The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-06-10

OOuoCIdllC party IL II got In power anu
did not give the people free coinage of
silver. He then proceeded to review the
record of that party after it got in power,
having not only the president but both
houses of congress. He showed that it
not only did not keep a single pledge that
1t made to the people, but that it Endorsed
the John Sherman Republican policy,
commencing where that party had stop
ped and carrying on their Infamous work
Of contraction; that they not only con-
tracted the currency, but that they out
Heroded Herod by piling up an immense
bonded debt to Cypress not only the pres
ent but also futrue generations Then
he asked how could the people trust the
promises of this party in the coming
campaign. The silver men may control
the Chicago convention and nominate a
so-called free silver man for president,
but what guarantee will the people have
that their promises are any truer now
than they were in 1892? Truly it is a
party of perfidy and dishonor. 1t has be-
trayed the people more basely even than
the Republican party. Then what great
er calamity could befall the cause of sill
yer than for party in such bad repute
to indOrse silver and become its cham
pion.
Mr.. Butler then proceeded to show that
the very finest politics that the gold men
could pay would be to have the so-called
silver men to control the next national
Democratic convention and to declare for
free coinage. This would place upon free
coinage the whole burden of Democratic
treachery-would curse the cause of
financial reform with the bad odOr of
that party. AS soon as the gold men get
the Democratic party to put up freq
-i1x ofn md MIC hn
gold men will at once secretly throw all
Of their influence and power in favor Of
the Republican candidate who will be
gold standard man.
They will do this for two reasons: First
to make sure of the election of gold man
for president, which is the supreme de>
sire of both the gold Republicans and
gold Democrats; second, to make the
Democratic free silver ticket (so-called)
get few votes in the electoral college
as possible. Then the gold Democrats
will say to the silver Democrats: Il told
you So" and proclaim to the country that
the poor showing that the Democratic
party had made proves the weakness Of
the cause Of silver. This is a fine scheme
on the part of the gold men, but it is to
be hoped that there is too much patri-
otism and wisdom among the silver DEM
ocrats to allow themselves thus to be
hoodwinked and used as tool by the
agents of the Rothschilds' conspiracy.
Every man with common sense knows
that the only way to defeat the gold con-
spiracy in the coming campaign is for the
true friends of silver in all parties to unite
on common platform and under a COM
mon banner to draw the line squarely
between gold gamblers and the people,
and to fight the battle for libetry and
prosperity to the bitter end For reasons
given above it is clear that these forces
cannot be united in the Democratic party.
The silver Republicans Of the West, the
silver Democrats of the South, and pat
riots from everywhere must join hands
with the Peoples party to make victory
for the people and defeat for the gold
combine certain. In short, there is but
one thing that will make the election Of a
gold-bug for president certain, and that
is for the silver Democrats to nominate
I so-called silver man under the Demo-
cratic labe., refusing to join hands with
the other silver forces on July %, at st.
Louis, but using their machinery and eff
forts to divide instead of uniting the OPP
ponests of the single gold standard.
Senator Butler proceeding, showed that
the same organization of bankers and
geld gamblers which put up the money
to nominate Cleveland in 1892 have now
put up tremendous campaign fund to
nominate and elect Mckinley in 1896
They have decided to use the Republican
party for the next four years to carry on
their Infamous rObbing conspiracy just as
they have used for the last four years the
Democratic party for this purpose. He
showed that the gold men always COM
bine when the interests of the gold trust
is at stake. He appealed to the millions
of American people who were robbed and
bled by the present Infamous financial
system to show the same common sense
to their forces for common protection as
we'll as for the preservation of a Repub-
llcan form of government in the coming
campaign
vote will be taken on this bill tomor-
row. 1t is not yet certain how the vote will
stand. 1t is believed, however, that the bill
will pass by small majority, but the
agents OF the gold trust have not given I'D
hope and are using every possible effort to
defeat the bill.
SHRMAN AND ALLIES PUT IN A HOLE
On at least a dozen occasions during the
present session of congress Senator Sher-
man has taken great pains to try to prove
that the only trouble with the finances of
the country was the want of revenue. He
has said repeatedly that there would
be no necessity for the issuance of bonds if
the tariff was raised. He has repeated this
statement in the face Of the fact that Pres-
dent Cleveland himself has admitted in two
or three messages to congress that It makes
no difference how much revenue was raised,
it would still be necessary for him to sell
bonds to buy gold in order to pay the obli-
cations of the government in gold This IS
one statement made by President C,eve-
land that every intelligent, fair-minded
man knows to be true. Mr. Sherman HIM
self inaugurated this policy of paying the
coin obligations Of the government in gold
and refusing to pay out silver. Mr. Cleve-
land has kept up this policy, and as long as
it is maintained, at regular intervals bonds
will be issued to buy gold, because the gov
eminent does not receive gold in payment
of customs or tariff duties; therefore, the
government might have thousand million
of greenbacks or silver collected in payment
of customs duties or other taxes due the
government but still 1t would not have a
dollar of gold except by the issuance of
bonds to buy gold.
But, inasmuch as Senator Sherman has
persisted in making this statement for cam
paign purposes in order to fool the people
into believing that all that was necessary
to bring prosperity was to elect some high
tariff gold-bug like Mckinley for president,
it was decided by number of the friends Of
the money of the constitution. to put his