Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-07-17
NUMBER 9.

notes, issued in suficient volume to
do the business of the country on q
cash system. regulating the amount
needed on a per capita basis, as the
business interests of the country ex-
pands, and that all money issued by
the government shall be legal tender
In payment Of all debts, both public
and private
Ohlo.-We favor the free coinage OF
silver with its present ratio with gold
Oregon.-We reafarm the position
which has ever been maintained by the
Democratic party. that gold and silver
are equally the peoples money; we are
opposed to all measures Of discrimina-
ton against silver, and demand free
coinage to supply the needs Of busi-
ness; and that all money issued by
the government be made legal tender
1or all debts, both public and private
South Carolina CTillman faction)-
We demand the abolition OF national
banks. and that legal tender treasury
notes be issued in sufficient volume TO
do the business of the country on
cash system, and that all money issued
by the government shall be legal ten
der in payment OF all debts, both pub
lie and private. eve IA
vor) the free and unlimited coinage OF
silver, the increase Of the currency ana
the repeal Of the internal revenue sys-
tenn.
South Dakota.-That we are in favor
Of the full reconciliation Of silver. the
free and unlimited coinage thereof and
the issuance of coin certificates based
thereon which shall be full legal ten
der.
Tennessee.-We demand a currency
Of gold and silver, and also Of paper,
convertible into coin at the option or
the holder, and We demand the free
coinage Of silver on the basis originally
fixed by law, and that 1t and the gold
dollar shall be equally a unit Of value
Texas.-we are opposed to the con-
tinuance of the national banking sys-
TEN and demand the abolishment
thereof as soon as by law the same can
be done. We are In favor OF
the free and unlimited coinage of sill.
yer and endorse the action Of our SEN
ators and representatives therefor.
West Virginia.-That the Democrats
of West Virginia declare that they
are unalterably in favor Of the free and
unlimited coinage of silver.
Wyoming.-We demand the free
coinage Of silver, and we denounce the
Republican party for the enactment Of
law which makes 1t discretionary
with the secretary of the treasury to
demonetiZe silver.
If such straight out declarations in
twenty-one state platforms only two
years before the last presidential cleo
ton resulted in the decentralization OF
silver by the party adopting them, what
ground is there for hope from the
Democratic party by reason of the
present activity of the silver Demo-
Gratis? Even If the silver Democrats
controlled the next Democratic national
convention and secured the nomination
of a silver man for President and elect
ed him, there would be enough gold
bug Democrats carried into Congress
by the Democratic victory to enable
the Republicans to defeat free silver
bill. The silver Democrats should
come to the Peoples party. The silver
men must unite to obtain victory over
the gold power and they cannot unite
in the Democratic party; that is GER
tain, because Republican silver men
will not go to the Democrats. and Pop
ulists will not go to a party in which
they will have to sit on committees
with gold bugs, and which in one part
of the nation is electing men to neu-
tralize the efforts of those it elects In
another part of the country. There is
not a gold standard man in the Peo-
pies party. There is not contrac-
ZIONIST in the Peoples party. There
lis not tool of the money power in the
Peoples party. Now, come with us,
silver friends of the old parties, let us
have the benefit of your support and
you the benefit Of our support With
your help we can drive the plutocrats
from power. This you cannot do in
your old party for reasons above set
forth We wish you could. We care
nothing for party, nor for name.