The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-06-01
SILVER APPEAL.
The National Silver Committee
Issues an Address.
Friends OF the White Metal
Urged to
BREAK PARTY LINES.
''The Hour Has Gomez Must
Be No Delay.
Unity of Old Parties Mea ms
Death to Silver.
BREAK PARTY LINES.

Washington, June 1.-The national
Silver party. through its chairman. J
j. Mott, today issued from its head
quarters in this city an address to the
friends of silver. 1t is as follows:
Headquarters National Silver Party,
Washington, D. C.-To the Friends of
Silver: Since the founding of this
party on January p, 1896, the work of
the organization has been steadily but
quietly pursued and the country has
been aroused to a pitch of excitement
unknown since the civil war. Silver
is on al lips throughout the land 1t
is echoed and re-echoed from the gid
ed mansion to the IowIy cottage.
AS each hour passes it becomes more
apparent that a political conflict, the
like of which has never been seen be-
fore. is just at hand.
Tt must be clearly understood that
party lines cannot Withstand this con-
hict, and so TAR as the friends of silver
are concerned, they must not. The
party leader who puts in his time
Inending party lines while the silver
cause suffers Will be relegated to a
deserved seclusiOn. There is no time
IOr compromising differences between
men who do not agree on this question
The only thing to be considered is how
those who do agree can get together.
They who say they are for free silver
and at the same time plead for the
unity of parties, are not the friends OF
silver and the suffering people The
unity of old parties is the death of
silver. as everybody knows
Those who look to coming years for
q peaceful settlement Of this matter
mistake the condition Of the times and
the temper of the people There can
be no delay. The conflict will not wait.
| The hour has come.
The secret of success in this con-
hiet consist in the lining up for the
/ battle. Those who compose the line
I must be friends. striking the same
/ blows for the same object This breaks
party lines, and party lines once bro
( ken. silver will be free.
! THAT meeting of earnest men on the
22d of January, 1886, marked an epoch
/ that viii live in history-the convention
! which grew out of it, TO be held in St
/ Louis on the 22d of July. will undOubt-
/ edly be one of the most Important con-
! ventions and notable gatherings ever
I assembled in this country. Upon the
! wisdom of its acts and that of the Peo-
/ pies Party convention, to be held at
! the same place and time, depends the
/ vital question as to whether we can
/ have just settlement of this money
! issue in our generation. If that issue
/ can be clearly presented to the voters
/ of the United States. stripped of all
! minor political questions and under a
| standard and leadership which Will
/ command the confidence of the people.
it viii win by an overwhelming major
Our friends are urged to push the
| work of Organlza tiOn with all possible
! vlSor, giving no heed to those VINO ad-
/ vised waiting the action of the old par
/ ties that contain enemies as well as
/ friends of our cause. The power of our
| organization to defeat the ambition
of Janus-faced politicians, is being rec
ognized by all parties, hence clean cut
declarations for or against silver are
the rule in the local conventions of all
| parties this year.
our purpose is to unite for action
all believers in the restoration of free
/ silver and prosperity. This can not be
| accomplished by inaction or delay on
the part of our friends