The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-02-24
Silver Men in the House and Senate Issue An
Address to the People Of the
Country.
Duluth Man RULES for the Time
CONGRESSMAN From the Sixth District Named
as the Chairman of the Provisional
Organization.

WASHINGTON, Feb. &c. A.
Towne, of Minnesota, is the provisional
head of a new political party which has
made a bid for public favor, and which
at present consists of eleven members,
the silver Republicans in the house
and senate. A meeting was held last
night at the home Of Senator Teller,
and an addres formulated which
was made public today, calling a meet
ing Of a provisional national commit
tee Of the silver Republican party" to
meet in Chicago June s, 1897. for the
purpose Of calling a national conven-
tion Of all silver Republicans and those
who will cooperate with them in po-
litical action until the great none
tary issue is settled, and settled right
Each state and territory is asked to
designate a member of the provisional
national committee to represent it in
all matters preliminary to the calling
of the national convention. Charles
A. Towne, of Minnesota, is named
chairman of the committee until g
further organization is effected. The
address declares that the Republican
party has abandoned the principles on
which it was founded, and that the
silver Republicans cannot follow that
party into a shameless abandonment
of American interests and the tyranny
Of an alien money system" It is an
nounced that the address is issued i'll
response to numrous inquiries request
ing information regarding party policy
1t is signed by Senators Teller, Du-
bois, Pettigrew, Mantle, Jones, and
Representatives Towne, Hartman. Sha-
froth and Allen, Of Utah
The address is follows:
There could not be better illustration of
the great law by which, in free governments,
the rise progress and decline of parties is
determined that that offered by the recent
and present political developments in the
United States Political parties are practical
instruments for executing the VIII of the
people in respect to principles and policies
of government. They therefore should rep
resent and respond to the public opinion in
its attitude toward the problems which the
experience of the nation from time to time
brings forward for solution. 1t is not par
ties that make issues, but it is issues that
make parties.
For years events have been forcing upon
the country, with eVer-incraasng definite
ness and emphasis, the necessity of reform in
our monetary. system, respects both the
coinage Of metallic money and the regulation
and control of credit currency. Under stress
of experience and consequent investigation
opinions have been gradually crystallizing.
In this process the line of cleavage has paid
little regard to previously existing party de-
marcatiOns, and today the most careless OBJ
server cannot fail to see that the genius of
the natiCn is approaching a settlement of
this momentous controversy, through the
agency of political instruments now being
fashioned to it's hand
In the history of these formative events, he
so-called silver Republicans have taken an
important part and discharged a necessary
function. In doing they have not surren-
dered their convictions on certain other great
principles of political economy Of government
but they realize that these principles are not
capable of a successful application under
present monetary conditions. They believe,
therefore, that the adequate treatment Of all
other issues must await the correct decision
Of the dominant one thus presented. In this
spirit they co-oEerated with the orgonized
forces of bimetalism in the last campaign
Every consideration of patriotism and expe-
diency seems to counsel a continuance of that
policy.
Silver Republicans believe themselves to be
! in harmony with the original spirit of the old
Republican party, and they. claim property
in it's great names and glorious traditions,
| justified by the splendid services and sancti-
fed by the sacred memories Of the time