The herald., 1896-07-21
The REPUBLICAN D0LTERS
Issue An Address to Colorado
SiIverites
TELLER AND HIS FRIENDS
State Their Position and Give the
Reasons Therefor
The Silver Delegates Who Left the Republican
Convention Pledge Themselves to
the Support of Bryan
Associated Press SpecfaI wire

DSN VEN, COL, july Ex-senator
Teller and seven of his associates vino
left the national Republican convention
this evening made public an address tn
the silver Republica.s of Colorado. The
silver Republican congressman and
senators have been in conference at
Manitou for several days over their
statement. In addition to those signing
the address, Senator Pettigrew of South
Dakota and Senator Cannon of Utah.
are declared to be in sympathy with it.
although Senator Cannon was not pres
ent at the conferences, owing to busi-
ness engagements in Boston. The ad-
dress is as follows:
We deem it fitting that we who have
hitherto affiliated with the national Pc
publican party, and who have rejected
the financial plank of the platform
adopted at st. Louis, and refused to sup
port the nominees of the convention,
should state our position in the presi-
dental campaign and give briefly oar
reasons in support thereof.
When certain delegates to the ma
tional Republican convention repudi-
ated the financial plank of the platform
and withdrew from the convention we
determined that we would give our sup
port to such candidates as should ap-
pear most willing and capable of aiding
in the restoration of silver to it's rightful
place as standard money.
The Democratic party in it's Chicago
convention has taken a position in it's
platform so pronouncedly favorable to
silver and has nominated candidates of
such unquestionable convictions in
favor of the bimetallic policy and Of
such high personal character that we
have determined to give them our sup
port. We support such candidates be-
cause they represent the great princi-
pie Of bimetallism which we believe to
be the cause Of humanity and civiliza-
ton and the paramount question now
before the American people,
We therefore announce that we shall
by voice and vote support Messrs. Bryan
and Sewall for president and vice presi-
dent, and we appeal to all citizens, and
especially to Republicans who feel as
we do, that gold monometallism would
be of lasting injury to the country, to
act with us in securing their election.
The Democrats who believe in the gold
standard are announcing their inten-
ton to support Mr. Mckinley, or pro-
posing to put third candidate in the
field for the avowed purpose of aiding
Mr.. McKinley's election. A great nual-
ber of leading and influential Demo-
cratic journals have declared they will
support the Republican nominees. 1t is
evident there is to be union of forces
on the present advocates and support
ers of the gold standard to elect Mr..
Mckinley and congress favorable to
him which will support the financial
policy outlined in the Republican plat
form.
To those who believe in bimetallism.
which means the equal treatment of
both gold and silver at the mints of the
nation, there is but one course to pur-
sue, and that is to unite all the silver
forces and to oppose with all our might
the candidate representing the policy
which we believe is fraught with dis
aster to the nation and ruin to the peo-
pie.
Gold monometallism means the shift
ing to gold alone, as primary money. all
the burdens of commerce and credit for
merly borne by gold and silver, and as
the worlds stocks of these metals has
always been about equal in amount. it
means the doubling of the burden upon
gold. Doubling the burden upon gold
means doubling the demand for the
same, and doubling the demand, of me-
cessity, doubles the value thereof. This
gradual shifting to gold of all the bur-
dens of both gold and silver has caused
gradual and steady increase in the
value of every dollar redeemable in gold.
and hence a gradual and steady decline
III the value of every commodity that is
measured by that dollar.
The representatives and supporters of
Mr.. Mckinley consented to the insertion
in the st. Louis platform of the gold
standard declaration for bimetallism.
when the leading commercial nations
of the world should consent" but until
that consent was secured the gold stan
dard must be maintained. 1t is we'll
known that this consent cannot be Sc
cured from Great Britain and that such
declaration for bimetallism means moth
ing with this limitation upon it. Mr..
Mckinley consented to the declaration
for the gold standard in the platform.
and in his recent speech he accepted IT.
and has become the advocate thereof:
he has shown by his speeches heretofore
made that he understood the danger of
the gold standard and the distress which
would be inflicted upon the American
people by its adoption, and yet he pledg-
es the people to support and maintain
that system and fasten upon them all
the evils of the financial system which
he has heretofore repudiated, if they will
make him president. Whatever may
nave been his attitude on the money
question in the past, he must inevitably
hereafter support the same financial
system that the present Democratic ad-
ministration has, and il elected must
continue the policy of Mr.. Cleveland in
the sale of bonds in the time of peace.
Hence, with the success of Mr. McKin-
ley we may look for continual increase
of the public debt and the sale of bonds
to maintain the gold standard.
That the condition of the country IN