Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-08-15

Ranger August lj,
Editor Gazette. Noting your editorial
relative TO the resolution passed UNI
uuimuusly by the recent silver cupven-
tlon, endorsing the Gazette and calling
ON an people favorable to- the silver
cause to throw their support, both
moral and financial, 10 the Gazette, is
undoubtedly. Az you say, an honor that
any Journal could Justly point to with
pride, yet IL H. not u tribute undeserv-
ed for the Gazette, under the present
management has always stood square
up by the side Of the people nghting
Tor their cause, and against nu uppusi-
ton, too, that ia far reaching and pow
crful IN influence.
We must be up ana doing and II IA
good Judgment and policy Tor every
man favorable 10 the cause of free
silver to ask his nrighburs to sub
scribe for the Gazette aud In every
way possible extend It's circulation.
| The cause Of free silver must not wane,
| hut every mothers SON OF us must keep
| NJ aud extend the enthusiasm shown
! In the silver convention, aud the writer
/ only rpgrctA there were not a hundred
| thousand Texas voters there 10 hear
! the muatcrly cNp0undlng OF Demo-
| cratic history by that most brilliant Of
| orators j, W Bailey IL Is true that
! the friends VI the cause nf the single
| standard ARE loud In their assertions
/ that the free silver people belong in
IHlut . oIiAlAl lANhNt nut tNtlt WAS no
] speech made In Fort Worth on the
9Th but that pleaded with aud advised
/ Democrats to stay IN the Democratic
party and make the fight to a nuish In
the party that has been always the
party of the people aud party that
has come out ON top In more hard
fought battles than any party ever in
existence.
! II did this writer good to hear the
I hon, NJ NJ. crane explain the argu-
ment In the last state convention be-
tween the Clark and Hogg factions,
IA regard to the financial plank He
said They (lhe Clark people, came to
ns and begged and pleaded with us
TO put in the financial plank OF the
national platform, agreeing that each
candidate should have the privilege
to 20 out on the stump and place his
own construction on the plank" Every
where tho gold bugs claimed that our
governor and other state nominees
gently slid on the platform. but this
" not so, II Mr., Cranes explanation
Is correct, However this may be, this
writer has always construed the ma
tlonal platform OF 1892 to be favor
able 10 the free coinage OF both gold
and silver without discrimination
against either metal, and this Is today
all the most extravaganza sllverlte de-
mands.
IN finding answers to the Ave prom
EDITIONS OF Carlisles speech at Bowl
ing Green, the Clarksvllc Times quotes
the third proposition and answers IL
as follows' There IL not a silver
standard country In the world today
that uses any gold as money along
with silver Which IL conclusive cyi-
dence that gold In not an absolute NO.
cessity and necessarily tho king bee
OF metals" And this reminds me OF
the oft repeated assertion that ali the
gold OF the country win leave our
shores the very minute that free coin
age OF silver Is adopted. II gold will do
thls, Is II not then fair conclusion
TO reach that geld Is not an honest
money, for II It was, Il could stand
the competition which the inferior sill
yer money would bring against the
Sold. Amy money that IL honest Will
circulate along side OF silver money II
both are given an. eaual footing hefore
me law and at the mints OF our coun-
try.
IL T. nonsense for people to call us
Ponulists because we favor the free
eoinage OF silver merely because the
Populists claim 10 favor free silver.
u would be Just as fair to say Repub-
llcans are Populsts because the said
Republicans declare for free speech,
the same aa Popullsts The only solu-
tlon OF this question. or Mt least the
quickest way to decide the matter In
our favor Is for all hands to stay with
the Democratic party and make a
fight TO the finish within the only true
party OF the people.
Trusting the Gazette's circulation
may double in the next six months /
am. as ever Its friend.
j JAN BYRD.