Year: 1877

Having expressed with absolute frankness
the dislike which we think is generally enter
tanned by most Republicans and many Demo-
Gratis at the East to the financial plank of the
Ohio Platform, we are the more ready to give
its advocates the fairest of hearings. The fol-
lowing is a private letter to the Editor of The
TRIBUNE, but its origin and its explicit state
ments as to the purposes of the men VINO
framed the platform seem to warrant It's pub
lication, and certainly enttle 1T 10 the most
candid consideration:


DEAR FRIEND: | see that our " Silver Resolution" has
stirred the of the Eastern papers because we d
not explicitly resolve against silver aud OF the western
papers, because did implicitly resolve against
gold intended to send you q communication for IHL
TEIBUNE. for OF time content myself with a
private letter tO You.


J. Gen. Garfield is neither the author nor the aDetor
OF the resolution He acquesced in II on account OF Inc
clauses about oregn trade. and about preserving the
use Of Jo metals He further stated hat such scheme
was practicable either by limiting the coinage OF sFer'
Or better STILL through an International bAeallic Coin
age Union.


Q As | drew tho original resolution several months
before the Convention met, ana chairman oi tc SUD
committee that reported to the Committee on Resou-
tions speak pretty confidently on this point Here
is a copy Of the resolution originally drawn by me-





ence before the Convention met:


Resoired That favorth Of both gold and silver
money. with coinage and valuation 80 cguated nat
our people shall not he placed al dsadyauage ~ trdue
with foreign natl and that neither Oi the metals shai
be driven irOin circulation


The Other clases they appear in the full resolution
admitted to reconcile the silver men, nut do not
interfere with the pivotal phrases.


g. The silver mania had not only captured the nha-
tionsts but WAS threatening divide and destroy the
advocates money. We could not oppose directly
the popularity OF silver without most serious danger


A. with few exceptions Ohio Republicans who
earnestly favor metallic currency, are in favor OF b.
metallic money. and against monomealisrn The rcso-
luton was intended to express this preference positively
and clearly II is not evasion nor is 1t indefinite and
unneaning II certainly states the object intcgiby,
and points the danger 10 be avoided wiz The expu-
sion of gold by the operation the laws Of value and the
consequent injury to people in foreign trade.


s. 1t competent and fair for the Eastern papers 10
attack it, fayOIng bneIalnc money but on no other
ground. can also pretty safely predict that ii the
Eastern men do choose accept doctrine, they
VIII be compelled to accept much alternative.
The marrow escape from the mschies and cuGities OF
the Bland Silver Bill ought to teach them that it is
wiser to direct strong current than to be overwhelmed
by IL.


G. Is rather too late for any one to assume that bi-
metallic money IL impossible The example Jf France
for seventy il potent than theory. It can
scarcely he doubted that Nation can. it will make
the effort secure an International Coinage UuOn that
woud settle the matter indefinite years in the future.
T. l repeat. the resolution neither dodge nor "a
cIudity nor an absurdty Ii meets and utizes the
popularity OF silver II all who advocate the payment OF
our legal tenders will accept and act doctrine
the work of resumption will be materially assisted f


Or, to sum up our friends plea in fewer
words, Ohio Republicans yielded to the silver
agitators nearly empty shell to prevent them
from plasDing the kernel.