The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-06-25
APPEAL. FOR SILVER.
Twenty-six Delegates to the Repubi'enn Convention Issue an Appeal to the Coua.

Twenty.six Delegates to the Repubi'eas
 Convention Issue an Appeal to the Coua-
 try.
 ST. LOUIS, June 2O-The silve- men had a conference yesterday and issued the subjoined address which was signed by % delegates to the national republican convention:
 To the People of the United States: Obey- ing the call of duty and justified by the cons mon citizenship of this republic we address | this communication to the people and the l forthcoming conventions of tn. United States In doing so we claim no authority or right | other than that which belongs to every man to | express personal convictions: but we respect fully solicit the cooperation Of all who believe | that the time has come fo- a return to the | simpler and more direct methods of naming men for national service than has obtained in | recent years.
 l Recognizing the value and the splendid achievements Of political parties in this 1 country. as elsewhere, we are yet constrained | to believe that for more than 2Oyears no one or them has been entirely sufficient for the needs of l people The great trend to better things rest l ing in the heart ami the purpose of all men, | has been stayed during the latter part of this | generation by the failure of parties to express | in their achievements the highest hope and aspiration of the mass of the people who con. | titute the pirties. And there has been grow | ing in this counIry-swelling with each recur- | renee of the national election-a great mass of independent thinkers and voters. which, fail- ing in itself to control, has gravitated between | the two parties.
 What has been the cause of this mighty l oscillation of q mass which this year has | probably obtained controlling proportions: | Every man can answer to himself. If he has been an observer, if he has had inter- | ests that were affected: if he has felt a | hope to see greater justice done and has | seen that hope blasted: if he knows that the general dissatisfaction has arisen from the fact that the party promises made were broken to the people by party performance, he l knows that soon as the election was over and successful candidates installed they became l the servitors of the party and the advocates of narrow and non-progressive policy within | which alone there seemed to be an assurance | of selfish safety and partisan approval.
 | We hold that in the great work of social evo- lution in this country monetary reform stands l as the first requisite. No policy, however l promising of good results, can take its place. Continuation during the next four years upon l the present financial system will bring down | upon the American people that cloud Of lm- pending evil. to avert which should be the first thought of statesmen and the first prayer of pa- l triots Our very institutions are at stake To-day. with a rapidly increasing population. with widely swelling demands, the basis of our | money is relatively contracting and the people are passing into servitude all the more | dangerous because it is not physically ap- | parent. The nation itself, as to other na- | tions, is losing the sturdy courage which could make it defiant in the face Of iajus- tice and internal wrong. From the farmer l and the tradesman to the government there Is apparent the same shrinkage from giv- | ing ofiense. lest the vengeance of some of- tended financial power should descend. The business man submits some portion of his judgment and his will, and the nation submits | some portion of itA international right, lest | some mighty foreign creditor shall make de- | structive demands. Where will all this end if the people shall decline to assert them- selves? Where will it end if the older parties in their determination to maintain themselves | in power for powers sake alone shall refuse to | recognize the right and the hope of humanity! This country cannot much longer exist free and independent against all the rest of the world, nor can it's people much longer be free in the noblest sense of the term if the United States. a debtor nation, shall follow a policy dictated by creditor nations. We produce all the necessaries oi life. Other nations con sume our products. In the race for existence it is Q constant struggle between producer and con- sumer. Our present system of money deliberately submits to the desire and the
 
 mass and as individuals. prey to money gath ering and the deadly cheapening Of the old world.
 The only remedy is to stop falling prices, the deadlest curse of national life Prices will never cease falling under the single gold standard The restoration Of bmetallism by this country wi.l double the basis of our money system in time it will double the stock of primary money Of the world-will stop falling prices and steadily elevate them until they will regain their normal relation to the volume of debts and credits in the world. Bimetallism will help to bring about the great hope of every social reformer, every believer in the advancement of the race who realizes that the instability of prices has been the deadly foe of our toilers and the servant of the foreign interest gatherer. Bimetallism will held to bring the time when certain ex- penditure of human toll will procure q certain financial result
 Who among the great masses of our people in the United States, but feels that his lot would be better, his aspiration take new wings iflhe could know in the performance of his la- DOT what would be the price Of his product? 1t is in the hope that the masses and the re- maining conventions will have the courage and the generosity to unite for this purpose that we have dared to offer our views to the people of the United States. and because in the past there has lacked rallying point for tue mdSScS WuO HOlu us Wt uO lO tHlS Dtllel, We venture to act, trusting that it will be rec celved in the same spirit of conciliation, con- cession and hope with which we put it forth.
 With this in view. we offer to the torthcom- ing conventions and to the people the name of man for the presidency of the United States whose life in public and in private represents those distinguished virtues which adorned the days and the deeds of the earlier time of this republic, a return to which virtues is requisite for the prosperity and contentment of the peo- pie and the perpetuity and commanding ex- ample of free institutions. That name is Henry M. Teller, man Of the people and for the people He is of no section. His experience hnd service his devotion to the common justice and the common cause of his fellow citizens has been as wide as the coun- try. We believe that the people of the United States have him in their hearts as he has had their interests in bis purpose through all the work of an exalted life. It is not merely as the exponent of monetary reform that we pre- sent this man to the people. It is true that he has waged & mighty war for the restoration of the money of the constitution, and his name