Show contemptible from the national bimetallist chicago while reading the recent dispatches from st louis relative to the currency plank adopted one scarcely knew whether to boll boil over with indignation or to smile in cold contempt at the barefaced bare faced fraud the extreme gold men of the east demanded a declaration in favor of maintaining the present gold standard the mckinley men said no we will give you a declaration in favor of maintaining the present pree ent standard in the name of all tb tbt saints and apostles what Is the difference the question before the people is shall silver be restored to its ita former place in our monetary system or shall the present gold standard stam dard b be maintained and perpetuated pe 9 the gold men of the east after claiming for years to be now declare unequivocally for the gold standard an aa it exists the mckinley men with less ess boldness but more policy demanded precisely the same thing but want to leave out the offensive word gold thinking thereby to hold the western vote absolutely the only difference Is that the eastern mens position is ia the more honorable we are glad that the platform adopted is so 10 clear in its expressions for the gold standard it was merely a quibble over tha utterly ammata immaterial z fal point whether the present standard shall be called gold or not called anything ther is not a straight out silver man in tha th country who can be deceived for a moment by any such hairsplitting we dont care what they call the present standard calling it does not change its essential n nature a ture and that is what genuine bime tallista object to the leaders of the republican party propose to maintain the system that hat has practically destroyed one halt half the money value ot of our great sta staples brought business to a standstill substantially ly put an end to all improvement filled the land with idle men and cast the shadows of actual suffering into untold thousands of humble homes if there is a man in the united states who claims to believe in silver allver restoration and is prepared to support the republican ticket upon such a de dared policy it la is to be devoutly hoped that he win will not sing silver allver any more but sing as he votes A a declaration in favor of maintaining the present money standard Is ie a declaration in favor of gold nothing more bothi nothing ng less and it will prove that th the 0 republican party is no longer the party ol of lincoln and the people but the party or of plutocracy plunder and pelt pelf I 1 |