Show THE PARAMOUNT GREENBACK I Last winter Mr Bryan said there were other questions more important I than silver that what was an issue In one campaign might nut be In another an-other Mr Towne said tho same When < Mr Bryan came West Gov Charlie Thomas of Colorado told him that to drop ullvsr would cause every Slate west of Nebraska to go Republican and leave nothing for Silver Republicans Repub-licans to stand on Hence he Insisted that the declaration should go Into the platform but he has I never mentioned silver since In the committee on resolutions in the Kansas City convention conven-tion i majority of the States voted silver plank against inserting a siver Though Mr Bryan threw all his personal per-sonal influence for it even to a threat that he would not accept the nomination nomina-tion if It was omitted then It was saved only by the vote of the delegate from Hawaii Since then the leading organ of Mr Bryan In the East has repeatedly declared that It is not an Issue in this campaign When Mr Bryan delivered his acceptance speech I he did not mention silver though a near contemporary In its chagrin and dishonesty stole two paragraphs from the speech of Charlie Thomas and put them In as the peroration of Bryans speech I Is not talked about here In the West any more So completely was a near contemporary knocked out by the acceptance speech of Mr Bryan that It was speechless up to yesterday What dOes it matter then If with n little simulated courage the slave on that sheet descends again to the slums out of which he has been temporarily raised recalls some of the slangy I patois of his youth and prints It We thought four years ago that Mr Bryan was a thorough silver man Under the developments of this year we believe that silver with him ha always been a secondary consideration considera-tion that when explored to the depths he is a greenbackcr We think this will bo made still moro clear whenhe gives his formal acceptance of Die Sioux Falls platform That platform renews the pledge that the agitation shall never cease until the Lincoln greenbacks shall bo restored re-stored the bonds all paid off and all corporation money forever retired I this means anything It means that the presses shall be started and enough Irredeemable paper Issued to do the above work In the same strain tho Kansas City platform demands the retirement of the national bank notes as fast as Government paper or silver certificates can be substituted for them Our own thought Is that the Cincinnati Cincin-nati platform Is the most honorable whlch demands n scientific and absolute ab-solute paper money based upon the entire wealth and population of the Nation not redeemable In any speckle commodity but made n full legal tender for all debts and public dies and issued by tho Government pnly without the Intervention of banksand In sufficient quantity to meet the demands de-mands of commerce The above Is In accord with the Weaver platform of 1892 which Mr Bryan indorsed and the money plank of which reads as follows We demand a national currency safe sound and flexible Issued by the general Government only afull legal tender for all debts public and private and that without the use of banking corporations etc Further the demand de-mand was for the full and unlimited coinage of slyer and gold and that the amount of circulating medium be speedily increased to not less than 50 per capita This last Mr Bryan supported Gen Weaver on Gen Weaver has not changed his sentiments since but he is this year supporting Mr Bryan with all his strength Is It not clear that after all silver has always been a secondary matter with Mr Bryan We commend this matter to maleI every scrub who rants about traitors to I silver |