The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1896-07-16

any attempt to act alone would pe a reap
in the dark: but il has further declared
that we will our and promote
International agreement on the subject.
And this is the policy of prudence and
safety, Under a Republican admins
tration we sent representatives 10 d
bi-metallic conference; nothing was
ACCOMPLISHED. largely because some OF
the selfish interests attending there
hoped we would try it alone, when they
could gain a mean advantage by buying
our products for silver and selling us
theirs for gold. But a bold stand like
that taken at St. Louis will have Its
effect on sediment over there, and already
leading men in England express their
willingness to reopen to silver the mlnts
of India: statesmen in Italy, France
and Germany are asking for a new con
~ference-the great agricultural conven-
ton in France the other day declared
unanimously for it-and the bright
young German emperor is going to make
the subject of bi-metallism a special
study during his summer vacation.
But there are some who are not salts
fed with their party because OF this ut
terance on the silver question at st.
Louis; and who declare that because 1t
would not there commit itself to the free,
unlimited and unrestricted coinage OF
silver al a ratio of l6 to /, they will bolt
! their party and vote with the Demo
Gratis or Populists or any other party
that will adopt their views on this sub
ject. Is this good policy? Is it patri-
otto? Is it consistent with the principle
on which parties and governments are
founded that minorities must yield to
the majority? Can parties or govern
ments be maintained otherwise? The
Republican party has been large enough
and tolerant enough hitherto to admit
in its ranks the moderate as well as the
extreme protectionist, the o
crate as well as the extremist
on the liquor and other ques-
tons; we have had leaders differing on
many matters of foreign and domestic
policy and they have managed to get
along without a bolt.
No! There was a bolt once-many in
this audience have not forgotten it-a
bolt more threatening, more formidable,
more dramatic, than hat little piece OF
dress parade at st. Louis. | refer to
the great liberal movement of 1872.
There was a bolt supported by
such great journals as the New York
Tribune, Chicago Tribune, Cincinnati
Commercial and Springfield Republican
differed by such great leaders as Sum
ner and Banks and Adams in Massa-
chusetts; Fenton, Merritt, Depew, Bry-
ant, Cochrane, Selden, in New York;
Curtin, Mcclure, Hickman, Forney, in
Pennsylvania; Matthews and Hoadly in
Ohio; Geo. w. Julian in Indiana; Cas-
sius M. Clay in Kentucky; Schurz,
Brown and Pulitzer in Missouri; Trum-
bull, SWEET, Palmer and Koerner in Hi
nois; Doolittle in Wisconsin,: Blair in
Michigan; Stone, Grinnell, Hepburn
and Kline in Iowa; and yet that bolt,
led by those great papers, Differed by
those great leaders, putting up for its
candidate the white-haired apostle of
protection, the champion OF universal
amnesty and impartial suffrage, Horace
Greeley, and securing his Endorsement
by the Democratic convention on a plat
form accepting the constitutional amend
ments, went down before the votes of
the people as chatf before the wind, and
Grant was elected by a tremendous
majority.
So will it be this fall. The bolter who
thinks that this nation alone can dictate
the financial policy of the world and
bring England and France and Germany
and Austria to follow in her lead, and
who determines that because his party
associates cannot agree with him in
such a belief that they are all wrong
and he alone right, and that the danger
Gus experiment of independent free coin
age at a ration of 10 to l, when the pres
ent market value is about 80 to |, must
be tried at all hazards, is not only in my
judgment installing the public senti-
ment OF this country. but defying the
lessons of history and the experience of
the world.
Let US remain with the grand old par
ty, that has been tried so often and
never found wanting. Let US bow to
the will OF the majority in it's great ma
tional representative convention, freely
and fairly expressed. Let us trust the
integrity, the patriotism, the intelligence
of its chosen leaders, and their keen
and watchful constituents to solve these
problems Alright, and for the lasting
benefit of all. We may differ as to de.
tails, but we all agree in our desire for
good government and a return Of good
times. Don't look for the f~ruition of
that hope to the Democratic party, or
the Populist party, or to the little coterie
that bolted at st. Louis, or to any com
bination of their discordant, inharmoni,
Gus and %belligerent elements, that may
be cemented for common pursuit of the
spoils of Office; but stand by the old col
ors under whose glorious folds you have
marched to victory in the past. IL
friends desert or drop out Of the ranks
let us close up and present a bold front
to the foe, like the warriors of DID,
THE stubborn spearmen still made good,
Their dark impenetrable wood,
Each stepping where his comrade stood,
Iha ipSi mt fhaf ha ILL 81,