The herald., 1896-09-30
THE ENCOURAGING REPORTS
The I sttsrs Read at the Silver Rcpubl..
can Meeting .
II. L, MacneiI Writes From Azusa OF the
Situation
Congressman w. w. Bowers Pens One
OF His Brief, Pointed Epistles as
to How Things Appear to Him.
Report of the Meeting

A good sized audience was present
last evening at the regular meeting of
the Silver Republican club, notwith-
standing the great crowd gathered, at
the Wigwam. A number of encourag-
| ing letters were read from several por-
| tions of the east. - - ,l5- ,ei
The following letter from the Hon
| w. w. Bowers may be interesting to
the Hon. James McLachlan, and his
perusal of this may bring back to him
thoughts of days gone by. and bitter
| wish of what might have been had l
done otherwise. g." J'l r,Je 2, ,u.
| CONGRESSMAN BOWERS LETTER
| SAN DIEGO, Cal, Sept. rs, 1896.
Dear Sir-I have yours of September
22d. and thank you and the CLUB very
| much for the honor you have done me.
L feel myself in duty bound to stand by
| my record. 1 was nominated upon
| six years record by a convention of
| which the greater number Of delegates
| were pledged to free silver. can bet
| ter afford to be beaten than to stultify
| myself and belle my record. L can't
| change my opinions and convictions at
| the order of some one else. Very truly
yours, w. w. BOWERS.
l
nent and old line Republican, large
land owner in this county and former
| cashier of the Los Angeles County
Bank, wrote the following interesting
letter to the club:
MR.. MACNEIL WRITES
I AzUSA, Cal, Sept. 2S. 1886.
Dear Sir-Your favor of the 18th inst.
| to hand. 1 regret that l have not yet
been able TO attend any of the meetings
| of the club. L hope, however, tnat l.
| may be able to do so soon. / beg to as
| sure you, in the meantime, that 1 am in
| earnest sympathy and accord with the
declared principles of the organization
| and the stand which it has taken on
the great economic question which is
| now agitating the people OF this coun-
| try. l believe that the best interests OF
4 this nation, its prosl Gritty and the pros
perity of its citizens can be promoted
Dy an abandonment of the present sin
gle gold standard experiment and a re-
| enactment of the coinage laws as they
| were Immediately preceding the de-
monetization OF silver act OF 1873. To
| aid in accomplishing this was the OBJ.
ject for which the Silver Republican
club was organized. Believing that the
| duty we owe to our country and our fell
low men is greater and higher and no.
bier than any duty we may owe to our
old political party, with its mutable and
| IIcSOlule dtlOnS on tnR financial
| question, makes US unite in support OF
| w. j. Bryan for the presidency of this
! nation, and also to unite in electin such
| candidates for congress as are known to
be earnestly in favor of the remonetiza-
tion of silver as set forth in the plat
forms upon which w. j. Bryan stands.
| We believe that the independence this
country won in 11I6 was unconditional
| and that no other nation or money
power or combination of money chang
ers reserved or had since delegated to
them the right to make our laws nor to
nullify those that we made.
/ hope that the principles for which
we are conscientiousiy battling under
the leadership of w. J. Bryan the
champion of American manhood, will
prevail. Yours truly
H. L. MACNEIL.
AFTER MR.. LEES COMMITTEE
Perhaps the most interesting matter
taken up was the reply of the committee
of the club to the recent eXcomumnica-
tion of the Republican county central
! committee addressed to the Silver Re-
publicans Of this county. BY the tone
OF the reply it would seem that the let
ter of Mr.. Lees committee was ore Of
those old-fashiored guns that does more
damage at the butt than at thu lnuzzle.
Much comment YVES heard in political
circles yesterday at the audac;ty' of the
by MI Lee in reading old-time Repub-
licans out of the party. p-su ;,s,-
The county candidates on the Repllb-
lican ticket are bemoanipg the fate that
MAY likely result from the action Of the
county central committee. When the
reply of the Silver Republicans was read
at their meeting last evening.th great
est enthusiasm prevailed. The letter
sent Mr.. Lee was adopted as the seuti-
ments of the club without a dissenting
voice, someone moving that Colonel Otis
publish the reply in full, copy Of which
letter was sent to the Times and the Ex-
press, without the hope that the reply
will be given the prominence the read
Ing out letter received. The reply was
as follows:
A RED HOT LETTER
Los ANGELES, Cal, Sept. 20, 1896.
Mr. Bradner w. Lee, Chairman Repub-
lean County Central Committee:
Dear Sir: We beg to acknowledge re-
ceipt of your favor bearing date of Sep
tember 18th, "purporting to come from
the so-called headquarters of the local
Republican county central committee
! (which letter, however, had evidently
been given to the press before mailing.)
We are somewhat surprised that com
mittee assuming so much has cause so
weak that it will not bear full discus
sion before the intelligent ar ingenu-
GUS American citizen.
We exceedingly regret that you so far
mistook the purport of our letter as to
assume for moment that we, the real
Republicans of Los Angeles county, were
asking for any recognition at the hands
of your "so-called committee" and
while thanking you for the unsolicited
certificate of good character (Which,
however, may be of problematical polit-
ical value), permit us to respectfully
suggest that when submitting a cour-
teous proposition, ordinary in politics.
that we had little reason to apprehend
that we should receive in rely only
puerile lecture upon political morals
The duly and legally constituted au-
thorities Of the Republican party. in
state and congressional conventions.
held In recent years in California, have
too often proclaimed the free and unlina-
tied coinage Of gold and silver at the ra-