Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-07-17
DON'T BE DECEIVED.
NO HOPE FOR FREE SILVER IN
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
Twenty-One Out of Twenty-Three States
Declared for Free Silver In 1890 In
Democratic state Conventions, but
All Voted Against 1t In 1892.
missouri World.)

Let no one build up hope from the
recent activity of the silver Democrats
that that party can or will give the
country free coinage law. We want
our silver friends in the Democratic
party to look at the situation as 1t is.
You have been grievously disappointed
once. Almost a lifetime of labor has
been brought to naught by over-con-
ndence In your party. Stand of for
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
dennite). 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-
sentatives, as an attempt to demoral-
ize silver and to build up the fortunes
or the favored few, and we favor the
Tree 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
sue 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 un-
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
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
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.
Indiana.-We denounce the silver
bill, so called, recently enacted, as an
ignominious surrender to the money
power. 1t perpetuates the demone-
tization of silver and the single gold
standard, whereas the interest of the
people requires the complete remone-
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 1873.
Iowa.-We demand the free coinage
of silver and that it may be made a
legal tender for all debts, public and
private, and denounce as unjust and
dishonest the provision of the law re-
Gently enacted allowing parties to stip-
ulate against payment in silver GER
tificates, thus setting one standard of
debtor, one for the poor man and the
other for the rich man.
Kansas.-We favor the free coinage
of silver. We favor such change in
our fiscal laws as will leave the con-
troll of the circulating medium of the
country wholly in the hands of the gov
ernment.
Michigan.-We believe in the free
and unlimited coinage of gold and sill
yer, unhampered by conditions as to
the legal tender qualities of either and
unhampered by the proviso suspending
coinage Of silver after July 1, 1891. We
condemn the Republican policy be-
cause it demonetized silver and still re-
fuses the demand of the people for the
restoration Of silver to q complete
equality with gold.
Missouri.-We are in favor of the
free and unrestricted coinage OF silver
and the increase of currency to meet
the legitimate demands of trade, and
we believe that the power to issue and
control the volume of such currency
should be assumed by the government.
Nebraska.-We favor the placing of
the silver dollar on its former footing
with gold coin in our coinage law, with
equal legal tender qualities, and we
denounce as unjust and dishonest the
law recently enacted as a discrimina-
ton in favor of the gold coin for the
benefit Of the money power, and we fur
ther declare ourselves in favor of the
free coinage of silver.
Nevada.-We declare for the free
and unlimited coinage of standard sill
yer dollars Of the present weight and
fineness, to be legal tender for all
debts. public and private. equally with
gold.
North Carolina.-The Democracy of
North Carolina favor the free coinage
Of silver and an increase of the cur
rency and the repeal Of the Internal