Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1898-01-06
THE FARCE is ENDED.
CHAIRMAN TONNES ADDRESS TO
THE SILVER REPUBLICANS.
He Declares That International Blmet.
alllc Farce is Ended and That 1t is now
an Open Fight Between tho People
and the Money Power.

Chairman Charles A. Towne, Of the
National Committee of the silver Re-
publican party, issued the following
address:
To the Silver Republicans of the
United States.
"The crisis long expected is at hand
The policy we denounced when we
proclaimed that conspiracy had been
formed to capture the Republican par
" in the interest of the gold standard
y near its contamination. The VOL
sott Commission has confessedly failed
in its negotiations for an international
agreement for the establishment of
lblmetallism. That failure, foreseen
by those who drafted the cunning f.
nancial plank in the st. Louis plat
form and forced it's adoption, is now
used as, from the first, it has been in
tended to be used as the preliminary
TO the definite establishment of the
EiDAA ob1hudHu III JIG OulGeu OJdJeS.
They know perfectly well that plain
and honest pronouncement for the
gold standard in that platform would
mean its disastrous defeat at the polls.
They inserted weak and inconsistent
promise to promote an international
agreement for the purpose of holding
che allegiance of millions of Republi-
can voters who were for bimetallism,
while ut the same time it was sought
70 bind them permanently to the gold
standard, through a firm and unam-
Mguous declaration that, if the agree.
naent could not be secured, that stand
ard must be preserved
"The wretched farce has been play
edthrough the humiliating appeal to
20 the gold powers of Europe that we
graciouSly be permitted to be relieved
By them from monetary servitude
that is wrecking our producers and de-
stoying our national independence.
We have been spurned before the eyes
Of tho world. The alternative so art
fully provided is now invoked. The
supporters of the British money sys-
tenn now claim warrant for their whole
nefarious programme in the alleged
endorsement of that declaration by the
Republican voters of 1885, Steps are
therefore being rapidly taken to put
the plan in operation. The President
by special message to congress en-
dorses the scheme of the Indianapolis
convention of sound money advocates
which was declared by them to rest
lupon three fundamental and essential
Features:
L The permanent establishment of
the gold standard.
2. The retirement of the greenbaclls
and all other government notes.
q The institution of huge bank
system of power to issue and control
the paper money of the country.
The gold standard press has taken
the cue and from one boundary of the
nation to the other is procaimiug the
failure of international bimetallism
and the consequent necessity of COM
prshensive readjustment of our cur
|rency system upon the gold basis.
Finally, the national sound money
leaFne in its semi-annual meeting in
New York yesterday, puts the stamp
Of infallibility upon the same conclu.
sion in the following language;
fThe situation demands definite,
clean and unequivocal declaration that
International bimetallism is dream
Of the past. The United States must
proclaim their acceptance of the worlj
fact, and plant themselves finally upon
the.gingle gold standard
silver Republicans OF the country,
The ctsis demands your most energet-