The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-14
CHAIRMAN TONNES ADDRESS
HIS MESSAGE TO SILVER RE-
PUBLICANS.
The Wretched Farce of international
Bimetallism Has Been Played
Through-A Fight in the Open.

An item of news not mentioned by
the Associated Press was the address
issued last Wednesday by Charles A.
Towne, chairman of the national COM
mittee of the Silver Republican party.
1t IS as follows:
ITO the Silver Republicans of the
United States-The crisis long expected
is near at hand. The policy we de-
nounced when we proclaimed that a
conspiracy had been formed to capture
the Republican party in the interests
of the gold standard is nearing its
negotiations for an International agree
ment for the establishment of BIZ
metallism That failure, foreseen by
those who drafted the cunning fnan-
ciaI plank of the st. Louis platform
and forced it's adoption, is now used, as
from the first it has been intended to
be used, as the preliminary to the
definite establishment of the gold
standard in the United States.
A WELL PLANNED CONSPIRACY.
.sThe conspirators knew perfectly that
a plain and honest announcement for
the gold standard in that platform
would mean it's disastrous defeat at the
polls. They inserted the weak and in
consistent promise to promote an
international agreement for the pur-
pose of holding the allegiance of MIL
lions of Republican voters who were
bimetaIlists, while at the same time 1t
was sought to bind them permanently
to the gold standard through firm
and unambiguous declaration that, if
the agreement could not be secured,
that standard must be preserved.
THE wretched farce has been played
through the humiliating appeal to the
GOLD powers of Europe that we graci-
ously be permitted to be relieved by
them from a monetary Servitude that
is wrecking our producers and Destroy
ing our national independence, and has
been spurned before the eyes of the
world.
THE ALTERNATIVE INVOKED.
1.-THE alternative so artfully provided
is now invoked. The supporters of the
British money system now claim war
rant for their whole nefarious pro
gramme in the allied Endorsement of
that declaration by the Republican
voters of 1896. Steps are, therefore,
being rapidly taken to put the plan in
operation. The president, by special
message to congress indorseS the
scheme of the indianapolis convention
of sound money advocates, which was
declared by them to rest upon three
fundamental and essential features:
"First-The permanent establish
ment of the gold standard
"Second-The retirement of the
greenbacks and all other government
notes.
"Third-The institution of huge
banking system with power to issue
and control the paper money of the
country.
GOLD STANDARD PRESS.
THE gold standard press has taken
the cue. and from one boundary of the
nation TO the other is Droclaiming the
failure of international bimetalliSm and
the CONSEQUENT necessity of comprehen-
sive reimbursement of our currency sys-
TEN upon the gold basis. Finally the
/ National Sound Money league in its
/ semi-annual meeting in New York yes
/ terday. put the stamp of infallibility
upon the same conclusion in the fol
/ lowing language:
The situation demands a definite
clean and unequivocal declaration thai
| international bimetallism is d dream OF
the past. The United States must pro
claim their accep ance of the WoIld-fact
and plant themselves finally upon the
single gold standard
ENERGETIC ACTION REQUIRED.
Silver Republicans of the country
/ the crisis demands your most ener-
getic and consecrated efforts. In the
/ glorious campaign of 1895, and again il
the recent elections, you nobly proved
your patriotism and INDICATED youl