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CBANDLERSWARNING
aPRopos OF THE SILVER STU
ALTON. ,
He says the hs7ablic.a Party WIN Be De-
feassd &C the Nsxt Election IL it Dc
ei.res for Gold = wants Pressure
brought 70 Bear on England

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Denver, Nov. ia special IRON
Boston to the Republican says:
Senator william Z. Chandler OF New
Hampshire b out with another open
letter on silver and the elections. IL
has made n profound sensation here
In the East. He says In part:
'As to the elections, they prove Win
reasonable clearness that IL the RepuO-
llcan party poIntedly acquiesces In the
existing gold standard and gives mp
the struggle for bimetalllsm. that party
win be defeated In the congressional
elections OF 1898 and In the presiden-
tial election OF 1900. The silver mono
metalllsts will then take possession OF
al branches OF the national govern
ment and n free coinage bill, with sill
yer made legal tender for all debts,
public and private, domestic and for
eign, will pass both houses OF Con-
gress and be signed by President
Bryan.
There may be infatuated individu-
ais who think. In view OF the elections
OF last Tuesday In Iowa. Ohio. Ken
lucky and Nebraska. that western Re
publican states can be kept in line II
future party platforms shall complete
ly yield TO gold and give up the effort
TO remonetize silver. but the wiser and
safer view Is to assume that with the
issue so framed the Republicans will
meet with overwhelming political dis
aster. inflicted by a Solid South and a
West almost solid, aided by Tammany
Hall and the free silver Democrats OF
the Empire state. This comes very
near being n couHtry OF free voters,
and our elections come very near
being honest transactions. and an
intelligent people. with their votes
freely cast and honestly counted. will
never adopt or submit to the perma-
nent decentralization Of silver and the
fixed ascendency of the single gold
standard, prescribed by England.
so the pathway Of safety is only one
direction. Mr.. Mckinley was elected
only because his platform and his pre-
vious- utterances promised efforts to
secure himetallism. We lost the
United States Senate because these
promises were not sufficiently in earn
est and were distrusted by many Re
publican voters. We did not promise
TO establish bimetallism IL We could,
believing IL to be a bad thing. but be-
cause we believed il TO be a good thing.
III We now faithlessly abandon the pur-
suit OF that good thing. we doom our
selves to political humiliation. So
there Is no course open 10 US but TO
bring together the independent ma
lions OF the Eastern hemisphere and to
unite them in one grand and irresIst-
ible demand for the money of the
ages-God's money. as Secretary Sher-
man EXCEPTIONALLY and reverenily called
it. silver and gold Joined together at a
fixed ratio as the basis OF all paper
money and credits and as the worlds
values.
But the recent English refusal to
agree to help bimetallism by promising
TO reopen the India minis will be re-
ferred to as proving that an interna-
tional agreement is an impossibility.
Even a British ministry has been
known to change it's mind.
The bimetallists Of the world are
aroused. Many debtor nations OF the
world cannot pay Great Britain what
they owe her. interest and principal,
in gold. II viii be the part OF wisdom
for the empire to aid in remonetizing
silver. The people OF the whole West
ern hemisphere by immense majorities
are In favor Of the reconciliation OF
silver. They need only to be aroused
and organized by the powerful infiu-
ence OF these United States. A Pan
American remonetization congress
may be held and a united request OF
all the governments OF North and
South America may be presented to the
EuroDean powers II will be heede(f
by China and Representatives OF India
viii join in the request. II viii be
needed even by England. For myself.
I desire to be guided by the counsels
OF Senator Wolcott."