The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-17
Chairman Mott Issues His Ma
tiOnal Address.
Baneful Effects of DemOnetiza-
ton Recited.
FOR FREE COINAGE.
A Dark Picture of the Future
Shown.
The American People Strongly
Appealed Too.
FOR FREE COINAGE.

WASHINGTON. Feb. III. ]. Mott,
chairman of the national committee
of the Silver party, has issued the fol-
lowing address to the people:
ITO the People: As chairman of the
national committee, appointed by the
silver conference lately assembled in
Washington to organize the silver
forces in these United States in the
battle which is to take place for the
possession of the government this
year, it is thought proper that L should
make some statement to the people in
reference to it"
The address then goes on with a
history of the silver question, and
continues:
II appeal, not only to the Republic
ans in my own State, who can appre
ciate the sacrifice l make in renounc-
ing party obligations on this question
in advance of party action in the
premises, but to the people through
out the country without regard to
party, to cooperate in this great nom
partisan, patriotic American move
ment to sustain the industrial and
financial independence of the United
States in the pending .irrepressible
conflict.
I'VE have the example and expert
ence of the last campaign in New
safety of men of different parties CO.
operating to carry out great meas
ure essen tial to the welfare of the
people, where neither of the parties
favoring it could effect it alone. It
was cooperation on one issue, the
issue of fair elections 1t is now ar
ranged to extend such a plan through
all the states on another vital issue of
even greater Importance to this coun-
try. No one party can do this, but
majority of the people in all the par
ties want it done, and they can do it,
if they will cooperate.
Es"The peril that menaces the people
in the election of a president whose
administration of the government
means a perpetuat1on of the present
financial system can only be averted
by the people themselves. It may be
too late four years hence. Present
abnormal conditions do not warrant
belief in the peaceful submission of
the people to further oppression and
Smpoverishment
Let us have the metal money re-
stored and in the proportions found in
natures storehouse, and as it existed
in Washington's time, when the flag
and the constitution were fresh, and
God seemed to speak to the people
from an open book.
1.-The men who are for gold stand
bOgebhers no matter what party they
belong to. They have control of both
the Republican and Democratic
parties. The gold leaders are keen,
determined and loyal to the gold
standard. Are the silver leaders less
determined, less intelligent and less
1oyalP If they are equal to the others
in these qualities, what is the matter
with them that they allow victory after
victory to be scored against them, and
that. too, when the silver people in
the country are in the vast majority.
The people are enraged, and justly
30. Must they say at last to these
leaders: 'Lo, these many years, have
we sent you for silver, and you have
returned to us without it; you are I'M
profitable servants and have led us
through the bog and quagmire of dis
appointment We like to honor you,
but you must take US by some other
road and reach our idol
1.-THE men who blazed the wav to
the silver conference did we'll. The
people see the citadel of their liber-
ties and are ready for the battle. The
Phi1istines arc at our doors. To your
tents, o, Israel"