The Butler weekly times., 1897-11-18
Senator Chandler Gives the Re-
publican Party Warning.
SEES ONLY DISASTER AHEAD
Single Gold Standard Means Political
AnnilIilatiOn.-Whnt the Eiec'iOns
Meant.

Washington, d. G, Nov 10
Senator William L. Chandler of New
Hampshire publishes to day letter
to the editor of the Washington
Post on the financial policy of the
administration in which he says:
''Since my letters of August IL
and 25, two important events have
happened: First-The election of
November; second, the refusal OF
England to reopen the India mints
to the coinage of silver as an induce
ment to international bimetallism
''As to the elections, they prove
with reasonable clearness that if the
republican party permanently &C
qu,esces in 'the existing gold stand
ard and gives up the struggle for
bimetallism, that party will be de-
feated in the congressional elections
of 1898 and in the presidential
election of 1900 The silver mon"-
metallists will then take possession
of all branches of the national
government and free coinage bill
with silver made the tender for all
debts, public and private, domestic
and foreign, will pass both houses
OF Congress and be signed by Presi
deut Bryan.
NEW YORK STATE IS DEMOCRATIC
Greater New York city being ID
the hands of TsmmaDy Hall. that
organization will unite with tn.
National Democracy in the demapd
for free silver coinage and it is not
within the bounhs of possibility that
the rural republican bimetallists will
give votes enough upon a single
gold standard platform to place the
State of New York back in the
republican column.
"There may be infstuated individ
uals who think, in view of the elec
tion of last Tuesday in Ohio, Iowa,
Kentucky and Nebraska, that the
Western republican states can be
kept in line if future party platforms
shall completely yield to gold ano
gle up the effort to remonetize
silver, but the wiser and safer view
is to assume that with the issue 81
framed the republican party vii
meet with overwhelming politica
disaster, inflicted by a solid South
and West almost solid, aided BY
T.mmany Hall and the free silver
democracy of the Empire state.
WILL NOT ALLOW DEMoNETIzATIoN
This comes very Lear beng
country Of free voters and our elec
tions come very near being homes
transactions, and an intelligeu
people with their votes freely cas-
aud honestly counted, will neve
adopt or submit to the permanen
decentralization of silver and tn
fixed ascendency of the single golt
standard prescribed by England.
$50 the pathway of safety is onl.
one direction. Mr.. Mckinley wa
elected only because his platform
aud his previous utterances promise'
efforts to secure bimetallism. W
lost the United States senate becaus
those promises were not sufficient
in earnest aud were distrusted b
many republican voters. We di
not promise to establish bimetallisr
il We could, believing it to be ba
thing, but because we believed it t
be good thing
DOOMED TO PARTY ANNIHILATIoN.
IF We now fsrsh}ss.1s-sAaado
the pursuit Of that good thing "
doom ourselves to political annihils
tion.
$50 there is no course open to L
but to bring together the indepen'
ent nations of the Western hemi
phere and to unite them 10 or
grand and irresistible demand fl
the money OF the ages, Gods none
as Secretary Sherman devotional
and reverently called it, silver ar
gold joined together at fixed rat
as the basis OF all paper money ar
credits and as the worlds tim
honored measure OF the world
v,1nos