Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1899-12-21

congress, DuL 10 those WHO mdke anu
unmake representatives, the great
body of the American people. In them
we place our trust, and not in those
who are looking hungrily to the White
House for favors to come.
History Repeats Itself.
History frequently repeats itself, a
fact that gives the minority both con-
tidenee and consolation.
At. the behest of Nicholas Biddle a
supple congress passed a bill to re-
charter the old Bank of the United
States, and its members fondly hoped
that they had thereby made their call
ing and election sure. if not to man
sions in the skies. at least to good, fat
offices, but fortunately for the cause
of constitutional government and of
human liberty at that time there sat
in the presidential chair one of the
purest and bravest patriots that ever
lived, the iron soldier of The Hermitage,
Andrew jackson, of blessed and i'm
mortal memory. who promptly vetoed
that obnoxious and dangerous meas
ulCs Dull PAL " lAlatL tfldAl@
struggle appealed to the people, and
after a historic contest Jackson was
triumphantly reelected by an over
whelming majority. receiving 239 cleo
toral votes to 40 for his opponent The
people stood faithfully by Jackson be-
cause he stood unflnchingly by the
people. Unfortunately we have no
Andrew Jackson in the White House
now to veto this infamous measure,
but upon the appeal to the people in
1900 William ]. Bryan will be Endorsed
by as great majority as was Andrew
jackson in 1892.
Nearly all the great Republicans who
have lived since 1S73-Grant. Garfield.
Blaine, John Sherman. Logan. eros
venor, Allison. Don Cameron. Window.
Joseph G. Cannon. Hepburn. DoIliver.
Matthew Stanley Quay. William e.
Chandler and others too tedious to
mention"-have condemned the main
features of 1.-The Atlantic City money
bilr' by tongue or pen or vote. The
silver speeches. the greenback speeches
and the antisingle gold standard
speeches of Republican senators and
representatives now stultifying them
selves by supporting this Ubiquitous
measure would. if collected. make vol
ume larger than the Bible In the light
of their voles now those speeches will
constitute rare. rich and racy read
ing when their authors are arraigned
at the bar # public opinion. Out of
their own lAouths will these high and
lofty political somersaulters be con
demned. OF all the eminent Republic
ans who first and last have champion
ed silver President William Mckinley
is faeile princeps
Political SOmersauIter.
In congress he not only spoke elo-
quently and unanswerably for silver
but he vofed for the Stanley Matthew
resolution. for the original Bland bill
for the Bland bin with the sena-
amendments. and his name is recorde
in the roll of honor OF those who vote
TO pass the Bland Allison bill over the
veto on Pseudo President Hayes.
In congress he made this wise and
patriotic utterance;
/ am for the largest use of silver in the currency
of the country. | would not dishonor it. would
give it equal credit and honor with gold ! would
make no discrimination. ] would utilize both
metals money and diseredit neither want
the double standard.
AT Toledo Feb. u. 1891, he excoriat-
ed Grover Cleveland for being hostile
to silver as follows:
During all his years at the head Of the govern
ment he was disbonoring of our precious met
ais one of our great products, discrediting
silver and enhancing the price OF gold. He en-
deayored even before his Inauguration to Office to
stop the coinage of silver dollars and afterward
and to the end Of his administration persistently
used his power to that end. lie was determined
to contract the circulating medium and demone-
tlze one OF the coins Of commerce. limit the vol
urne of money among the people, make money
scarce and therefore dear. He would have in
creased the value of money and diminished the
value of everything else-inoney the master ev-
erything else its servant. He was not thinking Of
t'the poor then He had left their side He
was not standing forth in their defense" Cheap
coats, cheap labor and dear money-the sponsor
and promoter Of these protesting to stand guard
over the welfare of the poor and lowlyl Was
there ever more glaring Inconsistency or reckless
assumption?
l assume that the president spoke
and voted his honest sentiments when
voting and speaking for silver in the
years agone and that he voices his
honest sentiments now in urgently
recommending" congress to iegisIate
in support of the single gold standard,
but surely the evolutionary process in
his case has been as miraculous and
radical, if not as swift. as was that of
Saul of Tarsus who began his reIi-
gious career by prosecuting the early
Christians and ended by becoming the
chief propagandist of their faith; for
from his official coign of vantage the
president speaks as one having author
ity--at least to majority Of the house,
and ! have no doubt to a majority of
the other house
Pledged to BimetaIIism
Il urgently recommend that to sup
port the existing gold standard" etc,
says the president Not only recon-
mends, but urgently recommends.
The chances are a thousand to one that
had he uttered that sentiment In the
campaign of 1896 he would not now
be In position to send a message to
congress, and there would be no gold
standard congress to receive ii. It was
the pledge In the St Louis platform
to secure bimetalIism by international
agreement that landed him In the
White House. So says Hon. John M.
Thurston, Republican senator from Ne
braska. That pledge of international
bimetalIism held enough Silver Re
publicans in line to give the election
to Mr.. Mckinley. Indeed, ali over the
western country we declared what we
believed then to be true and what we
know now that If the Republicans car
ried the country they would establish
the gold standard by law. They de-
MED the charge with Indignation and
boldly and falsely asserted that they
were better silver men than we we're
that they were advocating practical
BILE and we an impracticable theory OF
restoring silver to its ancient place Of
honor In the coinage system Of the