Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1895-10-25
SINGLE PLANK.

Our subscribers will all bear witness that VIZ
have always urged peace i'll the ranks of re
form We believe that without peace there
can be no success, and for that reason we urge
that the difference between Chairman Taube
neck and others be speedily settled. Some o.
our leading papers have been reporting Mr.
Taubeneck as trying to "side-track' the party
onto a single silver plank, in keeping with the
views of the National Watchman, and these
reports have caused many Of our best writers
and speakers to denounce Mr.. Taubeneck as a
false leader. But just as we go to press, we
receive a copy of Mr.. Taubeneck's reply to
Col Norton, in which he denies that he ever
made any such public statements as he has
been accused of, and makes some very pointed
charges against Col. Norton. We are extreme
ly sorry to see this misunderstanding, and urge
an immediate settlement. If Mr.. Taubeneck
is at fault, he should resign, and if the Colonel
and the Express are wrong, they should, and
undoubtedly will, receive a just rebuke at the
hands of all true reforrners. rs.-Amercan Tramp.
No one is more anxious for peace and har-
nony in the reform ranks than are, but we
think Col. Norton is right in his criticism of
Chairman Taubeneck, and we think Taubeneck
should have the good grace to resign without
any further discussion. Taubeneck cannot
truthfully deny that he counselled the party to
make the fight i'll 90 financial plank alone,
for he published an appeal to that effect. That
was sufficient cause for his resignation, and he
should have resigned without invitation
Indeed he should have resigned before he pub
1ished the appeal which is fresh in the minds
of the people.
Congressman Dick Blue declared in speech
at Kansas City, Kansas, Saturday night, that
he was in favor of coming the product of the
silver mines of the United States. If he had
stopped there he might have been credited with
being a sincere, though misguided, bimetalist,
but he didn't stop there. He went OIL to say
that he wanted to see every dollar the equal of
any other dollar This latter statement shows
either ignorance or all intent to deceive. If
Congressman Blue knows anything about the
question, he knows that the matter of coming
or not coming additional silver has nothing
whatever to do with the parity of values
between different kinds of dollars. The ques-
tion of all equality of values between our diff
ferent kinds of dollars can be settled by simply
complying with the laws OH the statute books.
Under the law every dollar in the United States
is worth 100 cents, and kind of a dollar
will buy Just as much as another kind of dol
lar. The coinage of all the silver in the world
into American dollars could not alter this fact.
If Congressman Blue means that he wants the
value of the bullion in one kind of dollar to be
equal to the value of the bullion in another kind
of dollar, then he should favor the unlimited
coinage of both kinds of metallic dollars, for
that is the only way it can be brought about.
He says he will never vote to debase coin.
This is encouraging in view of the fact that
there has been a constant effort on the part of
the present administration to debase the sill
yer coin,-State Journal (Rep.)
Goodland, Indiana, little town of one or
two thousand inhabitants, owns its own cleo
tric light plant. 1t furnishes iucadescent lights
to its people at 40 cents month each and then
clears 81 900 year on its investment. This
is a straw that shows how public ownership
will help the people.-Grapder Age.
Dick Chase may be bruiser and by some
has been regarded as all all round bad man, but
according to State Accountant Challinor he kept
his books straight while warden of the pehi-
tentiary.-State Journal.