The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-16
ALL SAID NO VERY LOUD
A Hundred Republican News
papers of Kansas
We're Asked Just a Year Ago
If They
Favored the Single Gold Standard and
Nearly Everyone of Them Said
"No" Now Where are
TheyP

In 1895 the Republican Silver league
sent out some questions by postal card
10 the Republican papers of Kansas
asking that they be answered. These
postal cards are now in possession of
the State Journal. The questions were:
L Are you for single gold standard?
2 Are you for a bimetaIlic standard,
regardless of international agreement
and unrestricted coinage?
3. Are you for bimetaIlic standard,
confined to the coinage of American
output of silver?
great many papers in the state an
sWefed these questions and we present
DGIoW what their editors said as to
where they stood. Where do they
stand now?
The figures 1, 2. indicate the ques-
tion Intended to be answered; where
the questions were changed by the
party answering. they have been writ
ten out in full:
Lucas Advance. No. 2 Yes and
no We want no shipment of foreign
SILVER And believe we are able to go
1t alone 3. Yes, believing that the
saftey of the government depends on
the Republican principles OF protection
ana an absolute independence of other
NATIONS IN the finances of this country.
Soldier Clipper. No. Yes.
Yes.
W AAALCW dtCI w GGhIY herald. NO.
The above are leading questions and
cannot be answered by one mOnosyIla-
be We are for q bimetallic standard
and high protection of American indus
tries.
Lyndon Journal No. 8. Yes, with
tariff on foreign silver, exemption of
silver certificates from tax Believing
that we can keep the ratio as it is for
years, BIT for a change when expert
ence shows that it can't be kept at
par with gold.
Jennings Eeho-1. Yes. now, but if I
can see anything to make a change I
Frankfort Twice-a-Week Bee-Not
being able to see how there can be such
a thing as a double standard ofvalue''
L am for single standard. 2. No, I
own no silver mines. If I did I might
favor the fad of free coinage at 16 toll.
I do not indorse Populistic fads. 3. I
believe in the freest and fullest use of
gold, silver, greenbacks and any other
kind Of currency possible, including ma
tionaI bank notes, which consider the
best currency we ever had.
Thayer Weekly Graphic-3. Yes, also
advocating that the same intrinsic
value be contained in the dollars of
both metals, whether the ratio of one
metal be to the other 16 to 1, 80 to l or
any greater or less ratio which should
be regulated and maintained by COM
petent legislation in conformity with
existing conditions.
Salina SUM- Not any" 2 BIZ
metallic, but propose that silver and
gold shall be kept on an equality. 8.
Willing to have the American product
as an experiment. but doubt the wis
dom of throwing open the doors in any
respect. For harmony in the Repubi-
can party and the best interests of the
country.
La Crosse Clarion. No. 2. No. 8.
Yes.
Peabody Gazette-1 Bimetallic-in-
terna tiOnaI agreement. 2. No. As long
1S with other nations Y
tensiVely we must use similar money
standard. 8. Not exactly 1 believe
that when our mechanics have proper
protection, barring out most foreign
productions, they will be able to use
all American silver-part in coin, part
manufactures.
BeIoit Gazette. No Yes to first.
Coinage of American product. 8. Yes.
Cedarvale Commercial. I am not
2. No, 1 do not favor that, provided
an agreement can be arrived at other
wise. 3. I am, as 1 see 1t now am
for the free coinage of the home pro-
duct and a high tariff on the foreign
product of silver.
Fmporia Gazette am a gold bug,
running a subsidized organ in the inter
ests of the b6ndhOlders and against the
toiIing masses. I am also a plutocrat.
Liberal News-1. No. 2. No. 3.
Yes, as I now view the situation.
Stockton Records. Yes.
Cherokee Sentinel. No, no, no, sir, !
not by a jugfuI. 2. To hades with |
other nations: we are for the Declara- |
ton of Independence. 3. Favor that |
plan. but would have the law prior to |
1873 re-enacted. We are for silver and |
Crawford county Republicans passed |
resolutions for the American output
Winfield Courier. No. 3. Yes, as
a starter.
lola, REGISTER As between that and |
silver standard, yes. 2. No. 3. Not If |
it means coinage at 16 to / 1 stand |
suuareIy on the national republican
platform of 1892.
2 Yes The American minis for Amer
lean mines is about right, with a pro
tective or prohibitive tariff on foreign
clay Center Times. No. 2 No.
g. Yes.
Hope Crescent. No 2. No. g. Yes.
Caney Chronicle Most decldedIy
the output of American mines coined /
free will keep up with the demand and
that duty should be placed on for
Syracuse Republicans. Yes, yes, yes
Jetuore Western Herald No. Z
Yes. 8. Yes 80 IN
love in New York or England, hence L
-, not Yes g. I would be, per-
h9DE hut I do not understand why a
restriction should be put on the SILVER
output. It is a good thing let II
come. q vas
, YES I publish the only Republican
naDar in these parts that advocates
What have written above.
cottonwood Falls Leader NO. &
incline that way. 3. Yes. So is Tom
Reed. - e.. . |
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