Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1896-05-07
Vcrmont's Services For Sound Money.

testimony to its marked signi-
ficance.
Vermont's Services For Sound Money. |
The far-reaching effects of Vcrmont's |
declaration for Mckinley for president OF
the United States have caused that action
of the Green Mountain republicans to
overshadow their unequivocal demand for
sound money as opposed to the free and
unlimited coinage of silver. Their ut
terance on the silver question Is, however,
worthy of particular note; for 1t was a At
ting complement to the first damaging
blow administered to the free coinage
cause by Senator Morrill,, chairman of
the Senate committee on finance. when
following tho rejection of the revenue
bill in that body he boldly declared In
effect that free siverites had no place
within the ranks of The republican party
The Importance of this States declaration
against free silver at this time Is thor
oughly appreciated in other States, how
ever, and 1t Is not without significance
that such an influential journal as the
New York Commercial Advertiser in
speaking of this subject should put Yer
mont first. 1t says.
Vermont republicans adopted an en-
phatic gold standard plank. The repub-
licans of the great State Of Illinois, which
have As votes In the national convention,
has taken the same stand. The republic
can party in every New England State ex-
cept New Hampshire has pronounced ex-
plicitly for gold The republicans of New
York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Mary
land Tennessee, Kentucky, Minnesota and
both the Dakotas have proclaimed their
adherence to sound money and their OPP
position to the free coinage OF silver in
the absence Of an international bimetal-
lie compact. 1t is evident that tho serti-
ment in the republican ranks for an hon
est and stable currency Is overwhelming.
There Is good reason to believe that the
money plank of the st. Louis platform
will measure up 10 the high level OF re-
publican conscience and craftsmanship
The republican party has continued to
| be the financial buwark OF the nation,
and the growth Of the sound money senti-
ment. even in the so-called silver States.
Is to be attributed largely to the bold stand
taken by the sound money republicans of
the East When a few silver republicans
in the United States Senate a few month.
ago notified the party that no important
!
claims of the white metal had been recog-
nized, the gauntlet thus thrown down was
boldly snatched up by Senator Morrill,
who said II was evident the United States
Senate was no longer controlled by repiib-
licans.
This in our estimation, was the turning
point of the silver struggle within the
ranks of the republican party. Senator
Carter and his fellow silver conspirators
protested against thus being summarlly
read out Of the republican party. but they
were met with no conciliatlng words from
tho father of the Senate or any other
sound money republican. From that point
on there was yawning chasm between
the great body of the republican party
and Its silver faction, and the gulf has
continued to widen until the infnitesima
silver contingent is veritably out OF sight
The republican silver senators who 6
comparatively short time ago were dog
gedy telling the great republican party
what it must do to be saved, are nov
eagerly trying to open negotiations to ge
back Into the fold on good standing and II
full connection. Senator Wolcott OF Col
orado. in his recent letter, reafnrmed hi
belief in free coinage, but he took particu
lar pains to declare that whatever Nigh
be the result at st. Louis he would remail
true to the republican party and IT'S candl
/, dates, inasmuch as he believed that it wa
only through our party that permanent
good could come to the country. Carte
and Mantle are quietly saving wood, an,
watching for an opportunity to slip int
their old seats in the republican councils
but the chances are they will ind thei
, positions fully and permanently occupied
Senator Dubois is now making a fight 70
his political existence in his own State
and he finds that even in Idaho the growt
of sound money sentiment has been s
, marked that he will experience great diff
, fculty in keeping his political bark ahoat
, According to the latest and best ad
: vices from the Northwest the free coin
age sentiment has been rapidly disap
pearing from the republican ranks in tina
section This was indicated by the actio
or the republicans of the two Dakota
and Oregon in declaring against fire
silver. 1t is now said that in Colorado
Montana and Washington, as we'll as /
with marked rapidity. This result is a
:, the more remarkable in view of the fac
, that year ago all Of these States wer
almost unanimous for free coinage wit
. out regard to party.
This was the condition of affairs In tina
- section when the republicans OF Vernon
s faced the duty of declaring their positio
on the silver question. It was know
y everywhere. of course, that the Gree
Mountain State was unalterably oppose
= to the free and unlimited coinage of slvt
- but in view Of the New Hampshire strat
"a die, 1t was not unnatural that SCUM
" money men outside of New England shoul
" fear an attempt to temporize with the 81
# yer question, The issue was oourageou
A. ly met, however, and Vermont's outspoke
# declaration for sound money followed /
II the republican verdict of Illinois in II
A same direction has done much to ensul
ID the adoption of an anti-free coinage plan
f. at st. Louis. The republicans unlike,the
r. democratic rivals, have settled this que
ton in their own ranks, and In tho con
e. ing campaign they will present sol
t, front against the advocates OF depreci
"a ted currency and a furnished nation
40 credit.
A canvass among the druggists of this pla,
~ reveals the fact that Chamberain's are u
. most popular proprietary medicines sol
Chamberlalns Cough Remedy, especially,
70 regarded as In the lead Of all throat troub