The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-10-17
HERE YOU HAVE IT,
.
hnute Nelson Now Defends the Del
mOnetiZation of Silver
in 1873.
but Three Years After 1t Was Found
Out He Voted in Favor of
Remonetizing Silver.
NOW HE is FIGHTING ITs
When Was He Honest? Why Did
He Change? ];

T.
One of the great questions of TODAY
is the silver question.
Silver had been one of the money
metals of the world for thousands Of
years. In 1S73-on Feb. 12-the Con.
gress of the United States was cor
rupted, by 100000 sent over by the
Bank Of England, in the hands of a
banker, named Ernest Seyd, and in
duced to demonetize silver. This was
done so secretly that the President
OF the United States. Ulysses S. Grant,
protested two years afterWard that he
cid not know that anything of the
kind was in the bill when he signed
1T. When it was discovered an uni-
versal outcry went up for the repeal Of
the bill demonetizing silver. At the
present time both the Republican and
Democratic parties are opposed to
| such repeal, because the money pow-
ers OF the whole world demands that
money be rendered more valuable, by
| reducing its amount; thereby reducing
the value of all kinds of property be,
longing to the people. And Hon.
Knute Nelson defends Plutocracy's
scheme to impoverish the people, by
arguing that that law of 1873, demon-
etizing silver, was all right and should
stand, and that silver must not be re-
monetized, and cannot be without
ruin to the country. \
Our readers will therefore, be as<f
tonished to learn that, in 1878. 1G years
ago, and five years after silver had
been stricken down in Congress, and
three years after the vilainy was dis
covered, not only Knute Nelson, but
all the Republican and Democratic
members of the state senate, Except
one Democrat and two Republicans,
voted in favor of the repeal of the act
| of Congress of 1873, demonctizing sill
| yer.
Here is the record:-it will be found
on page s, of the Senate Journal Of
1S7S-Wednesday, Jan. 8, lS7S:-
Mr.. Donnelly offered the following
resolution:
Resolved, by the Senate of the State
| of Minnesota (the House of Represen-
tatiyes concurringl, that our Senators
in the Congress of the United States
are hereby instructed to support by
their votes and influence, the bill now
pending in the United States Senate,
known as the Bland Silver Bill, and
| that they are requested to oppose all
amendments to that bill. which will
| prevent silver coin, Of the standards
used in 1870, becoming again full legal
tender for all debts public and private,
in the United States"
| Nh. Nelson gaze notice Of dcJdte
Mr.. Nelson was opposed to this reso.
luton, but the party leaders caucused
together and agreed that that they
could not defend anything SO outrage
Gus as the demonetiZation Of one Of
| the mOney-metalS named in the con-
stitution of the nation; and when the
resolution came up again, nine days
naD, Senator Edgerton Republican,
| now judge of the United States
| Court in South Dakota, appointed by
Republican president, offered a sub.
| stitute for Mr. DOnnelly's resolution.
| Here is the record:
| Mr.. Edgerton offered the following
substitute for the resolution of Mr..
Donnelly:
Resolved, That our Senators in
| Congress be instructed. and our Rep
resentatives requested, to vote for
DlI UIlC dCU VI L GU. 1Ci0
demonetzing silver.
The question being on the adoption
Of the substitute submitted by Mr..
| Edgerton, and the roll being called,
there were yeas 81 and nays3, as fol-
| lows:
Those who voted in the affirmative
were: MeSSrS. AhrenS, Armstrong,
Bailey, Clement, Clough, Deuel., Dom
nelly, Doran, Drew, Edgcrton, Ed-
wards, Finseth, Goodrich, Hall, Hem
ry, Hersey, Houlton. Langdon. Lie
nau, Macdonald: MeHench, McNelly,
Mealey, MOrehouse, Morrison, Nelson,
Page, Pillsbury Rice, Shaleen, Swan.
strom, Waite, Waldron and Wheat.
Those who voted in the negative
were: Messrs. Gilfillan, c. d., Morton
and Remore."
Senators Gilfillan and Rcmore were
Republicans, while Senator Morton
was a Democrat.
With what face can Mr.. Nelson now
declare against the full rcmonetiza-
tion of silver, when, 16 years ago, he
voted for the repeal of the act of 1878?
| Does it not show that he is now SUBJ
ordinating his honest Judgment to the
demands of Wall Street? What has
occurred since 1875 to change the mer-
| its of this controversy? Is not the
| popular demand and necessity for the
| remonetiZation Of silver greater in
| 1894 than it was in 1878? And if Mr..
| Nelson is ready to yield his conscience
| for party success to the PlutocratS, on
the the silver question, what assur-
ance have the people that he will not
| be the mere slave of the corporations
and money-power if elected governor?
Singular, But Encouraging.
What does it mean? The Minne-