Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-09-16
ADDRESS 10 OHIO VOTERS.

lIUDluUU III UsnU sBUILtlUs
By the Silver Republican Party Exc
CutlFes,
Ringing Appeal to Those WHO
Claim Free dom From the AIachl-
nations of the Hanna Machine,
and Who Beaisve in Perpetuati1g
the System Of Finance Upcn
Which the C:ountry's Welfare Is
Founded = sona sound Argu-
ments.
Columbus, O., september 15.-Ion.
George D. Jones. Chairman, and Dr..
Aaner L. Davis, Secretary Of the sill
yer Republican State Committee, have
: issued the following eloquent ard ring
ing addsess to- the people Of Ohio, and
especially to those Republicans who
are besitatlng whether to follow Hanna
and his DO odle train ana mercenary
standard, or \ally themselves with the
people in the. line of their old-time
principles:
AN ADDRESS.
To the People Of Ohio:
The Silver Republicans OF Ohio not
having met in convention for che pur-
pose of drafting a platform OF priacl-
pies. and not havin g nominated. candi-
dates for Office at tive coming election;
and having by its SKATE Central Com
mittee formally resolv wed to lend its as
sistance to the election Of the nominees
Of the Democratic party for the State
and legislative tickets, we regard it as
fitting and proper that we should, by
public declaration, place ourselves
fairly and canaidly before the people,
to the end that our course and con-
duct may not be nl5sglnderstood or mis-
construed, as it is possible might be
done by a course, on our part, less frank
open and direct. We therefore submit
as the grounds for our action individ-
ually and as an organization hitherto,
and in the future the following simple,
unequivocal propositions:
/. 1t is the duty Of every citizen to
interest and inform himself touching
those vital questions arising constant
ly in the politics Of the State and ma
ton, by a close and earnest study Of
them, so that he may be able to pro-
coed
INTELLIGENTLY AND PATRIOT
CALLY
in his thought and actions upon those
questions; and it is further the duty
of every citizen to either join himself
in such relation to such party els to
make his sovereign power felt " the
political affairs Of the country.
2. The Silver Republicans Of Ohio,
feel that the great party Of Sumner,
Lincoln, Wade and steyens-and later
Of the beloved Blaine, not forgetting
many others who were statesmen-has
departed from its original as well as
its subsequent faith and declarations.
8. Prior to 1873 the Republican parry,
a firm adherent Of the principles cf
independent bimetallisnl, all its recent
declarations and actions looking in the
direction of bimetalliszn, are a delus-
ion and a snare. Therefore, we cannot
longer sustain it.
A. Notwithstanding the secret infu-
ences at work for gold recommendation
under the guise Of Democracy. and
considering the heroic and patriotic
declarations Of the Democratic Nation
al platform of 1896, respecting the mon
ey questionable second great Amerl-
can Declaration Of Tndependence-we
deem it our bounden duty to lend our
efforts to the advancement OF the cause
of the legal restoration Of silver.
Our constitution and all the laws
of Congress enacted in pursuance there
of prior to 1873 recognized independent
bimetallism as one OF the essential
principles of our government.
Silver being in 1878 practically at o
par with gold, and the two thus work
ing Jointly in sustaining our govern
ment paper issue, and creating no dis
turbance in our finance, nor in domes-
tic nor foreign commerce, nc reason ex-
listed for the decentralization Of silver,
and we regard the act of Congress Of
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