Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-06-26
Washlngtun Standard
OIAMpIt. i.Is.
IElDAI EVENING. !INE g. 1885,
Whitney s Manifesto.

Whitney's Manifesto
Whitney. like Cleveland, has seen
1T TO Issue manifesto, addressed 10
the democracy, favoling the gold
standard, in winch, while he admits
the ,lc>irability ii iimeia.I>m, asserts
the hclrlrs>nc>s ri securing it with.
"ut the Cooperation uf other leading
nations. Without this aid, Mr.. Whit
ney sees nothing III reconciliation OF
silver but further depression and dis.
aster, but this condition he thinks will
be happily averted by the utter rout
OF the Democratic party and its candi-
dates hy the Republicans with theil
gold platform. - pronounced is the
ex-Secretary in his admiration OF this
now distinctively Republican plank
that the Chairman OF the Republican
State Committee of New York, and OF
the Chairman OF the Republican Com
mittee OF Kings county, congratulate
him hy letter because he is good
Republican"
The disingenuousness Of the Whit.
ney letter is manifest in the effort to
make silver men believe that an inter
national agreement as to ratio and
coinage is imminent. He asserts tina,
At the present moment Germany
France, Italy, Austria, Holland and
Belgium wish 10 join with the United
States in the establishment of a bi.
metallic standard" He even goes SC
far as to state that England has
within the past three months, made q
most important concession and said
We will do for you as much as you
can do for yourself. We will make
this contribution to a great bimetal.
lie system. We will 60 back upon GU,
deliberately arranged methods of pro-
viding a currency for India. We will
open the India minis. We will agree
that they shall be kept open, and We
will provide for free coinage of silver
within the limits of the British en-
pire, for population greater than the
populations of Germany, France anG
America put together"
When and where Mr.. Whitney ha,
obtained this important information
he does not state, but it looks very
much as if it had been made to order
1t looks just as if it was made for us.
at Chicago where platform thinkers will
endeavor to pervert and misdirect tn,
overwhelming sentiment of the peopl,
on the matter of the national cur
rency. 1t seems as if those who hay,
hitherto stood in high places are a.
susceptible to the strings that center
in Wall street, as the ward politician
who labors for pittance instead of .
"pointer" and the privilege of operat
ing from behind the grilled doors.
Mr.. Whitney says that he has nj
personal motive in entering the fight
that he is "not foolish enough to be
lieve that any Eastern man can b,
nominated" and "much less that
[he] could" If that be true, it is en-
tirely owing to existing conditions ant
his relation towards them. Can it b,
possible that We must reverse the ak
ION that has hitherto constituted thu
boast of Democratic incentive Vo1
Populi, vor Dei"s Have the Demo
cratic leaders grown to be such giant
intellectually, that the masses mus
await for the utterances of these ora
cles before they enter their primaries
and reverse their action if perchanc'
they may have elected their nationa
convention before the golden words O
promise have fallen from the lips o
the wise men in the East?
1t must be admitted that this is no
an age of exalted craftsmanship, an,
in the absence Of competent leader
ship the people have assumed tn
mastery to re.establish policy tina
was a cardinal Democratic tenet from
the foundation Of the government un
til the election OF Grover Cleveland il
1884.