Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1896-07-07
KANSAS GOLD MEN oy rpe wan
PATH FoR ELLIS AND CURTIS.
MUST STAND ON THE PLATFORM.
NOTIFIED TuAT 10 To 4 Ann REruB.
LICANIsM DON'T MIX.
A sheridan County Protest Against
Eliis' Rrcrnt lntrrvi~ w-ropckn
Republicans signing Pledge
Not to Vote for n Plat
form "Boitcr."

Topeka, July 6.-tspeciai) There have
been bolts and runors OF bolts In Kansas
on the part Of free silver Republicans,
bu. 1t remained for Smith county to pro-
duce the first genuine bolt on the part
OF n gold standard Republican who Is
dissatisfied with the free silver rroclivities
of a Republican nominee for congress. l..
c. Headlcy. editor of the Gaylord Herald.
has hauled down the name of A.. H.. Ellis
for congress and declares that he will not
hoist 1t again until that gentleman an
nounces himself In full accord with tho
st. Louis platform. II is also reported
here that a document has been prepared
in Sheridan county. and signed by many
Republicans. which will be forwarded to
MIR. Ellis. and which reads rs follows:
"a. II. Ellis. Republican Nominee for Con-
gross.
Dear Strive have read with surprise
and CONSERVATION an alleged interview
with you In which you are made to de-
clare that you will not support the Re-
publican platform. We trust the interview
IS n Islander. The Republicans of this end
of your district are standing squarcly upon
the national platform. We feel that If We
are TO be represented In congress by a
free silver man We would rather 1t would
be a Populist."
MIR. Ellis is not the only nominee for
congress In Kansas who has stcered up
against the rocks of gold standard discon-
tent. while trying to avoid the shoals OF
FREQ silver. Congressman Charles Curtis.
of the Fourth district. is also to be put
through a course of party discipline. To-
day a paper is in circulation among the
Republican business men of Topeka. which
pledges the signers not to vote for any
Republican nomlnee who refuses to stand
upon tho st. Louis platform. A few days
ago Congressman Curtis returned from
N'n tsn tn. a.I .t... Had ut - ..l., L..
an Interview in an anti-1tepublican news
paper here, in which he intimatcd that he
would not feel bound to support the St.
Louis financial plank. State Senator
Sterne voiced the feeling against Mr.. Cur
tbs to-day when he said: ''The goldbug
worm has turned and proposes to make
every Republican candidate stand UT to
the rack and eat fodder"
The men who are circulating the pledge
say they are willing the candidates should
construe the St, Louis platform US lib;
orally as they please and declare for all
must be straight out for the gold stand
ard. rs the issue Is not what shall con-
stitute the currency, but what 1t shall
MI. Curtis trained with the free silver
element in the last house and the con-
disapproved his course by adopting what
is known as a sound money. platform. 1t
the Republicans to mean that he would
oppose free silver and support the gold
The pledge circulated here reads as fol-
lo%S; tho u,sors,r,., po0,,,,.,r. ,.u,
vote for nc candidate at the coming cleo
tion, from congressman to constable, who
does not stand squarely upon the st. Louis
PLATFORM"
Major Tom Anderson was the first man
to sign II. He was quickly followed by W,
IL 1Iten. "a mo I Az c-