Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1895-03-13
RlMETALLIsTs.
Lines Upon Which the New Party VIII
Organize.

Organize.
WASHINGTON, March IA statemen .
signed by the members OF the execu-
tive committee appointed by the BIZ
metallic conference called to meet in
Washington February %, 1896, has
been published declaring the issue
upon which "the new party styled
1.-The American bimetallic party will
organize The signers to the call are:
A. j. Warner, president American Bimetai-
lie league. chairman; John Jones, OF
Nevada: William w. Stewart, OF Nevada; j.
L. McLaurin, South Carolina; Arson Wolcott,
Indiana: George G. Merric. Colorado; Henry
Jones, Georgia: j. Q. Green, California: Joseph
Sheldon. Connecticut: G. j. Hilyer, District OF
Columbia; Byron f. Shea, Colorado, and
Mortimer Whitehead. New Jersey.
The paper issued by these signers
starts out by asserting that the money
question is indisputably the dominant
issue in the United States. The issue,
it declares, lis between the gold stand
ard, gold bonds and bank currency on
the one side and the bimetallic stand
ard, no bonds and government currency
on the other" The statement in its
entirety is an elaborately specified OPP
position to the single gold standard
and demand for an immediate return
Ito the constitutional standard of gold
and silver, by the restoration by
this government independent of any
foreign power of the unrestricted coin
age of both gold and silver into stand
ard money, at the ratio of 16 to l and
upon terms of exact equality, the silver
coin to be full legal tender, equally
with gold for all debts and dues, pub
lie and private"
Their views as generalized embody
in carefully condensed shape the vari
Gus expressions of ultra free silver men
in both houses of congress during the
sessions of recent years and are unal-
terably opposed to the issue by the
United States of interest bearing
bonds in time of peace, and demand
the payment Of all coin obligations of
the United States, as provided by ex-
listing laws, in either gold or silver
coin. at the option of the government,
and not at the option of the creditor.
The inauguration of movement for
relief from the conditions the call de-
scribes, the signers to it declare must
spring from the people. They continue:
Politicians never institute great reforms,
and it were idle to wait for them. This cause
is the cause Of the people, and it is believed
that 1t more profoundly concerns the welfare
of the great body of the people than any Ques-
ton since the civil war. If not. indeed since
our independence was signed. for on its ulti-
mate outcome the question of sufficiency or
a scarcity of money is a question of freedom
or serfdom for the mass of the people"
The address concludes:
"Fellow-citizens The power is still in your
hands to right by the ballot the great wrong of
1873. and to save yourselves and your children
from the thralldom which the gold standard
policy, if persisted in. will surely bring upon
you and them.
Element of this question go beyond the cleo
ton of 1895, but subordinating all questions
for the time being to this, the supreme issue,
settle this now and settle it forever, and we
especially urge upon you the Importance OF
immediate organization in townships and
counties throughout the entire country for the
purpose OF carrying on this great movement
or the common good of all
"f the conference had authority from the
people to name a candidate for president it
would name Joseph G. Sibley. of Pennsylvania,
put not having such authority it can only sug
rest the name and invite expressions from the
people by petition, resolutions or otherwise,
that nominations when made should
.efect in the most direct manner the will Of
;he people, uncontrolled by caucus machinery
)r by professional politicians"