The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-06-07

%moyetnsnt going on within tho Repub.
lican party. Thore aro freq silver lto.
publicans, 10 DO suIo, and thoto Nro
many Of Thorn, particularly in tho So
allied silver ataies OF tho wost, But
thoro Ia no movement at present TO
commit tho party to tho silver craze in
advance Of tho national convention.
In Colorado, tho very storm centre OF
tho agitation, tho Republican state
League convention refused TO instruct It's
delegates 10 the national convention to
demand that tho national league com.
init itself to FREQ silver. Though silver
mon, they wore not ready 10 part COM.
pnny with tho Republican party. In
Kentucky, whore tho Democracy Is in
danger Of disruption on account Of tho
agitation, the Republican convention
unanimously adopted n sound money
platform, following tho example set by
their Ohio brethren. There Is Rbso-
lutoly no Oign anywhere OF tho Rcpub-
iican party disin,eGrating on tho money
question. Where differences eXist u
spirit OF concession prevails and there's
n general expression oil faith in tho
ability Of the party to meet and sottlo
the question when tho time comog for
a national declaration. No d%isorganiz.
Ing forces arc at work. The Republican
party has always boon n sound money
party, aud though differences as to
method may occur. there will DO no
split in tho organization. These aro
facts that cannot be successfully denied,
and uro exhibits in which tue Rcpub-
lican organization. az n party, has very
much the best OF tho political situation.
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The Berkeley Free Lance, an indie
pendent paper, but published by my
good Republican friend George +.
Evans, who has ALWAYS been distiu-
guishcd for his political orthodoxy, ia
another ono OF tho critics charging me
with forgetting that tho Republican
party Is, II anything, in an oven more
seriously divided condition" than the
Democracy. This | en- alphabetically dony.
and have just shown that there is no
basis for such an assertion. Tho Free
Lance points to the TACT that Senators
Jones and Stewart (silver mine ownoEs)
have deserted the Republican party be.
cause OF hostile silver legislation, and
seems to regard the loss OF those two
gentlemen in the light OF a calamity.
jones and Stewart publicly announced
their intention to affiliate with tho
Populists previous to the last election.
Since then tho Republican party has
swept the country like q cyclone and
Jones and Stewart we're not missed.
Some years ago a large number OF very
able Republicans left the party. They
were ireo traders, such as Carl Schurz,
George William Curtis aud n number Of
othor gentlemen OF equal ability and III
tluencs. The party survived that ioss.
The Republican party didn't surrender
its principles 10 retain the free traders
III its ranks. II wasn't built that way. On
this question OF tho currency. the only
gentlemen who hayo lett the Republican
rank, are those who, like Jones and
Stewart. have u selfish interest in deslr-
ing legislation that will enable them 10
take every fifty cents worth OF tho pro-
duct OF their silver mines to the miuts
and have it stamped this il \ dollar"
by the government. free oil charge, and
who, by plausible arguments and false
assumptions, have persuaded their fol-
lowers to believe that such legislation
would prove q punacoa fox NIL our imam.
cial ills.
Ny friend of the Free Lance will
ascertain two things before he is a year
older. First, that tho Republican party
will not place in its platform a deciara.
ton for Tree, unlimited and indcpen-
dent coinage Of silver. nor any doclara-
tion endorsing any othcr Populist
ialIacy. Second, that the present cheap
money craze will have subsidized and
that tho financial policy adopted by the
Republican party will BIO on the safe,
sound. conservative lines laid down by
tho Ohio convention, which declared
Tor true bi-mctallisn, tho use OF both
silver and gold, n: n proper ratio, md
under SUCH proper restrictions rs will
insure 4 sound monetary system, and
mai ntain the parity OF both metals.
There will DO no free, unlimited mud iu-
dependent business about it. Tho Re-
publican party never has bcea for dis
honest money and it will not ho now.
As on tho tariff question, tho great
business intores.s OF this' country
that desire a stable currency
and not silver mouo-nctallIsln, to.
gOtiler with the working classes who
desire TO receive for their days labor
| pay in dollhrs worth their face value,
will be with the Republican party,
should tho Democratic party bc cap
turcd by tho fiat money men WHO now
have designs upOn it.
In another OF the 8tato papers. which
is published by n prominent candidate
for governor, thoro have been lately
some amusing comments which show
how much tho aforesaid candidate docs
not know about the silver question. For
instance, in comment on tho lSrEILI-
~GE&CEE'> EDnrty endorsement Of the
Ohio Republican SOUND money plat
lorm, it quOtcs tho CURRENCY plank aud
saya: "Now "a ,horc is not likely to 10
any international agreement, this ls to
be read rs though the part referring 10
this woro lott out. Then what is loft2
Simply that tho purchasing and debt
paying power Of the dollar. whether sill.
yer, gold or paper shall he tho same.
Making it 4 legal tender for Nil purposes
wall accomplish this" As this ii pre-.
cisnlv what our present svstum pro.
vide4. u curious public would like TO
know, perhaps, what tho candidate for
governor thinkq hG means by HIvOcat-
Ing iroc silver coinage in his paper.
Wcst Virginia will acnd \ rousing
delegation to tho National Republican