Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-06-04

Addicks State convention and by the
convention of the regular Republicans
are satisfactory to the advocates of
sound money.
Let us see Just what these declarations
are. The resolution adopted by the
regular Republicans was as follows.
Believing that the people arc entitled
to tho use Of the best money, and
being anxious to restore the industrial
and commercial prosperity Of the ma
ton, we demand the maintenance OF
the present gold standard Of value We
favor international bimetallism, but
until that can be established upon a
secure basis VIZ are opposed to the free
coinage Of silver by the United States
Tho Addicks convention also threw
a sop to the silverites in the shape of
an Endorsement of free silver coinage
by international agreement in the
following terms:
We arc opposed to the free and un.
limited coinage Of silver, except after
international agreements and until
such agreement can be obtained We
believe that the existing monetary
standard should be firmly maintained.
The credit of the United States must
be kept unqucstioned at homo and
abroad; the reserves of the Treasury
must be scrupulously maintanod and
every coin obligation must DO uaid 10
| gold or in whatever coin the creditor
chooses 10 demand.
Commenting upon these two financial
resolutions, the Morning News Gays:
Sound money men everywhere ran
support plank Of this character.
There was no attempt on the part uf
| either convention to "straddlen the
| question. Any effort TO show that the
question was not fairly met is wastcd
! energy and made with the iniont to de.
ceive. There can DO no international
| agreement expected, hence the gold
standard is supported by the Delaware
Republicans
Such sophistry is ridiculous. II
there can be no international agree
ment expected why say anything
about it? IL the Delaware Ropubli-
cans, in dual State conventions as.
scmbled, held out the bait of Inter
national agreement" 10 the silyorites,
believing at the Same time that such
an agreement was impossible, they
were dishonest. There is no room for
any other conclusion. If they believed
that FREQ silver coinage by interna.
tional agreement would be good
thing for the country, then their declar-
atoms cannot be accepted as favoring
the single gold standard rs the basis Of
our national currency.
1t would have been just as easy for
the Delaware Republicans, in their two
State conventions, TO make positive
declaration in favor of sound money,
without countenancing free silver coin
age In any manner-not even by Tin
ternational agreement. z The most
ordinarily intelligent observer of politi.
cal events knows that an international
agreement upon the free coinage of
silver is an absolute impossibility.
None of the leading governments Of
the Old World will have anything to do
with it. What folly, therefore, for any
political assemblage in this country
to declare in favor Of ii.
II tho representatives. of the Della.
ware Republicans who held their two
State conventions at Dover were hon
estly and sincerely in favor of sound
money, they could have said SO, Nh.
equiyocally Language, according 10
the view Of famous French states.
man, is a means of conceaing thought,
but il can be used also to express nm
honest sentiment 1t ID not hard 10
frame resolution so that it shall
stand as an explicit declaration in
favor Of honest money.
We do not of course, know what
financial resolution will be- adoptcd by
the Democratic State convention to be
held on June 10th, hut we hope IL viii
be unmistakable in its terms. 1t
should by plain, frank expression in
favor Of tho sing gold standard al the
basis Of our national currency. md
against the FREQ and unlimited coinage
If silyer,hy international agreement or
otherwise.