The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1897-09-24
SEPTEMBER "a, 1897
TRUE TO HIS PARTY.

dorsed the national Republican plat
form, and in dozens of speeches
made during the last campaign he so
stated, the Oregonian of Thursday
says:
There is but a word to say here |
MIR. Mitchell has always spoken in
the senate and voted in the senate
for free coinage of silver. MIR. |
Ellis has done the same thing in the |
house. Both Mr.. Ellis and Mr.. |
Mitchell spoke for it and voted for
it in congress, on every possible oc- |
casion. down to the adoption of the |
Republican national platform of 1896
and, though both professed to ''acQui-
esce in the demands of their party"
and both supported Mckinley, both
have to this hour distinctly avoided
any declaration upon which they
could be held, that they would not
or will not speak and vote for free
coinage of silver hereafter as hereto
fore. Years before both declared
their acceptance of the Minneapolis
Republican national platform, which
was not a free silver platform, and
could not without dishonesty be con-
strued as such. What now is the
declaration of such men worth, that
they accept the st. Louis platform
They give platforms false interpreta-
TINS, and profess to ''accept" them on
these interpretations; and then when
elected to congress to continue TO
speak and vote for free coinage of
silver. Morever, when asked what
their course will be hereafter, and
distinctly whether they will continue
to speak and vote on silver as here
tofore, they refuse to answer, and
take refuge in generalities. This
will not do, either for Mr.. Mitchell
and for Mr.. Ellis, or for others who
may be candidates. Voters who un-
deFstand this subject and realize its
supreme Importance will be juggled
with do longer.
The Oregonian's contention is that
Mr.. Mitchell has never said that she
would not. or will not speak and
vote for free coinage of silver here,
after as heretofore" Never said so i?
Is not the statement, made publicly,
that he indorsed the platform a plain
and unequivocal assertion that if
elected to Office he would vote to
make the platform effective? True,
to the urgent demands Of his bitter
est enemy, the Oregcnian, that he
explain to it, he made no reply; but
to the Republican party of the state
he answered fully and voluntarily
Mr.. Mitchell was elected senator for
his last term in January, 1890. In
the following June the Republican
state convention adopted platform,
the financial plank of which, we have
been told (but know nothing of per-
sonally) was written by Hon. H. w
Scott. Be that as 1t may, the finan-
cial plank of the state platform of
1890 reads:
''Recognizing the fact that the
United States is the greatest silver.
producing country in the world, and
that both gold and silver are equally
the money ct the constitution from
the beginning of the republic until
the hostile legislation against silver
which unduly contracted the circu
lating medium of the country; anC
recognizing that the great interests o
the people demand more money foI
use in the channels of trade anC
commerce; therefore, we declar,
ourselves in favor of the free anC
unlimited coinage of silver, and de
nOunce any attempt to discriminate
against silver as unwIse and unjust
This was the sentiment of thu
party that elected Senator Mitchell
expressed within few months afte
that election. It was the instruc
tions given by the party to ii!
representatives in congress, and Sen
ator Mitchell, in season and out, ben
his energies and his talent to maxim:
the desires of his constituents effect
i've. From that time until 1896 NJ