Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1896-07-09
DECLARES THAT HE rs NOT ron
FREE COINAGE OF SILVER.
HIS VIEWS misunderstood.
BELiEvEs ~ LIMITED USE or Sill
vER As STANDARD MONEY.


Topeka July s-(Special) Congressman
Charles Curtis. OF the Fourth Kansas
district. comes ont flatly with the state
ment that he is opposed to the free coin-
age of silver, and that he will not bolt
the -. Louis platform. The gentlemen
| who have been circulating the petition
which pledged every signer to refuse his
vote to any candidate who refused TO
stand on the Republican national plat
form are congratulating themselves tina.
they smoked MIR. Curtis out, while that
gentleman insists that he has never been
in favor OF the free coinage of silver, and
that his Interview, published on the day
| of his arrival in Kansas, has been mlsin-
terpreted To the Journal correspondent
MIR. Curtis said this morninE
~ am not for the free coinage of sill
YER, and never was. 1t is true that l
voted in congress for silver bill, but that
was because was confronted with the
necessity of being for gold monometal-
lism or of showing my frcndliness to the
silver cause. do not intend TO bolt the
St Louis platform. in my campaign
speeches or elsewhere, because ! am a
Republican, and expect to stand by the
principles and policies of my party. 1 am
sorry that the St. Louis platform did not
go further and declare for limited use OF
silver as standard money, for that is what
believe in. do not support the free and
unlimited coinage of silver because that
would result in silver monomotallism. 10
which l am opposed. While the platform
at st. Louis did not declare for the use of
silver in the currency, l am content to
trust to the Republican party for legisla-
ton friendly to it,.
II simply criticized the platform from
the standpoint OF loyal Republican VINO
ielt that 1t did not represent fully his
financial views. imagine that platform
was never constructed which met with
tho entire appreciation Of every member
of the party which adopted it, and the
friendly criticism which ! may have made
does not warrant the assumption that
an or intend to become a bolter. To ex-
plain what | criticized IN the platform
mere fully. would say that its wording
Democrats to go upon tho stump and de-
clare that the Republican party had de-
clarei against the use of silver as money.
ana that the purpose of the party is to
establish gold monometallism. / do no.
believe the platform intended any such
great body of Republican voters do not
subscribe to any such doctrine. would
have made this noint clear by; having the
Platform declare for limited coinage of
silver ! stand square upon tho PROPOSE
ton that every dollar should be as good
parity. may be. retained with u liberal coin
age OF silver"
Tom Anderson said to the correspondent,
this afternoon that his pledge binding
slsners TO vote for no man who bolted the
ST. Louis platform was receiving hundreds
OF Signatures and II Mr.. Curtis did not
stand on the platform he thought Il Re-
publican candidate could be found who
would There Is little danger OF such an
event taking place. however. as MIR. cur
It's explanation Of his position presented
today, viii satisfy a large, portion of the
Republican voters OF his district,