The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-06-13
REPUBLICANISM OR PoPULIsN.


EtcraE0fG k13tSE PRISE
Are the Republican newspapers and the
Republican leaders Il Spokane and East
eFn Washington intending 20 turn Pcpa-
list. or viii they eat crow? One thing is
absolutely certain: The Republican par
~. when IL meets At the next national
convention. wifi not place an unlimited
Is 70 / silver coinage plank in its plat
form.
Now. what are such leading Republican
journals as the Spokesman Review and
such lenders as Attorney General W G.
Jones. and al other Republicans, whether
generals or privafes. going TO do. when
the best thought. experience. wisdom and
patriotism Of their party assemble, and
with the best interests Of the party and
nation in their minds. 50 frame the man.
clal plank OF their platform that true hi
metalil-1n and not unlimited coinage OF sil-
yer AZ Is 10 ] shall he the financial declara-
ton OF that party? Will these people eat
crow or VIII they become Populistsf
Now in all kindness. and with charity
toward the Spokesman Reyiew-admitting
that they think they are right in their po-
sition on this silver auestion-we wish 70
warn them and all Republicans, who take
up and re-echo the wild cry Of unlimited
coinage OF silver at Is TO l. that they must
pepare themselves to either abandon the
Republican party, eat crow, or join the
Popnlists. The position YOU now assume
upon this money question viii not be
taken by the national Republican conven-
ton. What will you and Mr.. Jones, or any
other alleged Republican leader then do?
Fight the party and tell your readers that
the money power has strangled liberty
and smothered the real expression of the
party's thoughts? And viii Mr.. Jones
take another trip through the county with
his blackboard, and by the jugglery and
stunning of figures and tables make, or
try TO make, the farmer believe that be-
cause silver is cheap wheat is also cheap?
Forgetting all the time that the farmer.
though he did not wear Chinese polished
cuffs. had sense enough left after the
speech" TO say TO himself as he thought
the matter over going home, that meat in
Chicago was very high when wheat was
the lowest, and that ii took just the same
kind of money TO pay for wheat as it did
for meat.
We believe in the Republican party and
shall support that parry and its candi-
dates in our feeble way at ali times US
ing our very best ability and efforts in
that direction. We are going to support
the candidate for president that the next
Republican convention dominates. We
believe that whenever the Republican par
~ has met in convention il has made plat
forms and nominated candidates best CAL
culated to induce the prosperity through
out these United States. We have abid-
ing faith that when the representatives
again assemble in convention, the major
ity OF thought and action viii be- they
always have been. in the best interests of
this country. Should the party put in its
declaration of principles a free and I'M
limited 10 TO l coinage plank, we shall
still support the party and its candidates.
We should do so. however, with sorrow
and distrust, believing that a serious mis-
take had been made, but yet feeling that
the leaders of the party made it with
honor, integrity and the patriotic desire
TO do right.
Our advice to the Spokesman Review,
and TO all our Republican friends in Spo-
kane whom We respect and honor as
leaders, is TO be conservative and reason
able OH this subject of silver. Do not let
your supposed local interests warp your
thoughts and actions so as to impair your
allegiance to a great party, that, on calm
reflection, you surely must respect and
honor: a party that has never injured
this country; but under whose principles
and laws the country has always pros
pered. and under whose wise and thought
full provisions the sun of prosperity and
happiness will again shine.