The record-union., 1896-08-01

the United States, with Federal troops,
under sanction Of law, saved further
bloodshed and destruction, and thereby
deserved the thanks of every man who
values our liberties and believes that the
rights guaranteed by the Constitution
ought to be sacredly guarded against
every form of lawlessness.
"The recent travesty at st. Louis, the
Populist Convention, has but illustrated
the elements which naturally gravitate
towards the candidacy of Mr.. Bryan.
Every lily auirk, every incongruous
and = I misshapen idea which
whee -. ne b. ans of men could evolve,
buzzed and whirled through days of
talk, but the net result was Bryan. Gov
ernment ownership of railroad, tele-
graph and telephone lines, initiative and
referendum, silver money and more
money, had their advocates, and at the
end on assurances that all who would
vote for Bryan would be equally recog-
niZed, Mr.. Bryan was almost the unani-
nous choice of the convent ton.
Because, therefore, I believe that free
coinage will come through the efforts of
the Republican party, and because the
Democratic and Populist platforms, ex-
and hostile to the welfare of our coun-
try, l shall not cast my vote for Mr..
Bryan. 1 hold my commission from the
Republican party. Many of its mem
bers, including some of it's leaders, in
the exercise of their judgment have an
nounced their intention of leaving the
party. I shall stay. My loyalty to the
party which has honored me is entirely
consistent with my loyalty to the high
est and best in the State I represent in
the Senate of the United States, and 1
know no reason why I should abandon
my party or desert its colors.
There is in my mind no reason why
il was not as much our duty to vote
for Weaver four years ago as for Bryan
to-day. The Omaha platform declared
for free coinage and was no more OBJ
jectionable than the Chicago platform,
and Bryan is vouched for by leading
Populists as being as good Populist
as lives The Populists have not
changed in the past four years. 1t is
we who are expected to join their ag
gregation. Others may find it wise or
expedient, but i won't do it.
whenever the course of events could
make it possible that / should speak
from the same platform as Tillman, or
Waite, or Ignatius Donnelly in advo-
cacy of the same Presidential candi-
date, I know there must be something
wrong with me. What we need in Colo
rado is less Mysteries and more COM
mon sense. We have glorious resources,
yet in the infancy of development. We
are suffering from the imposition of a
mistaken financial policy, which it is
our natural and proper desire to change
as speedily as possible. AS one of the
States of the Union, each free and SOW
ereign, within our borders live one hun
dred and fftieth of the people of the
United States. We live in a republic
where the majority rules.
The vast majority of the people of
the United States are honest and on
high average intelligent and devoted
to free institutions. Our great desire is
TO induce majority of the people of the
United States to believe as we believe.
The way to the accomplishment Of this
result is not by vituperation and abuse.
The press of the country, East as we'll
as West, is largely responsible for the
bitter sectional feeling now sought to
be invoked. 1t is for Us who 2 e in the
business OF throwing mud to remember
thai vi Lie IiAiiiOllS Vi pGODle WHO Will
cast their ballots this fall nearly all are
as patriotic as we are, and, with US,
equally desirous that this republic shall
live and not die. The people of the East
are our brothers; we sprang from the
same loins; We have a common coun-
try, a common faith and the same dear
feeling. This gospel of hate which is
now being preached should find no fol-
lowers among sane men, no welcor le
among good citizens.
I'VE who believe in free COMA ge at
cur mlnts at the ratio heretofore ex-
listing will secure the adoption of our
views when we are able to insure the
majority of our fellow citizens to share
our belief; when people who do not now
gree with us shall be led to agree with
us, not alone because of our arguments
on finance, but because our views on
other great questions eptitle Us to pub
lie confidence and respect. Free coin
age will never come, in my opinion, out
of the tumble and folly of the Chicago
platform, nor will ii be heralded by the
cap and bells of Populism.
"FDVVARD q WAT,COTv-T ~