River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1896-07-02
BOIES TO WHITNEY.
Declares Party Disruption Preferable to
Adourion of ssoIi Standard

Adoption of Gold Standard.
Waterloo, la, June 30.-Ex-Gov. Bolcs
returned Monday afternoon from his
Grundy county farm where he went inn
mediatsly on bis return from Illinois,
When asked if he intended going TO Chi
cago soon. he replied that he had not de-
termined whether he would attend the
convention or not.
During Gov. Boies' absence in Grundy
county the interview with Whitney was
published and on his return his atten-
ton was called 10 telegram from the
New York Herald asking his opinion in
regard TO the assertions made in it. lie
wired his reply Monday night as fol-
lows:
Mr.. Whitney is entirely right m his con
clusfon that there Is no disposition on the
part of those who win represent the silver
sentiment OF the south and west I'm the
Chicago convention to further discuss the
matter at issue with men whose views are
Numerically opposed to their own on the
Ia his conclusion that IL is now too late to
accomplish any practical results by dis
cussion of that character. Throughout the
south and west that discussion has been
extended and thorough. and the Views ex-
pressed by Mr.. Whitney have been put
forward by many men who entertain them.
and they have been fully considered and
weighed. and. after all of this. the judg-
ment of an overwhelming majority of the
party in these sections is evidenced by
the class of delegates who have been chosen
TO represent II In the Chicago convention
Not one of these men can now disregard
the known sentiment of those who Sc
lected him without betraying the trust
conflded to him. and not one Of them.
In my judgment. will ever do so.
Mr. Whitney Is entirely wrong I'm as
Stunning that free silver democrats are for
saking the fundamental principles of de-
mocracy, or that what he terms sound
money democrats are defending these prin-
ciples In their endeavor to commit their
party to gold recommendation. Until the
republican party met in ST. Louis a few
days since there was never a line written
IA a national platform of either the great
parties that justifies the claim thai tn
one or the other Of these parties COM
mitted to that doctrine over and over
again the democratic parry In national
convention assembled has put itself on rec
ord In the ciearest anu most comprehensive
language possible 20 use in favor OF bimet-
talism, IL favor OF the restoration Of sill
yer to its place IN our financial system as
standard money. and never for a moment
in the congress of the United States has
a majority. or anything like majority, Of
the representatives of that party wave =.
I'm its devotion TO the principle so clearly
enunciated In the party platforms. To
assume now tAaC adherence 10 mat pfln-
ciple is abandonment of an established doc
trine of thai party is to defy history and
ignore the most plainly written of all its
declarations Of policy.
1T Is useless to claim that tender of the
good offices Of the party TO secure an inter-
national agreement for The free coinage of
silver is the fulfiIlment of it's pledges so
often made in this respect To the sin
cere believer in bimetallism of the United
States effort of this character is little,
latN ra.x1..
ton of "a sacred pledge by a great polit-
ical organization. If this is all that Mr..
Whitney and those who think with him
can offer IL will be vastly better that they
offer nothing.
when Mr.. whitney says that the mainte-
nance of our present gold standard Is essen
tial to the preservation of our national
credit and redemption of our public pledges
he Ignores a great truth of which he can
not be ignorant. He knows there is not
a single obligation of this nation outstanc-
ing to-day that by its terms is payable I'm
gold alone, and ne knows that right upon the
face of the great bulk of the bonds of the
government 1t is written In substance that
they are payable I'm coin of the United
States of the standard weight and fine
ness of its coins before silver was demone-
tized, and that, therefore, by their own ex-
press terms they are payable in our pres
ent silver dollars. If the government elects
to SO pay them.
were issued that silver has been demone-
tized. whereby IL they are to be paid In
gold alone. their value has been doubled.
and the burden of the great Industrial
class. who must provide for their pay
ment, has been increased twofold. To
talk about a violation of national honor,
when no party in the nation has ever sug-
gested its failure In the least degree to
meet every obligation II has assumed.
according to the strict letter of the con-
tract it made, has. to say the least,
strange sound to those who heed the uni
versai cry of distress. occasioned, as
they believe, by doubling the purchasing
power of money and cutting in twain the
market price of the products of labor.
"If to undo what law has done TO add to
the burdens of the toiling millions of This
nation end double the fortunes of the
rich within IT Is to disrupt the democratic
party, disruption must come. The ma
jority of that party threatens no wrong to
anyone, and if those who compose that
majority can avoid it. all may be assured
they will submit TO no wrong. such as the
permanent establishment of a single gold
standard would impose upon the great
mass of the people of this nation.
HORACE BOIES."