The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-06-11
STOP THIS
CLAPTRAP
Says Senator HansbrOugh Of
North Dakota.
About ssTarnished Honor" and
"HOneSt Dollars" F."
IT is ALL FOR EFFECT
By the Eastern GOldbug and
Wall Street HypOcrites.
Negro Delegates to Be For Gold
He Says.

st. Louis, June 11.-Senator Hans
brough, a member of the national com
mittee. in an interview today said:
The convention should at least
pledge the Republican party to labor
faithfully in behalf of an internatiOna
conference on the money question, with
a view of securing an agreement in be-
half OF a permanent and settled equall-
ty between silver and gold and the
nominee should be instructed by the
convention to force the gold nations
of Europe through trade discrimina-
tiOns in our commercial intercourse
with them, to establish bimetallIsn as
the universal rule. Should the he
publican party take the place of this
great question in the vigorous way 1t
has heretofore settled other great QueS-
tiOns, the honest, conservative mem
bers will support it heartily Thls, IN
my judgment, should be the central
idea on framing the financial plank.
All their rhetorical clap-trap about
honest dollars" and parity and un-
tarnished honor used in the construc-
ton of former platforms should be left
out. Every patriotic American be-
lieves in sustaining the untarnlshed
honor of the country and in honest dol
lars. and millions of voters are thor
Oughly satisfied that our national honor
VIII be preserved and that honesty Will
prevail under a system of bimetallism.
The fact is, the gold standard advO-
Gates do not want biInetallisn- Eng
land does not want bimetallsm- We
have been resolving in favor Of bimet-
allism and legislating in favor Of the
British gold standard until dlStruSC ana
/ discOurag cement have taken the place
of patience and liberation in the minds
of the people.
"In 1898 England closed the mints Of
India to silver and we repealed the
| Sherman law Strange as it may ap-
/ pear. these Two events took place with
/ in thirty days of each other 1t would
L Ivy
are assured that it was done to re
/ store cOn6dence' What the people of
/ the United States want from this con-
/ veLtiOn is q substantial promise that
( the republican party viii give them
/ genuine financial reform; they know
/ there is nothing to hope for under a
/ policy which means more bond issues
! and DerpetuateS the gold standard
/ Leading southern DELEGATES with whom
/ have talked admit the force of this
/ argument. but they answer that the
/ Democratic party has become the
1 champion of silver. and consequently
/ the Republican party must take the
/ other side of the question IF we are
! given a straight gold plank next week
I it viii he largely through the help of
/ delegates coming from states that
/ never save a Republican vote in the
/ electoral college IF the convention
! makes the mistake of approving the
/ English financial system it viii be any
! thing but a cheerful campaign for our
/ party Our orators and party organs
] may turn the efssie loose ana u0f1l-i
I the stars and stripes when advocating
| an American protective tariff. but they
| will want q unicorn ard the cross Of
St. George when they discuss the fin
! ancial question"
Free Coinage Men to Meet
The advocates of free and unlimited
coinage of silver will hold a meeting
/ today and compare views and discuss
/ the proper line of proceeding when the
/ convention meets. The meeting viii
/ be informal and it is expected it Will
be attended by the delegates and ma
/ tional committeeman present from Cal
| ifornia. Colorado, Utah, Montana, Ne
/ vada. Idaho, North Dakota, South Da-
| kota Washington and Oregon
1t is the desire of the movers Of the
/ meeting. of whom Colonel Isaac Trura-
| bo of Utah is the head. to try to get
| united action in behalf of free coinage
! of silver and for a positive declaration
/ for the protection of wool and lead ore
/ all these states being interested in one
or the other of these Industries. and for
the coinage of all the silver offered al
the ratio Of Is to l. without waiting for
/ the cooperation of other nations.
There has been some effort to secure
the cooperation of the southern dele
gates in this movement, but it has not
so far, been successful.