The oasis., 1896-06-27
TIE PARTY OF BIMrrALrlsm.

l U lN unNilNiNNAtAA AAtA AhhAA'AHNNFAt bimetallist. That was shown in the recent national republican conven- tion. While there were few extrcm- ists in favor of the single gold standard it was plainly apparent that the great mass of the delegates were for the lccinage of both metals on terms of equality. How Co bring about this most desirable condition without financial disturbance, panic or disas- ter was the real and only difference between the great majority of the con- vention and the extreme silver men who went out Many who hold the same pronounced views as do Senator Teller and his associates, remained in the convention, participated in it's de- Alterations to the last, and will re- main in line in support of the ticket.
 The difference in position between the great majority of the convention and the silver minority is that while the silver men believe, and haze so declared, that the United States can, singly and alone, restore silver to it's old position as a money metal, by throwing the American hints open to free coinage of both gold and silver at the ratio o. l6 to l, the other side hold and as earnestly believe that such a course would result in reducing the country to a silver monometallism, which would be as incOnvenient and undesirable as the single gold stan dard, the sudden precipitation of which would be accompanied by a financial reyulsion greater than ever before experienced in the history Of the country. Of the eight hundred and odd delegates who voted for the resolution adopted it is said hat but little more than one hundred are un- equivocally in favor of a single gold standard. The silver vote was about the same number. So there stood be- tween the extreme gold monometal- lists, on the one hand, and those who, justly or unjustly, on the other, have become considered by the country at large as silver monometallists, the great body of seven hundred delegates who stood for bi-metalism and pledged the republican party to work to secure that financial system by the only sure and feasible plan which can accom- plish it without financial panic, viz: by inter national agreement The financial plank of the platform there adopted reads
 The republican party is nnre- seryedly for sound money It caused the enactment of the law providing for the resumption Of specie payment in 1870: since then every dollar has been as good as gold. We are unalter- ably opposed to every measure calcu- lated to debase our currency or impair the credit of our country We are, therefore, opposed tO the free coinage of silver except by international agree ment with the leading commercial nations of the world, which we pledge ourselves to promote, and until such agreement can be obtained the exist ing gold standard must be preserved All our silver and paper currency now in circulation must be maintained at parity with gold, and we favor all measures designed to maintain in- yigably the obligations of the United States and all our money, whether coin or paper, at the present standard. the standard of the most enlightened nations of the earth"
 In common with their party asso- ciates in other commonwealths of the Rocky Mountain region, the republi- cans of Arizona have held that the United States could rehabilitate silver as a money metal without the help Of another nation That was our belief and we so declared it in the platform
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