Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1896-09-05

NO Use for Anonymous Writer'S
NOW, my friends, there is a corre-
sponuent who does not sign his name,
leillhg about a man of big commercial
STANDING, whose name he does not give.
VINO quotes what a leading India NOV
chant says, whose name is unknown.
who says that there is a, well founded
rumor that certain things are going to
happen. Now, that is the sort of lit
erature that is being spread before the
American people. Why don't these
men who are giving opinions give their
names, so that we can find out whether
the man ever gave such an opinion.
and If he ever gave it, what his opin-
ion is worth? / call your attention to
this because you can see what an un-
substantial foundation is laid for fears
that many attempt to excite in the
breasts of American citizens
Let us give you another evidence of
the lack of candor and directness
which characterizes our opponents.
Ex-Secretary Fairchild is quoted in
this same paper as saying: I do not
see how we can do anything else than
put third ticket in the presidential
arena. We have practically commit
ted ourselves to such a course We
want to see the defeat of the Chicago
ticket and we shall try to draw away
as many voters as we can from it. OF
course we will find no fault with those
Of our friends who cast a straight vote
for Mckinley
Honest Money Party.
Now there is a party which claims
it is in favor of honest money, adVO-
eating the putting up of ticket, not
for the purpose of electing the ticket
but for the purpose of electing an
other man who they are not willing tC
to indorse in the convention. [ simply
call your attention to the methods
which we have to meet in this cam
paign, and | ask you whether thos
methods characterize a people who az
devoted to honesty in everything tina
they want-honest money and sount
dollar.
"NOw, as against a party which
without daring to advocate a Sol
| standard, yet declares in favor of II
maintenance until other nations com
| TO our relief, and as against the othe
so-called party which advocates IN
nomination of a ticket, not for the pun
! pose of electing it, but for the purpos
Of electing another ticket, we presen
a straightforward. emphatic declara
ton which is SO clear that one WI
runs may read. We want the resto"a
ton Of free and unlimited coinage o
silver at the present legal ratio Ct l
to /. without waiting for the AID 0
consent of any other nation on earth.
"Now, my friends, [ believe you 1aV
a right to consider the frankness ani
candor with which these proposition
are stated, when you come to decd
which side is honestly striving to G.
that which is best for Americans
When our opponents come before tn
people, to whom do they appeal 70
votes? Do any of the republican speak
ers turn to the money changers an(
appeal to them to vote the republican
ticket? No; it is not necessary, my
| friends. to waste time on them. T'
whom do they appeal? To the ones
thew think less likely to vote the re
publican ticket They appeal TO Ice
! ones who they think will require the
most persuasion. To whom do they
appeal? To the laboring men of TINS
country. They tell the laboring mar
they are so afraid that something Is
going to happen to him.
Judge the Present by the Past
well, now how can you tell whether
| these men who stand at the head OF
the gold crusade, and yet do not nave
the courage to say 50 when they talk
how can you tell whether they are 60
ing to help the laboring man or not
Judge the present by the past. we
have scriptural authority for the asser-
ton that the tree is known by its fruit
These trees have been bearing fruit 1ol
20 years, and there has not been a
thing on a single tree that the labor
ing man would have in his house. SHOW
me the man who has tried to break