The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-09-23
SENATOR NELSON'S RECORD.

Court OF Lincoln county, MINI.
Editor Representative:
Senator X. Nelsun will speak here
Sept. 10th, 1886, in favor of the gold
standard tor cOurSe). a friend OF mine
i very positive tt,at knutc not many
years ago favored silver as we'll as gold
as money, and denounced the act Of
1913; and that he made several
speeches in behalf of silver, but ne has
not the necessary documents in his
possession to prove this. He is DESTROYS
OF proving To the people here that
AEutc las te,erteu the road OF jus
Tee. aud, walked into the quite: OF
C. Eruption. Ii you have any knowl-
edge Of speeches made b. Nelson either
AS member Of Congress or on the
stump in favor OF silver, and against
d S:hglc gold standard. you will oblige
lie very much 10y sehdiGg me Il copy uf
Such speech as soon as possible. Re-
SFcctfully. JOnN JOHNSON.
Lake Benton, Mimi, Sept. II.
We have repeatedly published Sena-
tor Nelson's re cord on the silver qucs-
ton. Here is what we said in 1892 in
"broad>ide" OF which leo, $50 copies
were scattered over the state, The
facts therein stated have never been
denied.
OEc Of the great questions Of today
i, the silver question.
Silver has been one Of the money
metals OF the world fer thousands Of
years. In lS7S,-on February 12th,-
the Congress Of the United States was
corrupted, by $3.50, coo sent over by tho
Bank of England, in the hands Of a
banker named Ernest Seyd, and in
duccu to demOnctiZc silver. This was
dcne so secretly that the president Of
the United States, Ulysses :. Grant,
protested two years aftcrward that he
did not know that anything Of the
Kind was in tho bill when he signed
it. When it was discovered an univer-
sal Outcry went up for the repeal Of
the bill demonetiZing silver At the
present time both the Republican and
Democratic parties are opposed to its
repeal, because the money powers of
the whole world demand that money
be rendered more valuable, by reduc-
Ing its amount; thereby reducing the
value OF all kinds of property belong
ing TO the people. And Hon. knute
Nelson will either have to ignore the
whole subject, in this campaign, Or
defend Plutocracy's scheme to inn
roverish the people, By arguing that
that law of 1913, demonetiZing silver
was all right and should stand, and
that silver must not be rcmonetized,
and cannot be without ruin to tile
country.
Our readers will thcrcf fore be aston
lshed to learn that, in 1878, fourteen
years ago. and five years after silver
had been stricken down in Congress,
not only Hon. kuutc Nelson and Hon.
I'm IN No{i Ittt oil 2 l,A l,
Hcan and DcmUcra tic mem crS of the
state Senate, except one Democrat
and two Republicans, voted in favor OF
the repeal OF he act OF Congress of
1873, demonetizing silver.
Here is the rccord:-it will be found
on page 8, of the Senate Journal of
lSIS-Wc dncsday, Jauary 9th, 1878:
Mr.. DOnnclly offered the following
resolution:
Resolvcd; by the Senate Of the State
OF Minnesota, (the House of Represent
tatives concurring,l that our Senators
in the Congress OF the United States,
are hereby instructed to support by
their votes and influence. the bill now
pending in the United States Senate,
known as the bland Silver BiH:' and
that they are requested to oppose all
amendments to that bill, which will
prevent silver coin, of the standards
used in 1870, becoming again full legal
tender for ali debts public and priv
ate, in the United States.
Mr.. Nelson gave notice of debate"
Mr.. Nelson was opposed to this reSo-
luton, but the party leaders caucussed
together and agreed that they could
not defend anything SO outrageous as
the demOnetiZatIOn Of one of the
mOneymetalS named in the constitli.
tion OF the nation: and when the reso.
luton came up again, nine days later,
Jan. 18th, 1878, page rs Of JournaD,
Senator Edgertou, Republican, now a
judge Of the United States Court in
South Dakota, appointed by a Repub-
lican president, offered subs titute
for Mr.. Donnelly's resolution. Here
is the record:
"Mr Edgcrton offered the following
substitute for the resolution Of Mr.
DonnelIy:
Resolved, That our Senators in
Congress be instructed, and our Rep
resentatives requested, to vote for a
bill repeating the act of February II.
1873, Accommodating silver
The question being on the adoption
Of the SubSt itute submitted by Mr..
Edgerton, and the roll being called
there were yeas "a, and nays 3, as fol-
lows:
Those who voted in the affirmative
were: MeSsrS. Ahrens, Armstrong.
Bailey, Clement. Clough. Deul, Don
nelly. Doran, Drew, Edgerton, Ed
wards, Finseth, Goodrich, Hall. Henry,
Hersey, Houlton, Langdon, Lienau
Macdonald, McHcnch, NcNclly, Mea-
ley, MorehOusc, Morrison, Nelson.
Page, Pillsbury, Rice, Shaleen, Swan
strom, Waite, Waldron and Wheat.
Those who voted in the negative
were: Messrs. Gilfillan, G. D. Morton
and Kenmore"
Senator Giltillan and Kenmore were
Republicans, while Senator Morton
was a Democrat.
With what face can Mr.. Nelson now
declare against the full remonetiza-
tiOn of silver, when, fourteen years
ago. he voted for the repeal of the act
of 1873? Does it not show that he is
now subordinating his honest judg-
ment to the demands of Wall Stree t?
What has occurred since 1878, to
change the merits Of this controversy?
Is not the popular demand and neces-
sity for the reconciliation of silver
greater in 1892, than it was in 1878?
And if Mr.. Nelson is ready to yield his
conscience. for party success to the
PlutOcratS, on the silver question,
what assurance have the people that
he will not be the mere slave of the
corporations and money power if cleo
ted governor?
1t will be noticed that besides Mr..
DOnnelly-the following named lead
IL