St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-08-05
AMBITIOUS BRYAN
Young Nebraskan Riding His
Free Coinage Ideas for
Place.
ASPIRES TO BE A SENATOR.
Letter to the Free Coinage
League Declaring His
Candidacy.
ASPIREs TO BE A SENATOR.
HE FAVoRS POPULAR VOTE.
A RouSing Denunciation OF
Protective Tariff--HiS
Platform.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 4.-Representa-
tive w. j. Bryan, of Nebraska, has
written letter to j. E. Ong, president,
and the other members of the executive
committee of the Nebraska Democratic
Free Coinage League, in response to
their letter recently requesting him to
become candidate for United States
senator. and to state the principles
which will guide him in the event OF
his election. He expresses this concur
renee in the view of the league that
the people should be permitted to elect
senators by direct vote, and continuing,
says:
sin compliance with your request, l
therefore announce my candidacy for
the senatorial term beginning March 4,
1895, and shall make as thorough can
vass of the state as circumstances will
permit"
After declaring his firm faith in the
principles of jefferson and jackson, that
all men are equal and should have equal
rights. Mr. Bryan makes the following
declaration of political principles:
Il shall continue to labor for
Tariff for Revenue Only,
more deeply convinced than ever before
by my short experience in congress that
protective tariff, as we have known it.
is only system of legalized spoliation,
by which the organized few are able to
plumber the unorganized many for pre-
tended public good. l shall favor an
income tax as permanent part of our
fiscal system, preferring graduated
tax, but accepting the tax provided in
the Wilson bill as a step toward the
restoration of equality i'll the distribu-
ton of the burdens of government.
81 shall favor strict economy in pub
lie expenditures.
IL favor the immediate restoration of
the free and unlimited coinage of gold
and silver at the present ratio of 16 to 1,
without waiting for the aid or consent
of any other nation on earth.
believing that the creation of money
is an attribute of sovereignty, am op
posed to farming out the right to any
private individual or corporation what
ever. and in case the precious metals do
not furnish sufficient supply, favor the
issue of full legal tender paper, redeem
able in coin by the general government,
in such quantities that the volume of
The currency, gold, silver and paper to-
gether, will be so adjusted to the needs
of commerce that the dollar will be
stable in its purchasing poweh and thus
defraud neither debtor or creditor.
Il shall also favor such legislation as
will hereafter prohibit the making of
contracts for narticuIar kind of
money"
Mr.. Bryan then declares in favor of
constitutional amendment for cleo ton
of senators by
Direct Popular Vote,
and also the following additional planks
in his platform:
81 favor all amendment to the consti-
tuition making the president ineligible
to reelection.
81 am in favor of liberal pension
policy towards the nations disabled and
needy soldiers and their widows and
dependents.
II favor the direct control of all rail
roads and of all other public corpora
lions by proper legislation, to the end
that they may be made to carry out the
beneicent purpose which called them
into being. The people of Nebraska
have a special interest in the dealings
of the government with the Union Pa
cific railway, and shall favor the fore
closure of the government lien on all
the Pacific railways and their sale, or
purchase and Incorporation of them by
the government. l favor the applica-
ton of the principle of arbitration as
far as the federal authority eXtenQSo