Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1897-02-27
A NEW SILVER PARTY
MEN WHO LEFT ST. LOUIS CONVEN-
TE0N ISSUE AN ADDRESS.

MEN WHO LEFT ST. LOUIS CONVEN
TE0N ISSUE AN ADDRESS.
Silver Republicans of Each State to
Name 81 Member of the Provi-
sionaI Committee.
I Washington, Feb. 23.-The following ad-
| dress was issued today by the silver SEN
ators and representatives as the result
OF a meeting held at Senator Teller $
house last night for the organiza ton of
! the silver republican party:
TO the Silver Republicans of the
/ United States: There could not be a bet
| ter illustration of the great law by which
IN tree governments the rise, progress
| and decline of parties are determined
i than that offered by recent and present
political developments in the United
| States. Political parties are practical in
/ slfuments for executing the will of the
/ people IN respect to principles and policies
| OF government. They therefore should
| represent and respond to public opinion
| IN IT'S attitude toward the problems
Whlcn the experience of the nation from
Tune to time brings forward for solution
IL Is not parties that make issues but it
is issues that make parties
FOR years events have been forcing
upon the country, with ever increasing
de1lhlteness and emphasis, the necessity
OF reform in our monetary system as re-
| spects both the coinage of metallic money
ana the regulation and control of credit
currency. Under stress of experience
,tfd consequent investigation, opinions
nave been gradually crystallizing. In this
process OF cleavage, little regard is paid
20 previously existing party demarca tions
ana To-Day the most careless observer can
not tail to see that the genius of the
nation is approaching a settlement of
thls nomentous controversy through the
agency OF political Instruments now be-
ing fashioned to it's hand
IN the history of these formative
events, the so-called silver republicans
nave taken an important part and dis
charged necessary function In doing
SO lheY have not surrendered their CON
Flctlohs on certain other great principles |
OF political economy and government. but |
they realized that those principles are not
capable OF successful application under
present monetary conditions.
''fhey believe therefore, that the ada
qEate treatment of all other issues must
await the correct decision of the dom
lllalt one, thus presented. In this spirit
they co-operated with the organized
iorces of bimetallism in the last cam
palSn. Every condition of patriotism and
eNpedlency seems to counsel a continua
ton of that policy.
Response to Inquiries,
Silver republicans believe themselves
10 o9 IN harmony with the original spirit
CT the Old republican party and they
ctalm a property in its great name, and
glorious traditions justified by the splen-
dld services and sanctified by the sacred
memories of the time when that partv
embodied the aspirations and spoke the
purposes OF the great masses of Ameri-
can people. That party was born in an
s"er to the cry for a champion of liberty.
early words We're words of comfort
ana assurance to the oppressed Its great
deeds by which it will hereafter live in
history, We're deeds of patriotism IFS
policies professed above all things to hold
dear the safety and welfare of the Amer
lean people as against the rest of the
world
''Fhe silver republicans can not forget
(hdf history. They can not today follow
i.ose who have usurped the dominion of
H.. party INTO shameless abandonment
o1 American interests and the tyranny
91 an alien monetary system. They be-
leVe that the duty of the hour demands
nat they maintain their identity and :
perfect their organization.
circumstances have sometimes in the
past thrust upon the undersigned resDon-
'lDll1tleS on behalf of silver republicans
which in the absence of formal organiza-
lon we have felt warranted in assuming t
Eecently, moreover, we have been re-
'elVlng vast number of anxious in
lullies from various parts of the country l
upon the question of party policy and re- i
lueStn2 US to give some definite direc-
ion thereto. :
These communications exhibit a sur
)rising and gratifying unanimity on the i
and plan.
''l{esponding to these earnest s1sees- t
ions and at the same time expressing our q
'Wn deliberate opinion, we urge upon sill '
7er republicans of the United States and j
lpon all citizens of whatsoever previous I
}arty ASSOCIATION who are willing to CO. t
operate with us in political action until i
he great monetary issue is settled and
ettled right, that immediate steps be +
aiken to perfect organizations in the var V
Gus states and territories to the end that e
hereafter national convention may be c
leld for the purpose of making authors 1
atlNe announcement to the country and t
'erfectinS national organization AS
Don as possible each Of the states and I
should designate a member of
he provisional committee of the silver :
epublican party which committee will
ave charge of the calling of the nation L
! convention and of all matters prelim-
nary thereto. In the meantime we have
AIKEN the liberty of naming Hon Charles
\. Towne of Minnesota chairman of said p
PROVISIONAL national committee. whose /;
ficial address for the present will be 0
he city Of Washington. and to whom f
II communications should be sent o
The provisional national committee is Y
ereby called to meet in executive session S
the city of Chicago a a place to be r
easonably announced by the chairman t
n Tuesday, the Sth day of June 1897. I
Signed at the city of Washington this t
ID day of February, 1897, the anniversary T
f the birth of the first American C
whose life was sublime example of pa e
rotism and whose precept placing duty $
o country above and beyond all party 2
litigation, is a deathess watchword of r
Oitical liberty. t.
H. NJ. TELLER +