The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-08-10
A Few Rich Gold Standard Gen
erals Issue an Appeal.
Call on Old Soldiers to Supper
Gold Standard.
TALK OF CONsPIRACY
They Say All Silver Men Are
Inscriptions,
That They Are Anarchists, Con-
spiratOrs and ScOundrels.

New York, Aug. 10-The Union Vet
erans' Patriotic league has issued an
anti-silver appeal which is to be sent to
every Union veteran in the United
States. It is signed by General Hor-
ace Porter, General o. Q. Howard, Gen
eral Daniel SicaxeIs, General Franz Sigei,
General Arson G. AIcCook General VIII
liam B. Franklin, Powell Clayton and
others almost as we'll known. EXPIRES
ident Harrison wrote that he would
have signed it had he been in the city.
Tt is as follows:
New York, Aug 8, 1S96.-To the sur
viving soldiers and sailors who served
in the Union army and navy during the
war of the rebellion: Comrades, your
country is again in peril. In the pres
ent presidential campaign dangerous
combinations again threaten the integ
rity Of the government. Misguided
and INSCRIPTIONS men conspire to
bring dishonor and financial ruin upon
this nation once saved by your va1or.
The men who once answered the call
TO put down rebellion and save the
Union have lost none of their love
the flag they fought to uphold, and they
see in the present situa ton an attempt
to tarnish the good name of the repub-
lie and break down its most cherished
bolize, to those who offered their lives
/ in its defense, a country united and
powerful, respected at home, honored
/ the world over for its power. its justice
| and still more for integrity, honesty
and fair dealing.
Comrades, you believe in liberty I'M
| der the law. in public order, in the
maintenance of our courts of Justice
4 and in national honor and good faith.
| You are unalteFably opposed to the red
1 flag of anarchy and mob rule. We be-
| leve that you resent with earnestness
| all attacks upon the executive and jul
| dicial departments of our government
| and commend all measures which vim
/ dictate the supremacy of the law and
| restore public order whenever endan-
/ gered.
Many of cur great leaders have been
mustered out Grant, Sherman, Sheri-
! dan, Mcclellan, Hancock, Burnside,
! Garfield, Logan, Dix and many others
have gone to their reward. Were they
] living they would be united with us
I in this crisis as they were in the days
| of the war. Tt remains for US, their
| comrades, who followed where they led,
/ to guard the good work they upheld
| while living and to preserve all they
/ helped US to gain for our country.
! Should this dangerous and revolu-
| tiOnary political conspiracy against the
financial honor and integrity of thegov-
] eminent succeed, every pensiOner and
/ depositor in a savings bank, every pol
| icy holder in an insurance company, CO.
| operative bank and building and loan
| association and assessment insurance
| society would lose one-half of what is
| due him by being paid in fly cent dol
| lars. The price of everything the
| workin gInan buys would be doubled
| but he would have to struggle and wait
| long before he secured any substantial
| increase in his wages.
| Feeling assured that in this crisis
| you, the Union veterans of the late war
| are almost unanimously united in favor
| of an honest government and a faith
| full adherence to the principles for which
| we commended, we appeal to you to lay
| aside all partisan differences, to prefer
/ country to party now as you did in the
| dark days of the civil war and rally
! to the support Of cur gallant cOmrade.
| Major Mckinley, the first private sol
! der who has ever been nominated for
| the high office of president of the Unit
| ed States, who stood shoulder to Shout
/ der with you in many memorable bat
! ties and for two long years carried his
/ musket and shared the toll and danger
| which fell to the lot Of the men in the
ranks who defended the Union, and who
! today stands for the maintenance OF
the good name and honor of the coun-
| try. Major Mckinley is a comrade
| tried and trusted. He is pledged to the
/ principles for which you so freely ex-
/ posed your lives and for which so many
| thousands of your comrades died on
/ battlefields,, in fever infected camps
| and in prison pens.
I'VE feel that the country is again in
| the presence Of great danger and that
| it is the duty Of the men who saved it
| before to rally to its defense now.
selves into an association To be known
| as The Union Veterans Patriotic
| league, and do ALI in your power as in
] diViduals and as members of the league
| to secure the triumph ofthe right. Plans
/ for organization will be furnished from
| this office. We ask you to unite with
| out reference to your past party affili-
! atoms and come together in non-parti-
| san associations as you did in those
4 other days. The sons of the fathers
! who followed the flag from 1851 to 1856
/ should defend the blessings secured to
/ them by the services, the sufferings and
the vaIor of their sires. Therefore, we
/ invite all sons Of veteran sires to unite
with us in this campaign against ma
/ tiona1 dishonor."