The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1896-07-21
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Hon. w s. whittinghul, city ottor-
ney Of Enid. and one of the leading
Republicans OF Garfield county, has
left the Republican party and in two
column article ia the Enid Coming
Events denounces tho party for it's
treaehery and duphcity, declaring that
no true patriot Gao longer remain in
Its ranks
From among the many truths he
utters we Gull the following:
The mouey question Is the great and
/ towering question at the present time.
/ 1t is a born question, not made. Even
| Mark Hanna, when requested by Mr.
Mckinley to do so, could not sot S.
aside for the tariff question, upon
which alone NJ NcKinley's fame and
distinction rests. II ought 70 bo met
and solved by the American people
and / venture the prediction that bar
ring the "band wagon" and 'pie
counter politicians and the fran
] chise" statesmen in TIE east. this great
I question viii receive a most sincere
and patriotic consideration, with
result most satisfactory, too, il In the
| coming national conventions the silver
/ forces act wisely and do not allow
party ties and former affiliations TO
/ blind their better judgment DO is the
great American financial policy now
] TO the front: ] am in favor o v 10. The
I Republican party is wrong in not SO
recognizing IL, aud / am no longer a
Republican Tney should have
marched as OF yore with convictions OF
steel TO the field and there dared 20 DO
battle for the rights Of the masses.
They failed 10 do SO. Then think of
/ a Republican in Oklahoma defending
/ a gold stan lard as il now exists when
/ il has been the practice for the past
/ two years that every time they were
/ gathered together, enough OF the
party followers to elect "A president
and secretary. to declare for free sill
yer, free homes, statehood and Dennis
! Flynn.
But il may be II a man is determined
TO stay in the party, right or wrong.
and having gotten neither free silver,
free homes nor statehood, about the
most consistent thing he will be cap
able OF doing here In the territory is
TO vote for Dennis Flynn on the pres.
ent gold standard platform.
hope that all fair-mindcd freemeu
will Join iu this conflict and refute in
the forum of discussion the two mon
strous dogmas upon which rest the en-
tire argument Of the gold standard adj
vocates, namely: That silver has de.
clined by reason OF overproduction,
and that silver dollar is only fifty
or sixty cent dollar That IS the as
sumption OF Mr. sherman and Mr.
Carlisle and Mr. Cleveland. II has
been the stock argument during the
past year against the free and unlimit-
ed coinage Of silver that a fifty cent
dollar, when the truth more nearly Is
that gold dollar, is a two dollar dol
lar.
have but little sympathy for that
species Of tea-drinking admonitious,
born OF log party affiliations. TO stay
Ina the party because it used TO be
right nor for those other words of
delusion and folly that other parties
have heretofore been wrong. The
Iquestion is, which party is right on
the most important issue that ever
knocked at the doors Of this great gov
ernment.
Return to us the money of our IA
theirs, the money of the constitution.
It is wrongfully stricken down. Cease
lqutbhiing about professcd friendship
for silver and your policies to main
trim the parity OF values and your
credit i'm utter disregard Of the wreck
and ruin of the many for the enrich.
ucut Of the few This Is my doctrine.
| This rs the question OF questions 1t
/ 1vereh1dvws ala others in my iudg-
1ent and. so believing. so shall act.
nm mo- longer n Republican The
party or parties or organizations that
qddr s.cs itself 10 the solution and the
lighting of this monstrous this APP
Dllling, this unpardonable and inde-
fcusible wrong, is my party.