Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1896-07-16
viii Not Support Mckinley.

| There will doubtless be boilers
from both Bryan and Mckinley, and
it seems not improbable that the
boilers from one will about offset
those from the other. The most
sensational manifesto in Minnesota's
history was that issued on the End
instant by the silver Republicans
who refuse to support Mckinley for
President, Clough for Governor, or
any of the Republican candidates
for Congress. The prominence of
the men signing it attracts wide
spread attention. Among the num-
Der are Lieut.-Gov. Frank A. Day,
Congressman Charles A. Towne, eX-
Congressman John Lind, and several
State Senators. The address is is
sued to the Republicans of Mime
sofa, and declares that the greatest
issue which has arisen in this coun-
try since the abolition of African
slavery now confronts the American
people. The common people have
viewed with increasing alarm the eff
fort of foreign money aristocracy
to fasten upon this nation the single
gold standard Of value. In the past
they turned with the inspiration of
faith to the Republican party for pro-
lection against that power which
seeks to strike down one-half of the
redemption money of the world that
the other half may purchase double
the amount of products of toll.
The common people, the address
says, had right to expect protec-
ton from this from the Republican
party which had ever had the inter-
est of the people at heart. 1t then
cites the repeated declarations Of Re-
publican State and National plat
forms in favor of gold and silver as
standard money, and declares that
every Republican convention, State
and National, since 1894 had con-
dcmned in express terms or by i'm
plicatiOn the single gold Standard
The address closes as follows:
"The action of the National Re-
publican Convention at st. Louis has
repudiated this fundamental doc
trine of our party. The single gold
standard has been endorsed. The
Republican party no longer stands
for both gold and silver as primary
money, but for gold only. We can
not accept the new faith and we will
hold steadfastly to the old. The
policy of gold monometalism means
prolonged and intensified depression
and an endless and hopeless era OF
falling prices for our farmers and
other producers; continued uncer.
tainty of employment for our work.
ingmen, with lessening wages fol
lowing the fall in prices Of the pro
ducts of labor; encouragement OF
all enterprises and in the end uni
versal bankruptcy and gravitatior
of all money into the hands OF
money brokers. 1t means the OBJ
liberation of the great middle class
the yeomanry of the nation, and the
division of the people into the very
rich and the very poor. Those Re-
publicans who believe in the use o.
both gold and silver as the money o.
ultimate payment and their free
coinage in our minis must either
submit in silence or speak out boldly
: in condemnation of this policy 81
disastrous TO the people. On mat
ters of vital principle no man car
reasonably be asked to submit t.
party dictation. Every man wht
places country above party ant
whose sympathies are with the pro
= ducers as against the money brokerl
and bondholders, owes duty to hi
conscience and to his country which
can only be discharged by puttinf
forth every effort in his power tina
the blight of the single gold staLd
ard may not be fastened upon thi'
: people,"