Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-04-30

Mr. Cleveland's claims as to Republican
promises to take prompt aud efficient ac-
tion on the finances are not founded on
fact. The Republican platform declared
unreservedly for sound money, and oppo-
sition to free coinage, except by interna-
tional agreement, which the party has
pledged to promote. Commissioners al
ready appointed will fulfill the party's
pledge in this direction. To maintain the
gold standard until international bimetal-
lism is secured, and to keep all our money
at par with gold, no legislation has been
found necessary, and, with the sufficient
revenue which the new tariff bill promises
none will be required,
Chairman DingIey's Answer.
Chairman Dingley, of the ways and
means committee, answers Mr.. Cleveland 8
remarks in the following succinct manner:
"Nothng could be clearer than that the
pledges of the party made its first duty to
provide sufficient revenue to carry on the
government without borrowing in time of
peace, and in the adjustment of duties on
imports to that end to encourage industries
in the United States stricken by unfair
competition. As to the responsibility
which rests upon the party to preserve a
sound currency, rest assured that there
will be no failure. Indeed, the triumph
of the party in November last was an as
surance which has been accepted by the
commercial world that a sound currency
would be preserved. There is undoubtedly
need at the earliest possible date of some
legislation to improve our currency sys-
TEN, but no one knows better than the
gentlemen who are criticising the Repub-
lcan party that if such legislation should
be taken up today in the present condition
of the Senate no favorable results could be
obtained, and the agitation which would
arise from a long and fruitless debate in
the Senate would exert an injurious influ-
ence on the business of the country and
would endanger the success of legislation
| to provide revenue TO carry on the govern
ment'
Bryan Defies the True Democracy"
Mr.. Bryan also has something to say to
Mr.. Cleveland. He tells truth or two
about the Republican position on the tar
iff, and defies the Democratic boilers head
ed by Cleveland
Probably the most unexpected thing in
the address was his reference to the Re-
publican administration. He accuses the
Republicans of returning in hot haste to
their wallowng in the mire of extreme
protection. This is an unfair criticism,
because the Republicans have never shown
any disposition to abandon extreme pro-
lection. Mr.. Mckinley won political fame
as the apostle of a high tariff, and during
the late campaign reiterated his devotion
to this policy. Those Democrats who voted
| Tr al ipla with hair
open to tariff possibilities. The import
ant part of Mr.. Cleveand's address, how
ever, is found in his declaration of war
against those who supported the Chicago
ticket. In this he has given more aid to
his opponents than TO his supporters, just
as he did by official acts. His surrender of
the executive branch of the government
into the hands of the Wall street financiers,
during his last administration, did more
than anything else to arouse the American
people to a knowledge of the iniquity of
the gold standard. His thinly disguised
support of the Republican ticket in the
late campaign did more to drive the silver
Republicans out of the Republican party;
and their loyalty to bimetallsm has not
been shaken by defeat. In his address
Saturday night he aided the silver cause
still further by removing whatever danger
IneFe mlSnJ nave Deen OF concessions from
the regular Democrats to the boilers. The
Democratic party will in 1900 reiterate its
demand for free and unlimited coinage at
16 to l, and it will be opposed by those
who at that time believe in gold stand
ard"
The whole world knew where the Re-
publican party stood in regard to the tariff.
Its platform declared 1--WE renew and
emphasize our allegiance to the policy of
protection as the bulwark of American in
dustrial independence and the foundation
of American development and prosperity"