Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1896-07-01

not. II n considered q proposition to de-
base the existing standard OF values And
the same feeling Of indisposition TO COM
promise with that matter for votes or
anything else is active and dominant
here I'm party II was found in the
republican party when IL bore down and
overpowered the Mckinley machine.
AT the present moment Germany,
France. Italy. Austria, Holland. Belgium
and the United States wish to cooperate
for the establishment and maintenance of
the Joint standard by International agree
ment. and Ga most important circum stance
Great Britain has recently. within three
months. In fact. made most important
concession. She has said: We will do for
you as much as you can do for yourselves
We Will make this great contribution 70 a
bimetallic system: We will go back upon
the acknowledgements methods OF pro-
Viding n currency for India. We will re-
open the Indian mints. We Will engage
that they shall be kept open. and we shall
therefore provide for free coinage of
silver within the limits OF the British en-
pire for population greater In number
than the populations of Germany, France
Gnd America put together
Into this long and now just about 10 be
successful struggle for the establishment
OF the Joint standard IL IL proposed that we
should Intervene by assuming to establish
IL alone. Against this proposed action on
our part these earnest believers In and
Workers FOR the cause strenuously protest.
They say TO usi You cannot succeed. and
your failure viii discredit the cause
Predicts Democratic Defeat.
Personally, II is my opinion that II the
democratic party goes on to that platform
this time they Will meet the most disas-
trous defeat that any party has ever had
In this country. / understand IL is honest
ly believed in. and people think ii will
bring relief from their present troubles
but between now and election day II will
be pretty thoroughly sifted and the people
of this country will not face the disturb
ance OF values, the loss of confidence the
general distress and ruin which would
come to their business interests in such a
change In the standard OF value as would
arise from such action. And IL WILL In my
opinion, overwhelm the persons who un-
dertake II.
Refuses to he n Candidate.
1T ought not TO be necessary for me to
say anything of a personal nature. find
myself, however. spoken of here and there
as possible candidate-not very seriously
or prominently. but sufficiently to attract
attention IL L should fail to notice IL. 1t
som etimes affects ones influence in cases
like the present / have no personal motive
In entering this fight. / have said that
would not be candidate. i will add. copy
Ing the emphatic language once used by
the late Gen Sherman q think / remember
IL correctly: i will not run IL nomina ted
nor serve II elected / am not foolish
enough to suppose that any eastern man
could be nominated by this convention
much less that / could / sympathize thor
oughly with the feeling in the south that
has caused this uprising and will find its
expression at Chicago. but as to the prin-
ciples which the uprising has brought forth
and the Issues being framed / entirely dis
agree. WILLIAM G. WHITNEY -