The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1895-07-26
DON'T BE DECEIVED.
HOPE FOR FREE SILVER IN
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
rwenty-One Out Of Twenty-Three States
Declared for Free silver in 1890 in
Democratic State Conventions, but
All Voted Against It in 19pa.
missouri WORLDLY

recent activity of the silver Democrats
that that party can or will give the
country a free coinage law. We want
our silver friends in the Democratic
party to look at the situation as it is.
You have been grieyously disappointed
once. Almost a lifetime of labor has
been brought to naught by over-con-
moment as a non-partisan and take a
look at your party. In 1880 the Demo-
cratic party in the same states in
which the silver Democrats are now so
active declared for the free coinage of
silver in language that admitted of no
double construction Except in Illi-
nois, where the plank was not very
1efnite). Yet the goldbug Democrats
were sufficiently numerous in Congress
at the extra session two years ago to
not only prevent the passage Of a free
silver bill, but to wipe out the last law
favorable to silver and readopt the de-
monetizing act of 1873. Here are the
silver planks in the Democratic plat
forms of 1890. We get these planks.
from the New York World Almanac,
1881. 1t reports only twenty-three
state Democratic conventions adopting
money planks in 1890, and of these
tWenty-one were for the free coinage
of silver.
Arkansas.-We denounce as iniqui-
tous the silver bill as passed by the
present Republican House of Repre-
sentatlves, as an attempt to democrat
ize silver and to build up the fortunes
of the favored few, and we favor the
free and unrestricted coinage of silver,
and an increased volume of currency,
restricted alone to the necessary de-
mands OF the country, which shall be
a legal tender for all debts, public and
private. We believe the power to is
u and control the volume of currency
belongs alone to the government and
That this power should not be delegated
to or controlled by any other author
ity.
California.-We favor the free coin
age Of silver, and demand that it be
made an unlimited legal tender for all
purposes, public and private.
Colorado.-We condemn the present
administration for reckless and I'M
necessary waste of public treasure, by
means Of which the surplus fund accu-
mulated under the wise and economic
administration of Grover Cleveland has
practically Disappeared, in place Of
which the country is threatened with a
deficiency arising from the increase Of
expenditures over receipts for the pres
ent fiscal year. We demand the free
and unlimited coinage of silver.
Idaho.-We tender our gratitude to
the Democrats in Congress for their
almost unanimous votes in both houses
for the free and unlimited coinage Of
silver, and congratulate the people of
our new state that there is one great
political organization in the country
committed by its votes in Congress to
a measure SO essential to the prosper
ity Of Idaho. The silver bill as en-
acted by the Republican Congress is a
compromise in the interests of Wall
street, clothes the secretary Of the
treasury with power to refuse to pur-
chase bullion on the pretext that bull
lion is not offered at the market price,
and enables him to bear the silver mar
ket by refusing to purchase except at
his discretion and at such prices as he
may determine.
Illinois.-We demand that all unnec-
essary restrictions be removed from the
coinage Of silver.
InGiana.-We denounce the silver
bill, so called, recently enacted, as an
ignominious surrender to the money
power. It perpetuates the denone-
tlzation Of silver and the single gold
| standard, whereas the interest Of the
| people requires the complete remone-
tization of silver and it's restoration tc
perfect equality with gold in our coin
! age. We demand the free and unre.
stricted coinage of silver upon the ba.
sis existing prior to 1878.
Iowa.-We demand the free coinage
Of silver and that it may be made
legal tender for all debts, public an6
private, and denounce as unjust ant
dishonest the provision Of the law re.
i Gently enacted allowing parties to slip.
ulate against payment in silver Ger.
~tiflcates, thus setting one standard O.
value for the creditor and one for tn.
debtor, n for the poor man and thu
other for the rich man.
Kansas.-We favor the free coinage
Of silver. We favor such change il
our fiscal laws as will leave the con.
troll Of the circulating medium of thu
country wholly in the hands Of the gov