The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-09-07

our silver Such a policy honestly car
rIed out would in short time bring to
US the trade of countries embracing
three-fourths of the population of the
world, which would tax the Industries
OF this country far beyond their
present capacity. This would cause
the trade balances of three-fourths of
the world to be settled in New York in
stead of London. Then a suggestion
from this country for an International
agreement would be quickly accepted
by all other nations, but not till then"
W. s. GLASS, MARYsvILLE
w. s. Glass, attorney at Marysville, the
home of Congressman Calderhead,
writes: ~ wish to say that we have five
or six towns in this county in which eff
fective silver leagues can be organized
The field is ripe for the harvester
Started rightly within sixty days two
thirds Of our voters can be in these or
ganlzatIons Mr.. Parks, a we'll known
Republican of Marshall county, is in my
office as l write, and can vouch for a
hearty cooperation in this work"
JUDGE MDONALD, CHASE co.
Judge Matt Mcdonald, of the probate
court of Chase county, writes: $50 far
everything is coming our way, but Dick
Blue, and he will have to stand by silver
or go down and out. If we make the
fight for bimetallism as we have started
out to do, we will win and hold the party
together. We should commence to or
ganize silver Republican leagues all over
the state at once"
BANKER JAMES H. SMITH.
Capt James II. Smith, president of the
First National bank at Sterling, says he
stands for the reconciliation of silver,
just as he has ever since he discovered
that congress had demonetized it.
WEBB M'NALL
Webb McNaIl, of whom every Repub-
lican in all Kansas we'll knows. writes:
Il will say that have always been for
free coinage of silver, just as the state
platform declared in 1890, and again in
1894. declared for the coinage of the
American product, and I believe these
platform declarations mean something
When the Republicans resolved, as they
did, and made the campaigns accordingly,
the party was thereby pledged TO those
declarations"
EDITOR A. L. sPoNsLER.
A. L. Sponsler, editor of the Hutchin-
son News, says: "Ghe address has been
published in the News, and l have al
ready heard of good results. The attempt
of some fellows to read men out of the
Republican party for advocating free
silver is preposterous, shortsig hted and
assume, and would soon leave Kansas
without much of a party"
JOHN TONTZ IRON MANUFACTURER.
John Tontz, at the head of the Girard
foundry and for forty years a Republi-
can, writes: Republicans here are strong
for free coinage, but our local paper will
not publish anything on that subject
Your address or any other literature will
help us to educate the members of the
party" He enclosed list of a dozen
names of prominent members of the par
ty in Girard, VINO endorsed the address
as "An able, clean and clear statement
of the true policy of the Republican
party on this question"
SENATOR MILTON BROWN.
Senator Milton Brown, of Garden City,
in discussing the plans of the state Re
publican silver league for holding the
Republican silver men in the party,
wrote the secretary as follows: "My
idea would be to communicate
with each Republican editor, telling him
that in our judgment the way to hold the
silver Republicans within the party, is to
show up the single gold standard of
Grover Cleveland and the Democracy,
also the implacable enmity of the Demo
cratic administration towards bimetallc
money as final redemption money. By
doing this l am satisfied that we can
AOIQ Ill IN line.
DR. S. l. n. FOOTE.
DR., S. L. n. Foote, for years a worker
in the Republican party in Coffey county,
writes: "Allow me to congratulate you,
myself, Kansas, and the Republican
party on the. able address issued to the
members of our party in Kansas by your
league. l am and have ever been a Re-
publican, but l am also as strongly
welded to bimetallic currency as to
any party, and no man who vassilates
or fails to declare himself most en-
phatically, and without am biguity,
can get my vote nor can
he be elected president in '96. I feel
anxious for our party to declare itself
early and forcibly, as on such rests our
hope of success. l am not an aspirant
for political preferment, and for that
reason am perhaps in closer touch with
the party pulse than any man who is
seeking position in our party. The pol
icy of the present putty headed admin
istration has 80 nauseated the better ele-
ment of its former supporters as to make
it absolutely necessary for the Repub bill
cans to be both aggressive and outspO-
KEN"
WEB. WILDER
D. ". Wilder, ex state auditor, and now
editor and publisher of the "Insurance
magazine, at Kansas City, says: Il am
delig htedly pleased with your address, &c
the Republicans of Kansas, in favor OF
the restoration of silver, as primary
standard money. Next year, every can
didate for congress, must be pledged in
writing. Even then some of them will
sell out Hon. John Schilling says that
Johnson's Cyclopedia is sound on this
question. An investigation by congress
would have ended the battle-a battle
which has taken the lives and fortunes OF
thousands of men and women. I an
afraid the cause ofsilver is lost, unless the
people vigorously and vigilantly act"
GEO. W. MARTIN.
Geo. ". Martin. editor of the Kansas
City Gazette, says: 81 endorse your adj
dress, and shall take pleasure in publish
ing it and your plan of organization, etc.
in the Gazette. I go further than your
executive committee and league do.
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