The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-06-22
Mr.. FORAKER ON THE BOLT.
Saws Teller Had DUST as Good Cause
to Go four Years Ago.
THE PLAIN DECLARATION FOR G0l.n


SciMtOr-elcCt fNrtktT = rSlhtlon 10 WV
making of the platform at ST. Louis ami
his relations with Senator Teller four
years ago n II similar capacity, his ut
terance on the subject of gold and silver
late last night in his iutii,cotion speech
becomes OF peculiar interest.
He sad: want to- take advantage of
this opportunity to say II word about thr
effort now being made TO make I, appear
,,ut the republican party declared N Its
money p,ank Tor something new 1T 81,
Louis. That is not true.
The declaration of the republican party
as spaiiu.iisrs.4s. -..-s money plank at ST
f.ou.s t..iincs exactly whit ,t---nton the
position OF the republicans party through
al; these years VITA respect 10 the silver
qucs, .on. silver was dcmonot.2cd in ls,3
and ever since thslt We have t.on on
single gold STANDARD bass About the
same time several OF the leading nations
OF Europe dcmonctizcd silver Mud ever
since that tine AN enort has hecn mate
TO Ret back to bimopuliSm We have had
IN that behalf three International none
tary conferences. the object OF them being
10 dsrcc with other nations upou an in
tcrnatiounl ratio uccurct ug to which wo
could have the free coinage OF silver But
ali these efforts have luiied.
1t has been constantly aud repeatedly
declared by both parties that blnctaiisu
WAS desirable i'll preference 10 GOLD on ,N-
Yer molonctalisn SIN. Both Ihrucs have
agreed that we couii maintain the pai.tN
Of the TWO metals ana bring al AT BIN tai
ism az In by ar international agr'r'iucl't
Some people have insisted In the mran-
while that Il we could not do il N thht
way could do IT all alone wthou, re-
laid to what Other Nations might see III
ia do The republican party has constant
~, consistently and persisicntly sto-i up
against that id,a.
-Four wears ago. when We held the con
vcntion AT MINNEAPOLIS, II VA my !gt-
rune to i'r the chairman of the ceinnl.,-
| toe on resolutions as was nj the 81.
! Louis convention, aud II was my ioilh'"
TO br associated IN that committee WIN
senator Teller. lie and his associates
| from the silver States came to me con
| Vcntion ana came before the committee
asking Us to insert plank plcds nr me
! republican party 10 the free cointgo o,
| that were IN favor oi iniefnaN"iiAi
| himotallsm hut that until IT WAS hronHht
about it would be eur policy to ma1l,ain
| no moro of IL than could h. maintained AT
| /; parity With gold.
they accepted the result ana rS.na,4"u
in the republican party. That declaration
was simply a declaration as III. ON"
adopted The other day was thai We would
say precisely where We were until We
could do better. W. were agreed that We
&C. uli safely undertake Ia have hneitiltsm
lay International agreement we We're I'm
| W ling and refused IA attempt 1t by Tree
land iudcpendunt coinage.
They did NOT 20 out of the party thon;
lblod then SO much as now. They re-
n,aiu.d III the Party four years longer.
When The last session OF congress com
mencei as n result of this democratic
free trade experiment the rpNerlin.hl
WAS found 10 % deficlent n revenues i"t
having enough hNnuur 10 Illcct - ~
house ana passed that body, waihou' pnr-
nsa, n,vis,oii a',' p ~, ,",,s L. a.,
ne lS,n,,lc, III n Went "a thn .ennie
ard the cred OF the National life Was at
unoi,ie,t- nnnbIS iit they refused 10 vote
for ii Chat H. sin If these .;entlenen from
silver Staes did uni. az tho preni majority
who did not agree with them would sac
rifice their convictions and vote for the
free. unlimie ted and unrest lc'cd colnase
Of silver. The great matcsiiy IN tho sem
lhht action upon IN" part OF these r"o-
pie directed tho attention Of tho country
10 thr suhloct as II i'ad not been directed
st. Louis conditions wore ripe, not for a
dlttroni stand to he taken by the re
| publican pnrtN, bat for moro explicit
lid heretofore made, aud irasmuch as
th"y had thrown down The gage OF ha,if
by demanding free silver and seeking TO
co"rcc MS TO accent IT, "" ron'lude1 that
was a good lirn' 10 moot 'hnm haf way,
lm'h ifsu" ana let me bntuc come Oh.
They appeared before the committee and
were part of the committee just they
were four yl"rs ago. 'fh"v made the
same demands We made. Inc same aims
nun Nil'Ii we came 10 "fltc IN" platform
we said we VIII mako 1t 50 plu ID that IN
VIII understand. and 20 We declared That
we were nnilt"rably opposed To HE irrc
and unlimited colnuge Of silver untn we
can have an international agroyme aud
in the meantime we VIII preserve tho oX-
listing gold STANDARD.
70 conclude with "A word. When senator
Teller and his assooiates hol;ed the party
at the -. l.ouis convent on they had 40
cause for 1t wiiatrNor that IA not oNi.i
four ychrs ago at the Minneapolis convcn-
ton, aud when the republican party mad"
u'u 10y 10y, n'nss ''s npSn,on ono ht'.r'n I.