The San Francisco call., 1896-06-10
WAR OF THE S|LVER|TES
Chairman Pepper of the Bi'
metallic Party Issues
a Call.
Pays His Respects to the Bimetallic
League and Also to the Two
Great Parties.

Enoch Pepper, chairman of the State
Central and executive committees of the
American Bimetallic party, whose most
strenuous efforts just now are engaged in
the endeavor to show that his party and
not the American Bimetallic League, OF
which George w. Baker is the head in this
State, is the "only genuine" silver party,
has issued a call for the organization OF
Senatorial district conventions to elect
delegates to the National Convention OF
the party. The document is addressed
ito all American bimetallists of Cali.
fornia" and is as follows:
This is no time for division in the silver
forces. Every true American should fall into
line and face the common enemy. bold and
defiant money power, with It's compact or
ganiZation and press seeks every opportunity
to divide our ranks and plunder our country.
In this struggle every citizen has an honest
and honorable right to contest for leadership,
but no man has right to intervene his ambi-
ton ii it imperils the ca use he pretends to
uphold
silver organization has signed and issued q call
1or popular conventions in the several Sena-
torial districts to be held June Is, 1896, to
elect delegates to our National Convention,
and it is the duty OF every loyal American who
wants an American system of government in
all respects free from foreign control to see
tndl ueleSdleS are eleCteu VINO are American in
sentiment and eve paramount allegiance to
the best interests of our country.
In the coming campaign the Democracy of
the Nation may be all right on the free coinage
issue, but it is certain that the Democratic
party of California viii be all wrong on the
American question, while the Republican party
at large will dlsgracefully straddle both ques-
tions.
The duty of the hour urges every patriotic
citizen 10 arouse his neigh bors and organize
an American party, determined that our coun-
try shall not suffer depredations from any or
ganlzed aristocracy on earth. The American
Blmetalllc party has called county and district
conventions for the purpose of organization
but to unity and solidify our forces the Sem
atorlal district conventions must not be neg
lected The enemy is watching every oppor-
tunlty to divide us. His spy and confederate
asplres TO lead US, and resorts to every device
TO blind the eyes of the people and defeat us /:
while millions of impoverished debtors are
waiting, anxiously waiting, for the dawn of
the day that shall bring the financial inde-
pendehce of our country
In the gold-Standard camp we hear the Sc
ductlve cry OF protection" but there is no
protection when foreign hordes of pauper la
borers invade cur land to drive the American
1ree institutions by their fatal influence. We
beseech you, our countrymen, awake to the
situation, sound the tocsin of alarm, proclaim
your independence, and
Let traitors be told who their country have sold
nd oartered their God for his image in gold;
Ihat the sons of America shall never be slaves,
While the earth grows tree or the sea.ron its
waves"
ENoCH PEPPER, Chairman.
1t was distributed yesterday simultane-
ously from Los Angeles by Chairman Pep