Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1896-06-26
Before the Convention Repu5<4!
Managers Had Determined
the Gold s3gndard.

Of the platform, at st. Louis and his re-
lations with Senator Teller four years
ago in a similar capacity, his utterance
On the subject of gold and silver las'
night in his ratification Of the nominal
lions becomes of peculiar interest
He said: 1 want to take advantage OF
this opportune time to say word about
the effort now being made to make IT
appear that the republican party de-
clared in it's plank for something new
in st. Louis
That is not true. The declaration OF
the republican party as embodied In IT'S
financial plank defines exactly what has
been the position of the republican party
through all the years with respect TO
this silver question. Silver was demone-
tized in 1873 and ever since that we have
been on a single gold standard. ABOUT
the same time several of the leading ma
lions of Europe demonetized silver and
ever since that time an effort has been
made to get back to the standard. We
have seen three international money
conferences, the object of them being 20
agree with the nations upon an internal
tional ratio according to which we could
have the free coinage of silver. But all
these efforts have failed.
ut has been constantly and repeatedly
declared by both parties that bimetal-
ism was desirable in preference to gold
or silver monometallism. Both parties
have agreed that We could maintain the
parity of the two metals and bring about
bimetallism again by an international
agreement Some have insisted in the
meanwhile that if we could not do 1t
that way we could do it alone without
regard to what other nations might see
fit to do. The republican party has con-
stantly, consistently and persistently
stood up against that idea.
-Four years ago when we held the con-
vention at Minneapolis it was my for
tune to he the chairman of the committee
on resolutions, as 1 was at the st. Louis
convention, and it was my fortune to
be associated on that committee with
Senator Teller and his associates from
the silver states who came to that con-
vention and came before that committee
asking us to insert plank pledging the
republican party to the free coinage of
silver. We refused to do it, We declared
that We were in favor of international
bimetallism, but that until that was
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