The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-04-25

be the object of the United States. and the
platform of 1892 was substitution of par
metals my for parity ' of the items two 90 metaIs
Parity, always parity was the test.
SOME MORE HISTORY.
Your have clearly indicated in your re-
cent volume, entitled The First Battle"
fy of 1852 Fhe fme tR MAS May 1871 b
aha the place, and the first step was a call
place June p. 1884, which led to a nominal
control of the ensuing Nebraska Demo
substantially like the Chicago platform rri Of Of
two years later. There was a Democratic
1t was in violation ion of the NATIONAL Demo
more votes than your candidate received.
R , 5M1 4 That fh To OF y6u 69Gk it
Republicans and silver Democrats of all
its platform Of 1892 y You e mention Senator tor
Teller as one of your feIlow-conspirators
can convention of which he was member.
The Nebraska Democrats, whom you and
clared, in their platform of 1886 your fin
ancial plan meant poorer money and less
bankruptcy for all save the mineownerS
Did not that convention sympathize with
The New York Democratic state conven-
t ton OF June ne q 1886. adopted platform
that platform.
1 preferred the declaration on coinage
by that Democratic state convention of
New York. adhering to the Democratic
guage in the Indianapolis platform allud-
ing to gold recommendation, but 1 preferred
either one to the. silver monometallism of
sentence, or word, of the Indianapolis plat
PURELY PERSONAL
en Y4u may az reply that you were as MUCH 1
enqtled 70 stand py the declaration OF the
w
sent you as a delegate to Chicago. as 1
vas to stand by the declaration of the
sent me. The reply would be plausible if
one did not take into account your prev
convention, whose delegate at Chicago you
cratic 10 PocT adopted n Ct t5 You P
denim me BECAUSE eau now 1 advocate a modi-
Yet four years. ago this moneR you verne
conspiring with Populists, and RepubH-
mine owners. to OVERTHROW a at Gh CHIC the
Democratic policy of 1892. Is it not gro
In your convention speech of 1896 you
described the conspiracy as having been
You portrayed your doings as those of
"a crusade and declared that you and
your allies We're in Chicago not to. dis
ment.' a strange method in national con-
representing the Democracy of a continent.
Your speech was evidently prepared by
book you repeatedly refer to your ante
cedent preparations to Capture the Chi
cago convention.
SOME QUESTIONS ASKED.
I put to you in my letter two or three
questions easily capable of affirmative,
one was, DO You deem the money ques-
ton as presented in the Chicago platform
as now paramount to all others?" You
eVade.
Another was. do you insist on the in
fallib t OF the coinage ratio Of IS to ! as
Another was, Must ali Democratic vot-
ers line up in 1900 on a federal statute
making every contract Illegal which stipu-
again.
Another was. win law preventing
Wage-earners and salary-earners from de-
manding and securing payment in gold
dollars, II they prefer gold dollars. be a
You go out of your way as a defeated
presidential candidate of three years ago
ana an asPirant for denomination, to con-
denim my Democratic opinions l have no
wish to suppress what 1 did at Chicago
and have subsequently done in that regard.
| am perfectly content with my course
I was present at the conventions of 1876.
1884. 1888 and 1892, and on July I. 1896 I
was correctly. reported as saying that I
the platform presented by the free silver
and Populistic elements would ruin any
York delegation I remarked that ''AltgeId
cannot compel me to yield to Populism."
1.-The contest has been over a preposterous
agrarian, centralizing, socialistic iuterpre-
tation of the constitution. 1t has been over
in the interest of silver standard. The
vigor of the onslaught was born of the
1892 and 1sss.' caused by legisla{ i5e en- 1l
acted by the party of Mckinley. The plat
form of 1886 came from the hard times.
lism and silver mononetallisne had passed
That powder cannot by you be burned
ton. Yours truly,
PERRY BELMONT.