The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-06-18
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New York unanimously About eight
hundred delegates in St Louis seem to
have this idea, but they will discover
their mistake later
The idea appears to have prevailed
| in St Louis that the declaration for
| the maintenance of the existing gold
standard until, etc. would carry every
| gold standard vote in the east out or
the Democratic party. The conyen-
ton appeared to believe that all the
the New York World. the New York
Herald, the New York Evening Post,
the big Democratic organs in Boston,
would forget their Democracy and fall
precipitately into the arms Of the Re
publican party. VIII they do il? They
certainly will not, not even if the Chi
cago convention goes the whole length
and declares for the ''free and unlim-
tied and Independent free coinage Of
silver sixteen to one" They will pick
a flaw in the currency plank in the Re
publican platform and use it against
the Republican party. The Demo
cratic organization for spoils in the
east is stronger than its love for any
tenet and thousands Of gold standard
votes will be voted against the Repub-
lican party.
But how can the gold standard Dem
ocrats argue against the Republican
gold plank
The new national Republican cur
rency plank in the platform reads in
its most pointed phrase as follows:
eve are opposed 20 the free coinage
of silver except by international agree
ment with the leading commercial ma
tons of the world, which we pledge
ourselves TO promote, and until such
agreement can be obtained, the exist
ing gold standard must be main
tanned"
OF this the Detroit Tribune says:
''ThiS assures the world that the gold
standard is not to be considered in any
sense a permanent fixture. The issue
seems to be largely misunderstood in
st. Louis. 1t does not lie between a
gold and a silver standard as much as
between gold, the provisional, and gold,
the permanent thing"
This is one objection which the gold
standard men Will make to the plank.
The Republican party makes the dec
laration that it doesn't want gold; that
gold is forced upon it by other nations, |
but that it stands for gold only provi- |
that it wants silver and will |
use it as soon as it can secure the CO
operation of the other leading CONNER !
cial nations.
To turn the platform around without |
its sense it viii appear to the |
rabid goldbug that the Republican /
party is in favor of the free coinage Of /
silver just as soon as it can safely rid |
itself of the conditions which make /
a "single" gold standard. |
The platform says ''the existing gold
standard must be maintained" not for
ever, not as a settled policy, but as one
OF the prime tenets Of the Republican
party, but must be maintained" until
we can safely get rid of it.
This is one objection the gold stan
dard men will make to this plank; in
fact they are already making it. They
will call attention to the fact that the
party is fighting for silver
and promises only 20 maintain the gold
until they can get rid of it
safely.
The real goldbug idea is that the use
is a primary money is gone forever;
that it has passed out of use as such
and that the single pre1ousneSS of
gold is one of the permanent and bless
ID accessions of the greater enlight-
nent of the nineteenth century. Any
lint that the gold standard is not per-
nanent; that only fear of the credit
# the government keeps the Republi-
AN party from boosting it out uncere-
and forthwith, is an affrOnt
% the gold standard man who wants
and desires TO compromise
N nothing,
But it should not be understood from
his that the silver Republicans are
,eating any cymbalS over that plank
they regard it as a gold plank, be-
auSe of that very fear that the indie
,endent free coinage of silver would |
uin the credit of the government. The
liver men hold that free silver would
lot wreck the financial integrity of the
government and the maintenance of
he existing gold standard" even tenn
'orarily they do not like; and the fear
hat the government could not stand
rec coinage they hold to be fraud;
nj the hope of International agree
nenL a deluSiOn.