL POLITICS,
II It Does Not Agree With the Platform
and Action OF the National Party
1t Is a Frand.

IL Is FRAUD.
The effort is being made in the w est
and south to deceive the people again
on the silver question. Although the
national platform contained a plank
declaring for free silver on an inter
national basis, which means an lu-
creased ratio and the consent of Great
Britain, that declaration was miscon-
strued in the campaign of 1892, and
nearly every southern and western
democratic congressman, and many
republican congressman, were elected
on the strength of their declarations
in favor of free silver, at the ratio of
10 to l, and without awaiting the &C
ton OF any other government. Every
body knows the result. majority
of both parties voted against free
silver. Both candidates for President
IN 1892 were opposed to free
silver. This is the record and it can t
be wiped out. This means that the
government of the United States has
practically gone out of the business
of coming money and regulating
the value thereof" and has turned
that prerogative over TO the bankers.
1t means that the whole business of
this country is now placed in the
hands of perhaps fifty bankers and
brokers who can contract or expand
the currency at will. Who can pro-
duce panic whenever they desire
and force the government to issue
bonds at their bidding In some of
the southern states the democrats
have Incorporated a IL to / silver
plank in their platform. In Califor-
MIA the republicans have done the
same thing. If this is not for the
purpose of deceiving the people.
why is it? With eighty majority
in the house the democrats
were unable to pass free
silver measure. No sane man
claims for an instant that the party
will be able to increase that majority.
On the other hand it is more than
likely that it will be reduced. If the
democratic party, then, could not give
us free silver with eighty ma joritv, how
can we hope to have it from a house
with reduced majority. The facts
are plain. The democratic party is
opposed to free silver That is. a ma
jority of their leaders are. If the
western and southern democrats are
sincere in their declarations for free
silver let them cut loose from a party
that is responsible for its defeat.
What can the minority expect to do
against the majority when it is known
that the majority is and will be as
sisted by the repu blicans If the south
ern democrats are in favor of free silver
let them show themselves to be so bv
attaching themselves to free silver
party. No one expects free silver at
the hands of the republicans. The
whole record is against that pariv
with more force than the democratic
party. Only fifteen out OF one hun
dred and twenty eight votes that W ere
cast favored free silver The adoption
OF a free silver plank in the state
platform, as has been done by the
democrats of Arkansas and the repub-
hcans of California, is a fraud, a de-
lusion ard snare These men know
that so far as its influence in national
affairs will extend it amounts to
nothing 1t is simply a cas-, of a
promise of the tail to wag the dog.
1t is .put there to catch votes. 1t is
not the policy OF the national parties
nor will it ever be put into effe.. by
'hem- Again we say if they are in
earnest with regard to free silver let
them join a free silver pariy the
Peoples r>rty.