The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-09-15
BRYAN NOT TO BREAK BANKS.
CHANGE IN MONEY POLICY NOT TO
BE DISAsTROUSLY SUDDEN.

mittee TO Notify Bryan Gives I'm
preston to n Significant Utternnce
in His Letter of Notiacntion-POp-
uIists Declare to Have Risen
Above Party in Nominating Bryan.
Madison, Neb., Sept. H.-Senator Allen,
chairman of the populist committee to
notify William J. Bryan Of his nomlna-
ton for the presidency, tonight gave
out his letter to the nominee. The fun
text follows:
Madison. Neb., Sept. II, 1S96.-Hon. VIII
liam ]. Bryan Lincoln, Neb.: Dear Sir
At a convention Of the peoples party held
at St. Louis from July % to % of the
current year you were unanimously nom
mated for President of the United States
to be voted for at the approaching gem
eral election. It was known at the time
that you had been nominated by the DEM
ocratic party at its convention held at
Chicago a few days before that time, ana
that you would in all probability accept
the same in a formal manner. Your nom
ination by the peoples party was not,
therefore, made with any thought that
you were a populist. or that you accepted
all the doctrines declared by the st. Louis
platform. 1t was due largely to the fact
that the money question is the overshad-
owing political issue of the age, and be-
cause that you have at all times been
an answering, able and fearless advo-
cate Of the free and unlimited coinage OF
silver and gold on terms of equality at
the minis of the United States at the
ratio of Is to !. 1t was thought
also that the observance of "A
patriotic duty required an union Of all
reform forces and the convention took
the liberty without soliciting or consult
ing you of placing your name before the
people as its standard bearer. The con-
vention was, in doing go, guided by deep
solicitude for the common welfare and
acting on its own motion, prompted alone
by desire to bring about the best attain
able results. So much has been said re-
specting the rehabilitation of silver by
again placing 1t in our coinage acts in the
position it occupied when stealthily de-
monetized by the act Of 1873 that II would
be idle use for us to discuss the question.
You will observe by the closing language
of the St. Louis platform that the con-
vention recognized the money ques ton as
the great issue of the day, and because
boDuHSlS bG1lEN6 LildL gOu ait III cAtNOih
with them on this question you will receive
their ballots in November.
1t has at no time been expected. or is
1t now that you will abandon your adj
hesion TO the Chicago platform, nor that
you will accept all that is declared by the
peoples party platform, however, more
gratifying the latter would be to all popu-
lists. 1t must be understood that the
party does not abate one jot or title of
loyalty to its principles. We have de-
clared ourselves in favor of many import
ant reforms and go further than you or
your party have gone. These reforms
are, in our Judgment essential to the
liberation of the people from present UNI
just and iniquitous industrial bondage
In accordance with precedent of our
party we take this method of
notifying you of your nomination.
We shall send a committee according to
old party custom. In sending this letter
of notification of the great honor that has
justly been conferred on you by our party
it Is needless for us to assure you that you
have the confidence and esteem of all.
Your splendid abilities, known integrity,
competency and eminent fitness for the
position justly entitle you to a high rank
among the great statesmen of the nation.
We feel that in the event of your cleo
ton, which now seems certain, that you
will carry into execution the principles of
monetary reform 10 the end that the peo-
pie shall enjoy better Industrial conditions.
1t is not anticipated that this can be done
with undue haste or so suddenly as to
wrench or disjoint the business interests
of the country, but il will be done grad
uaHy and in a way to infuse confidence and
hope of better conditions for all.
The Peoples party will exact of you no
promise further than those made in your
public utterances and eXemplihed in a life
devoted to the welfare of the race, nor
win we ask you TO abandon the party of
which you are an honored member In
your nomination our party has risen
above mere partisan surroundings, adopt
ing high plane of patriotism, believing
that a division of forces would result in
the election of William Mckinley, the
the foremost advocate of deeply bur
densome and unnatural taxation and the
criminal policy of the single gold standard
resulting ultimately If not in some manner
checked, in the complete destruction and
disintegration of our form of gov
eminent. Your elevation TO the
chief magistracy of the nation would b'
regarded as a vindication of the right o
the people to govern, and we entertain NJ
doubt that you will prove a worthy sue
cessor of the immortal Jefferson and Lin
coin, and that your public life, like theirs
will illustrate the purity and loftiness o
American craftsmanship.
1Oul eAAchSiNS dAih AhtihAdNS hltOWieuS
of public affairs, and the duties the OF
nee will impose gained in life that ha
been devoted to upholding the cause of tn
people, as well as your keen insight int
the condition of our country, in our judg
ment, highly qualified you to bring abou
a change in a way that will work injur,
TO none and justice to all, thus making
sour government, in fact as it is now Il
form, only, a government of, by and 70
the people," We have the honor TO be
your most obedient servants.
William Vincent Allen. Chairman.
The names of each of the members o
the notification committee follow that o
Senator Allen.
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