Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-01-24
OUR CANDIDATE In 1900
STILL A LIVELY CORPSE.
BimetaIlism Keep on R-esurrecting
Wont Stay Planted When
It's Safely Buried.

With Dlmetall1Sm When IL comes 10 IT'S
ing again. How often it has been laid
out in cold death; how often the coffin
lid has been screwed on good and tight;
how often it has been consigned to the
grave by willing hands; how often it
has reappeared suddenly and unexpect-
eddy full of lusty life to the astonished
gaze Of it's would be murderers to scar
their starting eyeballs-all this pass
eth my mathematical powers to tell!
On the 9th of November every gold
bug paper in the land declared that at
last the deed was done, the job COM
pleted, the country saved! We had
heard the last of the silver craze The
the senate was safe for ten years; the
single gold standard was fastered on
the country forever and a day.
That was the fattering JUNCTION which
the propagandists of the English sys-
tenn of finance on this continent laid
to their palpitating hearts.
Gen. Grosvenor, in a burst of conf
dence and with prophetic ken, strok-
ing his venerable beard, his eye in fine
frenzy rolling, declared that we would
now have a whole generation of repub-
lican presddents-presumably from
Ohio.
So with wassail bout and popping of
corks and the uproarious strains of
music, and much enthusiastic if maud
lin oratory, the goldites celebrated the
wake over the corpse of bimetallism.
They said to each other gleefully, dia-
b~olically, ghoulishly: "It's dead this
time, good and dead, deader'n a smelt,
deader'n a doornail, beaded thun-the
deucel What is that awful noise?"
And it was to them an awful notes.-the
sound of bimetallism bursting rem the
tomb, with Hon. William E. Chandler,
OF New Hampshire, Puritan statesman,
republican senator, in the role Of chief
resurrectionisti Macbeth's terror
wasn't a circumstance to theirs. After
all their labor and fussing and Tuning
and boodling and bulldozing and row
ing and bloviating and guzzling and
~hurrahing they come put of the same
hole they went in at. They have to be-
gin at the beginning and do it all over
again-start in alb %initio, de novo, from
the stump at the bottom.
The unanimity, alacrity and bitter
meas with which they will damn Chand-
Ter would eclipse the sulphurous glory
OF "our army in Flanders" If what
they are saying about Chandler could be
taken down geographically it would
make rare and racy reading, but would
be excluded from the mails unceremoni-
ously on account of it's profanity and
~obscenity. They may ''cuss" all they
please, but the fact remains that the
New England senator has started a
brand new debate on bimetallism
which will be conducted at every fire
eide in the land. Now, if some defeated
democratic or populistic candidate for
congress had written an elaborate in
terview in favor of bimetallism the
goldbug press with one accord would
have denounced it as driveling .diocy.
but they can't so fippantly dismiss the
well-consddered words of New Hamp-
shire's senior senator. He halls from
the east, the habitat of wise men. He
Is one Of the high priests in the tenn
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chievous as a monkey may be admit
ted, but that he is smart as a whip is
known Of all men; that he is ambitious
as julius Caesar is suspected by many,
and that he aspires to the presidency is
believed by some. His post election in
terview, a portion of which 1 quote be-
low, has set many people hereabout to
using their thinkers as they never used
them before, for Chandler's sllrewd-
9 and dexterity at floating with the
tide haye become proverbial.
Il am more convinced than ever" he
said, shat the gold standard is not to
be fastened upon the world. Iacknowl-
edge that just now it looks as if the
recognition of silver was far postponed,
but this Is because we happen to be in
a position Of a creditor nation. We
have exported $1,000, 600, 600 worth of
produce more than we have imported,
and while we have not received all the
difference in gold, 1t has come to US in
various other forms, and we have felt
no strain. Suppose, however, that the
ude had been running the other way,
q we had been compelled to pay out
This vast sum. No one would then have
tntimated that the silver question was
dead. No" said the senator emphati-
cally, ut is not dead, and while the
fight may last for rs years, it will con-
ttnue to be fought. With England face
to face with the Indian problem, and
with her failure to borrow the gold
with which to supply currency for In
dia, the question is still very much
alive"
"You still believe, then. in the posi-
bility of international bimetallism9"
.To such an extent" replied Mr..
Chandler, that if / were President Nc
Nnley I would appoint another COM
mission, picking out active and earnest
men like Charles A. Towne, for in
stance, men who would endeavor to Sc
cure a favorable result, and would no.
ttfy Great Britain and France of my
action. I would not send the commits
sioners abroad at once, but would wait
for them to be invited. In my opinion,
Great Britain would soon request their
presence, and cooperation might also
be expected from France, if that coun-
try had the time in the midst of in
ternal troubles to consider financial
matters. It might be necessary to aban.
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