The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-04-25
SILVER REPUBLICANS ARE TO Or
GANIzE UNDER THE NEW
TITLE
NEW
POLITICAL
PARTY
National Convention to Be Held at
Kansas City July 4OutIine
OF the Move
ment.

starting the nucleus for new party
which is destined according to those in
terested to cut considerable figure in pol
itics. The movement which has been
quietly developed has resulted in a call
Tor gathering of all the independents
who formerly affiliated with the Repub-
iican party to meet In Kansas City. July
4, for the purpose of forming a new ma.
tlonal party, to be called the Lincoln Re-
publlcans. The meeting is to be held in
Kansas City on the same date as the
Democratic national convention. The
plans. reasons for the call, and the prob
able action of the convention as to nomi-
nees and platform are set forth in the fol-
lowing strain:
For several months past national lead
ers Of that great body of patriotic Amer.
leans known as Silver Republicans. have
been assisting In the capitalization of q
movement to broaden the lines of that
organization, so as to cover the newer
issues and questions which have arisen
since the silver men left the Republican
party in 1895. In this work they have had
the encouragement and assistance of
many Republicans who remained in the
party after 1885, clinging to the delusiv0
nope that it would shake off the sinister
influences and after all, in some way, be
led back to Lincolnism and its former
position in the regard Of the country.
but who have at last come to the parting
Of the ways, and refuse to be completely
Hanna kinleyized. The work, now ex-
tended to all sections of the country.
has been performed for the most part
by the Lincoln Republican league, by
which those initiating the movement have
been known. The league has been most
numerous in the middle Western states.
and the greater part Of it's work has been
conducted In Minnesota, chiefly by E. S.
Corser, of Minneapolis, and his associates
OF the Minnesota Silver Republican ma
t1onal committee, of which he is the ma
tonal committeeman for Minnesota and
OF which national committee Mr. Corser
is one of the executive officers. At the
last meeting Of that national executive
committee this object and work of the
league was approved. and since then the
steps for organization of the Lincoln Re
publican party have not only been rapid,
but the work has been assisted in all
parts of the country by Republicans leav-
ing and making ready to leave the old
hulk OF Hannaism. The stage of open
action having now been reached, the fol-
lowing outline of what has been done,
terest.
The Lincoln Republican league was a
natural growth, resulting from the cleav-
age from the Republican, party of 1885, of
a host of its best members, because of the
final treachery of that party to It's re-
peated national declarations of loyalty to
bimetallism The growth of the league
was, however, greatly enlarged during
lS59, by the adoption of an imperial policy
by the Mckinley administration, and by
the appalling development OF trusts
So marked was the growth of the Lin
coin Republican sentiment, as ascertained
by the league in a wide correspondence
that at Chicago, in November, 1899, when
the programme of the league was present,
ed and urged upon the Silver Republi-
cans, it met with general favor, and it
became evident that when the national
convention Of the Silver Republicans
should meet in 1865, that it's platform
would be greatly enlarged and national,
lied, and that as a natural and easily
comprehended distinction between Lin
coin Republicanism and Hanna-Mckin-
leyism, new party called Lincoln Repub-
lican would absorb and replace the Silver
Republican organization. To that end
the work has proceeded with such results
that it may now be announced as q GER
tainty that when the Silver Republican
national convention shall meet in Kansas
City, on July 4, one of its earliest deter
limitations will be the adoption Of tie
name, Lincoln Republican, as its future
distinctive party designation. This action
was forecast in the call for the conven-
ton issued by the chairman of the ma
tional committee, Hon. Charles A. Towne.
which call was made to include those
who heretofore and in the past, having
been members of the Republican party,
refuse to approve of it's present policies
as announced and pursued by the Nc
Finley administration.
The convention is to be held In the Au-
ditorium opera house, near the Audito-
rum Convention hall, in which the Dem
ocratic national convention meets. The
Lincoln Republican convention will be
conspicuously marked by its adherence to
Lincoln.
AS for the platform. judging from SEN
timents gathered from all sources its gen.
era1 declarations may safely be forecast
as follows:
1t will declare for bimetallism and for
the restoration of gold and silver as
standard money with equally unrestrict-
ed coinage and debt-paying power. 1t
will, however, recognize that the gold
standard is fixed upon the nation for a
period, and that the financial question
is, in the campaign Of 1900, necessarily
subordinated to another of paramount i'm
policy of forcible territorial aggrandize-
ment, which has become the one corner
stone of the Mckinley administration,
despite the pledge Of the president and
the purpose of the nation condemning
tforcible annexation" as criminal ag-
gression"
1t will demand independence for the
Filipinos with protection for the Philip
pine republic, extended by this greatest
A rio. }fO will nd
restoration of the Great AmericanisTn'
of Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln,
with the old-time American independence,
and the dethronement of the Little
Americanism" of Mckinley, Hanna and
Roosevelt. existing under the protectorate
of English Toryism
The platform will, If is believed. In deal
ing with the trusts, demand the removal
of protective duties from all products
which enter into trust monopolies; and,
with further purpose of protection to
the people, and hostility to special privi-
leges. it will favor public ownership In
all instances where 1t shall be shown that
the public can thereby be best protected
from private monopolies. 1t will favor a
graduated income tax and the principle of
the initiative and referendum and it will
most emphatically declare against the
financial legislation enacted by the Nc
Kinley administration. by which the SOW
ereignty over the nations money has been
surrendered to banking syndicate.
1t will declare in favor of civil service
reform, and denounce the treason Of the
Mckinley administration to the past dec
larations of the Republican party against
use of offices as party spoils, and the
shameless use Of the offices in the gift of
this administration to carry the elections
by administrative corruption,
1t will undoubtedly warn the nation
against the surrender of the republic to