Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1897-04-07
CORRESPONDENCE,
Letters of Silver Leaders.
POpgIists, Democrats and Repub-
licans on Oregon Politics.

The JOURNAL prints below letter
from prominent silver men who be
. long - the several parties discussin
the question 81 their future course 0
DJlitical action. The indications ar
favorable 10 a union Of forces ia tn
next state election and point strOngl
y = solid coalition against the gol,
standard advocates in 1900.
The effort IN Oregon a year ago va
10 drive all silver men out Of the Re
publican party. This was largely due
to the fact that the silver men were
then uncompromislngly for the rc,
turn Of John II Mitchell to the senate
as a free silver man. Mitchell en-
cOuraged the silver men in capturing
state and county conventions. aud
the result was 10 several instances to
break up the regular Republican Or
ganizatiOn. But the result was the
election Of legislature strongly Re-
publican and for Mitchell. What
followed? Mitchell went.OyeI to the
gold standard or international BIZ
metallic wing Of the Republican
party on pledges Of support from that
side, and abandoned the aggressive
independent bimetallists whose cause
he had championed.
The result was that sincere gold
standard Republicans and sincere in
dependent bimetallists both felt
ashamed to support a nah who evil
IDENTIFY bad no fixed principles. The
anti-Mitchell Republicans were sur
prised to find Mitchell, whose follow
ers in the spring were pursuing any,
thing but regular" methods, in the
winter came before the legislature
and pot forward the claim to be the
regular" party candidate. 1t was
TOO big a somersault, and both sides
fought the proposition.
THE LATEST sILVERITEs
are the Republican national commit
tee. We print below the headings
and first paragraph OF a sheet of mat.
ter sent to THE JOURNAL from the
national Republican headquarters.
NJ. A. Hanna, chairman. This sup
plement is offered our readers free if
we VIII only use it. 1t is being used
by Oregon papers. Here it is. Read
t for yourself:
"True friends of silver"
"The Republicans offer the only fea-
Iible method Of its use."
They have urged international
for many years"
international bimetallic confer
'nces were called by them"
"The silver shouters in Democratic
md Populist ranks are opposing in
action"
They don't want the question set
led as it might end their employ
nent."
"Who are the true friends OF silver?
5 il the men who own silver mines or
re employed by silver mine-owners
nd those who by their advocacy Of an
system manage to keep
heir names before the public and
in fat offices, or is it the
len aud the party which gave to the
luntry its great volume Of silver
honey, which originated all efforts at
iternational bimetalllsm, called all
he international conferences which
ave been called by the United States,
ppcinted all delegates to interna.
onal conferences, aud declared in
heir national and state platforms
ne after time in favor Of the only 1
ractical system OF utilizing silver, in
bimetallism?"
The Mckinley administration seeks
1w TO be regarded as "true friends of q
lyer," II may be added that silver /
"a wheat feel the effect OF their 4
iendshlp.
We print below some letters from
liver leaders in Oregon, who speak
Z themselves. You can az least tell d
here such men are To be found. n
GAsroN FOR UNION. o.
Hon. 10, Castor, Of Castor, Or, n
rites as follows: r.
THE fact that the ponnltsts ~, -.