The record-union., 1896-10-06
To Their Fellow Countrymen in the
United States.
Requested to Combine and Cast Their
Votes for a Monetary System
Which Is Recognized by the Lead
ing Nations of the World, the One
Which is Advocated in the Repub-
liCan Platform.

| NEW YORK, Oct 5.-The Advisory
Committee of the German Americans
attached to the Republican National
Committee issued an address this after
noon to the German citizens of the
| United States. The address is as fol-
| lows:
when our country was in danger of
Being torn asunder by secession a large
| majority of the citizens, and particu-
| larly the Americans, stood
ready at the instant to sacrifice their
| lives and all they had for the mainte
nance of the Union. To-day certain
elements are bent ON undermining the
| honor and credit of our country, and
| III destroying its property They are
aiming to depreciate our standard
money guaranteed by our Constitution.
To overcome this danger and to remove
this disgrace now threatening our coun-
try, all patriotic citizens are again
binding themselves together.
This danger has been caused by the
selfishness Of the owners of silver mines
who are aiming to find a more ex-
| tended market for their vastly in
creased production and to secure for
themselves unusual profits. The dis
| tressed condition of business affairs
during the past years, which was part
ly brought about by change in the
tariff furnished them with a well
come opportunity for influencing pub
nc opinion by continued agitation
To champion their cause they succeeded
in getting a number OF demagogues.
who with the aid OF Populistic and So
cialistic strikers, made themselves mas
ters OF the convention of one of the two
great political parties.
| Through its standard bearers the
party now appeals to thousands who
We're dissatisfied with the present con-
dltion of life and the opportunities for
making a living. 1t calls upon those
who possess nothing to engage in con-
i1ict with those who own property 1t
Keeps up an. agitation in favor of
changing the present standard into
free and unlimited coinage of silver.
in order to surrender the Government
Of the country into the hands Of such
elements as threaten to subvert the
very foundations on which rest all the
interest of the wage earners and of
commerce and of manufacture. Fur
tnermore, 1t threatens, aided by Popu-
listic and anarchistic elements, the very
foundation Of our Constitution, public
order and the life of our Supreme
Court.
No American who loves his country
can remain Indifferent and inactive in
| thls campaign, for aside from all ethi-
cal conditions there is at stake the in
terests OF the entire country. In view
OF the Importance of these questions.
ana also OF the conceded general in
telligence of the German-American
cItlzehs OF this country, we believe as
the time when our Union was In danger
- they VIII now rush to the rescue of
cur Nations honor, and do all in their
power to put an end with one decisive
blow to all the dangers now threaten
ing our country. This can be dcne bv
voting for the standard bearers of that
party Which just came out for the gold
standard.
by electing Mckinley and Hobart
| the honor of our nation, the credit of
our country, can be maintained and all
our national institutions permanently
secured. BY electing these candidates
we will not only show to our country.
but to all the world, that we are an hon
est people, and propose to remain so.
| ihe hioIe clearly we express this pur-
pose OF ours the more decisive the de-
feat Of the eenemies to our NATIONAL honor
VIII become, the more safely may we hope
to crush the silver craze now and for
ever"
When Vice-Presidential candidate
Hobart's attention was called to-day to
a report that has been recently been
circulated in the West to the effect that
he is President of the hard-coai trust
| which, it is alleged, has advanced the
price of coal, Mr.. Hobart said: Last
December the trunk-line railroads To-
Gated east Of the Mississippi were called
upon under an agreement known as the
Joint Traffic Association, to select three
arbitrators to arbitrate the differences
which might arise between the rail-
roads. Only trunk lines were included
in this arbitration. Coal roads were not
included, and the matters submitted to
arbitration had nothing to do with the
coal production, coal tonnage or the
price of coal in any manner, form or
shape whatever, either directly or indi-
rectly."
Mr.. Hobart also said he has no con-
nection with any such coal trust. and
does not know of the existence of any
such trust except as he has seen state
ments in the newspapers.
Mr.. Hanna, when asked this after
noon what truth there was in the report
that he had written a letter to an in
innate friend in which he conceded
the election of Bryan because Repub-
licans were unable to control the labor
vote" said that the report was absurd
on the face Of it. II have not written
such a letter." he said, nor have I at
any time said anything capable of such
construction. / have never conceded
the election of Mr. Bryan and / certain
1y cannot concede it now when the tide
is flowing so strongly and Enthusiastically
in the direction of Republican success
DEMOCRATS WANT SENATORS.