Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1896-12-05
avs THE ELECTION WAS NOT A
GOLD VICTORY.
...;cIe for the National Review, an
English Monthly, Squirting BIZ
metaIIists to Action.

cahle letter from LoHoOH' VIII PRINT To-
arrow an ADVANCE copy OF an important
.rtcle written by Hon. w. E. Chandler,
,.rator fom New Hampshire, for the
necember issue of the National Review.
,Op conservative monthly, in which he
discusses the late election from the re-
nrbljcan standpoint. His principal object
!, to encourage European bimetallists to
continue their propaganda.
The Review, commenting editorially up
on the election of Major Mckinley, dog
radically asserts that 'unless the re-
nblican party settles the silver qua3-
tion before 1900, there will be nothing left
of that party after 1900"
Senator Chambers letter is as follows:
European bimetallists need not be-
l;eve that the selection of Mckinley and
Hobart by an overwhelming majority Is
a decision to permanently accede to the
single gold standard. The Bryan prOpo-
sition was soon seen by the American
voters to be simply that the United States
should accept silver monometallism;
should give up all attempts TO keep gold
and silver at a parity; should send gold
to a premium and thereby make it mer-
chandise merely, and should base all
American prices upon silver only 1t can
hardly be considered upon reflection ny
any true bimetallist that such action On
our part would have helped the cause OF
bimetallism in any country in the world.
1T is true the Bryanites called them
selves bimetalIists, and that Mr.. Bryan
in his recent outcry from his temporary
political entombment, addresses not the
democrats, nor the pOpulists, nor the
people, but the bimetallists. This, how
ever, is a sheer affectation. No Bryan
orator or writer has seriously denied
that the adoption of his policy-the i'm
mediate unlimited and free coinage OF
silver by the United States alone-wouId
send gold to a premium and keep 1T there
Iof an indefinite period.
Surely that would be silver monomet-
allsm and can it be contended that sill
YER monometallism is any better step
ping stone to bimetallism than gold mon
Ometallism? l had supposed that 1t was
generally agreed by thoughtful and rd-
uOnal bimetallists everywhere that 1t
uiu not help, but rather hindered, the
cause of bimetallism for the United States
leap at once to free silver coinage.
now then, can the late decision Of the
United States against immediate free
vOihage injure the contest for bimetal-
ila! Here the question might be left,
Uu' fuller survey of all the causes CT
're defeat of Mr. Bryan and the election
VI MT. Mckinley may be useful.
conservative people-and America has
.IVfe conservative people than Europeans
s,''AA-Were alarmed at the character OF
s'0 1ohoWers of Mr.. Bryan and with their
sO0'r1hes additional to the one favorlng
.ee silver coinage. All the socialists, an
- 0hlSts and wild men of society whom
a 1utope has sent us shrieked tor Bryan,
".'4'ough the great bulk of our adopted
1.'izehs voted for Mckinley. The platform
~ 4eu 10 countenance rioting as a means
oe ieuress Of grievances, and it made one
~. I'S pIanks "a reconstruction of the SUI
an, court, in order to change a legal
decision.
r4., majority of the American people
tbo+ H more energetic foreign policy than
w. oeIleVe will come from any admins
nv e''om named democratic. They are sim
Of - "ilected by the lamentable condition
emu i.o christian subjects of the Turkish
,rba1 They mean to annex Hawaii.
rato' ueSlre to see Venezuela allowed to
mm,4a. "er flghtful sole dominion over the
anvio1' u the Or1noco. They are intensely
Chho 10 see arrested the atrocities in
and Independent
a,,o Dut none of the foregoing reasons. not
y" With the one conoorntno +ho no +ional
fuenoa. connection with the currency, in
an 90 y, % many voters against Mr. Bly,
lean uiu phe determination of the Amer
" Co. peopie to plainly vindicate and firm
I'm aoiiSh the principle of protection to
iutias can industries by adequate tariff
'DrI On foreign products
stngla the United States is opposed to a
.raot soid standard, and Is i'm favor of re-