Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-06-23
BOLD STAND FOR PRINCIPLE
Hon. b. p. Carr, of Silver City, Clear
ly Explains Why He Quits the
Republican Party.
PRINCIPLE OF BlMETALLISM PARAMOUNT
Republican Party Unfaithful to Its
Solemn Pr romises to Avoid Gold
Monometallism- Evolution of
Gold Standard in the Party.


a man, who has all the years of his man.
hood affiliated with a political party and
has been honored by that party with a
nomination for office, to which he was
elected, sewers his connection with that
party it is his duty to give publicity to
his reasons therefor, and ] as>.epace in
your paper for that purpose.
For thirty-one years my allegiance to
the Republican party has been a loyal
one. In it's service I have been ever
active and vigilant. I have always been
able to give testimony to the faith which
| had in the principles of the party and
was never a blind follower after the ban
ner bearing the name. Quitting school
and reaching manhood just at the close
of the war, in the state of Ohio, my ex-
perience and teaching firmly grounded
me in the Republican faith, and, for
years, nothing occurred TO cause me to
| feel that 1 ID light ever waver in my al
legiance to that party.
DEMONSTRATION OF SILVER GREAT
! WRONG.
| During a residence of five years in the
state of Colorado from 1881 to 1856
engaged in earnest study of the financial
| question and decided for myself that
great wrong had been committed in the
demonetization of silver and that it
should be restored to its constitutional
place as one of the standards of value in
our monetary system. AT that time, how
ever, had such unbounded faith in the
Republican party that no suggestion that
it might fail to right the wrong could, for
a moment, find lodgment in my mind,
For the past eight years, as is known
to all the people of this section, have
been an active and earnest advocate of
the full rem emonetization of silver and have,
upon every occasion, openly champioIed
the cause of bimetallism. At the same
time adhering to the Republican doctrine
of protection in the tariff and believing
that protection and bimetal ism, together,
were the
LOGICAL REMEDIES FOR THE ILLS
affecting the country, and that through
the Republican party, pledged to these
principles, prosperity and happiness
would be restored to the people, did not
falter in my allegiance to the party, fur
ther than to give notice that would not
"follow the flag of protection into the
gold standard camp"
l need not refer to anything in the rec
ord of the Republican party prior to 1892
to show that itwas committed to bimetal-
lism as we'll as protection. In the plat
form adopted at the national convention
at Minneapolis, the following words we're
the opening of the financial plank: "The
American people from tradition and in
terest favor bimetalljsm, and the Repub-
lican party demands the use of both gold
and silver as standard money" The Re-
publican nominee for the presidency in
dorsed the platform and declared that
"the gold standard is too limited upon
which to base the monetary transactions
of the world"
PROTECTION AND BIMETALL1sM.
All over the country "protection and
bimetalism" were the talismanic rallying
words of the Republican hosts, and no
one dared to intimate that the Republican
party would ever demand the gold stand
ard as part of its creed. With Grover
Cleveland as the candidate and exponent
of the Democracy, had no choice but to
follow the Republican banner, honestly
believing and hoping that bimetallism
would be fully restored and protection
maintained through the continuance of
that party in power.
When the repeal of the Sherman law
was pending in the congress of the United
States, in 1898, the leading Republican
statesmen vociferated their adherence to
the principle of bimetalllsm and gave no
hint of their intention, within three years,
to demand that all obligations of the gov
ernment, including silver certificates
should be payable in gold coin. Even
'the author of hard times" John Sher-
man, of Ohio,
PROCLAIMED HIMSELF B1METALh1sT
and declared that there was no intention
of striking down silver. In the United
States senate, on the 31st day of August
1898, he said: "The production of silver
is a great interest, and tht people of Ohio
are as deeply interested in the success OF
that interest as the people of Colorado
1t is true that we have not the direct ow
nership of the property, but it enters
into the measure of the value of ouI
property. There could be no desire
upon the part of any portion of the peo
pie of the United States to strike dowr
silver. The idea ought to be abandoned
at once."
How could silver enter into the meas
ure of the value of the property of thu
people of Ohio, except as STANDARD
money. And how else could it be stricken
down, but by fixing gold as the only
standard of valuep
EVOLUTION OF THE GOLD STANDARD.
The evolution of the gold standard il
, the Republican party has been rapid. Ii
the debate upon the repeal of the Sher
man law, three years ago, Lodge, of Mass
achusetts, and Chandler, of New Hamp
shire, We'd with Allison, of Iowa, and Cul
lom, of Illinois, in the fervency of thei
devotion to bimetallic standard and op
position to monometallism. While to
day they are equally as fervent in de
manding gold as the only standard of re
demption money.
With Grover Cleveland and John Sher
man, the Republican party has demanded
that silver be debased and stricken down
Notwithstanding the alluring promises o
; three years ago that no one desired tina
it be done. This evolution of the gol'
standard has been too rapid for me and
can no longer affiliate with party max
ing SO great change in its principles il
SO short a time. have burned tn
bridges behind me, and, as local pspe
has said, am now in political wilder
ness" the events of the next Ave week
to determine with what party l will here
after affiliate.
WILL FOLLOW THE SILVER BANNER.
Believing that union of all the silve
forces of the country will defeat William