New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-09-10
WILL NOT-VOTE FOR BRYAN
E H. CANS WILL SUPPORT REPUBLICAN
TICKET
CONVINCING REASONS WHY SOUND MONEY
DEMOCRATS SHOULD OPPOSE KAN
sAs CITY PLATFORM
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so4d democrats IN Maryland has declared his
purpose TO support and vote for Mckinley and
Roosevelt At the request Of The Baltimore
News Mr. Cans has prepared statement of
his reasons for this course. which will be read
With great interest by the Sound Money Demo
Gratis OF Baltimore, many OF whom will be inhu-
enced by the views he has so forcibly and
pointedly expressed
AT the outset Mr.. Cans asks and answers e
pertinent and important question which in one
form or another has been in the minds OF other
sound Money Democrats since the Kansas City
Convention held. He says Let me ask.
first, how does it come that the Sound Money
Democrats are obliged, in order TO oppose i'm
perlalisrn, 70 vote for that which they employed
every effort to defeat in 1896? If the Democratic
party was really in earnest in believing imperial
| ism TO be the paramount issue 70 which every
thing else must yield. they could easily. without
abandoning their convictions as to free silver at
IS to l, have pledged the faith Of the party TO
maintaining the statu quo OF the money ques-
ton until the next Congress election, presenting
! distinctly and without entangerpent their para
/ mount issue. Then the Sound Money Democrats
! could vote the ticket according 70 his convtc-
! tons on the subject OF imperialism.
| Not only did the Democratic party not do
! this but, upon the inperious mandate OF its
/ PoPulistic leader, inserted a silver plank spe-
/ cifcaIly in the platform, together with other
/ financial heresies almost as bad, such as the
! destruction of banknote circulation in favor Of
/ an increased greenback issue. The quandary
Of the Sound Money Democrat is. therefore. de-
! Hberately created for him by the Democratic
| party"
Mr.. Cans next discusses the effect which the
election OF Bryan would have on the gold stand
ard In part he says:
! To those whose memories need refreshing an
examination Of files OF The Baltimore Sun" Of
! 1886 viii be helpful Now. whatever else may
be said Of the effect of Bryans success, il is
/ certain that his election will give 10 the free
! silver heresy an enormous prestige. The vote
/ viii be claimed by Bryan q mandate from
the people Immediately 10 establish free silver
az the ratio Of 10 10 / 4 President fanarically
welded 10 its establishment Will use all his
power 70 force II upon Congress- = House of
Representatives will pass a bill The silver
question will again come TO the fore with
I popular majority behind il. There will be
/ constant and aggressive agitation in its favor.
Would not this be a great evil 10 the mind OF
Sound Money Democrat?
THE SOUND MONEY MANS VIEWS.
He wants the silver heresy killed as dead as
/ doOrnau; he desires il TO be eliminated from
our poitlcs; ne insists that the Sold STANDARD
/ should be as firm ana lasting as an article OF
! the Constitution, ana yet he is now asked 10
make II again vital question IN our politics
and assist in giving IL more life than II ever had
! before. Surely there must be something very
/ serious in Imperialism 10 ask a Sound Money
/ Democrat to help to tear down that which he
( went 70 such great trouble 70 establish This
/ is at least a certainty. Now 10 the proba-
bfities It is assumed that there will he
| sound money majority OF the Senate This,
| however is only an assumption, able statisti-
clans having taken different sides. The truth
! is that nobody knows. By voting for Bryan
the Sound Money Democrat mHst take at least
the risk that there may be a sound money
minority. I will inquire hereafter as 10 whether
he is justified in taking this risk and others that
| I will mention.
Suppose there will be small majority of the
Senate in favor Of sound money; would they
( stand by their guns under the attack OF hostile
Administration and q hostile House Of Repre-
sentatives, backed UP by popular majority!
/ Those Of US who have carefully followed the &C
ZION OF the senate IN the passing OF the act OF
1900 cannot place much reliance upon this body
when the change OF vote or two would mean
! free silver. Il will be remembered CnaL ths
! House bill provided gold reserve TO be used
for the maintenance Of parity Of all kinds OF our
/ money; but the Senate overruled this plan, ana
/ limited the use of gold reserve solely 10 green
| backs and Treasury notes
But in case there should be a small sound
! money majority Of the Senate which would
stand firm, is not the act Of 1900 capable OF
such construction by a free silver Admlnlstra-
/ ton as 10 put Us on free silver basis without
! repeating the law? Some people are so simple
as TO believe that almost anything can be sup
pressed by The passage OF a law against II we
/ know that this is not true
DANGER IN DEMOCRATIC SUCCESS
In the event Of Democratic success the execu-
ton Of the gold standard law Of 1900 would be
IN the hands Of the high priest OF Iree slyer.
The distrust occasioned by MS election "ou4C a.
least cause immediate boarding OF goIo,
which would strain 70 the utmost the existing
/ provisions Of the act for maintaining me parry
/ of the metals Il is OF the utmost importance
for sound Money Democrats TO remember that
the provisions for gold reserve IN the act o.
/ backs and the Treasury notes ana Inat me
/ only way that Secretary OF the treasury cou4c
maintain the parity Of the metals n the event OF
the gold in the general fund OF the treasury
r7Inrirz out is 10 use the discretion cOntded N
him bv that part Of Section OF the act OF 15oo
ZshoE provides that the Secretary OF the Treas
Urv may IN his discretion, use SAID notes mean
irg greenbacks and Treasury notes IN the gen
eral fund Of the Treasury in exchange Tor goIc
or 10 purchase and redeem bonds or the tinted
States or for any other laWruI purpose the pun
lie interests may require -
71rv would coustTue this section 10 mean mat
! he must use the notes in the Treasury for the
purchase Of gold so as 10 MAINTAIN the party
of the metals, but is anyone so simple as 10 De
Iieve that free silver Secretary OF the treasury
~ Z free silver Attorney General would 50 COZ
| sfrrIA rhe law Would he not say that BY the
very terms of the law he is not compelled, ouI
given q discretion. and that the words LaWIul
| burmese do not include maintenance OF the
parity particularly N View or q secgloh IN Inc
House oil which the Senate rejected
| IN other words, the act Of 1900 IS et1caciouS IN
| preserving the parity between gold and silver
! oonIv when us execution is in the hands or us
friends The suggestion Of Mr.. Schurz 10 secre-
| rarv Gage is so foolish as practical proposition
as to need comment -
have been reviewing OF course. no one can
| cerrainly forecast the future, but we can say
| thar in the event Of the election or Bryan the
| 5eSca1+ N free silver basis is just as prob
able as that The gold standard will be preserved
IMPERIALISM PHANTOM
NJ Cans then proceeds TO discuss the So
osllad paramount issue Of imperialism, re-
snec+inR which he observes at the outset that
s%rer reading the discussions on both sides he has
| -aacbed rhe conclusion that what Is called i'm
nariaIisro '.is largely an imaginary issue, which
has nothing in il sufficient 10 cause the Sound
,r,-A,, 0Arnocrar for a moment TO put the gold