The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-06-19
THE REPUBLICAN PLATFORM
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 must be maintained at parity with gold and we favor all measures de- signed to maintain invioably these ob- legations of the United States and all our money, either coin or paper at the present standard, the standard of the most enlightened nations of the earth"
 Gold Plank Construed,
 As the declaration of 1892 has been, by a majority of the party, construed to justify a single gold standard for our monetary basis, and as the recent trend of the official power of the par ty has been in that direction, we can but assume that the money plank of the new platform, being much more favorable to perpetual gold monomet- allism, will be determinedly used in behalf of that idea. The republican party has won it's power and renown by pursuing its purposes courageously and relentlessly; it is, therefore, only in accordance with the partys history to assume that if it shall come to present authority in the United States 1t will crystalline into law and admin istration under this tempting platform the perpetual single gold standard in our finances. This, if long continued, will mean the absolute ruin of the pro ducers of the country and finally of the nation itself
 The American people not only favor bimetallism from tradition and inter- est, but from that wise instinct which has always been manifest in the affairs of a people destined for the worlds leadership Under the operation of our great demand for advancemnt, we have become to other nations the greatest debtor nation of the world. We pay the vast charges which every year accumulate against us in the clearing house of the world with the money of the world procured by the disposal of our commodities in the markets of the world. We are a na- tion of producers. Our creditors are nations of consumers. Any system of international or national finance which elevates the price of human product makes our burden lighter and gives promise of that day when it shall be entirely lifted and our country freed financially as it is politically from the domination of monarchy and foreign autocracy. Any system of finance which tends to depreciate the price of human production which we must sell abroad but In so far adds to the burden of our debt and conveys a threat of the perpetual servitude of the producers of our debtor nation to the consumers of creditor nations
 To us it is folly without a parallel that this country or any political party therein should deliberately accept a money system which enriches others at our cost History, philosophy, morals, all join with the commonest instinct of self-preservation in demanding that the United States shall have just and substantially unvarying standard com posed of all available gold and silver and with it our country will progress to political enfranchisement. But with a single gold standard the country will go on to worse destruction; to continued falling prices; until our people would become .he hewers of wood and the drawers of water for the consumers in creditor nations of the earth.
 <" A Bolt Declared
 To such an unholy end we will not lend ourselves. Dear as has been the republican name to it's adherents, that name is not so dear as the faith itself And we do not sacrifice one jot or tit tie of the mighty principles by which republicanfsm has uplifted the world when we say that at this parting we cling to the faith, let the name go where it will We mold that this con- vention has seeded from the truth; that the triumph of such secession would be the eventual destruction of our freedom and our civilization. To that end the people will not knowingly follow any political party, and we choose to take our place in the ranks of the great mass of citizens who real ize that the hour has come for justice
 Did we deem this issue less impor- tant to humanity we would yield, since the associations of all our political lives have been intertWined with the men and the measures of this party of past mighty achievements. But the people cry aloud for relief; they are bending beneath burden growing heavier with the passing hours; endeavor no longer brings it's just reward fearfulness takes the place of courage, and de- spair usurps the throne of hope and un- less the laws of the country and the policies of political parties shall be converted into mediums of redress the effect of human desperation may some time be witnessed here as in other lands and in other ages.
 Accepting the fiat of the convention as the present purpose of the party, we withdraw from this convention to re- turn to our constituents the authority with which they invested us, believing we have better discharged their trust by this action which restores to them authority unsullied than by giving cow ardly and insincere endorsement to the greatest wrong ever wilfully attempt ed within the republican party-once redeemer of the people, but now about 10 become their oppressor, unless provi- dentially restrained by the votes of E freemen.