New-York tribune., 1900-10-25

lican National Convention of June 10. 1900 for
the Office Of President of the United States,
which the official representative of the Con-
vention you have conveyed TO me, is accepted.
have carefully examined the platform adopted,
and give to it my hearty approval Upon the
great issue of the last National election it is
clear It upholds the gold standard and indorses
the legislation of TIE present Congress by which
that standard has been effectively strengthened.
The stability Of our National currency is there
fore secure long as those who adhere to this
platform are kept in control of the Government.
In the first battIe-that Of 1S96-the friends Of
the gold standard and Of sound currency were
triumphant, and the country is enjoying the
fruits Of that victory. Our antagonists, however,
not satisfied. They compel US to a second
battle upon the same lines on which the first
was fought and won While regretting the re-
opening OF this question. which can only disturb
the present satisfactory financial condition of
the Government and visit uncertainty upon our
great business enterprises we accept the issue
and again invite the sound money forces to Join
IN winning another and we hope permanent
triumph for an honest financial system. which
VIII continue inviolable the public faith.
THE OLD ISSUE OVER AGAIN.
AS in 1896. the three silver parties are united
under the same leader, who Immediately after
the election Of that year. in an address to the BIZ
metallists, said:
The friends Of bimetallisn1 have not been van
Qulshed; they have simply been overcome Thev
DelleNe that the gold standard is a conspiracy of
the money changers against the welfare of the
human racs and they viii continue the warfare
against 1t.
The policy thus proclaimed has been accepted
and confirmed by these parties. The Silver
Democratic platform of 1900 continues the war
fare against the so-called gold conspiracy when
it expressly says:
We reiterate the demand of that Cthe Chicagol
platform Of 1896 for an American financial sys-
tenn made by the American people for them
selves, which shall restore and maintain a hi
inetalhc price level, and part of such system
the Immediate restoration Of the free and nm
limited coinage Of silver and gold at the present
ratio Of I6 TO l, without waiting for the aid or
consent Of any other nation
So the issue is presented. 1t will be noted that
the demand is for the immediate restoration
Of the free coinage of silver at Is to / If an
other issue is paramount. this is immediate. It
will admit of no delay, and will suffer no post
ponement
Turning to the other associated parties, we
find in the Populist National platform, adopted
at Sioux Falls, S. D., May 10, 1900, the follow
ing declaration:
We pledge anew the Peoples party never to
cease the agitation until this financial con-
spiracy is blotted from the statute book the Lin
coin greenback restored the bonds all paid and
nrm the demand for the reopening of the mints
Of the United States for the free and unlimited
coinage Of silver and gold at the present legal
ralo OF 10 70 /, the immediate increase in the
volume OF silver coins and certificates thus Gre
ated to be substituted, dollar for dollar for the
pahHhotes issued by private corporations under
special privilege, granted by law of March IA
1900. and prior National banking laws
The platform of the Silver party, adopted at
Kansas City July g. 1900 makes the follow
ing announcement:
We declare it 10 be intention to lend our
efforts TO the repeal of this currency law which
not only repudiates the ancient and time hon
ored principles Of the American people before
the Constitution was adopted but is Violatiye Of
the principles Of the Constitution itself: and we
shall not cease our efforts until there has been
esta blished in its place monetary system based
upon the free and unlimited coinage of silver
and gold into money at the present legal ratio of
16 to ] by the independent action of the United
States, under which system all paper money
shall be issued by the Government. and all such
money coined or issued shall be a full legal
tender in payment of all debts, public and pri-
Vate, without exception.
In all three platforms these parties announce
that their efforts shall be unceasing until the
Gold act shall be blotted from the statute books
and the free and unlimited coinage of silver at
16 10 l shall take it's place.
ALL DECLARATIONS IMPORTANT.
The relative importance of the issues I do not
stop TO discuss. All Of them are important
Whichever party is successful will be bound in
conscience to carry into administration and leg
islation its several declarations and doctrines.
One declaration viii be as obligatory as another.
but all are not immediate. 1t is not possible
that these parties would treat the doctrine Of
Is to l. the immediate realization of which is
demanded by their several platforms as void
and imperative in the event that they should
be clothed with power. Otherwise their profess
sion Of faith is insincere. 1t is therefore the
imperative business of those opposed to this
financial heresy TO prevent the triumph of the
parties whose union is only assured by adher-
ence TO the silver issue. VIII the American peo-
pie through Indifference fancied security,
hazard the overthrow of the wise financial legis-
lation of the last year and revive the danger of
the silver standard. with all of the inevitable
evils Of shattered confidence and general dis
aster which justly alarmed and aroused them
in 1896?
The Chicago platform Of 1896 Is reafirmed in
its entirety by the Kansas City Convention.
Nothing has been omitted or recalled; so that all
the perils then threatened are presented anew
with the added force of deliberate reafflrma-
tion. -Four years ago the people refused to
place the seal Of their approval upon these dan
gerous and revolutionary policies. and this year
they viii not fail to record again their earnest
dissent
THE TARIFF AND RECIPROCITY
The Republican party remains faithful TO its
principle Of a tariff which supplies SUFFICIENT
revenues for the Government and adequate pro-
lection 10 enterprises and producers: and
of reciprocity. which opens foreign markets 10
the fruits Of American labor and furnishes new
-hannels through WHICH to market the surplus
ut American farms The time honored princi-