The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-08-25
FOWLER vs. CANNON

I69 telegraphic summary. of Con- I<(Gnnan Fowler's open letter to
 2ker Cannon. omitted one interest s E6<S<pature. It relates to the Speak ly record upon the currency question 11|d Is as follows:
 a< T1f6n the 14th of April. 1874. you lg1<1 tor a bill which is described by
 6 nAerman in these words sIt pro-
 d@ for an expansion of an irredeem-
 $1< Eurrency.' When this bill passed 6&h* 4ouses President Grant vetoed
 X Was the so-called "Greenback z n 5uaxy n. 1S75s the act for the re-
 <1 E1on Of specie payments passed n0 Republican, House by a vote of 136
 but you did not vote for 1t.
 EH November 16. 1877, -ou made a
 declaring that 1t was as much @f|9f f1ation to pay in gold alone as in E[@1pemab1e paper. You had much to l about "gold repudiationists."
 On November 23. 1877. you voted for 6U to repeal all that part of the re-
 1orf1nn act which authorized the Sec 5t0kn<y of the Treasury to dispose of
 &4<6d States bonds and cancel green TIT November 5. you voted for a bill IF <7he remonetization of silver (Bland
 over the veto of President Hayes.
 Qn< <AuRust 28. 1893. you voted against 49 repeal of the silver purchase act. @Ud voted again against it. as amend XU E04 S6QdLe, on NOVemDer l, l6S5-
 4Ikklnk in Jackson Park one evening, &&dNk ten years ago, with MT. H. H.
 1n&a. Of Indianapolis. said to him: 4Y0$Wfu get no gold standard legisla- Ion under present conditions unless we 1kn let the Sneaker to appoint spe- 1L41 committee from the House and 1f5o ket one appointed on the part of <h& Eenate to study the question this Hummer and to report to Congress in
 E3iaee committees were appointed. YOU HQPpesing the appointment of the coE11 e1tte6 on the part of the House. md a1fhoueh you did all in Your pow 9r to prevent the adoption Of the re- H0tt<When it was made to the Repub- U1G& caucus you were defeated. and khH Gold Standard Act of March 14. lSg8i was the result of the suggestion 1n121e by me.
 ff appears from this citation of MT zc1hnpn,s record that in 1874 he was a tzretnbacker'': that in 1877. he an- <1xu1ized redemption in gold: that in {0{7 he voted for silver remonetfzation; mt In 1893. he twice voted against re-
 4&1 iof the silver purchase act. and t[nk he practically antagonized the r1d standard act Of 1900. Yet he is 6Q5f. with possibly two exceptions. E1<11deut Taft and Senator Aldrich. fho Republican leader who exercises s5he 1Featest power over the policies of mo party.
 But. If the signs do not err. the end 0k the present Congress will mark the qlcpe of his public career. unless the Gkzke of Illinois perpetrates the bIund- 1x of e1ecting him to the Senate. Con 14epsnnau Fowler predicts. this. as fol-
 4aStly sir. as you are aware. we uoW have government by edict. so tompl4fely have you absorbed and ugufped all power. legislative as well 1@ political You have succeeded in RdseianixinE the House of Represen- l1ttVes. But sir. unless misjudge tho fnteIlikence. the independence. the pride. the self-respect, the patriotism lnd the present temper of the Ameri- &Ah people. you will be the last of the Doft3cal Bourbons. and the conditions WhIch make such a creature as you Vcglible will end with the Sixty-first
 z6 A duty to myself. under the cir GuHDtances. as a duty to the great 6&uoo Of financial and currency reform which Is imperiled by your ignorance, your ppe1udice, your purposes. your -methode and your power. as a duty to the Republican party. and. above all, o6 a,z duty to my country. have ad- dregged this open letter to you.