The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-10-14
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VIII GiRONt1f C EvElL.ANDsA AND
JTHEIi GOOD. Honest AND STFR-
y LING ! DEMOCRATS, THAT THE,
s,)SLI..NAYl IN WHICH WE CAN.
& sACCOMusLtSII THAT 81 FULL. CONF
h !! i.i.LrE and AMPLE REAioNETI-
ItNrilN. on SILVER Is by AN IN,
2 il,issiltSAIlONaL sAGREEAi E,NT Z with
A ytntse. n Tour OF the leading commer-
n ciat eolrtries OF the world, :"
X M :'tsdnSer8 endorsement otathe Re-
4 puplh gn national platform could be
sutlgreaS h,an this, /, Was tbs position
ME- Pena'cton held while In Congress.
n anu ~ ybody II believes THAT In
2 his.'constaehce he stu holds It. II { h.
I was Fight then his speeches OF to-day
Il are. answered by the speech above
Quoted, for IL Is un$elaboratc argument
sustaining the View he expressed 1T
1.-The close. z.
The ltcgis,.r's Imcomsi,ieney.
sii The Wheeling; Daily Register Is the
4 mort PROMINENT Democratic paper In the
STATE that mas surrendered It's Demo-.
cratic principles to support the hereBy
! Iorced on the Chicago convention by the
4 Populists and free. sllverites, and It does.
30 merely because ii aid moi have the
courage to stand By the doctrines which,
forFy Years Ii had been preaching to its
leaders. AlIn0it up TO the time OF the
convention sit was supporting the ma
( tlonal admin sairationg and It's financial
policy lenounclng the free silver men
as lnnatics and arguing that free silver
was .nnr pemociutic, IA
When 1t saw the repudiatnrs and the
cheap dollar fanatics had control OF the
national convention II made haste to
curry favor wkh the new leaders ana
cut loose from the great Leaders OF the
Democracy. II was merely 4 matter OF
sexpedlency, u last ditch experiment,
because the Register saw In this new is-
sue a chance 70 ieyade the discussion OF
+ the tariff Issue, which 1t knew had al
ready doomed the Democracy to de-
, feat.
When the 1ntelllgencer recently re-
minded the Register OF Its inconsistent
course and Its insincerity that paper had
4 the supreme nerve to challenge the In
= telliSencerS to reproduce from Its files "a
s Ina or a1word. expressed or implied, to
& show that. the Register had ever sup.
ported the gold standard. The Intelll-
Sencer Keeps a file OF the Register and
GpiausIo ulIIiSultS Eli uuultiS tue luilbNHi
}s&editorial utterances among the great
number. of others OF " similar character.
In the Register OF August Is, 1898, while
the bill to repeal the silver purchasing
Y actwas pending In Congress, the follow
ing editorial appeared:
Mr.. gladstone attaches little i'm
portance to the introduction OF. a bill in
Congress to change the ratio OF silver
and gold to q to |. As the Philadel-
phia Record points out the speech OF
Senator Vest simultaneous with Mr..
Gladstone's shows how well the Brit.
ish premier understands the situation
" in this country. While the Missouri
gsenators bill llooks in the direction of
blmetallism. his speech was for mono
metalllsm of silver. From beginning 10
END there was nothing in his argument
that separates him from the most eN-
IRENE champion Of free silver coinage.
There Is nothing in 1t that shows that
helwnulds not quite as readily support
ratio OF 10 to as a ratio OF q to /.
While pouring Demonstrations on the
Sherman law, Senator Vests reason for
opposing Its repeal is that President
Cleveland did not say G. word for BIZ
metallism in his message. He seems to
have overlooked that passage in the
message in which the President earn
estly admonished such as him that the
$United States could not hope to obtain
international cooperation and agree
ment in favor OF bi-metallism 80 long Us
we should continue the attempt 10 ac-
complish such policy single-handed.
Although this does not commit Mr..
Cleveland to bi-metallism. 1t shows
that he Is willing to give It's advocates
every opportunity 10 promote Its sue,
cess The International Monetary Con-.
ference has not adjourned sine die, and
the President could send delegates toll
in order that the effort in behalf OF BIZ
metallism might be renewed. But OF
what earthly use would such an expert
ment be so long as the Sherman act
should stare the nations in the face2tlINA
Senator Vest affected much surprise
y when a fellow senator challenged his
daring assertion that France is Il ,bi-
metallic country.
"a bi-netc.llic country Is one that
authorizes the free coinage Of gold and
silver as full legal tender at given
Z ratio Now France, in order to main,
& tain the circulation Of large volume,of
s silver at a parity with gold, stopped;
i free coinage twenty years ago. France
and the aother solvent nations OF the
\ Latin Union saw. that without the.
: st0ppage CT free silver coinage their
currency would fall to monometallism
X OF deprecated silver. There Is no doubt
that this country could also maintain
+ all its existing metallic and paper cur
rency al level with gold II Congress
should coin no mare silver dollars and
buy no more silver bullion upon issues
of treasury certificates payable In gold.
sit does small credit TO, Senator Vests
candor and fairness as a public man to
persist In the assertion that France Is
! a hi-DIs. llfr country In fare uf tb,.
& fact, that FRANCE. FROM CONSID-
ERATIONS, OF SAFETY ABANDON-
ED BI-METAELISM LONG AGO. ALI.
s THAT THE FRIENDS OF HONEST
MONEY IN THIS COUNTRY DESIRE
Is z THAT CONGRESS SHALL FOL-
{ LOW THE FRENCH EXAMPLE,"
Some Additional Gems.
1t viii be noted that the Register was
defending the President from the at.
tacksgor The silverltes and was MAIN
tanning that bi-metalllsm could only be
successfully accomplished by lnterna-
tional agreement. l3i3
~ Hereils another editorial from the
Register of the same summer which will
demonstrate 10 the Populists and consci-
cntious free silver men just how much
that paper loves them:
The Populsts propose 90 take " hand
in the state campaign In Virginia. They
will back their candidate with all the
speakers they! can command and have
issued an appeal for funds to derray eX-
panses. This will make the campaign
+, Interesting, but no Virginia Democrat
should allow himself TO DC entlced away
fromhis party blythe free acknowledgment
lAdratnrs OF the new party TINT promises
10 right all the peoples long standing