The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-09-12
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Ex. Congressman Lynch on the the.
Issues Of the Campaign.
MISUNDERSTANDING

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didate-ssrssd with Him In Congress
ana la National Conrentions5Ifow the
coiored Voter Might safer n the United
states Were Pat Upon a silver Iisiis:
Causes Of the Present stringsney. i
Eek. Congressman John II. Lynch, 8ofi
Mississippi, writes as follows TO the
washington Test; q d u W
~ hayo received a number OF letters
from colorcd men in different parts OF
the country requesting Information with!
regard to the pending campai On, rs IN
. some OF these letters apprehension Is ex-
Z pressed about the Altitude Of Major NC.
( klnlcy TO the colorcd race. i am asked
Z by some IL ii would not be good politics
for the colored men who believe III the
free aud unlimited coinage OF silver to
! vote for the candidate and party repre-
sentlng that issue, inasmueli as that Is
y sue Is the paramount,l II not he sole, Issue
before thu people In tho present cam
paign. TO hliio these letters have
Z made brief replies, but II has been sug-
Z gested that i give public expression to
my views upon the points mentioned.
8 which will necessarily be more elaborate
and I hope more satisfactory thnnjl
could give through the medium OF prl-
Yate communications.
I'm the first place am glad TO be able
I to say that have known Major NJ cfSin-l
ley, personally, Intimately. favorably,
and well for a number Of years. He was
Z q member Of the national house OF rep
resentatives IN 1881 when made q Sue
! cessful contest for scat In that body,
from the shoe-strlng district OF my.
state. and he not only. listened attentive-i
( ~ and interestingly tn my presentation
4 OF the case, but he was one OF the first
to tender me his congratulations. i
have also been In several national! con-
Z ventions with him, and on two occasions
Z was a member OF the committee on
! platform of which he was chairman, and
on both occasions was made by his ap-
pointment o member Of the eub-commlt-
tee that prepared the platform. have
therefore Ind ample opportunity to be-
come familiar with his Official career,
observe his Official course and listen to
many of his public utteranccs.
Mckinley the Colored Nian's Friend.
From my knowledge of the man 1 do
not hesitate to give posltIveiassurances,
{ to the colored people that I'VE have never
had a better nor truer friend in the,
: white house than, we. Will have in the
person Of Major Mckinley, should heb
elected. While he Is not n bitter parti-
san, he. Is perfectly sound upon all aues-.
tons particularly, affecting the colored
people. The question may be asked,
What right or authority have to speak
for Major Mckinley Ny answer Is, the
I same right possessed by any other one
Z n his nj nrnt,u frtrn1e s,tpporfar, nd
admirers. What I say OF Major, McKin-
ley Is based upon my knowledge. OF him,
acquaintance with him and Interest in
y him. 1t Is a fact that all must admit,
that Majcr Ackinley's nomination was
due more to popular demand OF the party.
in all sections Of the country than to orr
ganized effort. My candid opinion Is
that the result would have been substan-
tally the same II no organized effort had
been made to influence or control the
nomination. My experience In public
Z life justifies the assertion that organized
effort to control the action Of a national
convention, seldom, II ever, succeeds,
when 1t runs counter to the aScertained
public sentiment Of the party Who
ever imagines: that. Major MoKinley's
administration, should he be elected, will
s be influenced, dominated, or controlled
. by any particular class or faction, will
md that they are mistaken. While he
may have friends to reward, he will have
no enemies to punish. He will discour-
) age and endeavor to prevent, rather than
encourage and promote, factions In the
party. The man who may have honestly
preferred another than himself to be the
leader OF the party on this occasion, but
who has remained loyal, faithful, and
true to the party, will receive from his
. admins "a tim INC CT la. Is,
rs II he had been an original Mckinley.
man. No man is more tolerant or freer
from personal and political resentment
than William Mckinley, ~ {
But, even II were mistaken in all that
Z nave assumed and asserted, lit would
still be the duty OF the colored voters
to stand by the Republican partyin the
Z pending crisis. We are now con ronted
with a condition which demands our CO.
operation from standpoint of interest
TO ourselves. duty to our party, and 10y
atty to our country and government.
Under such circumstances, L am conf.
dent that our people will subordinate
minor. considerations. They have always
recognized the fact and acted upon the
assumption that official recognition Is
an incident OF party, success and not the
incentive to party affiliations. When
ever they ace satisfied that the race as a
whole IL not to be prescribed, they are
perfectly willing TO sacrifice upon the
Z altarlof their party's good any griey-
once THEY. may have, growing out OF tenn
porary injustice to individual members
OF the race. z ~ (
Free Coinage OF Silver. 5,3T.i
am Informed that some OF our people
are disposed to look with favor upon the
free, unlimited, and independent coinage
OF silver. II this be true, IL must be be-
cause OF a lack OF Intelligent and accu-
rate information. The Republican party
Is not opposed to the use OF silver, as a
currency. It. is not opposed to thesdou-
BILE standard-to International bi-metal-
( ism. II is simply opposed to placing
the country upon a silver basis. Every
intelligent man ought to know-must
s know-that with the present disparity In
the commercial value of the two metals
the free. unlimited and independent
coinage a: silver By our government can
have no other effect than. to place us on
! a single silver basis, (which. would bring
about a. complete disqualification and
revolution of our financial system, re-
sultinS In ruin and disaster, the like OF
which has never been experienced by
the; present generation. ri
- Our financial System Is not materiallv
different from what 1t, has been since
1879. the time OF the resumption by tho
i government OF specie payments, and yet
we have experienced no serious incon-
venience. except during the past four
years. There has been no contraction
In the volume of money, but there has
: been q marked and disastrous contrac-
. ton in circulation. Every Intelligent
/. PERSON Knows. or ought to know. that