Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1897-05-15
THE DOMINANT ISSUE
SILVER REPUBLICANS MAKE
THEIR PURPOSE CLEAR.
They Will Continue TO Cooperate with
the Organized Forces of BIN etailism
Their Energies to BE Devoted to
the Remonctization of Silver.
For oliver First and Last.

For oliver first and Last.
If the address of Senator Teller and
the other bimetallic seceders from the
present Republican organization sent
out to the country on Washington's
birthday can be taken as an index, the
future course of the silver Republicans
IS not difficult to guess, says the Kan
sas City Times. They will organize a
provisional national committee by
sending delegates to Chicago from
every State and Territory in June. This
body will provide for the calling of n
national convention of the silver party
at some time in the future which shall
define the measures by which the
voters who look upon the remOnetiZa-
ton of silver as the paramount issue
before the country. and who are not
active members of other organizations,
shall be guided.
The silver leaders make it plain that
there is to be no formal amalgamation
with either the Democratic or the Pop
ulist party, for the present at least.
1t is their expressed intention that a
separate organization should be main
tanned. They make it equally plain
that those Republicans who believe
that bimetallism is the paramount is
sue will not be called upon to surrender
their convictions on certain other ten
cts of Governmental policy and polit-
cal economy, but will only be asked to
keep them in allegiance. This is clear
~ set forth in the language of the adj
dress. where it says: They realize
that those principles are not capable
of successful application under present
monetary conditions. They believe
therefore that the adequate treatment
of all other issues must await the cor
rect decision of the dominant one thus
presented. In this spirit they co-ope-
rated with the organized forces of BIZ
metallSm in the last campaign. Every
condition of patriotism and eXpediency
seems to counsel continuation Of that
policy"
This declaration. embodyin% the fu
ture course of the Republican wing of
the bimctallic forces. is unequvOcal.
No minor issue is to be permitted to
distract and divide them in their allie
glance to silver recommendations They
will keep this as the central and CO.
hesive idea of their future course. In
the future, as in the past, they will re-
main united and organized, ready when
the time comes to give solid adhesion
and support to whatsoever party or
combination of parties offers the best
opportunity to emancipate silver from
It's long continued state Of vassalage
TO gold.
The address of Senator Teller and his
associates will do much good in solid
flying the interests of all favoring ele-
ments in the great army of bimetal-
lists. With many causes of friction,
with scant funds for campaign pur-
poses, with the allied forces of greed,
corruption and fraud against them, the
bimetallc forces in few months CO.
alesced and fought the grandest battle
of ballots the country has ever wit
messed.
In that contest more than 100000
American voters registered their dis
approval of the European monetary
policy under which the toilers, the
farmers and the business classes have
been made to taste poverty and hard
ship so long. What may not these al
ready equipped, informed and deter
mined millions accomplish with four
years in which to strengthen their or
ganization and with the object lessons
furnished by the mistakes. the misrule,
the public pllage, the class favoritism
of the Mckinley administration to
swell their enlistment and do effective
recruiting service for them?