Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1896-09-07
,fTATOR MITCHELL,
.t,nued from Saturday.
continued from Sauuruay.I
,ovp OF STATE RIGHTS.

= are pTotectloniSls' y" "
"lVu ,hc great American policy 0
lieve u =" to American labor ant
PrO'eG,s,y industries. You believe II
Amel''% ,narket. You are opposed OF
a nOne ,,o "a the Democratic heresy o
prln',pd .rade, and yet, simply because
lts' nc nemocratic party, which ua'
tne in the past given silver any
ooer Ds,os recognition whatever but
piOpI ppI,h is a bond-issuing, dehcit-creat
Nn''" syndicate-dealing. free trade
stv lns, has in its present platform
pal% cn the silver plank of those who
svJio s.,iore in independent bimetaliism
o,der uc to enable it as a party 70 con.
o ,'One i. power, you propose 10 turn
I'" 'r hacks upon your own party and
you, that party your supportS Are
s ~" willing by your votes to condemn
!Uu rroot doctrine of reciprocity in
."c ncnrsted by Blaine and Mckinley
Su uS Harrison and put into operation
Sr % the Republican party land whereby
sr outlets were opened for our sur
nIns n nroducts of farm and factory
Are YOU willing by your votes to en-
dorse the suicidal act of the Demo-
cratic party and the present Demo
O,atic administration in repeating
and DESTROYING this policy? Are you,
os Republicans, by your votes willing
endorse the statement in the pres
oDt Democratic national platform de-
uouncinp the late Republican congress
.s nroaigate and wasteful, and In at
tackiug the integrity of the organiza-
tIon snd the ultimate decisions of the
supreme court of the United States?
Are YOU willing by your votes to give
sanction even BY the remotest implica-
tiou, to the attempted revival upon the
mart of this new Democartic party, Of
the old doctrine Of state rights, and
the lack of supremacy in the national
government. In a word, are you will
inc as some of our Populist
friends have been willing, to be
caught In the cunningly-contrived
trap, constructed and set by the pres
ept leaders of the Democratic party
for the purpose of catching enough
Republican and Populist votes to con-
tinue in power the free trade Demo-
cratic party? For one do not in
tend to be caught in that trap.
INDEPENDENT BIMETALLIsM IMPoSI-
SIBLE?
"And right at this point 1 desire to
attract the attention of my silver
friends and also all Others interested
to the financial plank of the Repuli-
can platform as laid down by the Re-
publican national convention at St.
Louis. There seems to be a misappre-
henSion abroad to the effect that the
St. Louis platform declares in favor
of the single gold standard as a desir-
able permanent policy for this coun-
try, and, therefore, 10 be maintained
at all hazards, under all circumstances
and for all time. This is not the Re-
publican platform as laid down in the
late st. Louis Republican convention.
In fact is is precisely the reverse. 1t
is certainly no part of either my de-
Tn 10 n
miscontrue the financial plank of this
platform, but on the contrary it is my
earnest wish, and moreover my
bOunden duty as supporter of Nc
Kinley and Hobart to give it before
the people Of this state its correct in
depreciation, as 1 understand it. The
The Republican party, as party,
does not now believe it, it never has
belived in or advocated the single gold
standard as a desirable permanent
policy for this country. But upon the
contrary the position and policy of
The Republican party always has been,
IS today, and is so declared in the st.
Louis platform, that the bimetallic
standard, the double standard, as
sometimes enormously designated,
that is the free coinage and use of
both gold and silver at a fixed ratio is
The better policy in the true interests
OF the country, tnan is that of sim
gie standard Of either gold or silver.
And hence it is that the late Republi-
can coyentiOn at st. Louis declared
IN the most unqualified terms in favor
OF the bimetallic standard. This,
however, in the judgment OF the Re-
publican party, as expressed in its st.
LOUIS platform, can only be obtained
through an International agreement
win The leading commercial nations
Oh the world, and until this can be
secured the platform declares the ex.
isIing gold standard must be preserved.
REPUBLICAN PLATFORM NOT FOR
GOLD?
IL will not do for those who op
pOSe electing the Republican. ticket
" insist that those who favor that
'.cket are gold monometallists or that
.ne Republican platform declares in
IdYOr Of narn.a4 : II :