The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-21
Teller and Silver Associates
Issue an Address.
They Will All Support Bryan
and Sewall.
OTHERS TODD so.
All Friends of Silver Asked to
Help Him.
Mckinley Will Continue CIeve-
lands Bond Issuing Policy.

Denver. July Ex-senator Teller and
six of his associates who left the ma
tiona1 Republican convention made
public last evening an address to the
silver Republicans of the country set
ting forth their views of the situation.
The silver Republican congressman
and senators have been in conference
at Manitou for several days over their
statement. In addition to those sign
ing the address Senator Pettigrew of
South Dakota and Senator Cannon of
Titan are declared to be in sympathy
with it, although Senator Cannon was
not present at the conference owing to
business engagements in Boston The
address is as follows:
we deem it fitting that we. who
nave heretofore affiliated with the ma
tiOnal Republican party and who have
rejected the financial plank of the plat
form adopted at St. Louis and refused
to support the nominees of the con-
vention should state our position in
the presidential campaign and give
briefly our reasons in support thereof
When certain delegates to the ma
tlonal Repubhcan convention repudi-
ated the financial plank of the plat
FORM and Withdrew from the conven-
ton, we determined that we would
give our support to such candidates as
should appear most willing and capa-
bic of aiding in the restoration of sill
yer to its rightful place as standard
money.
The Democratic party in its Chica-
go convention has taken a position in
ITS platform so prOnOuncedIy faVOra-
bic to silver and has nominated candi-
oates OF Such UNREASONABLE cOnvic-
lions in favor of the bimetalIic policy
and of such high personal character
that we have determined to give them
our support We support such candi-
dates because they represent the great
principle of bfmetallism which we be
ieve is the cause of humanity and civ
ilizatiOn and the paramount question
now before the American people
we therefore announce that we
shall by voice and vote support Messrs
Bryan and Sewall for president and
vice president, and we appeal to all
citizens and especially to Republicans
who feel as we do that gold monomet-
allism would be of lasting injury to the
country to act with US in securing their
election.
The Democrats who believe in the
gold standard are announcing their
intention to support Mckinley or pro-
posing to put a third candidate in the
field for the avowed purpose of aiding
Mckinley's election a great number
Of leading and influential Democratic
journals have declared that they will
support the Republican nominees 1t
is evident there is to be a union of
forces on the part of the advocates
and supporters of the gold standard
to elect Mr. Mckinley and a congress
favorable to him which will support
the financial policy outlined in the
Republican platform.
ITO those who believe in biTnetaIlfsm
which means the equal treatment of
both gold and silver at the mfnts of
the nation. there is but one course to
pursue, and that is to unite all the sill
Yer forces and to oppose with all our
might the candidate representing the
policy which we believe is fraught
with disaster to the nation and ruin
to the people.
Gold mOnOmetaIlism means the
shifting to gold alone as primary
money all the burdens of commerce
and credit formerly borne by gold and
silver, and as the worlds stock of
these metals has always been about
equal in amount, it means the doubling
of the burden upon gold. Doubling
the burden upon gold means doubling
the demand for money. and doubling
the demand of necessity doubles the
value thereof. This gradual shifting
to gold of all the burdens of both sold
and silver has caused a gradual and
steady increase in the value of every
dollar redeemable in gold, and hence
a gradual and steady decline in the
value of every commodity that meas
ured by that dollar.
THE representatives and the sup
pOrters of Mr.. Mckinley consented to
the insertion in the st. Louis platform
of the gold standard declaration thin
ly veneered by a declaration for bimetaI-
1ism when the leading commercial ma
lions of the world should consent, but
until that consent was secured the
gold standard must be maintained It
is well known that this consent cannot
be secured from Great Britain, and that
such declaration for bimetallism
means nothing with this limitation up
on it.
Mr.. Mckinley consented to the dec
laratiOn for the gold standard in the
platform. and in his recent speeches
has accepted it and has become the
advocate thereof; he has shown by
his speeches heretofore made that
he understood the danger of the
which would be inflicted upon the
American people by it's adoption, and
yet he pledges the people to support
and maintain that system and fasten
upon them all the evils of the finan-
ciaI system which he has heretofore
repudiated, if they will make him presi-
dent.
Whatever may have been his atti-
tude on the money question in the past
he must inevitably hereafter support
the same financial system that the
present Democratic administration has,
and if elected must continue the pol
icy Of Mr.. Cleveland in the sale of
bonds in time of peace. Hence with
the success of Mr.. Mckinley we may
look for a continued increase of the
public debt and the sale of bonds to
maintain the gold standard.
when will Great Britain, controlled
as she is and ever will be by the cred
itor classes, who collect vast sums of
money for interest due her and her
citizens, who buy of US annually many
more millions than she sells to US, and
whose interest it is TO make the pound
sterling purchase as InuCn OF our pro-
ducts as possible, consent that we shall
be financially independent as we are
supposed to be politically independent?
When did the creditor classes of Great
Britain ever give up, or in any way
yield an advantage such as they now
possess through the maintenance of the
gold standard? There is no hope for
international bimetallism until the
United States shall establish bimetal-
lisn for itself, and when that is done
international bimetallism may be Sc