The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-05-27
Mckinley for Sound Money.


on public questions are of great il .er-
est. During the campaign for the NOM
ination 1T has been his policy to simply
refer inquirers to his record. Fortu
nately he has one. He has fought for
sound money, against democratic OPP
position or looseness and when his po-
litical destiny was at stake, in man
ner which now entities him to the con-
fdence and gratitude of all sound
money men, instead of to the distrust
which the opponents of protection are
trying for obvious reasons to create.
But whatever may be the opinions or
motives of others, the opinions of
Governor Mckinley himself, spoken in
public controversy when he was not
presidential candidate, and since then,
when support for the presidency was
offered to him on a silver saver, are
what people now wish TO see, and here
they are:
WE MUST HAVE THE BEST MONEY.
| [From McKinley's Marquette Club speech,
February II, 1896.
1.-THE republican party would as soon
think of lowering the flag of our coun-
try as to contemplate with patience or
without protest and opposition any at
tempt to degrade or corrupt the medium
of exchanges among the people. 1t
can be relied upon in the future, as in
the past, to supply the country with the
best money ever known, gold, silver
and paper, good the world over"
WOULD NOT RUN ON FREE SILVER
PLATFORM.
| ~ IT TT Kob1uaat aditor Of
the Chicago Times-Herald, May B, 1861
"a year ago, in Townsville, Ca,
Major Mckinley, when offered the del
egates of three Southern states il be
would declare for free silver, said in
the presence of the editor of this Jour-
nal: IF the republican platform de-
clares for free coinage l will not be a
candidate. would not run on free
silver platform
IN FAVOR OF THE BEST MONEY THAT
MAN HAS DEVISED.
From Major McKinley's speech as a candi-
date for governor in 1893 in answer to his
opponent, Ex-Governor Campbell, who
said he was willing to chance it on free
silver.
"My worthy opponent should not
chance anything with question of
such vital and absorbing interest as the
money of the people. The money of
America must be equal to the best
money of the world. Unlike my oppo-
nent, will not ask you to take any
chances on this question; l will clearly
and unequivocally say to you that my
voice and influence are in favor of the
best money that the ingenuity of man
has devised. The people are not pre-
pared to indulge in the speculation of
free and unlimited coinage"
AGAINST ALL UNsOUND FINANCIAL
POLICIES.
From McKinley's Philadelphia speech in
1927
For thirty years the democratic lead.
ers haye been unsound in their tnan-
cial policies. This unsoundness has
not always taken the same form, but
its effect has always been 10 corrupt
and debase the currency of the country.
Driven from their opposition to re-
sumption by the thoughtful men OF
their party, who voted against them
when that issue was presented, they
then demanded an imitation of the cur
rency and the payment of the bonds in
greenbacks. Routed from that position
by the sober sense of the country, they
became the advocates of the free and
unlimited coinage of a dollar worth less
than 100 cents. Driven from that by
party eXigency, they now pronounce
for a financial policy which would in
flict upon the country the most worth
less currency we have ever had"
NO THRILLING WITH THE MEASURE
OF VAIJTE
From McKinley's speech at the Acad
envy Of Music Philadelphia, September
%, 1892.
"My fellow citizens, there is one
thing which this country cannot afford
to trif1e with, and that is its currency
its measure of value, the money which
passes among the people in return for
their labor and the products of their
toll or of their land. There is no con-
trivance so successful in cheating labor
and the poor people of the country as
unstable, worthless and easily counter.
feted currency. The money
of this country should be as national as
its flag, as sacred as the national honor,
and as sound as the government itself
That is the character of the money we
have to-day. That is the kind of
| IL 10 lhC lhlCl
est of every citizen of this country, nc
matter to what political party he may
belong, to want to maintain and con
tinue."
MUST HOLD TO THE GOLD STANDARD
UNTIL AN INTERNATIONAL RATIO is
ESTABLISHED.
From the New York Tribune, May s, 1896,
President Hepburn and many other
bank presidents have given expression
to their hearty approval of Major Nc
Kinley's position. There is recalled by
the Shoe and Leather Reporter state
ment made by Major Mckinley, April
7, to reporter of the New York Re
corder at Canton, in which he quoted
and reatfirmed the following words
from speech at Niles, Ohio: l am
in favor of the double standard, but !
am not in favor of the free and unlim.
| "a. 4