The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-12-19

Gave Allegiance Is Charged With
InSincertty.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1S.-After the pas
sage today by the house OF the financial
bill the silver Republican leadars In the
city held a meeting and adopted an ad-
dress setting forth their views as to its
effect. The address Is as follows:
ITO the members of the Republican
party who still believe In bimetalnsm:
The passage by the house OF represent
bank currency bill exactly as agreed
upon by the Republican caucus and with
out the opposition of a single Republican
vote, marks the elimination OF a policy
long carefully pursued by certain in
huenceS in control of the leadership of
the Republican party, and tustities the
action Of the men who. in 1886, refused
to remain In that organization after the
adoption of the St Louis platform.
The Republican national platforms Of
1888 and 1892 had been uneQuivocally In
FAVOR of binetalIiSm and the use of both
gold and silver as standard money.
Nevertheless 1t was apparent several
months before the assembling of the ma
tional convention of 1896 that the ma
passed wholly into the hands of the
banking and creditor interests, and that
1t was the purpose of the latter to COM
NIT the party to the advocacy and
achievement of the gold standard.
Against this danger the Undersigned and
many other Republican bimetallists at
masses of the party. The politicians and
newspapers privy to the scheme de-
nounced our fears as unfounded, or
simulated and by skillful use OF catch
words and generalities succeeded in fore
Stalling any widespread comprehension of
their designs. When the convention met,
a similar ingenuity governed the framing
OF the declaration on the money question.
Its essential part was as follows:
We are therefore opposed to the free
coinage Of silver except by international
agreement with the leading commercial
nations of the world, which we pledge
ourselves to promote, and until such
agreement can be obtained, the existing
gold standard must be preserved. All our
silver and paper currency must be main
tanned at parity with gold, ETC.
INSINCERITY ALLEGED.
1T is strange that so manifest an in
sincerity should have deceived anybody
SiIeariy II the gold standard was desira
pie, the free coinage of silver was unde-
slraole, however, secured. If the gold
standard was right, free coinage Of silver
must be wrong. Nobody could intel:i-
gently and honestly demand the internal
tohal free coinage of silver and at the
same time express such emphatic salts
faction with the gold standard as an
alternative AS matter of fact this dec
laration was intended as a definite as
surance TO the speculative banks and
their allies that the Republican party, If
with all polite speed to the establish
ment of the single gold standard in all
ITS rigor The. promise to promote the
international free coinage of silver was
never meant to be observed in good faith.
yet 1t proved a good enough Morgan un,
til after the election
ReIylng upon 1t, enforced as it was
throughout the West and central portions
OF the country by the editors and orators
or the Republican party, millions of vo+-
ers We're held In line for the ticket; for.
hn LII
text book for 1892 the Republican party
was a bimetallic party No one whose
political Judgment has the slightest
weight will deny that frank pronounoee
ment for the gold standard in that plat
form, or a straightforward Interpretation
Of 1t by the Republican candidate for
preGsiaent as meaning the gold standard.
ana nothing else. would have elected Mr.
Bryan by an overwhelming majority To
construe the election of 1896 as a mandote
py me American people for the establish
ment OF the gold standard is to aDnro-
pirate political goods under false nre-
lenses. pA0
AFTER THE ELECTION.
AS soon as the election was over and
the fruits of this chicanery had been
gathered, the great Republican, nawSDa
pers began to discard their convenient
antiquities about sound money and
honest money, and to claim the result
Ihese utterancSS increased in volume and
precision as the advent of the new ad-
mlnlstration approached. The presidan+
as d1so' aihiiHough not abe at once to form
Tue haDlt OF d1rectneSS of speech soon
showed by his actions that he no longer
considered the prediction copstruction
OF the platform to be binding. His an
polntment as secretary of the trea
OF perhaps the most conspicuous ~o1d
standard advocate among the great haniT-
ers OF the country was obviously not
Of bneta HieSgned to promote any kind
sent abroad the alleged fnternationaI3
monetary commission. Unless the hoax
Vas was 70 % De openly confessed, this was the
least the president could do But for fear
tnat after all foreign governments mio1t
take the procedure seriously he sent "
CIh1lgreS S.. IN July, 1857, at the very moment
%nen his commissions PROPOSALS 49,
before the English cabinet a speciaI mos0
sage recommending the so-calied Indian
ap ol monetary convention plan, with its
retirement of the greenbanks and eWfan ~
SONS Oh the powers, privileges and immI;-
mites OF the national banks iiA
, 80 ii'it me ms secretary Of the treas
ury was declaring in interview after Jn
terVieW, most of which were carefuIII 80
produced In Europe. that bimetalIis5o
nnf LILO ,international or otherwise was
not only impossible, but undesirable *
curse, no serious negotiations Irara ~
slole after all this. The interna tionaT US us
MISSION aaISd became an international Joke, ~
lQlIeu It's tent like an Arab and siIentir
stole away. Its distinguished ava di
coInnted chairman sought earlv onnortT9
IN my IN me senate to explain its failure
matte articles of rhetoric nor his e'p 10
urV coud 6 Ot the secretary Of the treas
official head of the administrationS VI the
TO PRESERVE GOLD STANDARD
+oro me remainder of the programme en-
IIered upon at ST. Louis has been ohedient-
for the fTac me international agreement
ed to be promoted steps are now fai1e,7
10 insure that the gold standard shall be
g The present bill preserves II with
vengeance. The vast bonded debt of the
e eitber in nov eWId payable in coin that is
payable in gold alone. Nearly ba nIaue
f OF standard silver dollars hereto
lore not redeemable in anything, not con
shutting burden on either the gold re-
serve or the credit of the government
put put forming a large percentage of our
able in gold, thus increasing tremenIone-
~ the strain on that metal, and becom-