The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-10-26
q would lsblee our coin and currency 81

~ r-e 80. - Ns,ilANiNyiAiN ~ 1NyANNAgE
would dsbase our coin and currency Of
all kinds. 4, a "a III
lsnothes proposition was, Urged which,
vas said, would hvhid all these evils
ana these dangers, that TX. NOT that the
owner OF bullion should take II and hhyni
W colEfd on his owi, account, but the
igovcrnrientlo OF tho United S,aleg should
buy limited quantities or lver$hullloH.
from time To Zine. coin II. and put ity0ut
at the nominal value ~ one dullar.sbpt
y, 40 doing the government Or che! United
sSiniga should be- pledged ut NIL times to
KEEP those silver dollars worth 'oneihun-
ldred cents In gold. y The Issue was palm
" male up and Cen gtssa !dccl dfd In Sfa-,
veft X tlie la tier courec, and against the
ffcc oliver coinage, and wesNcIit OF Iil-
der, that law and other laws and cOinSd
more than four hundred millions Of: those
dollars. issued silver rtiflcates, gold
certificates, ilnd from tho days of the.
war down several hundred mllllons OF
grecflba clss,i over three hundred millions
still outstanding, Having all this cur-
rency out, the United States pledged her
people that these paper Issues and this
coin Issue OF silver$and gold shouldNbe
maintained upon an equality and not 10
leave It amatter OF inference. The Com!
| gress OF the United States In 1880 passed
n, law IN which 1T was declared that 1t
was the established policy OF the United
States to maintain the two metals upon
a parity.wlth each other upon the pres
ent legal ratio. That, K Is true, was
passed by a Republican, Congress. but
after the Democratic party came Into
power another law was passed under the
auspices Of the Democratic party SO that
both partles are represented by, this pro--
position. i5s
'T attach no importanceAto the fact
that the Republican party has spoken,
l attach Importance only to this, that
our government, the government or all
the people of the United States has spo-
ken and has declared, that as long us
these two metals were IN circulation,
they should be maintained at parity
and Mt an equality, exchangeable from
hand 70 hand, the silver dollar worth a
gold dollar and the gold dollar equal to
q silver dollar. IN ~ <. M 4
National Faith aMd Credit.
1T IS sometimes asked. do not your
bonda say they may be pain In coin?
Yes. And Is not silver coin? Yes. And
may we not pay our bonds in silver?
Yes, undoubtedly. Are not our green
backs made payable in dollars2 Yes.
Are not silver dollars dollars? Yes.
May we not pay our greenbarks In Sill
yer dollars? Yes. Then where Is the
brecch of faith? It IL simply this. II
free coinage comes. 1t will destroy the
parity, the equality, exchangeability of
the silver dollar for the gold dollar and
the right to pay your bonds in coin, SILL
yer coin if you please, gold coin if you
please. To pay your greenbacks In sill
yer dollars or gold dollars, pay your sill
Yer certificates in silver dollars all id
verts upon this fundamental PROPOSE
ton that the silver dollars we pay shall
be equal to the gold dollars that We have
in the treasury at the same time. Cap
plause). The contract IS not, except In
a few instance where gold Is written,
that we shall pay in gold rather than
silver. We have the right to pay in
silver or gold provided and provided al
ways and provided forever, as long as
the United States stands as govern.
ment upon earth respected by man and
worshipped by its people. that the silver
dollar shall be maintained fully equal to
a gold dollar. tApplause). My fellow
rGltlLClS,s lIlul llcS 6llkfsEr. Will
prevent and destroy and make impossl-
BILE. and 1t Is that, my fellow country
men. that makes free silver coinage dis
honorable. 1t Is that that makes free
silver OF l6 to l q fraud, a wrong, an out
rage, Il .dlshoncr to the flag OF our
country.
tiaey Country BEFORE Party.
My fellow citizens what IS your duty?
It is not question whether This man
shall be elected TO Office or that man
succeed at the polls. It is a question
shall! our starry banner be held upright
in the face of the world? (Applause).
| The time has come when every American
citizen must be prepared to sacrifice his
partisanship upon the altar of his coun-
try, and for one am prepared to do So
| (Applau5e). When 1t is done and won
we can then go back TO our party. Not
to this Populist party. I have not bolt
ed the Democratic party. The Demo-
cratic party has bolted from me, and
here stand. and when they get rid Of
this Popullst gang and come back they
VIII lind me standing just where stood
| in 1882. (Applause). The gold dollar
and silver dollar should be maintained
| upon parity, and this clause which I
have read to youfrom this act of 1898 is
taken almost bodily and almost word
for word from the Democratic national
platform Of 1892, and there stand. 4
My fellow citizens, let us so forward
and winthIs election for right, for honor,
for country and for home, and when It Is
done then let us begin to build up anew
the prosperity of this great land of ours
and OF all its people upon the broad plat
form of common honesty and common
se1he. Uong continued applause). 5
| AT the conclusion OF the speaking at
the park. the railroada's came back to
town and many of them participated in
the union parade OF Republicans and
sound money rallroaders In tho event
ing. 7.'I5':;,E. "a. te t.5 I 2'ss}