Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-07-17
A VOICE FROM COLORADO.
: Former Republican Citizen of Wheeling
Cuts Loose from the q. .. Pills Views
on the Financial Question.

Cuts Loose from the q. y. Pills Views
on the Financial Question.
Denver, Colo, July 10, 1896
Editor Register.
Dear Sir: The west rejoices with you
tonight. The great common people, II
respective o. party, rejoice with YOU
All those VINO pin their everlasting
faith 10 an AMERICAN financial policy
rejoice with you, and with 0he Democ-
Iacy o. America; all those who beIeYe
with MulhalD that our country is equal
in innate energy and producing power
to France. ENGLAND and Germany COM
bined. and who believe that country
which produces more than nifty
times as much silver as these
three European consumers is
Dig enough and strong enough
and brainy enough to adopt her own T.
nanc.al policy, and res0,u,e enough TO
make il 2 pleasant DUTY for Great Brit
ain to fall into line and Join tae process
sion as she should as a non-proGucer.
On the Othtr hand, it may be said this
cannot be done. Then | say, why make
an exception Of the monetary question?
Why should not the Republican, party
have said in its platform, we are in IA
vor Of Protection pending the appIoVai
OF Englan6?" Why should not all our
domestic affairs be re2erusd fer adjust
mert TO the power in whose honor the
Boston Tea Party was given?
Everyone, l say, everyone, who has
made a study o. this Creates OF all econ
Cmic QuesGo1s, knows that the action
Of The late Republican convention Was
a radical innovation in the platforms OF
parties in The United States. The Re
publican platform of 1883 contained
these words: The Republican party
is IN favor Of the use OF BOTH gold and
silver, and condemns mind YOU the
policy Of Jhe Democratic party in its el-
tcnJs TO demOnethize silver"
In the Minneapolis platform Of the
Republican party, adOp,ed June Z, 1892,
We find: The American people from
tradition and interest favor bi-metal-
ism, ard tine Republican party demands
the use Of both sold and silver as stand
ana money" ETC, exc. What has
wrought Ulis lightning change? What
induced the committee on resolutions,
at The st. Louis convention to insert a
gclG-mCnO-metallic plank into the plat
form. and finally what induced such a
large majority TO passively submit TO
this innovation?
We al know how Mckinley stands on
this grea1 issue-ha doesn't stand. Wall
ana Lombard streets stand for him-his
alter ego. A ridiculous side o. his can
di6acy is that in 1892 at Minneapolis,
only four short years ago, his lightning
Ict narrowly escaped being struck by
a White House bolt on a bi-metallic
p,G-ioum. RE was a candidate and he
c.as paced in nomination and was vOt-
ed fer This year he is ShylOck's Isaac
led 20 the slaughter on a mOnO-me,al-
lie pla form. His consistency 90 re-
minds me Of the lines Of the lameEted
Fled:
MAMA calls me Willie,
Sister calls me VIII,
Papa calls me William,
But tbs boys, they call me Bill"
Same boy all The way through. You
viii understand that this has no refer
cnce to Mckinley, merely a co-inci-
Gence.
As an Old Wheeling boy, 1 receive the
daily papers Of the place Of my birth.
/ am pleased to see the earnest battle
Your paper is making for the peoples
cause. May it continue in we,l-doing
and prosper.
Some men in this country have been
studying die great question for from 5
to % years, bo,h sides of it if you please
and we are convinced that ours. is the
side Of justice and humanity, and we be-
heve the great majority o. the Ameri-
can people believe as we do.
While we don't in the leas, mind be-
ing called cranks and fanatics for our
causes sake, yet when echoes like the
well-established and fully recognized
vacuum who is said to occupy the editO-
rial stool of your esteemed cOnsempo-
Tary, the sO-cal!ed, mis-callei lnteli-
gencer, apply such epiJhets, we say it
is going just q little too far in the line Of
legitimate argument We can only sa<
that we hope he has lucid intervals in
which he looks al Grover and shudders.
Such experiences are known to have
done great and lasting good where the
case is not hopeless.
In reading same articles which have
been copied from New York papers and
inserted under the head of editorials in
the Intelligencer, l am struck with the
force of the enclosed excerpt from the
New York journal:
when tine representatives OF the Eas-
tern Democracy begin their missionary
campaign at Chicago they will encoun-
ter conditions quite different from any
thal have fallen TO their lot at home.
All the training in the art of financial
controversy that they have received
from the press Of This vicinity will have
to be forgotten. IN Chicago our mis-
saClalies viii meet men who have stud
led every phase of the silver question
uRremit.ingly for 90 years. To con-
from. them with the Dueriliuies that pass
current fer argument where the senCi-
ment is al our way viii be simply to
invite their ridicUle."
The people want facts about money.
They should be taught that it is not
Difficult, 20 understand, and they should
be Taught to listen TO arguments on
boch sides OF the great questions, and
then they will do what reason dictates
and justice demands.
In closing | say, Hurrah for William
jennings Bryan and the cause he rep
rescnts. Very truly yours,
ALAN l. WARREN.
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