| Show SENATOR CHANDLERS CHANDLER'S WARNING Mr handler Chandler the senior Republican can Sentor Senior from New v Hamshire has bas written an interesting letter to to the Washington 1 Post ost S Senator Chandler has been a leader of or his party many years By common consent he is one one of f the keenest anc and best informed in the Senate Mr Chandler says As to the elections they prove with reasonable dea clearness that if the Republican party permanently acquiesces acquiesces ac- ac ac acquiesces in the ex existing gold ol stand stand- ard and ard and gives up up the struggle fo for for bimetallism that party will wm b be defeated defeated de de- de- de in the congressional elections o 0 of 1898 and in the Presidential elec election ion of 1900 The silver morn mono then will take possession of all branches of the National Government and a free freo coinage bi bill bil 11 with silver made the tender for al all debts public and private domestic and foreign will pass both houses o oj of C Congress and be signed by President Bryan ryan Greater New York City being in inthe inthe inthe the hands of Tammany that organization organ organ- io wm will will unite unite X v nation ti n 1 a J f Democracy the in the thc l for o free ree- silver ilver coinage and it iti is ri t within Hin the tie bonds bonds- of possibility tire th-e th ural rural Republican 1 will give ive votes otes enough upon a single gold standard platform to place th the state of New York back in the can column There m may y be in in- in infatuated i individuals who think in Iowa owa Ohio Kentucky and Nebraska that hat the Western Republican states slates can be kept in line if furfure party platforms shall shaH completely yield to gold jold and give up the effort to re re- silver but the wiser and and saner view is to assume that with the he issue so framed the parry pany any will meet with overwhelming political disaster inflicted by a s solid lid South and a west almost solid soUd aided by y Tammany Hall and the free silver Democracy of the E Empire pi State This comes very near being a country of t L free voters and our elections come very near being g honest jonest transactions and an intelli intel gent ent people with their votes freely freely- cast and honestly counted n never ver verwill will vill adopt nor submit to the toe the permanent permanent of silver i and the fixed ascendancy of of tl the e single gold standard prescribed by J t tSo t tSo England J. J So the pathway of safety is si jm Jn only one om direction Mr McKinley was elected only because his platform plat plat- platform form and his previous utterances s promised efforts to secure bimetal bimetal- We Ye lost the United St States tes Senate because those promises ever weri not sufficiently in in earnest arnest and were were e distrusted by many Republican hcan voters We d did d not promise too to to es establish establish establish es- es bimetallism if we could believing be believing believing be- be lieving it to be a bad thing but bu Because we believed it to be a good thing If we now faithlessly aban- aban on the pursuit of that good thing we doom ourselves to political annihilation So there is hope lope for us but to bring together the nations tion of the Western H. H Hemisphere and them theme in one grand rand and irresistible demand for the money of the ages Gods God's Go s 's money as Secretary John Sh Sherman devotionally and reverently called calle it silver and gold joined together together- at at a fixed ratio as the basis of aU alt paper money and credits credi s and and ands and's as as s the wolds time honored honor d sD 3 ur n of the worlds world's values 1 j |
