The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1897-12-09
ARE CALLED TO ACTION.

CHAIRMAN ToWmE' s RINGING ADbaE IS
TO THE SILVER REPUBLICANS
Of THE COUNTRY.
The Int IN Ationsi BIN ssausc Farce End
edit Ii Fight Between the Dissrxa.-
lied Pc ,pie and ths orEanixed Honey
Power.
The following is the address issued
to Republicans by ex Congressman
Towne:
DULUTH, MINI, Nov. 10.
Chairman Charles A. Towne, of
the National Committee of the silver
Republican party, tonight issued
the following address:
ITO the Silver Republicans of the
United States.
The crisis long expected is at hand.
The policy We denounced when we
proclaimed that q conspiracy had
been formed to capture the Republi-
can party in the interest of the gold
standard is near Its consummation
The Wolcott Commission has confes-
sedly failed in Its negotiations for
an international agreement for the
establishment Of bimetallism. That
failure, foreseen by those who draft
ed the cunning financial plank in the
st. Louis platform and forced its
adoption, is now used as, from the
first, it has been intended to
be used as the preliminary to the
defnite establishment of the gold
standard in the United States.
They knew perfectly we'll that plain
and honest pronouncement for the
gold standard in that platform would
mean it's DISASTROUS defeat at the polls.
They inserted weak and inconsis-
tent promise to promote an inter
national agreement for the purpose
of holding the allegiance of millions
of Republican voters who were for
bimetallism, while at the same time
it was sought to bind them perma-
nently to the gold standard, through
a firm and unambiguous declaration
that, if the agreement could not be
secured, that standard must De pre-
served
THE wretched farce has been
played through the humiliating ap-
peal to the gold powers of Europe
that we graciously be permitted to
be relieved by them from a monetary
seryi:ude that is wrecking our pro-
ducers and destroying our national
independence. We have been spurn-
ed before the eyes of the world. The
alternative so artfully provided is
now invoked. The supporters of the
British money system now claim
warrant for their whole nefarious
programme in the alleged endorse
ment of that declaration by the Re-
publican voters of 1896. Steps are
therefore being rapidly taken to put
the plan in operation. The Presi
dent by special message to Congress
endorses the scheme of the Indian.
!, apolis Convention of Sound money
advocates which was declared by
, them to rest upon three fundamen
tai and essential features:
|. The permanent establishment
Of the gold standard.
2. The retirement of the green
.. hacks and all other government notes
3. The institution of q huge banl
system of power to issue and contro
! the paper money of the country.
The gold standard press has take1
the cue and from one boundary O
the nation to the other is proclaim
ing the failure of international bi
: meta llism and the conse quent neces
sity of a comprehensive readjust
ment of our currency system upor
[ the gold basis. Finally, the nationa
sound money league in its semi-an
5 nual meeting in New York yesterday
! puts the stamp of infallibility upol
the same conclusion in the followin}
. . language:
''The situation demands definite
q clean and unequivocal declaration
that international bimetalllsm is
Z dream of the past. The United State
must proclaim their acceptance o
the world fact, and plant themselve
3 finally upon the single gold stand
s ard
"Silver Republicans of the country
the crisis demands your most enc!
= getic and consecrated efforts. 1
the glorious campaign Of 1896 an
!: again in the recent elections, 20
: nobly proved your patriotism an
u indicated your title to the gratefr
remembrance of succeeding genera
L tions. In this supreme junctur
= your duties are heavier and you
;, opportunities greater than those {
q any other citizen of the republic.
o is yours to hold together in commo
, fidelity the cooperating elements {
! reform. 1t is yours especially
> persuade deceived and betrayed r,
!; publicans that to vote against the
u betrayers is their highest duty. If tt
:. degeneration of country and enslav
~ ment of its producers are to be aver
. ed; if to ourselves and posterity Il
5 blessings of liberty are to be pr
" served; if the final industrial an
3 material regeneration of the race
y to remain a serene and reasonab
X hope, there must come enlightenmel
81 and enfranchisement to hundreds
thousands of those yet blinded
10 partisan prejudice and in the bon
age to partisan custom. You, mo
~ readily than the members of Il
70 other great allied forces, may OPT
o. their eyes to the truth and arou
II their patriotism to action. Let US
af thankful that at length the battle
to be fought in the open, that o
u after another all subterfuges ha
O. fallen, that at last we shall be al
10 to challenge the gold standard Al
o its associated wrongs and abuses
meet US in the open forum of t
common sense, the justice and t
patriotism of the American peop
srs They cannot remain blind to t
: clear and now confessed designs
Ct those who have trafficked in tn
s. confidence. They cannot contin