The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-05-17
THE LAST ON M.KINLEY.

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Whatever the ST Louis convention
| may declare, whatever attitude its ma
jority may assume, touching the money
| question. there is no doubt that the
sympathies and convictions of its in
ev:tahle nominee are and will be with
the affirmative majority of the people
on the silver question. And after all
| it is more in the man than in the plat
form. Cleveland as president, today,
is forcing his single standard policy
upon the country in spite of the fact
that a large majority of his party are
for free silver, and confronting the
| conceded conclusion that it will so de-
clare two months hence in national
convention.
One of the strongest and most assur-
ing indications of McKinley's repug-
nance to the single, One-sided convic-
tons of Wall street, and his friendli-
ness for silver, is in the opposition
found to him in the columns of the
great metropolitan papers of New York
! City. The Evening Post and the World
are conspicuous for their quotations
! from McKinley's speeches in the past,
all going to show that his convictions
never wavered, that all the gold and
all the silver combined were necessary
to meet the monetary demands of the
people. These papers have scanned
every speech he ever made in congress
and upon the stump. They have all
the one tendency, are all for true and
real bimetalliSm. The Evening Post
of Wednesday last reprOduceS columns
of extracts from these speeches. As
late as September, 1898, Mckinley in
speech made in the house, favoring
silver and protection declared that "the
silver product of the country, one Of
the most important we have, should
not be Disseminated against, but some
I.ian should be devised for its udliZa-
ton as a money which will insure, not
the displacement Of gold. but the safe
and full use Of both as exchanges
among the people"
But Mckinley made a speech still
later, after he had left congress, at
Findlay, Ohio. which has been some
how overlooked until the past week.
1t was a speech in which be condemn
ed the present administration for its
money policy. Governor Mckinley
said, speaking Of the efforts Of Cleve-
land TO conserve the interests Of the
money power, and his interested
friendship for Wall street and its gold
gambling syndicates:
The Democratic party has been IN
control of every branch of the govern
ment since the 4th day OF March, 1898.
Its legislative branch has been in ses-
sion for more than twelve months yet
1t has given us no silver legislation
whatever except TO strike down the
Sherman law at its special session
called for that purpose, and IN re-
Spouse to the urgent Recommendation
of a Democratic president. The party
that struck silver down, and gave 1t
the severest blow it ever had. cannot
be relied upon to give that metal hon
orable treatment
Mr.. McKinley's attitude towards |
President Cleveland as the representa- |
tive of sound money, as illustrated In
these speeches Of September, 1893, and |
September, 1894, was entirely consist |
ent with his condemnation of him in |
June, 1890, for having coined only the |
minimum amount of bullion under the |
Bland-AlliSOn act from 1885 to 1889, |
and for having restrained the Demo-
cratic party throughout his admins
tratiOn from passing any silver bill.
What better proof, what stronger Ian
guage, can the friends Of silver and
of true bimetallism demand than the
quotation given by Mckinley at Find
lay, on the 9th of September, 1894,
less than twenty months ago.
1t is fact. uncontrQvertible, that 1t
is gold craze" now rather than a
silver craze" and that If the gold
have their way that be-
fore the expiration of the next admin
istratiOn every value in the land in
Guiding wages, will shrink yet again
another 80 per cent.