Birmingham state herald., 1896-07-21
FROM CREST IF THE ROCKIES Floats the Brave Banner Written
 Upon at Chicago. PLANTED BY STURDY HANDS Once Raised in EnmtY but Now Extended in
 Gracious Amlty. A MANIFESTO TO THE "C0MMON MASSES" Senator Teller and Associates Make Most Forceful Appeal for the Fighting of
 Wrongs of the Silver Queen
 and Her People.
PLANTED BY STURDY HANDS
A MANIFESTO TO THE "coMMoN mAssEs'


 Mantou Col, July 20-The committee of bolting republicans, who have been in session here for several days, late this afternoon made public the following manifesto
 "We deem it fitting that we who have heretofore affiliated with the national re- publican party and who have rejected the financial plank adopted at St. Louis and refused to support the nominees of the convention should state our posi- tion in the presidential campaign and give briefly our reasons in support there of
 When certain delegates to the na- tional republican convention repudiated the financial plank of the platform and withdrew from the convention we de- manded that we would give our support to such candidates as should appear most willing and capable of aiding in the res- toration of silver to its rightful place as standard money.
 "The democratic party has. at it's Chi cago convention, taken position in its platform so pronouncedly favorable to silver and has nominated candidates of such unquestlonable convictions in fa- vor of the bimetallic policy and of such high personal character that we have de- termned to give them our support. We support such candidates because they represent the great principles of bimetal- lism, which we believe to be the cause of humanity, of civilization, and the para mount question now before the American people.
 We therefore announce that we shall in voice and vote support Bryan and Se- wall for president and vice president, and we appeal to all citizens, and especially republicans, who feel as we do, that gold monometallism would be of lasting in- jury to the country to act with us in
 Securing Their Election.
 '"The democrats who believe in the gold standard are announcing their intention to support MT. Mckinley or proposing to put a third candidate in the field for the avowed purpose of aiding MT. McKin- leys election. A great number of lead ing and influential democratic journals have declared they will support the re- publican nominees. It is evident there is to be union of forces of the advocates and supporters of the gold standard to elect MT. Mckinley and congress favor able to him, which will support the finan- cial policy outlined in the republican platform.
 'To those who believe in bimetallism, which means the equal treatment of both gold and silver at the hints of the nation, there is but one course to pursue and that is to unite all the silver forces and to oppose with all our might the can didate representing the policy which we believe is fraught with disaster to the nation and ruin to the people. Gold monometallism means the shifting to gold alone as primary money all the bur dens of commerce and credit formerly borne by gold and silver, and as the worlds stock of these metals has always been about equal in amount, it means the doubling of the burden upon gold.
 Doubling the Burden
 upon gold means doubling the demand for the same, and doubling the demand of necessity doubles the value thereof. This gradual shifting to gold of all the burdens of both gold and silver has caused gradual and steady increase in the value of every dollar redeemable in gold, and hence gradual and steady decline in the value of every commodity that is measured by that dollar.
 sThe representatives and supporters ? of Mir Mckinley consented to the inser- -ton in the St. Louis platform of the gold standard declaration thinly veneered by a declaration for bimetallism when the leading nations of the world should con sent but until that consent was seeur- ed the gold standard must be maintained. It is well known that this consent can not be secured from Great Britain, and that such a declaration for bimetallism means nothing with this limitation upon it. MT. Mckinley consented to the decla- ration for the gold standard in the plat form, and in his recent speeches has ac- cepted 1t and has become the advocate thereof He has shown by his speeches heretofore made that he understood the danger of the gold standard and the dis tress which would be inflicted upon the American people by it's adoption, and yet he pledges the people to support and maintain that system and fasten upon them all the evils of the financial system, which he has heretofore repudiated, if they will make him president. Whatev- CT may have been his attitude on the money question in the past, he must in evitably hereafter support the same financial system that the present demo- cratic administration has, and if elected must continue the policy of MT. Cleve- land in the sale of bonds in time of peace. Hence with the success of MT. Mckinley, we may look for a continued increase of the public debt and the sale of bonds
 To Maintain the Gold Standard.
 "That the condition of the country is not satisfactory, all admit. The pro duceTs of wealth are not receiving fair and proper compensation for their labor, whether in field. factory or mine; enter prise has ceased. values are constantly declining, labor is unemployed, diseon- tent and distress prevail to an extent never before known In the history of the country, and no reason can be found for such an unhappy condition save in vicious monetary system Those who profess to dep1ore the present financial condition and oppose the free coinage of silver are divided in opinion as to the cause of the present condition. Some de- clare that 1t is because we have too much tariff, others that we have not enough, while the fact exists that every gold standard country in the world, whether 1t has high or low tariff, is now and has been during recent years in the throes of a financial panic, and every silver stand and country. compared with It's former condition, is enjoying an industrial de- velopment and degree of prosperity hftE- srto unknown in It's history. While thus