Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-08-25
Col. MarmOn to Gov. slower.


Writing from Laguna, Valencia county
to the Albuquerque Citizen, Col. Marin on
says:
Would like to have Gov. Slower tell us
what party was in power when silver was
demonetized? We are not troubling our.
selves abont the coinage of the entire
silver product of the world. The issue
we are on is an American one. After we
settle that proposition there will be time
to attend to the goldbug bugab 90, call the
silver of the world" The so-colled Re.
publican party of to-day is goldbug or
ganization, run in this interest of English
bonGholders and their American following
director and manager, Mr.. Hanna, Of
Ohio, with men like Sherman, Reed, For
aker and others of the same ilk as genera
utility men; Major Mckinley, an honest
victions, is the cat's-paw.
This combination has entered into 6
coalition offensive and defensive with an.
other goldbug aggregation calling them.
selves national "sound money" Demo.
Gratis, having such men as Carlisle, Whit
ney, Cleveland and few more patriotic
citizens of the same class directing the
machine.
The American party, led by Bryan and
supported by the honest and true men OF
both the old parties as we'll as of the
newer ones, on purely American plat.
form, and one that means what it says
stands in the way of the goldbog, pro
tectionist, free trade, monumental ag-
glomeration, and says demagoguery, brib
sry and bulldozing must cease. The
American people are in this fight as free
men and the old-time taffy don't 60. In.
ternational bimetalism, the quintessence
of goldbugism, a fraud, delusion and a
traitors proposition, will not mislead the
people. Five hundred million dollars
in silver placed in circulation by the
Republican party, and $500,000,0O0 In
silver demonetized coin, redemption
money, made fiat money commodity
and the Republican party did this, too
and at the demand of England patriotism
The "sound money" men in the two par
ties are the ones who have proved false
to their country, and Gov. Slower is in
that boat. He is in the eastern crowd
all goldbugs. Self interest, if nothing
more, would indicate differently, but
party loyalty is too strong. The COVER
nor says that the free silver dodge is a
bunco game of the Democrats by which
they expect to go into power, and the he
publicans will try the goldbug dodge to
bunco themselves out of power. What
about Hanna and his little $5OO,OOO,00
campaign fund.- Who will get that?
The Republican party has not been out
Of power since the war. Protected "smoke
stacks" were hot and unprotected Amer-
can workmen were tramping the roads
begging for bread, and are yet. They be.
gar tramping about 1876, shortly after
the decentralization of silver. Who has
taken their placesF Foreigners-labor
market stocked, and still they come.
More protection!
Republican protection is neither hon
est nor truthful. There will be an answer
to the injustice of the past twenty-five
years by the people of the United States
on the Sd of next November of such a
character that my friend Slower will re-
greet that he allowed party fealty to inAu-
ence his good Judgment, honesty and
patriotism to the extent of keeping him
in the party of goldbugs.
WALTER G. MARMoN.