Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-07-21
SILVER REPUBLICANS
Issue an Address Calling Upon All Friends
of the White Metal TO Rally TO the Sup
port OF Bryan and SewaIl.

port OF Bryan and SewaIl.
Denver, Col, July Ex-senator Teller
and eleven of his associates who left the
national Republican convention, this
evening made public an address to the
silver Republicans of the country, set
ting forth their views OF the situation.
The silver Republicans, Congressmen
and Senators, have been in conference
at Manitou for several days over this
statement. in addition to those sign
ing the address, Senator Pet;igrew, Of
South Dakota. and Senator Cannon, OF
Utah, are declared to be in sympathy
with it, although Senator Cannon was
not present at the conference owing 10
business engagements in Boston. The
address says in part:
I'VE announce that we shall by voice
and vote support Messrs. Bryan and Sc
wall for president and vice president
and we appeal TO all citizens and es-
pecialiy to Republicans who feel as we
do that gold monometallism would be
of lasting injury TO the country, to act
with us in securing their election.
The Democrats who believe in the
gold standard are announcing their in
tention 10 support Mckinley, or propOs-
ing to put third candidate in the field
for the avowed purpose of aiding Nc
Kiuley's election
ITO all who believe in bimetallism,
which means the equal treatment OF
both gold and silver at the mints Of the
sue, and that Is to unite all the silver
forces and TO oppose with all our might
the candidate representing the policy
which we believe is fraught with dis
as;er 10 the nation and ruin to the peo-
pie.
Cold monometallism means the
shifting to gold alone, as primary mon
ey, Of all the burdens Of commerce and
credit formerly borne by geld and sill
yer, and as the worlds stock of these
metals has always been about equal in
amount, it means the doubling OF the
burden upon gold. Doubling the bur-
den upon geld means doubling the de-
mand for the same, and doubling the
demand Of necessity doubles the value
thereof. This gradual shifting to gold
of all the burdens OF both gold and sill
yer has caused a gradual and steady in
crease in the value Of every dollar re-
deemable in gold, and hence a gradual
and steady decline in the value OF every
commodity that is measured by that
dollar.
The condition of the country is not
satisfactory, all admit. The producers
of wealth are not receiving fair and pro-
per compensation for their labor, wheth-
er in field, factory or mine; enterprise
has ceased; values are constantly de-
clining: labor is unemployed; discon-
tent and distress prevail TO an extent
that never before known in the history
of this country and no reason can De
found for such an unhappy condition
save in a vicious monetary system.
Those who profess 20 deplore the pres
ent financial condition and oppose the
free coinage OF silver are divided in Op-
inion as to the present cause Of the pr -
ent condition. Some declare tha, II Is
because we have too much tarin, others
that we have not enough. while the fact
exists that every gold standard coun-
try in the world. whether i, has high
or low tariff, is now and has been dur
ing recent years in the throes o. tinan.
cial panic: and every silver standard
country, compared with its former con-
dition, is enjoying an industrial devel-
opment and degree of prosperity hither-
to unknown in It's history. While 'hus
differing in opinion, they unite in as
sertng that the gold standard must
be maintained until the foreign
countries shall signify their willingness
that the American people shall exercise
the rights of free men and create a fin
ancial system of their own. If We over
look the humiliation and degradation
we must feel on account of such dec
larat:cn of financial dependency, We
may well inquire when the consent Of
the leading commercial nations will be
obtained.