The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1894-04-20

| defeated by the convention.
We have heard something like this
nearer home. Mr.. HaIstead's rebuke
is beautifully supplemental to the
charge The Constitution has made
that the republican and the cuckoo
patronage organs belong to the same
combination which has for its purpose
the substitution of John Sherman's
| financial views for the pledge of the
democratic platform.
i The cuckoo organ here at home
wants to know, you know, why free
coinage is not in the platform, and
John Sherman and Murat Halstead,
and all the administration forces want
to know the same thing. Well, free
coinage is not in the platform simply
because it is there as large as life and
more natural than if the word free
had been put in. 1t will appear to
any thoughtful person who reads the
platform with any attention that the
word ''freeu could not have been in
serted without injuring the simple
strength of the declaration. Let US
see what that declaration is:
| We denounce the republican legis-
lation known as the Sherman act of
| 1890, as a cowardly makeshift, fraught
with possibilities of danger in the
future, which should make all of its
supporters, as well as its author,
anxious for its speedy repeal. We
hold to the use of both gold and silver
I as the standard money of the country,
and to the coinage of both gold and
| silver without discrimination against
| either metal, or charge for mintage,
but the dollar unit of coinage of both
metals must be Of equal intrinsic and
exchangeable value or be adjusted
| through international agreement, or
| by such safeguards of legislation as
| shall insure the maintenance of the
| parity of the two metals and the equal
| power of every dollar at all times in
| the markets and in payments of
| debts; and we demand that all paper
currency shall be kept at par with
/ and redeemable in such coin. We
insist upon this policy as especially
necessary for the protection of the
farmers and laboring classes, the first
/ and most defenseless victims of UNI
stable money and fluctuating cur
rency.
Now, if our minis are at present
open to the free coinage Of gold, then the
platform demands that they shall be
open to the free coinage of silver, for
the pledge is that there shall be no
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either gold or silver, or charge for
mintage. What could be palmer
than this? Why, then, are the
cuckoo organs, who pretend to be
democrats, and who keep this pledge
standing at the head of their editorial
columns, unwilling to see it carried
out? Why do they dodge its plain
terms? Why do they endorse the
single gold standard and approve
John Sherman's financial views?
The platform declares that both
silver and gold shall be the standard
money of the country, that there
shall be no discrimination in coinage
against either metal, and no charge
for mintage. This is not only de-
cIaration but pledge; why not carry
it out?
We believe the cuckoos dodge this
by INDUCING in lot of jargon and
chatter about parity aud an ssinter-
national agreement But the plat
form declares that both gold and sill
yer shall be the standard money of
the country by coming silver on the
same terms with gold, and then,
when that is done, it provides that
the dollar unit of both metals must
be Of equal intrinsic and exchange
able value or be adjusted through
international agreement, or by such
safeguards of legislation as shall in
sure the maintenance of the parity of
the two metals, and the equal power
of every dollar at all times in the mar
kets and in the payment of debts.n
| Now, nothing could be clearer OF
more satisfactory than this. Read it
again, and then tell us what is to be
adjusted by international agreement
or by safeguards of legislation. is the
coinage of both gold and silver to be
so adjusted? Is international agree
mentn to adjust the question
whether both gold and silver shall be
the money standard of the country?
We challenge the cuckoo organs
and their greatest leader, John Sher-
man, to point to single line, or word,
or hint, in the democratic platform
that justifies their malicious effort to
twist the meaning of the financial
pledge. 1t is the ratio-the parity
that is to be adjusted by international
agreement. But suppose there is no
international agreement? What then
Is the democratic pledge to fall to the
ground on that account? BY no
means. The platform provides fol-
such an emergency. If there can be
no international agreement, gold and
silver are to be made the standard
money Of the country just the same
the minis are to be opened to both
metals on the same terms just the
same; and then the ratio is to be adj.
justed by such safeguards of Legislation
as viii insure the parity of the dollar
unit of both metals in the markets
and in the payment of debts.
We advise the cuckoos and the pat.
ronage heelers to drop John Sherman
like hot potato. We advise them tc
cease their ridiculous efforts to deceive
the honest and intelligent people Of
the country. We advise them to
stick to tie platform and to read il
as it is written.
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