The San Francisco call., 1896-07-21
Teller, Dubois, Mantle, Hartman,
Wilson, Shafroth and Steven
son Appeal for Silver.
AssAIL THE GOLD STANDARD.
Dissenting Republicans Who Ask the
People to Support the Chicago
Nominees.

MANITOU, CoLo., July 20.-The COM
mittee of boiling Republicans who have
cen in session here for several days, late
this afternoon made public the following
manifesto:
We deem it fitting that we, who have hereto
fore affiliated with the National Republican
party and who have rejected the financial
plank of the platform adopted at st. Louis and
refused to support the nominees OF the con-
vention, should state our position in the Presi-
| Dental campaign and give briefly our reasons
| In support thereof. When certain delegates to
the National Republican Convention repu::
! dated the financial plank of the platform and
withdrew from the convention, we determined
| that we would give our support to such candi-
dates as should appear most willing and caPa-
BILE of aiding in the restoration of silver to its
| Pightful place as standard money.
The Democratic party in its Chicago conven-
ton has taken position in its platform SO
| nominated candidates of such unquestion able
convictions in favor of the bimetallic policy
| and of such high personal character that we
| have determined to give them our support.
/ We support such candidates because they rep
resent the great principle OF bimetallism,
which we believe to be the cause of humanity
| and civilization and the paramount ques tion
now before the American people.
We therefore announce that we shall by
voice and vote support MesSrs Bryan and
| Sewall for President and Vice-President, and
we appeal 10 all citizens, and especially 10 Re-
publicans who feel as we do that gold mono-
metallism would be OF lasting injury to the
country, 10 act with US in securing their cleo
| tion
! The Democrats who believe in the gold
standard are announcing their intention to
/ support Mr.. Mckinley on purpose to put a
third candidatefn the field for the avowed
purpose OF aiding McKinley's election. A
great number OF leading and influential Dem
| ocratic journals have declared they will sup
| port the Republican nominees. 1t is evident
| there is to be union OF forces on the part of
| the advocates and supporters of the gold
| standard to elect Mr.. Mckinley and con-
| gress favorable to him which win support the
L Gvanv al lfrln fha h
| platform.
To those who believe in bimetallism, which
means the equal treatment of both gold and
silver at the minis of the Nation, there is but
| one course to pursue 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 disaster TO
| the Nation and ruin to the people.
Gold monometallism means the shifting to
| gold alone, as primary money, all the burdens
| of commerce and credit formerly borne by gold
| and silver, 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 burden upon gold means doub-
| ling the demand 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 silver has caused a gradual
and steady increasefn the value of every dollar
redeemable in gold, and hence gradual and
| steady decline in the value of every commodity
| that is measured by that dollar.
The representatives and supports of Mr..
| McKinly consented to the insertion in the st.
Louis platform of the gold stand ard declara-
tion thinly yeneered by a declaration for BIZ
metallism, "when the leading commercial ma
tions of the world should consent" but until
that consent was secured the gold standard
must be maintained. 1t is well known that
this consent cannot be secured from Great
| Britain and that such declaration for bimetal-
lism means nothing with this limitation upon
il. Mr.. Mckinley consented to the declaratio
for the gold standard in the platform and in
| his recent speeches has accepted it, and has be-
come the advocate thereof; he has shown by
his speeches heretofore made that he under
stood the danger OF the gold standard and the
distress which would be inflicted upon the
| American people by Its adoption, and yet he
pledges the people to support and maintain
| that system, and fasten upon them all the
evils of the financial system which he has
heretofore repudiated, if they will make
him President. Whatever may be his attitude
on the money question in the past he must in
evitably hereafter support the same financial
| system that the present Democratic admins
tration has and If elected must continue the
policy of Mr.. Cleveland in the sale of bonds in
the time OF peace. Hence with the success of
Mr.. Mckinley we may look for continued In
crease OF the public debt and the sale of bonds
| to maintain the gold standard.
That the condition of the country is not sat-
isfactory all admit. The producers of weelth
are not receiving fair and proper compensation
for their labor, whether in field, factory or
mine enterprise has ceased, values are con-
stantly declining labor is unemployed, dis
content and distress prevail to an extent never
before known in the history of this coun-
try, and no reason can be found for
such an unhappy condition save in a vicious
monetary system. THOSE who profess to QeDtOre
the present financial condition, and oppose
the free coin age of silver, are divided in opin-
ion as TO the cause of the present condition.
Some declare that 1t is because we have too
much tariff others that we have not enough !;
while the fact exists that every gold-standard
country in the world, whether it has high or
q low tariff is now and has been during recent
years in the throes of q financial panic, and
every silver-standard country, compared with
its former condition, is enjoying an industrial
| development and degree OF prosperity hitheeto
unknown in its history. While thus differing
in opinion, they unite in asserting that the
gold standard must be maintained until for
eign countries shall signify their willingness
that the American people shall exercise the
rights of freemen and create financial sys-
TEN of their own. If we overlook the humilia-
lion and degradation we must feel on account
of such declaration OF financial dependency
we may well inquire when the consent of the
leading commercial nations will be obtained
No one who has read the proceedings of the
three international monetary conferences that
have already been held, or who has examined
the impractlcable propositions presented at
those conferences, can for a moment have any
idea that any International bimetallic agree
ment can ever be made with the consent of all
| s'the leading commercial nations of the
| world" When will Great Britain, controlled
| as she is and ever will be by the creditor
classes. who collect vast sums OF money for
| interest due her and her citizens, who buys of
us annually many more millions than she
sells to us, and whose interest it is TO make
| the pound sterling purchase much of our
products as possible, consent that we shall be
financially independent as we are supposed to
be politically independent? When did the
credit classes of Great Britain ever give up or
in any way yield an advantage such they
now possess through the maintenance OF the
gold standard
There is no hope for international bimetal-
lism until the United States shall establish BIZ
metallism for itself, and when, that is done
| international bimetallism may be secured
| without the consent of Great Britain. The
United States, all other subjects OF legisla-
ton, acts independently OF any other nation
on earth BY what process of reasoning is its
right, authority or ability to legislate upon
this, the most i'm portant subject with which it
has TO deal, questioned or denied?
With Nation equal in wealth and power to
one-fourth of the world, it is cowardly TO say
that we must ask the permission of Great
Britain to esta blish and maintain financial
policy of our own. Believing, as we do, that a
return to the monetary system especially
recognized in the constitution and completely
provided for by law from 1892 until 1873 af-
fords the only ground OF hope for the better
ment of the distressed condition OF all the
classes except those who live by the increment
that money loaned gives to those who loan 1t,
we appeal to all classes to rally to the support
of the only candidates whose success indicates
any hope of relief.
Let the merchant and business man whose