Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-09-04
STAND CP, BRO. WATSON.
Mr. Gaby Wants You 10 Answer "a
Few Pertinent Questions.


son agreed to vote for Bryan is not OF
importance to the general public;
but as i late Cleveland importation
his reasons ior supporting Mckinley
/ invite comment.
His theory that all debts, public
and private, must be paid in the metal
OF which the unit of value is coined,
! has not even the merit OF novelty to
( commend or damn it, Itwas invented
! in 1878 by the dreamy Lamar, when
| he detied the instructions of his State
and voted against free coinage OF silver
i'll the Senate. While the eccentric
Southern Senator by his genius built
web OF sophistry around his discov-
cry, it was swept away by the touch OF
logic, with the usual effect OF demon
alizing the friends of gold and creating
grave suspicion as to the sanity or
lunacy OF that singular man.
The law says the debt shall be paid
ain coin" Watson says that because
a small piece of gold is the unit o.
value there cannot be coin of any
other metal.
| will refer him as a new convert to
his new Bible, the New York Tribune,
which says;
In other words, they offered higher
price for gold bonds than for coin bonds.
| The saving to the government, il the al
tentative offer had been accepted, would
have been over sixteen millions of dol
lars. President Cleveland applied to
Congress to authorize an issue of gold
bonds, in order that the saving might be
effected as he had no authority under
/ the existing lac to issue anything but
coin bonds. The House of Representa-
tives, by vote of l20 to 167, refused to
grant the desired authority, and the con-
tract was closed on the more expensive
basis. Undoubtedly the government
was mulcted out of sixteen millions of
dollars, but the responsibility rests with
the Democratic House. Page s, Weekly
Tribune, August -, 1896.
Now Bro. Watson, the government
OF the United States paid the Belmont
Morgan syndicate in February, 1895,
sixteen millions of dollars to retain
the word coin in the contract, and
Cleveland was silly enough to ask
Congress for power to use the word
"gold," when according to you, gold is
already a part OF the contract. What
pity the great constitutional lawyer,
Watson, of Kentucky or Washington,
was not in the saddle He could have
given fine points to Olney and Carl
isle. will apply your wheat PROPOSE
ton, Bro. Watson, to the facts of this
case: Suppose one should contract
to pay another 100000 bushels OF
wheat" or 100000 bushels of oats, at
the option OF the debtor, and after har-
vest having an abundant crop of oats,
but no wheat, the debtor should tender
to his creditor the 100000 bushels OF
oats. The latter, acting under lawyer
Watson's advice, would refuse the ten
der and demand wheat. The debtor an
swers, that OF the two commodities he
has oats only. The creditor, prompted
by Watson's evil advice, replies, d" Sell
your oats and buy wheat for me, you
dishonest rascal. want the best and
the harder it is for you to get the bet
ter it is for me-"
But Mr.. Watson says it is dishonor-
able for the officers OF the government
to keep the letter of the contract.
How will the people get back the six
teen millions of dollars extra that was
paid on that $l00000,00O loan? Be-
ware Of those men who prate of honor
now and who by their own admission
have been dishonorable all their lives
Beware of such old Democrats, as Carl
/ isle and Watson, whose party either
wanted to repudiate the whole ma
tional debt or pay it in greenbacks
and who fought under Tilden against
| resumption of specie payments.
. When did the great light, Mckinley
become an honest, honorable man:
, Was it when he voted in 1878 for the
resolution declaring that at is not q
: violation Of public faith or the rights
of the creditor" to pay" all bonds Of
the United States in silver dollars Of
4l24 grains?" He also voted at the
same session to remonetize depreci
sted silver and make it full Legal
f tender for all debts, public and private
except when stipulated in the con.
| tract; first careful to declare that il
/ should apply to bonds Of the United
. States. Is it because there is . large
= discount on silver nowP Are there
g Bro. Watson, in your code degrees in
= honesty, and is it not often as conven.
s lent for you to forget the history o
your party as it it to forget the posi-
ton you take in "private converse
tom? Perhaps Mckinley became al
t honest and very honorable man wher
T. G. Platt, of New York, forced hi
gold platform down his throat vt st
Louis.
In conclusion, is it not littl,
rough on Editor Scobey to publish
your denunciation Of his free silve
, course as dishonesty? According Il
= your logic. two very dishonest persons
+, -Doolittle and Hyde-were the unan
imous choice of your Republican part.
of the State OF Washington.