The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-07-20
THE G. o. 2. 40 sILYrR.


The Republican party is claiming
tha6 It IS the friend of silver. that ii
has always favored that metal as a
money coin, and does yet. But if the
Republican party really is the friend
of silver. God grant that the white
metal be speedily delivered into the
hands of its enemies.
The Republican party has persistent.
ly assaulted silver ever since it has had
vote in congress, and the Iowly posi-.
ton which silver occupies today has
been brought about by pernicious leg.
islation in the hands of the aforesaid
party. Friends of silver, forsoothI
The Topeka State Journal, in its is
sue of July 2. commenting on the lack
of action on the part of the Democratic
congress, says: Congress, with a good
working majority in both branches
has been in session for nearly a year
long enough to have repealed all the
Republican legislation ever enacted
All they have done in this line is to re-
peal the federal election law and the
Sherman silver law, and the latter was
only repealed by the aid of Republican
votes. No great good has yet appeared
as resulting from either action"
Repealed only by the aid of Republi-
can votes, the great friends of silveri
What noble and heroic confession
to come from a representative Republi-
can newspaper!
Everyone who has kept posted on
the doings of congress knows that that
is fact.
The party vote in congress ON the
silver question in all of its forms shows
that more Republicans than Demo
Gratis voted to destroy the white metal
And now, in the beginning of campaign
which promises to be the hottest in
years for that traitorious old humbug,
(the Republican party to claim that it
is, and always has been, the friend OF
silver is so ridiculous that doubts of
that party's sanity is freely entertained
Let US look at the vote in congress
and see how that compares with the
silver friend claim of the superannua-
ted old granny, the G. o. p.
In the house the vote against the
question of coinage of silver at the
ratio of 16 to 1 stood Democrats 103
Republicans 10. In the senate Demo
Gratis %, Republicans SO.
Great friends of silverl
On the Bland bill the nay vote in the
house was as follows: Democrats so,
Republicans 70.
Great friends of silver!
In the senate the nay vote on the
same question was Democrats II, Re
publicans 90.
Steadfast friends of silver!
To man up a tree it looks like the
aid, of which the Journal speaks, did
about all the business for the records
show that the aye vote of the two old
parties stood in the house, on the 16 to
1 ratio, Democrats 113, Republicans 13
What great friends of silver!
In the senate the aye vote stood on
the 16 to ratio, Democrats %, Republi-
cans 10.
Friend of silver, indeed!
On the Bland bill the aye vote in the
house stood, Democrats 141, Republi-
cans 10.
Friends of silver!
In the senate the aye vote on the
Bland bill stood, Democrats 81, Re-
publicans 8.
More friendship!
Why in the name of all that's sensi-
BILE does not that old pirate ship (the
g. o. p.) discontinue trying to fly an
honest flag, and run up the black flag
and the goldbug colors of Wall street
which it is entitled to show.
From 1865 up to the present time the
Republican party has been engaged in
giving ''the blue eye" to silver and ex-
tending the ''glad hand" to the ally of
oppression-gold. These friendship
for silver claims bear the lie on their
face and the people of the west recog-
nize the brand.
POPTTTTST GAINS