Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1896-09-17

convention declared for the remOne-
tizatiOn of silver by international
agreement and pledged the faith and
best endeavors of the party to bring
in the meantime that all money i'm
circulation should he kept inter
changeable, without premium or dis
count. The wisdom and desirability
of this provision no good citizen can
controvert. 1t il the unquestiOn-
able interes- of all the people that
every dollar issued by or with the
consent N the government should be
at all times entitled to the full faith
and credit of every citizen. Should
particular form of our money be-
come the subject of discount or
premium, every person engaged in
labor or trade would be confronted
with the necessity of first agreeing
ON the price to be paid and second
and n IRE difficult still by the task
of determining the kind of money to
be used i'm the transaction. The les
sons of history on this subject of cir
culating money of various values
are too serious and pronounced and
too deeply stamped with disaster and
ruin, particularly to the poor and
l.,boring classes, to permit us for one
moment to support any policy which
might lean to such "a deplorable re-
suit. | venture to say that no
party i'm this country will have the
temerity to find fault with that por-
ton of the Republican. platform
which pledges the party to maintain
all the money in circulation inter-
changeable. dollar for dollar, with
out reference to any kind of coin or
currency issued or stamped by or
with the approval of the govern
ment.
Plank That Satisfies No One.
with the declaration in favor of
the restoration of silver by interna-
tional agreement two elements in
the convention found fault-it was
not satisfactory to the gold mono
metallists on the one hand, nor to
the advocates of the free coinage of
silver on the other. In common
with my colleagues of the Montana
delegation, l was dissatisfied with
the declaration of the platform in
that behalf and i therefore Joined
with four other members of the dele
cation i'm an announcemen at to the
convention that we reserved the
right to the Republican party of
Montana i'm convention assembled
to accept or reject that portion of
the platform. You are now called
upon to act. Your action will be
taken i'm the light of all that has
! of our convention. Four national
conventions have been held i'm the
meantime, but as the POpulist and
free silver parties substantially in
dOrsed the work of the Democratic
national convention, which assem-
bled at Chicago on July Z, it is only
necessary for Montana Republicans
of faltering faith to examine the
work of that convention i'm order to
determine what Justification can be
found for changing party relations
and voting the Democratic ticket
| A second Democratic convention re-
Gently assembled at Indianapolis
but as it adopted a gold standard
platform, "A review of it's labors IL
deemed unnecessary in this state.
The Chicago convention was com.
posed of many conflicting elements
In obedience to the demands of Ger.
tain dominating factions in that
convention, the party was made to
declare in favor of fresurrecting thedoc-
trine of states rights which had been
settled in favor of the supremacy ol
the federal government by the sur
render at Appomattox. A covert
assault was made upon the courts
of the country by proposition
which i'm effect would change the
personnel of our courts, In order tC
obtain desirable opinions on the
constitution and the laws at thu
whim or behest of n political party
In other words it is substantially
1 proposed to change the courts In
stead of changing the constitution
and the laws, IL unsatisfactory
That platform favors the doctrine o
(free trade against which we hstv'