Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1895-07-09

uicSSctl inc DllneJallc league OF
lnkster Saturday night last and
is reported to have advised the
friends of bimetalism to wait in
side Of one or other of the two
old parties and to avoid the Pop
uhsts and havenothing to do with
a party built on u single plank;
meaning thereby what is termed
the ''Sibley Silver Party" as no
parity with a single plank ever
succeeded.
Is the senator ignorant, or does
he desire to deceive? Neither of
the two old parties has moret than
a single issue at present, and
for most of the time for 80 years
past each has had but Il single
ISSUE. and no party, in this or
any other country ever rose to
power and held it on more than
one issue at a time.
Was there any issue between
either Of, the old parties in the
last election on finance, or is
there now:
If you should print the plat
form of either of them on silver
in 1895 there is not one out of ten
Of your readers who could say
whether it was the Democratic
or the Republican platform, and
none of them, after reading the
two, side by side, could explain
any difference in their object or
effect,
There is no issue on finance be-
tween the ST. Paul Globe and the
Pioneer Press, or between the
Globe and any of the great Re-
publican dailies of Minneapolis,
aud this is true of the old party
press elsewhere.
There is no difference between
Henry Watterson, Carlisle,
Cleveland, Sherman, Harrison or
Mckinley on the money question.
Cleveland Carlisle and Waiter
son advise the Democrats to
choose between a Is to 1 free
coinage Democrat and gold Re-
publican and vote for the Re,
publican, and Mckinley says he
will not take a nomination on 1G
to | free silver coinage platform
and will leave the party if such
nomination is made.
The. republican party killed
free coinage in 1873, and or
every issue or vote that has
arisen since 1873 to restore it the
Republican party has furnished
a majority vote against it, anc
more than threefourths of all the
Republican papers in the United
States at this time are belittlins
free coinage and trying to pre-
vent it.
In view of this condition O.
affairs, when Senator Hans
brough tells the people they
must work for bilnetal]ism by
staying in the Republican par
ty, or in either Of the old parties
he is ignorant, or purposelJ
striving to mislead.
! He is equally ignorant or mis-
leading when he says that par
ties are not built on single issues
What built and developed tn,
old Wing and Democratic partie.
but a single issue? What Great
ed the Republican party but
single issue? What created tn,
party that brought us indepen
dence but a single issue or tina
made the French revolution
possible.
i All great parties that hav
existed in this country have bee1
created and existed on singh
: issues, There is only one issu,
now that's paramount and tina
is the money question, Unles,
we get down to that issue an,
lop off all others the Hansbrough
will keep bimetallic Republican,
i'll the Republican party to vot,
for McKinly for president am
to put M. N. Johnson in the sen
ate and some gold man in con
gress from North Dakota, ant
: the Democratic orators who ar,
the professed friends of fire.
coinage well no doubt soon b.
among us advising people to sta,
by the Democratic party to obtail
free silver, and next year, in
national ticket we will see wha
we have now in Kentucky, tw
national tickets of each Of the OF,
parties, both committed to the col,
: trust and no organization to NICE
them.
1t is as much our duty to organ
ize now on the single money issu
as it was for the Republics
! party to organize on the SLAYER,
|, issue, or for our fathers to organ
ize on the single issue Of Amerj
. can independence, and no Demo
GRAFT, Republican or Populist is
, sensible patriot who will hesitat
to aid in such organization, an,
he should begin without waitinI
for the action of either of the oil,
parties to solidify it's rank
against free coinage A." I
LIZ. III w.. Fl. STANDISH.. .. !.
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