The San Francisco call., 1896-06-19
.ad in RINGING tones and with MANY ges-


On announcing the purpose asserted in this
paper it is due to our constituents and to our
selves that there shall be public showing OF
vindicating facts.
| The sole authorized expression of National
| Republican faith from June, 1892, until the
present date has been the platform adopted IN
National Convention at Minneapolis. Neither
the utterances of State conventions nor the at
| titude of individuals could change the tenor
OF that platform or abate the sanctity OF its
| binding force. Every delegate to this con-
Ventlon was elected as its adherent and its
advocate. True, one of its most important
| paragraphs has been subjected to such a diver
| gence of construction as to make its language
| unsatisfactory during the intervening time
and dangerous if continued in the future, but
| OF the intent contained within that language
there has never been doubt.
| 1t is the province of this convention to re-
| wise the party tenets and to announce anew
the party purpose The majority of this con-
ventlon has this day made official enuncistion
| of Republican law and gospel. With much of
| the platform we agree, believing that in many
| essential particulars 1t comprises the needs of
| humanity, afirms the maintenance OF right
and proposes the best remedy for wrong. But
| it declares one elemental principle not only
| directly in contravention of the expression OF
| party faith in 1892, but in radical opposition
| to our solemn conviction.
i We recognize that in all matters of mere
method it is but just and helpful that the mi
nority shall yield to the majority, lest we have
chaos in parties and government. But as no
| pronouncement by majorities can change OPP
posing knowledge or belief sincerely enter
tanned, lit cannot oblige majorities to aban-
don or disavow their principles. AS surely as
| it is requisite for peace and progress that mi
norities shall yield to majorities in matters of
mere method, just so surely is it necessary for
| that same peace and progress that minorities
shall not yield in matters of fundamental
truth
The Republican platform of 1892 affirmed
| that American people favored bimetallism
and demanded the use of both gold and silver
as standard money. This was accepted by US
as declaration in behalf of the principle upon
which rests the interest of every citizen and
the safety of the United States. In such terms
the platform was then satisfactory to the be-
| levers in bimetallism within our party;
only because of equivocal declaration
and evasion has it since been demon
| strated to be insufficient. The platform this
| day adopted in the National Republican Con-
vention at St Louis says:
| The Republican party is unreservedly for sound
money. 1t caused the enactment of the law pro-
| viding for the resumption OF specie payment in
1879. Since then every dollar has been good as
gold.
| We are unaterably opposed to every measure
| calculated to debase our currency or impair the
to the free coinage OF silver, except by inter-
| national agreement with the leading commercial
| nations OF the world, which pledge ourselves to
| promote, and until such agreement be
obtained the existing gold standard must be main
| tanned. All our silver and paper currency now in
circulation be maintain ed parity with gold,
| and we favor all measures designed to maintain
| inviolable these obligations of the United States
| and all money, either coin or paper, at the
| present standard, the standard OF the most
| lightened nations of the earth.
As the declaration of 1892 has been, by q
majority OF the party, construed to justify a
single gold standard for our monetary basis
and as the recent trend of the official power
| of the party has been in that direction, we can
| but assume that the money plank of the new
platform, being much more favorable to per-
petuate gold monometallism, win be deter
minedly used in behalf of that idea. The
Republican party has won power and renown
by pursuing its purposes courageously and
relentlessly. 1t is, therefore, only in accord
with the partys history to assume that if it
shall come to political authority in the United
States it will crystalline the administration
under this tempting platform into perpetual
single gold standard in our finances
This, if long continued, will mean the abso-
lutte ruin of the producers of the country and,
finally, of the Nation itself.
The American people not only favor BIZ
| metallism from tradition and interest but
manifest in the affairs of people destined for
a worlds leadership. Under the operation of
our great demand for advancement we have
become to other nations the greatest debtor
Nation of the world. We pay the vast charges
which every year accumulate against us in
the clearlng-houses of the world with the
money of the world procured by the disposal
of our commodities in the markets OF the
world. We are Nation of producers. Our
creditors are nations OF consumers.
Any system of international or National
finance which elevates the price of human
product makes our burden lighter and gives
promise of that day when it shall be entirely
lifted and our country freed financially, as it
is politically, from the domination of mon
archy and foreign autocracy. Any system of
finance which tends to depreciate the price
of human products, which we must sell abroad,
but in so far adds to the burden of our debt
and conveys threat of the perpetual servi-
tude of the producers of our debtor Nation to
! the consumers of creditor nations.
To us it is folly without parallel that this
country or any political party therein should
| deliberately accept money system which en-
riches others at our cost History, philosophy,
morals, all join with the commonest instinct
of self-preservation In demanding that the
United States shall have a just and substan-
| tally unvarying standard composed of all
| available gold and silver. and with it our coun-
! try will progress to financial enfranchisement.
But with a single gold standard the country
| will go on to worse destruction, TO continued
| falling prices, until our people would become
| the hewers of wood and the drawers of water
| for the consumers in creditor nations of the
| earth.
| To such an unholy end we viii not lend our
selves Dear as has been the Republican
| name to it's adherents, that name is not so
| dear as the faith itself and we do not sacrifice
! one lot or title of the mighty principles by
which Republicanism has uplifted the world
when we say that at this parting of the ways
we cling to the faith; let the name go where it
! will.
We hold that this convention has seeded
| from the truth; that the triumph of such Sc
| cession would be the eventual destruction of
| our freedom and our civilization. To that end
the people will not knowingly follow any poll
tical party and we choose to take our place in
| the ranks,of the great mass of citizens who be-
| lieve that the hour has come for justice.
! Did we deem this issue less important to
| humanity we would yield, since the associa-
tions of all our political lives have been inter-