The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-07-09
THE PRAIRIE FIRE.
Leading Republicans Declaring for Sill
yer In Minnesota. Kansas ana Other
States some Predictions.

4 sensational turn was given affairs il
Minnesota Friday by the issue of an ad
dress, signed by Lieut.-Gov. F. A. Day
Congressman Charles A. Towne. ex
Congressman John Lind, and severa
state senators, repudiating Mckinley
and the gold standard and calling upor
the Republicans of the state To support
silver. The address says:
The greatest issue which has arisen In thi
country since the abolition OF African SLAYER,
now confronts the American people The com
mon people have viewed with increasing alarm
the effort of a foreign money arfstocracy to fas
ten upon this nation the single gold standard OF
value. In the past they turned with the inspira
ton of faith TO the Republican party for protec
ton against that power which seeks 10 strike
down e'half the redemption money of the
world that the other half may purchase double
the amount of the products OF toll.
They had a right to expect such protection.
The Republican party was born OF the common
to secure 10 him who tolls In the neld or mine
the just fruits of honest labor. From the day of
the party's birth until the present time article
than the belief in bime,alism. IL has been writ
ten In lis platforms and taught by all its great
, lea {, In "a, na,ionM convention in
sin 1892, In its platform adopted at Minneapo-
lis, u declared In favor Of both gold and silver
as standard money.
NEARLY every Republican state convention In
1884 condemned either in express terms or by
implication the single gold standard. James G..
Blaine wei expressed the belief OF the Republi
can party when he declared: Il believe the
struggle going on IN this country aud In other
countries for single gold standard would, II
successful, produce Widespread disaster IN and
throughout the commercial world.
I'VE cannot accept the new faith, and will
hold steadfastly to the old"
The Atkinson Globe says in lead
ing article that the indications are
that the Republican ticket Twill not
win in Kansas. The Champion, also a
Republican paper. owned by Lieut..
Gov. Felt. says the st Louis platform
is stupid Endorsement of President
Cleveland. 1t adds, neither a United
States senator nor representative in
congress can be elected 10 Kansas this
year on gold platform. ATopekea spec
ial says the list of boiling Kansas Re
publicans increases every day.
I'll. ", Whitley of Emporia, declares
that he will no longer remain with
the party Il. ". Turner of Mankato.
who was consul at Cadiz, SpaiL,
under Harrison, also publishes his
withdrawal.
Jay 4. Lee. the leading candidate for
the Republican nomination for Congress
In the 9th Michigan district, has pub
lished letter regulating the St. Louis
financial plank, and saying that, if NOM
mated and elected, he will favor the free
coinage of silver at ratio of Is to /.
John Brisbin Walker, the wealthy pub
Usher of the Cosmopolitan Magazine. is
an ardent free silver man and made a |
speech that way in Cooper Union. New
York. Friday night.
Senator Chandler, of New Hamp- |
shire, has for several years been an
avowed bi-metalist. but he supports the
ST. Louis gold plank because he regards
it as forming modus vivendi pending
an international agreement. But when
The gold policy is announced as a final
ny, his paper, the Concord Monitor.
will not be foun1 on the side of gold.
such monetary system twill every
where tend to make the rich richer and
he poor poorer" twill inflict grinding
poverty and intense woe on mankind
% he thinks. but he will support 1t for
he time being.