The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-07-07
THE REPUBLICAN REVOLT.


The most sensational manefesto in Min
nesota's history was that issued by the
silver Republicans who refuse to support
Mckinley for President, Clough for
governor, or any of the Republican can
didates for Congress. The prominence of
the men signing it has attracted wide
spread attention. Among the number
are ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Frank A Day,
Congressman Charles A. Towne, ex-Con-
gresham John Lind and several State
senator's. The address is issued to the
Republicans of Minnesota, and says:
The greatest issue which has arisen in
this country since the abolition of African
slavery now confronts the American peo-
pie. The common people have viewed
with increasing alarm the effort of for
elgn money aristocracy to fasten upon the
nation the single gold standard of value
In the past they turned with inspiration
of faith to the Republican party for pro-
lection against that power which seeks to
strike down one-half the redemption
money of the world that the other half
may purchase double the amount of the
products of toll They had a right to
expect such protection. The Republican
party was born of the common people
Its mission has been to dignity labor
to secure to him who tolls in the field or
mine the just fruits of honest labor
From the day of the party's birth to the
present time no article of Republican
faith has been more pronounced than the
belief in bimetallism. 1t has been writ
ten in its platform and taught by all its
great leaders. In national convention in
1883 it condemned the policy of the
Democratic administration to demonetiZe
silver.
In 1892 in its platform adopted in Min
neapolis it declared in favor of gold and
silver as standard money In 1894 the
Republican party of Minnesota reaffirmed
its belief in bimetallism and that the
restoration of silver as ultimate money
to the currency world is absolute neces-
slty for business prosperity, proper rate
of wages and the welfare of the people
Nearly every Republican State conven-.
ton in 1894 condemned either in express
terms or by implication the single gold
standard. James G. Blaine we'll express
ed the belief of the Republican party
when he declared: i believe that the
struggle now going on in this country
and in other countries for a single gold
standard would, if successful, produce
widespread disaster in and about the
commercial world
'The action of the national Republican
convention at St. Louis has repudIated
this fundamental doctrine of our party.
The single gold standard has been en-
dorsed. The Republican party no longer
stands for both gold and silver as primary
money, but for gold only We cannot
accept the new faith and we will hold
Steadfast to the old. The policy of gold
monometallism means prolonged and
intensified depression and an endless and
hopeless era of falling prices for our
farmers and other producers; continued
uncertainty of employment for our work
ingmen, with lessening wages following
the fall in prices of the products of labor;
encouragement of all enterprises, and in
the end universal bankruptcy and the
gravitation OF all money into the hands of
the money brokers. 1t means the oblter-
alton of the great middle class, the yeo-
many of the nation and the division of the
people into the very rich and the very poor.
Those Republicans who believe in the use
of both gold and silver as the money of
ultimate payment and their. free coinage
in our minis must either submit i'm
silence or speak out boldly in condemna-
ton of this policy so disastrous to the
people. On matters of vital principle
no man can reasonably he asked to sub
init to party dictation. Every man who
places country above party and whose
sympathies are with the producers as
against the money brokers and bond
holders, owes duty to his conscience
and to his country, which can only be
discharged by putting forth every effort
in his power that the blight of the single
gold standard may not be fastened upon
this people"