The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1896-06-25
TELLER FOR PRESIDENT.
The Boltlng Silver Delegates Confer and
Name Him.

address
The address of the silver boilers is
signed by IS delegates and National
Committeeman, not including Senator
Teller. Extracts from it follow:
"There is to sanctity in mere party
lines, and the mark of decay is set on
individual strength in nation when
the absolute rule of political organiza-
ton coerces men from the truth for
the sake of expediency and establishes
insincere submission to partisan rule
for the sake of power.
"Ifthe voices which have sounded
to us from every State in this Union
are an indication of the real feeling,
this year is the appointed time for the
people to assert themselves, through
such mediums as many give best
promise Of the achievement of justice.
But whether we are mistaken or not
concerning the general sentiment in
the United States, we have not mis-
taken our own duty in withdrawing
from the Republican convention, feel
ing it is better to be right and with
the minority in apparent defeat than
to be wrong with the majority in ap-
parent triumph.
"The country cannot much longer
exist free ana independent against all
the rest of the world, nor can its peo-
pie much longer be free in the noblest
sense of the term, if the United States,
Il debtor nation, shall follow policy
dictated by creditor nations. We
produce all of the necessaries of life.
Other nations consume our product.
In the race for existence it is con-
slant struggle between producer and
consumer. Our present system Of
money deliberately submits to the
desire and the profit of creditor ma
tions, leaving us, in the mass and as
individuals, prey to the money
gathering and the deadly cheapening
of the old world. AS the debt to
creditors abroad increases on the
masses Of the nation the price of hu-
man production on the farm and in
the workshop is decreased with ap-
palling rapidity, exacting more and
more toll from our citizens to meet
the given demand and holding over
their heads threat of the day when
conhscation to meet obligations will
leave them bare and defenseless. The
only remedy IS to stop falling prices
the deadliest curse of national life.
Prices never will cease falling under
the single gold standard.
'The restoration of bimetallism
by this country will double the basis
of our money system. In time it will
double the stock of primary money of
the world-will stop falling prices and
steadily elevate them until they will
regain their normal relation to the
volume of debts and credits in the
world. Bimetallism will help to bring
about the great hope of every social
reformer, every believer in the ad-
vancement of the race, who realizes
that the instability of prices has been
the deadly foe of our toilers and the
servant of the foreign interest gather
er. Bimetallsm will help to bring
the time when certain expenditure
OF human toll will produce certain
financial result. Who among the
great masses of our people in tine
United States but feels that his lot
would be made better, his aspiration
take new wings, if he could know in
the performance of his labor what
would be the price Of his product?
'' 1t is in the hope that the masses
and the remaining conventions will
have the courage and the generosity
to unite for this purpose that we have
dared to offer our views to the people
of the United States and because
in the past there has lacked a rallying
point for the masses, who hold, as we
do, to this belief, we venture an act,
trusting it will be received in the
same spirit of conciliation, concession
and hope in which we put it forth.
TELLER FOR PRESIDENT.
ave have endeavored in a plain
way to set the matter before the eyes
of our fellow-citizens. We invoke the
union of all men and all parties who
believe that the time has come for
the triumph of Justice. 1t is an hour
when the people may speak for them
selves, as individuals and through
conventions yet to be held. 1t is the
right of every citizen to indicate his
preference With this in view we offer
to the forthcoming conventions and
to the people the name of man for
the Presidency Of the United States
whose life, in public and in priva e,
represents those distinguished virtues
which adorned the days and the deeds
of the earlier time of this republic a
return 10 which virtues is requisite