Show THE HOPE OF SILVER for the benefit ot of all who have been listening to the siren song of republican editors in relation to the hope for silver in that hopeless party we desire to call attention to a few republican platforms adopted this year in the strongholds strong holds of republicanism massachusetts sounds the bugle I 1 note of the republican campaign with this remarkable platform we regard the silver agitation as hurtful to business and destructive to confidence aud and has recently lybeer been shown hostile to all tariff legislation designed to give protection tie to our industries and revenue to our treasury wo we are entirely opposed to the free and unlimited coinage 0 of silver and to any change in the th e existing gold standard except by international agreement each dollar iut be kept as good as every other dollar tho the credit of the united states must be maintained at the highest point so that it cannot be questioned anywhere either at home or abroad every promise must be rightly kept and every obligation redeemable in coin must be paid in C gold old then the new york takes up the call and sends it lever berating through the rank and file of t the he republican party in the following plank the agitation for the free coinage of silver at the ratio or of 16 to I 1 seriously disturbs all industrial interests and calls for a clear statement of odthe the republican bartys attitude altitude upon this question to the end that the the trade of this country at home and abroad may again be placed upon a sound and stable foundation we recognize in the movement for the free coinage of silver an attempt to degrade 6 the lono long 0 dished standard of our monetary system and hence a blow to public and private credit at once costly to the national government and harmful to our domestic and foreign commerce until there is a prospector prospect of international agreement 6 as to silver silve coinage and while gold lemkins the standard of the united united states and of the civilized civilize civi lied tl world the republican party parly of new york declares itself in favor of the firm and honorable maintenance of that standard then ohio followed suit with other republican states of the east all this was looked for but the south and west with the tha exception of utah republicans were expected to stand solid for silver dait texas which is regarded as a southern and a western state held a republican convention the other day and endorsed the gold standard too no longer can there be any doubt as to the attitude of the national republican party the texas platform reads we reaffirm the historic adherence of the republican party to sound lourid finance we demand an honest dobur of greatest purchasing power for every class alike the largest inoue ascue of gold silver and pa paper er compatible with security M and the requirements of trade all of equal value interchangeable one for the other every dollar resting on gold as aa money of final redemption the republicans of texas declare this to be in their deliberate judgment the only basis for a large and liberal circulation of money and for the maintenance of universal confidence there can be no question but senator arthur brown of utah is in accord with his national party our republican friends will have to fall in line with their goldbug gold bug brethren grover cleveland w will i 11 be with them the democratic party lio honored nored him with a high office but he be has bar deserted the principles of democracy and entered into a with reed sherman mckinley et al to build up the east at the expense of th the west let grover go 0 the party can get along without him |