Show SOME SILVER lit in column we preset t the official record of leading re he publicans public ans on the tariff question que sion berls reproduce some settle of th their air public declarations on oil free ree cc coinage first ie us examine the present financial tatus status of I 1 he party part william mckinley wrote the gold plank of the st louis platform m and in 1895 1893 at thoimas ville G I 1 i when the delegates of certain southern states elates provided lie ho would declare for free silver mckinley aid it if the republican platform declares for free coinage 0 I 1 will not be a candidate I 1 would nut not run on a free silver platform his letter of acceptance is a strong endorsement of the tha gold platform and his speeches in this campaign are arc full fall of colace an ail comfort for tile the money barons of 6 great reat D brit eitai ain B and america but me Mc ki Kuile n le s conversion has been sudden and suspicions as is the case with other leading republicans cans and simply shows the power of boodle over marketable politicians tic ians here is i an excerpt from a speech delivered by MH f 1 i 1 11 1 1111 1 in cong pes 3 june tine 24 1890 1 I 1 am for th jai largest gest use of iver in tiie the cul rency 01 ol the volin volinter tr I 1 bould not dishonor it I 1 I 1 would agni it equal credit credi tand alij honor lot I 1 make no cibin Il latin I 1 oud atlle both as ab money and di credit neither ait ilider I 1 III ant I 1 lie double standard page 01 ol 21 purt i i i Z I 1 VIM ali now DOW going goine anin this couney and in other oilier countries count coun trieb fur a bevo id standard would if alai prodoc id spread disaster die astur in and till hiI i t the lie coin iorli des on of silver as money and es gold as tile sae unit of alue muse mun havea have a leims duill lu ims ills effect on oil all corois oi of property those ti M halh veld a lived lied return in in maii I 1 hese should be enormously enfant L d in ilie alue and mould give ft a dis dig crupo and unfair advantage adian tage age fj UM i i eveir v oil ot er of property pio perty i aili dij FI 1 i i art A I 1 i it 1 i ili irid D r I 1 v is 1 posed to the nse ji lir wn as part of tile legal cur eav f 0 t country I 1 dutli I 1 jj ri 1110 lm is 11 opposed to the actual lol ne of if loil ali it metals I 1 disagree biti I 1 neild Nl ild enow the to doll alv int VI 1 I 1 i i ht t and intake tile ilic coinage arle got aoi fits I 1 j 1 I 1 OR OK JOTIN JOHN ani ins alie monetary ni in rall I 1 ill li it silver lit in out country coil mas c circulation b hi bein being nil dei debie 1 I alej ii I 1 was wag roule ly in im aimor or 1 nigle ingle standard stin dard of gold cold and i bote a letter m aich you mill ill ind lit tile hie pro u oi 01 that stiling bielk my aei it at that nine little tile tie vierst iet fl I 1 rs lid did not anticipate tho the fall ill A 1 iver or lie rie nie 1 ol 01 I gold that has tina this oi of the iii tl alo liu metals is one of alir ailet 11 idt n 1 l in ill frior of it 11 but other aiau aigu iii enta li fiig tile dan groug eclet auli iii loutiti V iv by ro piny one of I 1 alip ile ti pie et 10 0 6 ILL tali fi ow tile standard etan dard of aluc mit iveigh in tny my all I 1 I 1 II 11 al A to the bimetallic ms urn lia hury dept july J li 5 I lIOI 1 alio i lo 10 houting llou tins for gold ibid aid jila 1 7 loii 1 bl I 1 I 1 ha have ve no doubt t 11 L I 1 11 nione mone i tie tiou oi silver in tile united bt tutee a mould vi e und and certainly 1 ec ile t tile ariee r i cc rif of silver not only in thib country but t throughout tiie thi alolu A horld no matter what other oilier governments govern mente do this country ought i not ot to eliminate sil ail ver vcr from ue iii a coin metal any lesis legis lation in that dir diotio tio i vl be looked upon by th common people as in the int Itel eiert edt of tile money tor for the espres esc purnie of increasing t chepa 1 I e p u c chas 1 I 1 as ing in ot nl money monay and d decreasing e e rea ing the selling felling price ol 01 evereth everything ing produced bv human toil it is a fact act aich should not be looked by statesmen state I 1 ae eliat t the ariee of american silver and the price ol of Ameri caff wheat reached low v m ater mai k on the same daa U 1 barcai Sr tAlOR OR S it ELKIN KI als silver ilver is the money ot of the constitution a much agold as the people will have silver for or money and fight for it and the contest n nil ill not end until it has its cioper place in the llie money system of the country fila r people are too intelligent tell igent to deimit val acs to be incas urcil bv gold alone the production of which if iii te latich diminishing in tile the ill or ld this bould make money d dearer eat e and cheaper silver should be used as isell ell as gold and tile the parity het between cen both maintained the rhe time wll will come mien lien tilt tile silver liver in the theah ury will ill perform pel form tin the functions of mane money v is veil as gold eold and tile the trouble 11 will 11 be that there is not too much of it but too little steven elkins republican I 1 U 8 senator before the west virginia ginia republican publican Kc club at fairmount june 19 1804 DENI hebison U mE BISON the the e evil vil anticipations which have accompanied the coinage and use uee of 0 the balver dollar have haie not been realized real iod A aa it a coin it has not hid had eneval use and tile public treasury rv lias has been compelled to stol it but ti tansia 11 s is manifest manifee lly ly 0 OB ing t to 0 if the ie f fact abt th that a t its paper representative is inori convenient th ahr general ac c 1 ganve and u ue uc c of the fhe silver certificate chow I 1 w that sili his has not been Other otherwise WiCe di discredited I 1 have a always ways been an ail advocatt etc of 0 tile use rise of silver I 1 in I 1 conr curie nev we are large producers 9 of I 1 hat fiat metal and should rim not discredit is credit it benbal benjamin asin hairr on in his first message essaye to congress december N it HC E COLFAX said in 01 on 1 article published in ill the chicago ad ance of nov sil 29 1877 over his 11 is on on it signature if today sold gold and ail ver m heiti ej c both equal equally y legal tc idel as when we incurred the war mar debt and suspended su beecie payments temporary en corar il alv a as a to in 1871 to now demonetize ry 81 silver iver ind find pay fill all dobosi dob debts tsI public an ani private at e in ill gold alone could carry the popular ule of any all district in tile the land north or oi south east or west and if to a popular vote it would be voted don doin by millions millio nF no canvass wa un ever made in ill any ili SO let of if the nation prior to the let of f 1873 forthe for chii of silver no popular assemblage or consention romin tion of tile llie P people collie of an any v pai baity ty ever asked for it kojl no 1111 leal iLal platform of an any organization ail dein I 1 it no ino petitions from rom the ile people 0 of any section of n tile the guition sought it and 0 ol 01 the hundreds hundred ol 01 liuasi 1 ial plans for the of the country fur tile payl ilent of the debt or to lor r coin coin resumption alicei mh Ali ch Cli published and advocated none of proposed such euch art an ilet at for the aaion of our linan cial ial ills fl the let the afore was m as passed not at ill fit as rep to an any y or or petition of the ail alj as so ill ingeniously cori cea cealey ed in a coinage act that neither the pi ident who vt ho signed it nor or the present p r c sent president I 1 i ho has hah to execute e it I 1 if f not anew shat hall been done till lorik after it had gone into 1110 eack if aia uis I 1 n I 1 sally leally a i government overn merit of the people anil and for the lie boly ly and ly tile pt crople ale an all let p parsed aed thourl it may y I 1 ie ifil elifet i 1 a popular arong be bv lie hermant ner vanti ot tle tile people promptly antl and not haltingly or ly or ida IX m ii easl ra sn lely ly it if t alia i ill e of out national lit lii 11 ir at iiii tiling gold a fill i I 1 er ut uie c e ei biall I 1 I 1 io all I 1 I 1 I 1 t alm I 1 I 1 L otis L i t U t to n al coin of out in sni |