Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-09-03
ONLY ONE CANDIDATE
Bfmetallists of All Parties Must Unite to
Make Success Certain.

Bfnetaliists of All Parties Must Unite tt
Make Success Certain.
The b1metallists of all parties must
unite on. and give their unwavering
and loyal support to common presi-
dental candidate. Unless this is done
success is ont of the question. There
must be but one bimetallic candidate
for president-not three. There must
not be three candidates representing
bimetallic principles, and each asking
for the SURFACES of bimetallists.
Bimetal1ists in the democratic, popu-
list and republican parties must not
stand apart over questions of minor
difference. Because bimetallists in
both democratic and repu blican par ties
cannot agree on the questions over
which they have fought and divided
in the past is no reason why. believing
as they do, that the restoration of BIZ
metallism can alone bring renewed
prosperity. they should stand apart on
the old issues and refuse to support a
common candidate. standing for the
free coinage of silver and financial in
dependence.
Partlsanship must be subordin ated
to patriotism. There is no occasion
for bimeta1lic democrats, or repub-
licans, or populists to sacrifice their
principles. but there is every reason
why they should not divide their forces
IN the coming campaign on three dis
tinct candidates. and by so doing de-
feat the great and at this time all-im-
portant question of policy on which
they are all agreed.
For bimetallists to array themselves
into antagonistic groups is to court de-
feat. There are great differences, it is
true, between bimetallic democrats,
republicans and populists over other
questions of public policy, but when
they are agreed that the approaching
gold standard is undermining our indie
pendence. impoverishing our people
and rapidly degrading our wage-earn-
ing classes to condition of abject de-
pendence, of virtual slavery to an
aristocracy of wealth built up on the
suffering and poverty of our producing
classes; when they are agreed that
prompt return to bimetallism can
alone check the appreciation of gold
and stop the disastrous fall in prices
that is running our farmers and manu-
facturers and reducing our wage-earn-
ing classes to beggary, and when they
are agreed that bimetallism can alone
bring renewed prosperity, why place
the restoration of bimetallism in jeop-
ardy because of differences over ques-
tions of policy that are admittedly sub
ordinate to the great question of bi-
metallism with which the interests of
all classes are bound up?
The restora ton of bimetallism &C
complished, then democrats. populists
and repu blicans who have united their
forces to bring about bimetallism and
to free our people from Entertainments
of the money power and the aggres-
sions of centralized capital can fight
out, by the ballot. their differences
over other questions without endanger-
ing the future of our people. But for
bimetallists in different parties to di-
vide and pull at cross purposes at this
time over issues that, though great in
themselves, are su coordinate to the
money question, and SO regarded by
the great majority of bimetallists, is
to place in jeopardy the independence
of our producing classes.