The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1896-04-03
READY TO STRADpLe.
Mckinsey's Attitude ON the Currenc,
4 Issue.

Issue.
When Gov. Foraker spoke 70 the Ohm
republican convention on taking ,ho
chair u was noticeable that he said
nothing about Maj. Mckinley's views
M To silver. On the contrary. he sail
everybody knew that the supreme issue
y whether this country is TO be ruled
10y democracy or republicanism. This
Is no issue at all until II is determined
"hat democracy and repubicanism
are TO stand for this year. Gov. For
aker said further that republicans had
no differences of opinion upon national
questions OF policies. though he knew
the most important measures before
congress have been killed by repub-
hcan votes, and that the leading rcpub-
lican paper of Ohio had called In vain
on Mckinley. Reed. Allison. Morton and
others to define their position on the
currency question.
All this indicated disposition n
straddle the most importan, issue
OF the day. This promise is in the main
borne out by the money plank of the
platform. 1t reads rs follows:
We contend for honest money: for
currency OF gold. silver and naper Win
"nvh 10 measure our exchange that
shall be as sound as the government and
as untarnshed as its honor: and 10 thar
shd We favor bimetallism and demand
the use or both gold and silver as standard
money. either in accordance with a ratio 10
De nxef by international agreement. II
'hat ca be obtained. or under such re-
strictions and such provisions 10 he de-
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OF the PARTIES OF values OF
me TWO metals. so that the purchasing and \
nept -paying power OF the dollar shall be at
all times equal"
This plank is said TO have been writ.
ten by Mckinley himself. 1t contains
some OF the language of the Minneapolis
platform OF 1892. and something that
y Us not in that platform. 1t is rendered
more incohercnt and evasive by the
natter added The rhetorical flourish
hat the money of gold. silver and paper
snail be as sound as the government
ihu as untarnished as its honor is not
cry impressive when we recollect WIN.
'ad money republicans have thrust
'i'on u IN times past. and reflect that
hey might get into power again. II
he resolution is properly transmitted
declares for "a currency of gold. sill
er and paper with which to measure
ur exchange" which is not mate~iall-
Inherent from arrant nonsense. but n
minently McIlinleyesquc.
The resolution adopted al Ninncapc.-
Is n ls92 was written in part by Jones.
I Nevada. and contains the juggling
ord "bimetallism." to which sikerites
I'VE meaning altogether difreren.
'om that which was given il by its
lventors and by sound-mCnev men
eneraily. Still. il might have answered :
Ell enough but for the fact that the I
lver men have interpreted il as mean .
~ free coinage, and have declared tina. /,
GREATER they will insist upon definite |
spreSsion for or against the fre.. and I
coinage of silver a. the ratio !,
sixteen to one. The silveril.s sa,
-operly that this is the real Issue be-
re the country. and they ask for I. { :
'ilverance on this point. Instead OF Il
aking IL clearer than that OF f>g,. 4
al. Mckinley has made il yaguar. more
Ictorical, more unlike theuiterancc OF
real advocate OF horest money.
Mckinley is a straddle himself. lie p
: been on every side Of the silver e
estion except that Of an unloading =
q uncompromising foe OF the degra-
tion of our currency. He cannot he
listed to veto a siNteen-to-one free W
image BILL and such a man Is unfit for !. ".
e presidency. To this personal strai- T,
ne has now added platform strad. an
;. Maj. Mckinley is the expectanc, ~
q rose of the straddlers and the trim pa
RS who call themselves bimetallists wi
thout defining what they mean BY 49, 49,
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