The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1896-10-02
TELL AN UNTRUTH
The Democratic Committee Make Dishor-
est and Misleading Extracts From a
Republican Campaign Book.
Another Of Senator PsttigrsWs Fairy
Tales Proven to Have BEN Falsely
Stated in Ills Speech.
TWO M'KINLEY CLUBS
Students at the University Organize
Two Mckinley Clubs, One For
Ladies, One for Men.
SOME MISREPRESENTATION.

The Free Silver Democratic People Do
Not Have Much Regard for Truth.
The Gazette, in its issue of Sept. "a,
has among its free plate matter an
emanation from the democratic and
silver headquarters, of Chicago, what
purports to be extracts from the repub-
-lican campaign text book of 1892 which
it says was 1.-The official declaration of
the republican party in 1892" on the
silver question. We wish to call at
tention to the fact that not one word
quoted appears in the republican cam
paign book of 1892 and the article is a
base and willful misrepresentation.
Upon the question of free coinage
the campaign book of 1892 says:
Negotiations with other powers
haYe made it clear that free coinage of
silver by the United States alone would
put an end to all hope of such Inter
nationaD agreement" standing
alone among the great commercial
nations the United States would at
tempt free coinage with great risk and
difficulty"
The entire article upon the question
OF the currency and coinage is in har-
mony with the present policy of the
party. 1t declares the party to be in
favor Of bi-metallism and against silver
monometallism. 1t declares that true
bi-metallism must be secured, if at all,
by agreement between the great COM
mercial nations.
The extracts quoted were taken from
a book issued by the officers of the
national league in New York in 1891,
prior to the 1892 Minneapolis national
convention and did not claim to be and
was not al authorized statement of the
position of the party at that time.
The author was bi-metallist but was
opposed to free and unlimited coinage
of silver. A fair quotation of tho au-
thor would show this, but the extracts
are garbled. Portions are printed and
other parts essential to the meaning of
the author are omitted. One sentence
is cut in two to destroy it's connection
with matter unfavorable to free coinage
by this nation alone. Page SO of this
book has two arguments against free
coinage which our truly good and hon
est ~ contemporary has entirely omit
ted. One of these shows the entirely
changed conditions between that date
and 1873 and the vast increase of the
production of silver. The other is as
follows:
"The situation has two obvious re.
suits. 1t renders free silver coinage by
lany one first class nation almost newt
ably ruinous because the worlds stock
of silver would surely seek the market
that nation supplies. Europe wants
gold. Now if we offer higher price
for silver than the market price or ever
: if we offer to buy all the silver in sigh
at the market price, Europe will natur
ally send us her huge stock and get oul
gold in exchange for it. In six month
we shall haye all the surplus silver il
the world and all our gold will be gone
We shall then be not a bimetallic natio,
but a silver monometallic nation. I
this result is not inevitable the DANCE
of it is too plain to be lightly risked.
3 The fore going is not quoted.
: The above is connected by the word
j. 'son the other hand" with the claus
. quoted calling attention to the DANCE
: in the'unqualifed adoption OF the gol
: standard. The article referred t
q shows the dishonorable tactics adopte
S by our opponents to deceive and mi
l. the people.