The representative., 1896-09-23

1, and comforting the law of full legal
tender" upon silver dollars, would
swindle pensioners, la5Orers AMI other
creditors, and in effect leave such coins
so-called fifty cent dollars-in doc
trine that denies the constitutional
power Of congress to coin money for the
American people, without foreign con-
sent, and nullifies the fundamental
principles of free government-basedo on
the sovereignty and suffrages of
free peoples a base falsehOOd in it's
last analysis, embracing notification
and tOryism against our people and
government, and casts stigma of dis
honor upon every drop of patriotic
blood shed and lives sacrificed to es-
tablish government by the people and
for the people from Bunker Hill to
Appomattox; and now reveals the
modern so-called Republican party and
it's leaders as the apOlogists and de-
tenders of financial system based on
bonds and gold only, destitute of hui
manity and patriotism, that appeals
only to the animal greed and oppres-
sive instincts of human nature, and
should be denounced by every old
soldier and all good citizens throughout
the Union, and we as federal soldiers
of the late war, call to our people of East
and West, North and South, to arise
and trample out of existence the bond
slave so-called Republican party at the
polls in Notwithstanding it's gold
standard bond slave annex-the Hanna
Gratis, calling themselves the National
Democratic party" and to restore the
government once more ITO the people,
to whom it belongs" by voting the
Bryan electoral ticket Stand firm,
comrades, all this denunciation and
talk of rebellion, reputation and an
archy, should Mr.. Bryan be elected,
is pure bluff and falsehood-put out by
the anarchists of wealth" in a few
states and in large cities, to terrorize,
force and deceive the industrial masses
on the farms and in the workshops into
voting for lie'' to their own injury
into voting really for Mark Hanna, the
destroyer and oppressor of labor unions,
the Belmonts and Cockrans, and their
class, who, as rule, sent hired substi-
tutes to the Union army, and now i'm
pugn the motives of the loyal volunteers
Of the Central and Western states who
support Mr.. Bryan-thrOugh the lying
hireling Demo-Republican gold press,
AuA ny 1AuAAd III AdSOA VI LuC UOUu.
ocracy, and industrial slavery Of our
people, white and black. We affirm
that the Jeffersonian principles upon
which Mr.. Bryan stands are new
Declaration of Independence, civil, po-
. litical and financial, by the American
| people, and the large body of our late
comrades and fellow citizens who will
vote for him, without regarJ to former
party ties, are not "anarchists'' or re-
pudiators, and do not belong to a "mob."
/ We leave to the "bondOcracy" the
role of playing at rebellion, repudia-
. tion and notification of the constitu-
tional rights of the people, at their
peril; and on behalf of our comrades
who will support Mr.. Bryan we deny
the right of any organization of old
soldiers to arrogate to themselves-in
connection with the single gold standard
Hannacrats-andR Republicans, a monOp-
oily of moral honesty, patriotism, and
good citizenship, that should character
ize all true supporters Of free govern
ment.
(Signed.) &c. A. Power, 31st Ind;
Sam'l r. Jones, S5th Ind; Jabez Smith,
Capt. 18th and 10th Ind; e. T. Spotts-
wood, surgeon, list and 9Th Ind. cavalry;
Thos. W. Harper. 151st Ohio; A. s. Loud
ermilk, 124th Ind. (Hovey's division.)
Terre Haute, Ind, Sept. 10, 1896.