Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-10-09
WHAT DO THEY MEAN?
SILVER MEN DEMAND AN AN
SWER FROM DEMOCRATS.
viii They Give the People Chance to
Vote in '96 for a Democrat Who Is
In Favor of the FREQ Coinage of Sill
yer?

We anxiously inquire of the leaders
party, do you intend to give the people
of the United States a chance to vote
in 1896, for Democrat who is in favor
of the coinage of silver upon the same
terms and conditions which apply to
the coinage of gold at the ratio of 16
to II" Real silver men make no point
in regard to what party shall free this
country from British financial rule,
and they are determined to vote for no
man who prefers British commercial
supremacy to the rights of American
citizens. If the Democracy will fur
nish them a candidate worthy of trust,
they will loyalty support him.
What we desire to know is, will the
Democrats furnish such a man? Ii
not, one will be selected and voted for
In every State of the Union outside OF
the Democratic party. If the leaders
OF the silver men in the Democratic
party suppose that the country will be
satisfied with their position when they
declare that they will submit the whole
question to the Democratic conven-
ton of 1896 and abide the result, they
are mistaken. If the cause of silver is
Of so little consequence that the lead
ers of the movement in favor of free
coinage in the Democratic party, will
turn gold bugs in case the gold COM
bination controls the convention OF
1896, it had better be dropped now.
What inducement have honest silver
men, who sever their party relations
for the sake of the cause of the peo-
pie, to follow leaders who say that they
will join the enemy if the Democratic
convention so decides? What the sill
yer men want to know now is, whether
the Democratic silver leaders have en-
listed for the war, or whether they are
ready to turn and rend the -.Jer men
after the manner of Carlisle, Hoke
Smith, and Herbert for a sufficient con-
siderable? The silver men cannot
wait to see whether the Democratic
convention will nominate true Amer
lean silver man for President, because
in case that party does not nominate
such man, it will be too late to COM
bine the forces in favor of American BIZ
The intimation of several leading
Democratic silver men and the asser-
ton of others that in case they were
captured by the goldites in the national
convention they would desert the cause
of silver and fight in the ranks of gold
monometallism, has alarmed the silver
men of the country. They are not will
| ing to follow leaders who propose to
desert the cause and turn their guns
on them whenever the enemy takes
them prisoners. They have seen too
much of that kind of work. They re-
member that Carlisle, Herbert, Hoke
Smith and hundreds of others who in
| times past, fought with them for the
restoration of the money Of the Con-
stitution are now doing battle for cred
| itor England to maintain the gold
| standard which England declares is es-
sential to her commercial supremacy
over the great republic of North Amer
lea. If the Democratic leaders of the
silver forces are prepared to do as
Carlisle, Herbert, and Smith have done
when the loaves and fishes come into
sight, we give them warning now that
we shall appeal to all honest Demo-
Gratis and all honest Republicans who
love their country better than the spoils
Of Office or the smiles of the rich, to
come with us and do battle for the
rights of the American people. The
true silver men in this country are de-
termined to have a party which is true
to American interests, and opposed to
gold monopoly. They appeal to the sill
yer leaders of the Democratic party to
say whether they are acting in good
faith, or whether they expect to sub
nit the cause of the country to ma
tional convention which will be govern
ed by the same influences as all pre-
reding conventions have been, and
whether they intend to expose the
cause of the people to the danger Of be-
ing sold out to an ALLEN gold trust? II