Show I FAVORITE SONS CAMPAIGN Unquestionably the presidential campaign cam-paign of 1SQG up to the time at least I that the nominations are made by the Republican party will be known as the Favorite Son campaign Already a I number of these Rlchmonds are afield and more will come Up to date the favorite sons that have been announced and what they have to say on the paramount par-amount issue before the country money are as given below Mniiic Golil Written by Speaker Reeds friends with his concurrence He Reed is opposed to the free and unlimited coinage cf silver except by international agreement and until such agreement can be obtained believes be-lieves the present gold standard should be maintained He has always been uncompromising for the maintenance of the highest national credit by the utmost good faith toward the public credits not for the creditors sake but for the nations sake for the sound reason rea-son that the most valuable possession of any nation in time of war or dis rtess next to the courage of its people is an honorable reputation Kontuclc j G olil Revised by Governor Bradley We are opposed to the free and unlimited unlim-ited coinage of silver believing that it would involve the country in financial finan-cial ruin The gold dollar is the best dollar and least liable to fluctuations and for these reasons and in order to conform our standard to that of other great commercial nations we I favor it as the standard money of the Unuited States and the maintaining on a parity with it cjf every other dollar dol-lar whether of silver or paper New York Gold Revised by Governor Morton Until there is proposed an international interna-tional agreement as to silver coinage and while gold remains the standard of the United States and of the civilized civil-ized world the Republican party of New York declares itself In favor of the firm and honorable maintenance of that standard V Oliio Straddle Revised by V exe vernor McKinley We contend for honest money for a currency of gold sliver and paper with which to measure our exchange that shall be as sound as the government govern-ment and as untarnished as its honor and to that end we favor bimetallism and demand the use of both gold and sliver as standard money either in accordance ac-cordance with a ratio to be fixed by an international agreement that can be obtained or under such restrictions re-strictions ard such provisions to be determined by legislation as will secure the maintenance of the parity of values val-ues of the two metals so that the purchasing pur-chasing and debt navinir Dower of the dollar whether of silver gold or paper shall at all times be equal Missouri IJciu Silver Revised by Richard P Bland We further hold that the paramount issue now before the people of the United States relates to the monetary system to be adopted by this country and upon that issue we declare that the federal constitution means silver and gold together as the money metal of the United State Duty to the people requires that the party of the people i continue the battle for bimetallism until its efforts are crowned with suc ces therefore be it V Resolved That we demand the free V and unlimited coinage cf silver and gold into primary or redemption money I at the ratio of 16 to 1 without waiting wait-ing for the action or approval of any other government I |