The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1896-10-13

them. Following is a list that
was received too late to publish
in our last weeks issue. Last
issue we reported, by error, G..
S. Jordan 81. instead of g.
c. s. Jordan ..-...-................-...s 90
James Hooper ......-...-.....-.....-...-- 90
A L. Wheeler. ..-..--.-..-. ,..-.-.---.-.---- 90
Ike Hill. -..---.-.-...----.-------- 90
Thos. Chivers-. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES 90
A. j. Pierce .............-.-..-...-. 90
Total amount collected ......-....---..s 2S5 25
Cost OF four Money Orders es cts.
Total amount sent to W. P. St. John. zs5 q
Below we publish Mr.. Bryan S
letter of accepting the nomina
ton by the Peoples Party. We
presume nearly every one has
read it, but for fear that some
one has not, we publish it in
full. 1t is words of a patriot
Hon. William V. Allen, chair
man, and other members of the
notification committee of the
Peoples party
"Gentlemen-The nomination
of the Peoples party for the
Presidency of the United States
has been rendered me in such a
generous spirit and upon such
honorable terms, that l am able
to accept the same without de-
parting from the platform adopt
ed by the Democratic national
convention.
Il fully appreciate the breadth
of the patriotism which has act
uated the members of the Peoples
party who, in order to consolidate
the sentiment in favor of bimet-
allism, have been willing to go
outside of party lines and sup
port as candidate one already
nominated by the Democratic
party and also by the Silver
party.
II also appreciate the fact that
while, during all the years since
1873, a large majority of the
Democratic party and the minor
ity of the Republican party have
been consistent advocates of the
free coinage of silver at the pres
ent ratio, yet ever since the or
ganization of the Peoples party,
its members have unanimously
supported such coinage as the
only means of restoring bimetal-
liSm.
by persistently pointing out
the disastrous effects of a gold
standard and protesting against
each successive step towards
financial bondage, the Populists
have exerted an important infiu-
ence in awakening the public to
a Relation of the nations pres
ent peril.
I'm time like this, when a
great political party is attempt
ing to surrender the right to
legislate for ourselves upon the
financial question and is seeking
to bind the American people to
: a foreign monetary system, ii
behooves us, as lovers of oul
country and friends of American
institutions, to lay aside for the
present such differences as may
exist among US on minor ques'
: tions, in order that our strength
may be united in supreme effort
, to wrest the government from
the hands of those who imagine
, that the nations finances are only
secure when controlled by few
financiers, and that national
honor can only be maintained by
servile acquiescence in any
policy, however destructive tC
the interests of the people of the
United States, which foreign
creditors present or prospective,
may desire to force upon us.
''It is a cause of congratula
ton that we have in this cam
paign not only the support o1
Democrats, Populists and Re
publicans who have all alons
, believed in independent bimetal
: lism, but also the active co-opera
5 ton of those Democrats and Re
: publicans who, having hereto
fore waited for international bi
= metallism, now join with us
rather than trust the destinies o
3 the nation in the hands of thos,
' who are holding out the delusiv'
= hope of foreign aid, while they
: labor secretly for the permanen
S establishment of the single golC
2 standard.
S "While difficulties always aris'
S in the settlement of the detail