The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1896-07-27
EXPECTED SILVER MANIFESTO HAS BEEN ISSUED.
Senator Teller and His Colleagues PrOmulGde an UnaS-
Sdildble Address on Their Attitude and Free Coinage.

permission Of Great Britain to establish
and maintain a financial policy of our
own. Believing rs We do. that return
TO the monetary system especially rec
organized in the constitution and COM
pletely provided for by law from lIJ2
till 1873 affords the only ground OF hope
for the betterment of the distressed con-
ditiOn of all the classes except those
who live by the increment that money
loaned gives to those who loan u, We
appeal to all classes to rally to the
support of the only candidates whose
success indicates any hope of RELIEF.
Let the merchant and business man.
whose dwindling and lessened profits
have. despite his care and economy.
brought hlm face to face with prospec-
tive bankruptcy and ruin. the profess
slonal man, whose best efforts scarce
~ afford him compensation for his
labor alone; the farmer the continual
~ falling prices of whose products have
left him no returns for capital invested
ana work performed: and last but not
ieast' let the grand army of laboring
men so-called. the artisan, the mechan-
&c anu the miner, and every one who
depends upon his daily labor for his
dally bread, look about him and OBJ
serve the great number of those who
Ealnly seek for chance to work upon
the enforced idlers, and all resolve to
Try, not an experiment (for bimetallism
Is not an EXPERIMENT., but rather a re-
turn to policy that throughout the
vlcissitudes of our nations infancy.
through the internecine struggle of its
a free
prosperous nation in which labor was
not only respected and employed. but
was 50 compensated that want and dis
trtss such as now weigh upon us was
unknown. Let the lesson of history
too recent and too plain to be gainsaid
or denied. he needed, and let there be no
Tear that a system that 50 wonderfully
terprise and secured To the nation n
cOnteuted and prosperous people in the
past, Will do auGht but bring to us a
return of like prosperity. the predic-
lions of disaster of our opponents 10
the contrary Notwithstanding.
Commentator of Bryan.
In Mr.. Bryan the Chicago convention
placed at the head of its ticket a gem
tlemen Of exceptional ability and of
high character. No man of his age
was better known throughout the Unit
ed States than he. \ member of con-
gress for four years, he commanded
the admiration and respect of all his
associates in that body as a scholarly
statesman and profound thinker. No
man had ever assailed his character
or in any way questioned his integrity
or moral worth. He has shown in all
his public utterances that he loves his
country and his countrymen and that
lie sympathizes with them in their dis
tress. lie has also shown that he be-
gold the standard of value was in n
great degree the cause of the depres-
sion and financial distress throughout
the land; that the condition now exist
ing will continue while the present mon
etary system lasts. and that he would
fain return to the use of both gold and
silver as they were used prior TO 1873,
and he has proposed such a change of
the financial system by the usual con-
StitutiOual methods
Such was the character and such the
political opinions Of the candidate
known to his country who. by
their representatives. in convention Sc
lected from every state in the union
put him in nomination for the highest
Office within the gift of the American
people Tins is a critical period in our
national history. our Industrial and
financial Independence of other ma
tious ana people is involved in this
campaign ana we firmly believe that
there will be no return of prosperity
until we shall have changed our finan-
cial system 50 Us to restore the blme-
tallic system as established by the faith
ers Of the republic, and 50 believing.
we urge all friends of gold ana silver
ass standard money apd the opponents Of
siuelc gold standard, to give Mr.. Bry-
an and Mr.. Scwall their hearty support
IN advising this course We do not con-
slider 1t necessary that they shall aban-
don or surrender their present views on
Profoundly impressed with the Import
ance of the issues of this campaign for
ourselves and our associates we respect
fully submit the foregoing to the can
did consideration of the American peo-
pie II. NJ. TELLER.
FRED -. DUBOIS,
LEE MANTLE,
CHARLES ). HARTMAN.
EDGAR WILSON.
JOHN 4. SHAFROTH.
a. NJ STEN ENSON.
Committee.
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