Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-09-02
McKlnley's Letter.

McKlnley's Letter.
"'Until international agreement il
had it is the plain duty of the uUmteI
States to naint tain u ths gold standard
! This means until Gabriel shall SOUND
his trump.
! another issue of supreme impor
lance is that of protection says Mr.
Mckinley.
| The Major had better have omitted
this supreme" issue.
The Boston Globe ~s5lys: Major Ne
Kinleyssletter. formally accepting his
nomlpatlon St. Louis by the repub.
1ican party, will surprise neither those
who support him nor those who OPP
posed him in this campaign. 1t con
tains nothing new.
The N. Y. Journal says: His letter
of acceptance emphasizes his position
on the currency question. It breaches
gold monometalfism from the first
paragraph to the final dash. This
makes the part of the voter plain-as
plain as it was in the days when the
issue lay between free trade and pro-
lection. He who believes in the exist
ing monetary systematic gold stand
ard-should vote for Mckinley; he who
thinks that free silver will correct
existing ills must vote for Bryan.
If you read the Clifton Forge letter
about the Nea0s in another column you
will laugh.
A ,,occ ;o y otoJ hill Y,a;1 fo1u Tod
dies on the side and a fall overcoat
thrown in, will cause most anybody to
attend a State Convention.
If the Democrats had not nominated
Sewall it is said the National Bank
people would have been unanimous in
their opposition to Bryan. Sewali is
a Bank President.
The news of the convention, which
met in Richmond on last Thursday, in
honor and favor of Maj. Mckinley, did
not entirely destroy VIM. J. Bryan or
the cause of silver He has made sew
eral very good speeches since.
1t is q great disappointment to the
many friends of Capt. Bumgardner
that his speech before the "sound
money" Convention last week was lost.
How in the world did such misfor-
tune overtake it?
The people of New York have an
idea that they know it all, they think
their way of doing is the only way and
they believe that .their State dolni
mates the nation. This is a pleasant
condition OF mind. They caused Mr..
Bourke Cochran to make a speech and
from that time Bryan and the cause of
silver were no more. 1t is strange that
the sword of truth by which Bryan
and his cause were to be laid low, was
not in the hand of a republican but
had to be welded by a renegade dem
ocrat, who up till now had been de-
nounced by republicans as blather-
skite. But New York will learn a les
son before long.
The Richmond Times publishes
letter written by VIM. J. Bryan in
February 1896, in which Mr.. Bryan
says:
'sIn June, 1896, was discussing the
silver question at Jackson, Miss, when
a gentleman in the audience asked me |
if i would support gold standard |
on a gold standard platform
1t the Democratic Convention should |
nominate such q candidate. | an
swered that while | did not believe |
that the Democratic party would take
such action, | would refuse to support
the nominee in the event that it did |
select gold standard candidate on a
gold-standard platform. 1t was this
statement to which Mr. Carlisle re-
ferred when he, few days later, call
ed me Populist and refused to debate
the silver question with me at Licking
ton, Ky.
never retracted what I said at
Jackson. and | do not intend tor
This statement the Times publishes
as reasonable, at least this is the cnly
object we can see in it. Yet the Times
loes not disclose wherein it is more
'reasonabl to bolt a silver than gold
platform. Mr.. Bryan said he would
oolt a gold standard platform. Thel
Times and many other illustrious perl
ons have bolted. a silver one, and
wherein is man more of a traitor who
leclares he would do Il certain thing
lnder certain conditions, than nan
Who has done the deed? Mr.. BRYAN
las never bolted. The Times has
suppose this question would be asked ;
he Times? If Democratic convention ,
we're to declare for slavery. whether it ]
you'd support candidate on such a :
iatforn. Would the Times hesitate r.
Dr. an answer But in any event what s
urt can be done Bryan when it is /
roven that under certain circum- :
tances he would have done just what I
he Times Las sane2 lie