The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-06-30
ANSWER TO WHITNEY
Boiss Says the GOldbug Is Right in
Some Things aud Wrong in Oilers.
THE lOWAN'S PLAIN TALK
II to Do the Right hing is to Dis
rupt he Demoora 10 Party. Dis
rup,ion aust Come. ays the
Ex-Governor.

Omaha. Neb.. June "a special to
the Bee from Waterloo. Iowa. says;
Ex-Governor Boies to-day made public
this letter. replying to a message from
New York paper. concerning Whit
ney's declaration. mir. Whitney Is en-
tirely right In his conclusion that there
Is no disposition on the part of those
who will represent the silver sentiment
OF the South and West in the Chicago
convention to further discuss the mat
ter at issue with men whose views are
diametr.cally opposed to their own on
the currency question. He Is entirely
correct In his conclusion that II is now
too late to accomplish any practical re-
suits by discussion Of that character.
Throughout the South and West that
discussion has been extended. and the
views expressed by Mr.. Whitney have
been put forward by many people who
entertain them. and they have been
fully considered and weighed. and after
all OF this the Judgment Of an over
whelming majority Of the party In
these sections Is evidenced by the class
OF delegates who have been chosen to
represent them In the Chicago conven-
tion. Not one OF these men can now
disregard the known sentiment Of
those who selected him without betray-
ing the trust confided to him. and not
one Of them. in my judgment. will ever
Go so.
whitney Is entirely wrong In as
suming that free silver democrats are
forsaking the fundamental principles
Of democracy or that what he terms
sound money democrats are defer ding
those principles In their endeavor to
commit their party to gold monometal-
lism. Until the republican party met
In st. Louis. few days since. there
was never a line written in a national
platform OF either of the great parties
that Justifies the claim that one or the
other OF these parties was committed
to that doctrine. over and over again
the democratic party In national con-
vention Assembled has put itself on
record in the clearest and most COM
prehensive language in favor OF bimet-
allism. In favor Of the restoration Of
silver to Its place In our financial sys-
TEN, and never for a moment In the
congress has ma jority Of the repre-
sentatives Of that party wavered in Its
devotion to the principles so clearly
tnunctatcd In the party platform.
when Whitney says the mainten-
ance of our present gold standard IL
essential to the preservation of our ma
tional credit and redemption Of our
public pledges. he ignores a great truth
OF which he cannot be ignorant. He
knows that there Is not a single obliga-
tion OF this government outstanding
to-day that, by the terms, Is payable In
gold alone. and he knows that right
upon the face Of the great bulk Of the
bonds is written In substance that they
are payable in coin of the United
States Of the standard weight OF fine-
ness Of Its coins before silver was de-
monetized. and that. therefore. by their
own express terms. they are payable In
our present silver dollar. II the govern
ment elect to so pay them.
IF to undo what law has done to
add to the burdens of the toiling mill
Ions Of this nation and double the fort
unes of the rich within Il Is to disrupt
the democratic party. disruption must
come"