Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1898-03-03
The Congressional Contest.

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vention date. Other districts in Kan
sas have already arranged this detail
and there is evident on the part OF
the Republicans an earnest, barmoni'
Gus determination to put Kansas back
in the line Of States with full Re-
publican delegation in congress
The congressional election OF the
present year will be fought on the
came lines and over the same issue
that decided the presidential campaign
Of 1896. The money question will be
the chief factor In the coming contest.
The Republican party will go before
the people squarely and unequivocal'
ly opposed to the free and unlimited
coinage Of silver, opposed to the pay
ment Of United States bonds In cheap
money, in favor Of currency REFORM
and declaring its intention to main
tain, under all circumstances, the ex-
listing gold standard.
On the other hand, the Democrats
will enter the fight for the control OF
the next congress as the champion Of
free silver, cheap money, free trade
and the redemption Of governmental
obligations in dollars worth but 40
per cent as much as the dollars for
which those obligations were original
ly sold.
On this issue, or series Of intimate
ly related issues, the Republican par
ty will win the victory. Today, as
in November OF 1895, the United
States is unalterably opposed to cheap
money and reputation, and is in
favor OF honest money, dollars worth
one hundred cents apiece, and the
maintenance OF national honor
The Popocrats and free silverites
have declared for the past fifteen
months months that they are not sat
isfed with the verdict rendered in
1896, and have asked a retrial OF the
case before that highest Of all tribun-
ais, the people. Their wish will be
granted. With supreme confidence
that the second verdict to be render
cd will be in their favor, the Republi-
can party will repeat the argument
and the plea by which it won the case
on the first trial,
But the advocates Of sound money
will not be satisfied with bare vic.
tory this year, or even with a victory
equal to that Of 1895. They desire
and intend to win, triumph greater
than the first one. They want a YER
dict SO unmistakable, so overwhelm
ingly In their favor, that not ever
their defeated opponents can there
after claim that doubt exists regard
ing the position Of this country or
the financial question.
The Republicans alone can admins
ter a decisive defeat to the cheap mon
ey forces, but with the gold Demo
Gratis voting throughout the country
for the Republican sound money con
gressional candidates, the advocates
OF free silver and Accent dollars will
be overwhelmed as by an avalanche
Since the election Of 1896 the wis
dom Of the people in rejecting the
sophistries Of the free silverites has
been sbundantly justified. Hundreds
Of thousands OF those who voted fol
Organism fifteen months ago now see
the folly Of their choice, and stand
ready to indorse the honest money
policy which they once opposed, but
which has restored confidence and
prosperity to the country
They will vote for sound money
congressman in 1898, and every gold
Democrat, for his own interests, as
well as for the interests Of all, should
do the same thing. Not one single
vote should be wasted or thrown
away. Let every believer in an hon.
est dollar make up his mind to cast
his ballot next fall for a man who will
stand for currency reform and the
gold standard in congress, and the
"allied silver forcesn will be buried
forever under an adverse majority Of
one million votes.
A very pertinent and appropriate
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