Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-07-07
Blaine and Roies.

DeileSe s.oIG ana SILVER coin TO ne
the money of the constitution, indeed
the money OF the American people
anterior TO .the constitution. which
the great organic law recognized as
quite Independent of its own exist
cnce. no power was conferred on
congress to declare either metal
should aot be money. Congress has,
| III my judgment. DO power to demone-
tize silver any more than to demone-
tie gold. flames e. Blaine, Febru.
AIRY, 1878.
Il believe Webster and many others
of the most eminent of American
statesmen of the past were right in
their conclusion that the constitution
OF the United States, fairly construed,
requires of congress that it shall by
law provide for the coinage Of both
gold and oliver as standard money
that it can no more right1ully demon
e!iz one metal than it can deluonetize
both. Horace Boies, June 1896.
a strong effort is being made to hold
up James G. Blaine as the "patron
saint" of the republican party, dur
ing the current political campaign.
An attempt is being madeto san citify
the policy Of protection and reci-
procisy" by assoclating it with his
name. 1t is not long since the poll
| tIcians and newspapers that are now
shouting loudest for the single gold
standard, We're insisting that Blaine,
aud the republican party, were synon-
ymous and convertible terms, mean
ing the same things. They would not
admit that q man who differed from
the political teachings of Mr.. Blaiue
could possibly be u sound republican.
| When John n. Baldwin rose in the
st. Louis convention to nominate
Senator Allison for the presidency,
he placed the high endorsement OF
him by MIR. Blaine foremost among
his claims foi the nomination
In the forefront of all the issues in
VOWED in the current campaign stands
the monetary question. 1t is one of
the confounding anomalies of politics
that Horace Roies, probable nominee
OF the democratic party, occupies
identical ground on this question with
James q. Blaine, while the republi.
} can platform places Major Mckinley
ln direct antagonism with the declar.
ed views of Mr.. Blaine. We here have
fact which may we'll challenge the
) serious attention and reflection of the
thousands of republicans who once
followed and trusted Mr.. Blaine, and
stlH reverence his memory. After
!, reading those words of his which we
have quoted above, let them imar.
inc, If they can, how he could be in
duced, II alive, to support Mckinley
on gold standard platform, or be in.
duceu to accept nomination on such
a platform. The idea that he would
or could do such thing cannot be
entertained without dishonoring the
memory of the great republican chief
tain. NO man who thoroughly be.
lieved and still believesi in the wisdom,
craftsmanship and patriotism of
James q. Blaine, can vote to fasten
the single gold standard of money
upon this country. Gold standard
repuDllcanism is less than four years
old, and is the product of Platt, d, :
pew, Quay, Hanna, Joe" Medill and
others, backed up by Wall street. 1t
Is not the republicanism of Blaine,
the old Blaine republicans are under
no obligation to accept it, and tens
OF thousands of them will not accept
it.-DeS Moines News