The record-union., 1896-06-30
The Candidate for Presidential HOnOIS
Replies to EX-Secretary Whitney
Relative to the Stand Taken by Demo-
Gratis on the Silver Question.
Says Mr.. Whitney is Wrong in AS
Stunning That the Democrats Are
FOrSaking the Fundamental Prin-
ciples of the Party in Advocating
Free Coinage.

| WATERLOO Oa), June 29-Ex-
| Governor BOies returned this afternoon
| from his Grundy County farm, where
| he went Immediately on his return from
| Illinois. When asked if he intended
| going to Chicago soon he replied that
| he had not determined whether he
| would attend the convention or not.
| AT any rate" he said, Il do not know
| of any reason which should call me to
Chicago this week" He further stated
| that he had made no arrangements
| for going to Chicago at any time dur
| ing the convention. AS to what were
his plans for the campaign, he did not
care to say anything.
| This evening Mr.. Boies met Judge
| Van Wagenen, who was on his way to
| Chicago, and accompanied him to Man
chester. Judge Van Wagenen is Mr.
Boies' alternate as delegate-at-Iarge
| and is also in charge of the Boies bureau
| III Chicago. Neither party would talk
when questioned in regard to the stu
alton, but Mr. Boies said that the OBJ
ject of their meeting was to talk mat
| ters over as to what was best to be
| done at Chicago
During Governor Boies' absence in
| Grundy County the interview with WIFI
| lam c. Whitney was published, and on
| his return his attention was called to a
telegram from the New York Herald"
| asking his opinion in regard to the as
sertions made in it. He wired his reply
| to night as follows:
Mr.. Whitney is entirely right i'm his
conclusion that there is no disposition
on the part of those who will represent
= e,iI,
West in the Chicago Convention to fur
| ther discuss the matter at issue with
men whose views are Numerically op-
| posed to their own on the currency
question. He is entirely correct in his
conclusion that it is now too late to
accomplish any practical results by
| discussion of that character. Through
out the South and West that discus
J sion has been extended and thorough,
and the views expressed by Mr. Whit
rey have been put forward by many
| men who entertained them, and they
| have been fully considered and weigh
| ed. and after all of this the judgment of
| an overwhelming majority Of the party
| in these sections is in evidence by the
| class Of delegates who have been chosen
| to represent 1t in the Chicago Conven-
| tio'n. Not one of these men can now
| disregard the known sentiment of those
| who selected him without betraying the
trust confided to him, and not one of
them, in my judgment, will ever do So"
'Mr. Whitney is entirely wrong in as
suming that free silver Democrats are
forsaking the fundamental principles of
Democracy, or that what he terms sound
| money Democrats are defending these
principles in their endeavor to commit
their party to gold monometallism. I'm
til the Republican party met in ST.
| Louis a few days since there was never
a line written in a national pla atform Of
either of the great parties that justifies
the claim that the one or the other of
| these parties was committed to that
doctrine.
"Over and over again the Democratic
party in National Convention assembled
has put itself on record in the clearest
and most comprehensive language pos
sible to use in favor of bimetallism, in
favor of the restoration of silver to it's
place in our financial system as stand
ard money, and never for a moment in
the Congress of the United States has a
lmajority or anything like a majority Of
the Representative OF that party wa
vered in its devotion to the principle SO
clearly enunciated III the party plat
forms. To assume now that adherence
to that principle is abandonment of an
established doctrine OF that party is to
defy history and ignore the most plainly
written of all its declarations of policy
at is useless to claim that a tender Of
the good offices of the party to secure
| international agreement for the free
coinage of silver is the rulfillment of it's
pledges so often made in this respect
To the sincere believer in bimetalism
for the United States an effort of this
character is little if anything less than
an unqualified violation of a sacred
pledge by a great political organization.
If this is all that Mr.. Whitney and those
who think with him can offer, it will be
vastly better that they offer nothing.
"When Mr. Whitney says that the
maintenance of our present gold stand
ard is essential to the preservation of
our national credit and redemption of
our public pledges, he ignores a great
truth, of which he cannot be ignorant
He knows there is not single obliga-
tion of this nation outstanding to-day
that by it's terms is payable in gold
alone, and he knows that right upon
the face of the great bulk of the bonds
of the Government it is written in sub
stance that they are payable in coin of
the United States of the standard
weight and fineness of it's coins before
lsilyer was demonetiZed, and that there
fore by their own express terms they
are payable in our present silver dol
lars, If the Government elects to so pay
them.
1T is since the most of these obliga-
tions were issued that silver has been
demonetized, whereby if they are to be
paid in gold alone their value has been
doubled and the burden of the great in
dustrial class who must provide for
their payment has been increased two
fold.
ITO talk about violation of national
honor when no party in the nation has
ever suggested its failure in the least
degree to meet every obligation it has
lassumed, according to the strict letter