Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1898-04-21

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which to enable us to purify the
ballot and preserve the honor and
integrity of the nation
"The republican party is unre.
servedly for sound money We
said so in 1896, but most of us did
not know what we meant by it then.
But the bondholders, creditors and
bankers, who know all about the
science of money, have told us we
meant the gold standard, greenback
retirement ard bank issue and con.
troll of paper money. We. there
fore, recognizing their intellectu-
al and moral superiority, declare
our complete and abiding confidence
in their wisdom and unselfsh pa
triotism and cheerfully obey their
orders, announce our perpetual
loyalty to the plan of the secretary
of The treasury to commit the coun-
try more thoroughly to the gold
Standard and give to the banks
the exclusive right to issue or re-
fuse to issue paper money to enable
the people to transact their busi-
ness; and we futhsr solemnly de-
clare that any man who dares ques-
ton the infallibility or perfection OF
this financial policy is an anarchist,
repudlationist and personally dis
honest and corrupt.
"In unmeasured terms we express
our utter detestation and disgust
with the Republican national con-
ventions Of 1888 and 1892 for the
Wild-eyed, long-haired, anarchistic,
populistic, socialistic, communistic
language contained therein, as false
"'The republican party is in fa-
vor of the use of gold and silver as
money aad condemns the policy
Of the democratic administration
in its efforts to demonetize silver
Platform 1883.
"'The American people, from ira
dition and interest, favor bimetal-
lism and the republican party de-
mands the use Of both gold and silver
as standard monev,with such restric-
tions and provisions, to be deter
mined by legislation, as will secure
the two metals, so that the purchas-
ing and debt-paying power of the
dollar, whether silver, gold or pa
per, shall be at all times equal -
Platform 1892.
eve would use harsher language
in denouncing this blatant nonsense
ofthese two republican conventions
were it not that one William Nc.
Kinley,who is supposed by some i'll
informed people to be the president
Of the United States, was chairman
of the platform committee of the
convention Of 1888 and permanent
chairman of the convention Of 1892,
and we do not desire to seriously
cmbarrass him. We further declare
that the republican party has not
changed its platform or faith on
the financial question, and anybody
that says it has is liar, a footpad
and a border rufian.
"With our faces turned toward
Wall street, from whence all bless.
ings flow, for support and susten-
ance, we solem2nly declare that the
republican convention at lTinneap-
oils asserted that'the American peo-
pie, from tradition and inter-
est, favor bimetallism, and the re-
publican party demands the use Of
both gold and silver as standard
money it meant to declare
unequivocally for gold alone, and
any man who does not understand
it chat way is a lunatic and ought
to be confined is an asylum.
"Wc indorse the lofty patriotic
sentiment expressed so eloquently
by our distinguish ally, Hon. John
M. Palmer, in the campaign of 1896,
to the effect that he would rather
live IN monarchy than a republic
where the principles of the Chica-
80 platform prevailed.
"Following the instruction of those
who dictate our policies, control
our conventions and manage our ad-
ministration, we bow in wo rshipful
alteration at the feet of Grover the
Fat-Who gave US wisdom and an
honest financial policy, conservs-
tism and our foreign policy; who
taught us tights Of property are
more sacred than the rights Of man;
that money ought to be the master,
everything else the servant. As
an official evidence of our profound
reverence for him, we shall write
his name on the roll Of honor of our
party, second only to our other sain-
ted hero, Marcus Aurclius Hanna.
awhile our great and good com
mander graciously informs us that
we were soroly shocked and grieved
at the barbarities perpetrated by
the Spanish soldiers against the Gu
ban patriots in their struggle for
liberty, resulting in the butchery or
starvation Of hundreds of thousands
of men. women and children, yet he
gives us the comforting assurance
by way of complete exoneration for
permitting the long continuance of
these atrocities that the victims
were nearly all from the poorer
classes, and it is doubted if this de-
pletion Of their ranks is seriously
to be regretted.
"Our aHectionate master further
comforts us with the knowledge that
by retraining from prohibiting the
slaughter and starvation OF these
thousands of povorty.stiicken
wretches he preserved from severe
shOek Tho rOnnnd and Lnndar annai.