Show SOME SILVER sentiments lo in another col I 1 m a we pre cr t the of official record of leading Rs re publicans public ans on oil the ilia tariff quellion here hera reproduce some of their public declarations on tree ires coinage piert let us examine tile hie bierent financial status of the tha republican party mckinley McKinl py wrote the gold klauk of I 1 the be SC st louis ph platform torra and in 1895 1805 at ai thoimas vi ville 11 I 1 ga co when offered the delegates of certain southern Fo states stales provided lie would dech declare ire for free silver mckinley said it if the republican plat forna torin s for free coina coinage ote I 1 will not lie ba a candidate I 1 w would not run on a free silver platform IT his letter of acceptance if ia a strong endorsement of the gold platform and his speeches in this campaign I 1 are full of fojaco art comfort for tile tho money barons barona of great britain and america but McKinie ys conversion has been beef sudden and suspicions suspicion ai is the case with other leading republicans and pimply shows BULBS the power of boudle over marketable politicians here is an ai excerpt from a speech delivered by U wilu ILLI isi MCK in congress june 24 1890 1 I 1 am for lh largest use of silver in tile cu trency of the hie counley 1 would not dishonor it I 1 won would give gie it equal credit find and lionor honor with gold make no ignatiou in ina alioa tiou I 1 would both metals as mon money evand and dici di edit neither no illier I 1 want the hie double s darci page vol 21 91 cong R ecard J k ME G ill aina th the struggle le now going on in thia country and in other oilier countries coun trice for a single gold standard would if success successful fill produce widespread disaster in an and throughout tile commercial world orld destruction The deet ruction of silver as money and establishing gold as the silo sie unit 0 f value alue must have a ruinous effect on all forms of property except investments ii biell field a fiad fixed in money these would be enormously enhanced in value said and would a die dia proportionate and unfair advantage over every other species oi of property senate I 1 I 1 A Alir iKID every man alio i ho is ia opposed to lo tile use rise 01 of bt silver ever coin as part or oi the legal cur ncncy of tile the country I 1 disagree with livery ivery man nho ii ho is ia opposed to the actual legal use of both metals I 1 disagree I 1 would endow the two dollars with will equality and make tile the coina coinage e free congress oil gress 1878 h k TOWN buekfa bUE KIA during the monetary conference cont crenco in paris v lien sill er in out our excluded from eh circulation cu lation by bv being tinder undervalued der derval valued tied I 1 was waa stron sly iely in favor of the single or ol gold arid and ii wrote rote a letter which aou will find in he be proceedings ce of that conference storing stating briefly my view aeu at that time the e wisest of us daiil ill not anticipate the sud lie aei fall ot 01 silver or of the lie lise jise of gold that has occurred tina T of tile je lation the hie eno nie is one otlie of tile hief ai lumenti oU menti in if fanor of a monometallic system but other arguments me ants showing tile the dangerous effect upon industry indu etry by dropping dropp iii one of tile the pic cious metal aiom the standard Blan stan daid of value alue N outweigh ont weigh in my my mind all theoretical objections to file bimetallic system dept july 13 1 1 I 1 I LUSTON who ii i 1 i now bli antin for rold goli said 7 ll 11 1 I haie no to doubt the ithone of bilier fiher in tile die I 1 nitch states rates would and certainly appreciate the lit 16 0 of oi ischer country but bill throughout through oat the whole world no u matter malter w list ot other tier govern governments men is do this thia country ought not cit to eliminate sil ail vrr vr it filin oin use as a coin metal n leis legis ini HII I be looked upon by the common cou people as in tin tile intent t of I 1 lie money ponca 01 cr lor for the express of inn faaiu the purchasing of if money anil decreasing the selling price ol 01 avci produced fly by human toll toil it 1 la u fact which hould not be avei 1 looked ely by statesmen late cueli eliat abat the lite price ol of american silver and he lilice ol of wheat reached lo 10 finara on life saute bauni LI da 11 ali olla baij aid in on oil article in i tile in cago advance of no nov 2 21 1877 over ins his ON on n signature it ir today kold ad ell ei i etc bobil equally legal to tell tended lel its as 11 ohenio lien so incurred tin till N sar dalit aid suspended led specie temporary ily A altion its as a 1 preliminary to I 1 loll 1011 in to now jen arid and pay all debts public an 1 I i pr private in gold alone alone coulat cai eairy ry tile pup ALI N ore oteff of any district of brict I 1 in n the all j not ill or 1 I 1 kael alet or of alvest V est art audit ii to a bolc mould lie e N otta dij dawn I 1 by ii millions illions 0 no o cut cai caiata ass aaa was ai c ever or made in uy alv biti let of tile the nation pi lor for to lie act of 61 I 1 sa for forthe tin of echor sit or no POI pop assemblage or of I 1 alie people of any pal baity ty c er ankud tor for it no political poli liLal dathol ill of any aliv demanded dei it I 1 t no petitions lu lle alolu the people of all any bention of tile the 1 I sought it iland and of tile the hundle is of i itil plans ins to for alie to relief of f t alie country 01 I 1 ful fui tile the payment oi of alic I 1 ile debt or tur for couii coil liitle eav published and advocated none of if klicin tile proposed dutli till an net act for the lie amelioration of our financial ills tuc the de bemoni klizing act therefore ana passed asse d not at all as to any demand of 01 desire or of rotilio tion 0 if t ille people and was waa so ao ill cn ill cut cealey cei leil in a coinage act that ilcia lir li r the llie u alio 1 iu i g it nor tile lie pl pacient president ilio 1 0 j liia 1 i s to execute it il if riot not linw knew liten donetia don dons etil til loll 1011 after afler it harl wone one into inlo effect if f llila is re alya of the people anil and for the peole peo lr and liv the lie people in act thus passed it 11 anny ay cave I 1 ave birgl effect is 19 a Po popular lular ion that lie III iv the ilia of tile llie people promptly arid and cheerfully not haltingly or gruI grudgingly ing 1 or or evacek ely if if tile L implicit of c our u r national constitution nicana anvil I 1 i I 1 ig gold and silver are eti t an nally illy the constitutional coin of our land lan |