The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-10-08
the aDDrODriatiOns.


the government for sending federal
troops to preserve life and property
during the recent railway strike in
Chicago.
PROTECTION THE IMPORTANT ISSUE.
This, fellow citizens, is the platform
which was adopted unanimously by
that portion of the Democratic party
which nominated Mr.. Bryan, one of
the platforms upon which Mr..
Bryan stands, a platform which
those who vote for him must practi-
cally indOrse. | decline to stand on
this platform and vote for this candi-
date, even with the alluring free coin
age plank; | cannot do it. | am a be-
lever in protection and shall not
abandon that belief. The supreme
court of the United States is a pure
and able tribunal, the highest judicial
tribunal in the world; | will not help
smirch it. This government must be
enabled to pay its running expenses,
and when ever my vote is needed for
that purpose and | fail to vote it sup
plies to keep it alive l shall consider
that | violate my oath as senator. The
recent Republican congresses have
been neither wasteful nor eXtravagant
anu ilIbNl tONilIlN w ttl III u IL
statement | know to be untrue. When
some months ago, the great railroad
strike at Chicago grew beyond control
and innocent lives were being sacri-
feed and millions OF dollars worth of
property was being destroyed by law
less men; when the sheriff was power
less and the governor failed TO perform
his duty. the president of the United
fn1Ar,I
sanction OF law, saved further blood
shed and destruction and thereby
deserved the thanks Of every man vino
values our liberties and believes that
the rights guaranteed us by the con
stitutiOn ought to be sacrediy guarded
against every form of lawlessness.
The recent traVesty at St. Louis, the
Populist convention, has but Illus
trated the elements which naturally
gravitate towards the candidacy of
Mr.. Bryan. Every cranky quirk,
every homogeneous and ludicrOus and
misshapen idea which the wheels in
the brains of men could evolve, buzzed
and whirled through days of talk, but
the net result was Bryan. Govern
ment ownership of railroad, telegraph
and telephone lines, initiative and re-
ferendum, silver money and more
money had their advocates. and at the
end on assurances that all who voted
forBryan would be equally recognized,
Mr.. Bryan was almost the unanimous
choice of the convention.
For four years we have been fight
ing POpulism and Populists; that
party is as unfit now as it has ever
been to control the welfare of this
people. The party stands to-day just
where it has always stood. | am yet
willing to march under its banner.
Because, therefore, | believe that
free coinage will come through the eff
forts of the Republican party, and
! because the Democratic and POpulist
platforms, except on the money ques-
| ton, are OdiOus and hostile to the
welfare of our country, | shall not
cast my vote for Mr.. Bryan.
Seven years ago | was elected to the
senate by the Republican votes of the
general assembly, and against the
opposition of every Democrat in the
two houses. My reelection met the
united opposition of every Democrat
and every Populist member Of the
general assembly. | hold my com
mission from the Republican party,
| Many of its members, including some
of its leaders, in the exercise of their
| judgment, have announced their in
tention of leaving the party. | shall
stay. My loyalty to the party which
| has honOred me is entirely consistent
with my loyalty to the highest and
| best interests of the state | represent
II the senate of the United States,
and | know no reason why | should
abandon my party or desert its cOlors.
1t is to me source of the deepest
regret that my position is at variance
with that of many of the former
members of the Republican party
among them many who have hOnOred
me with their personal friendship. |
| trust that time and further reflection
and the course of events will bring us
together again in the unity of agree
ment.
| But whatever may result, my path
of duty is plain. Ny one aspiration
is for the welfare of the state in which
| | have lived for more than a quarter
Of a century-all the years of my
manhood. Every interest | have is
here and Colorado will be my home
until | am buried in this soil. The
differences which exist are not as to
| the result we seek, but as to the best
method of reaching that result. There
is to my mind no reason why it was
not as much our duty to vote for
| Weaver four years ago, as for Bryan
to-day. The Omaha platform declared
| for free coinage and was no more
Objectionable than the Chicago plat
form; and Bryan is vouched for by
leading Populists as being las good a
Populist as lives The POpulists
have not changed in the past four
years 1t is we who are expected to
join their aggregation. Others may
find it wise or eXpedient, but | won't
do it. Whenever the course of events
could make it possible that | should
speak from the same platform as Till
man or Waite or Ignatius Donnelly,
! in advocacy of the same presidential
| candidate, | know there must be
something wrong with me.
LESS MYSTERIES AND MORE COMMO n
SENSE.
What we need is less Mysteries and
more common sense. We have glori-
GUS resources, yet in the infancy OF
their Developments; we are suffering
from the imposition of a mistaken
financial policy, which it is our natural
and proper desire to see overthrow
as speedily as possible. We live in a