The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-11

/ open fight In this campaign. Before
| the Republican convention, didn't you
hear great many people talk about
the impossibility of having two yard
sticks? Didn't you hear them talk
about gold being the only money fit
for civilized nations? Didn't you hear
them talk about the mine owners prof
1t IN free coinage and the demagogue
who tried to curry favor with the peo-
! pie by advocating free coinage and the
dishonest debtor who wanted to pay his
debts in cheap dollars? You heard all
those. But when the Republican con-
Ventlon met and they had a number
there sufficient to write a platform. did
they put in there anything about two
| yard-sticks? Did they put anything
about the demagogue who was advo-
eating bimetalism? Not at ALL That
i Republican platform expressly declared
that the gold standard was not a de-
s1rable thing; that Republican platform
+ expressly pledged the Republican party
to get rid of gold standard and sub
stltute the double Granddaughter?
! When the leading commercial nations
would help to do it. tApplause)
Eut. my friends, the very fact that
that platform pledges the Republican
party to substitute the double standard
| for the gold standard is a positive as
sertlOn that the double standard Is bet
| ter than the single gold standard Cap
| plause) But the trouble is that having
declared that bimetallism was better
than the gold standard, they said we
| could not have it until the leading
nations OF Europe should cooperate
| winch In my judgment is
equivalent to saying that they never
! expect to have the double standard
! CApplause) Now, If the advocates of
! the gold standard had been willing to
nght an open, honest, manly fight, why
didn't they declare that the gold
standard was good and that the Ameri-
can people ought to maintain it be-
cause 1t is good? Why didn't they say
It? They didn't say 1t because to have
! declared so would have been to con-
/ tradlct the testimony Of the masses of
people of every country which has ever
had it. (Applause.)
Now, my friends, do ou,believe that
the republican party is going to try
TO secure bimetallism? CA voice. Eyes,
sir > I don't. (Another voice. Neither
do Ii The Republican platform was
written by men who. do not want BIZ
metall1sm. (Applause0 The Repub-
ncan platform was written by men
VINO believe that this nation must
nave, whether 1t likes it or not, what
ever financial system foreign creditors
insist on our having. applause
therefore l say that when they go
1orth declaring that they want inter
national bimetallism they are merely
hold1ng that out as mask behind
Wnlch they may work to fasten the
gold standard permanently upon the
American people. (Applause)
NO party in the history of this nation
mas ever declared that the gold stand
| ara was good thing; no party in all
the history of this nation has ever de-
! clared that the gold standard is a good
thing. If you say that the so-caued
| National Democrats have declared that
the gold standard is a good thing. CA
voice: Fifty thousand majority in
! Minnesota for Bryan!") If, nv friends
! you remind me that the so-called Ma
tional Democratic party declared for
/ the gold standard, I tell you that that
| is not national party, because no ma
| tlonal party ever nominated one ticket
| Tor the express purpose Of electing
ahother ticket. (Applause hurrahs
ana voices: Fifty thousand for the
/ Boy Orator" ''Hit him againp0 No
national party was ever organized as
an adjunct of another party already in
existence; no national party ever ex-
pected to have its birthday and its
death at the same time applause
| ana That's a good shotr)
The indianapolis Platform.
ana, my friends, the best evidence
mat l am right in saying that the adj
vocates of the gold standard never
iought an open fight is found in the
lact that the men who assembled at
Indianapolis wrote a platform which
was entirely different from the plat
form which the minority of the Demo-.
Gratis at Chicago tried to secure the
adoption of in the Chicago convention.
(Applause) AT Chicago the minority
wanted international bimetalIisn d nd
were AFRAID that free coinage would.
prevent 1t. But when that, minority
got into a convention by itself If was
SO busy that it forgot all about inter
national bimetallism. daughter and
applause.) And then to further brand
II as nothing but fraud and a de-
ceptlon, those who advocate that inde-
pendent Democratic ticket employ
speakers who openly tell you they are
gong TO vote for the Republican can
dldate and advise others to in so1lnd
money meetings applause, and a
voice, 1hey are curs!0 I say. my
friends, that these things all prove 10
you mat our opponents al e not making
square, open fight They say they
are advocates of honest money. T tell
you that honesty is not a character
lslrc lnat appears occasionally and dis
appears IN a mans character 0aueh
ter and applause) A man who is hon
est IN one thing is apt to be honest in
other things. But these men who prste
about honest money are the ones who
deal dishonesty with the American
people. Great applause) They re-
mind me Of Peter Cartwright, I think
IL was, some one asked him whether he
was sanctified or not and he said Eyes
in. spots" Qiaughter) These people
seem to be honest in spots. Re-
neWed laughter) And they want Won
to believe that men who put up one
ticket when they expect to vote for
another, men who advise you to vote
Tor ticket that they don't expect to
vote for, men who talk about SOUND
money without telling you what it is
men who pirate about an honest dollar
and then worship the most dishonest
dollar in the country today-the gold
dollar (applause)-theyw want you to be-
lieve that they are the only people who
can be trusted to be entirely unselfsh
and patriotic in the establishment of n
financial policy. daughter and ap-
plause.)
Truth, my friends "a voice what
about the 52-cent dollar?")-I will
come to you in moment Truth. INV
friends. does not deal in ambiguous
phrases; truth does not hide behind
words with a double meaning: and
when you find men who, instead Of
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