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James Smith Jr., United States

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Day
23
Month
September
Year
1896
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Public Domain
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ator from New Jersey, and cliairman of the democriitic State central committee, has written a public letter, withdrawing from the cemmittee, and coming out for sound money. The editor of the Adrián Pres6 saya that Maime and Vermont don't amoimt to.much aoiyway, tmt look at Arkatsas ! If thé AdrLan Press wlU use the same mianner of reckoning in Arkansas that ifc does in Maine, TVhere will it come out next Xovember ? The free silver party has no idea of iincreasilng labor or ttue payl oí tbe laborer, but simply to' decrease the value of the dollar, and so make labor cbeaper. The f ree tra-d "Wiilson bill cost thifi nation another $10.000,000 in gold fturine: the m-onth of August. And yet Jfr. Bryan says ho Ss oipposed to protection, and advocates free trade eis we'' as 'Toe silver. 6k)ime o-r thp democratie free íálver peoplf's u"i:oi papers are sippinir i-weefC?") oaisolation fram the recent elections tn Maine and Vermomt Well, :f Dhey can fiad nnr hey art welco'me to it. Gen. Daniel E. Sickles, the war ncared vetera-n and uncompromteing demcrat of Nerv York, pays hW respecte O Mr. Bryan fai this laiwcuage : "Mr. Bryan denles the autfliority of the resident and the courts of the Unitd States to interfere with motu?. Tbey may -wLtih impnnity disturt the eae, destroy property and Ufe, in■errupt travel between the utates, nd oTastruct the United Rtates mails nd interstate as well as foreign commerce, lut the government must look n, powei'less, helpless, paralyzed. This is moto rule - anarchy. It is impassible to exaggerate the gravity )of his issue. It really cwerahado-ws all athers, because it toucilies the foundaions of social order amd clvilization. Tliis new doctrine is worse than tlie oíd secession heresy yoni put down vith your bayonets - let us ilence ;he new heresy by cmr ballots." Here is the opinión of Mgr. Zeininger ricar general of the Milwaukee diocese, as to who would be benefited iy tree silver : "The facilities for producing eilver have been greatly increased, and have made mining easy, twinging diown the vahie of the metal, andthrowing great quantities on the world, -vvhich wcmld be presented indefinitely ior coinage. What I object to, therefore, the moBt is the ratio of 16 to 1. Wö had free coinage prior to 1873, we are told, and i't did not bring ruin. But Bili'er was worth more as merchamdiee than as money. It is its cheapness that ÍB object ionable. Those who would be beueflted by free silver are the eilver barons and those who have enough to tuy it. "I ttink. it a mistake to' brtng such a question into politie. It should ' be decided by a disinterested and competent commission which tihould port it to congress ior finial uction." The official returns froin Maine jrive ttue repuWican ticket a plurality of 48,732, against a plurality in 1892 of 12,503. And Sewall lives in Maine ! The list of prominent men, both eas and west, who are daily coming out fo sound inoney, and almost invariably fo McKinley & Hobart, is so great tha onecanwitli difficulty keep track ofit Umderreputflican legiisla,tion, foor 13 years eucceedinsr July 1, 1879, the total v.itlulrawal of g-old from tihe fereasury omïy amotmtea to $43,310,896. But under democratie tlireatí and ïree trade legislatloia, frora July 1, 1892, to May 20 1896, the w:ihdi-av;ils of g-old amoumed to upward 147,000,000 and ovei' $351,000,000 oí that amouint has been exported to fareign couintries to make good the balances against us in onr trade relations. Under r-m-h a disastrous P0ÜCJ 3iow is it possilaJe, wiíh the nii is!, favored cotïdïtioos, to sustain our financial relations under any bvktem we may see fit t-o inaugúrate.- Hon. Kobert J. Gamble, M. C, of South Dakota. One of the most pleasing items it has eTer been our duty ta record is thils one, anniauncing that Thos. "W. Brewer, the conscientious, sincere and able editor of the Livingston Herald, published at Howell, has renounced the dtlusion af the ïree and unlimited coinage of sil-ver at a ratio, of 16 to 1, and has coime out for the. republicain doctrine of honest money. Mr. Brewer ie au O'ld soldier, an ardent republican, and a m,an ivho read and thinks. His friende have regretted his silver comvictions, but have had full faith that betore this campaign of cd-ucation was over tfoa-t he would be ïound on the right side, lor that te wliere he has always stood. Con■i'atulations, not only to the people oí JAving-ston countj-, but to an houest imán wfoo has thrown aside preJuddce and listened tO' reason. If reports ar etrue that Mr. :?Ingree has ollowed himself oi' his ïriends to m;ike war aga-imet thereputolicannomtoee for congress in the first district. ome Rood frtend ougiht to advise him ttiat he should have better judgment. The republican party is interested in congressmen quite as much as in president, and far more tJhaa in governor. It is of vital imporitance to the party whether congress is for sound principies or agalnst them, for repúblicas doctrines or against th.rn. Il' Mr. Pingree proposes to ma,ke a personal campaign ag-ainKt any candidate on the ticket whiom he may have taken a dislike I to, he may find that Buch a coiU'se wïll no't bO tolerated by the party, and may react to hüs on-n dlsadvantaffe. No man can aíford to be a candidate himself who does not put bis shoulder to the wheel and help push the entire ticket to victory. There is somebhiug peculiar about the speech of Jas. G. Blaiine's made in congiese on Fet. 7, 1878. The gold men carry it with tSiem to support their cause a-nd the silver men carry it to help alcmg their cause. This proves that there are two ways of ioolcins" at the same thing. - Dexter Leader. The trouble is that the eilver men have garbled such paragraphs and eeintences which by themselves favor silver, and have cut out or left off the qualifying eentences or clauses that iollowed, wliich were necessary to expro.s Mr. Blaine's opinions. James (j.Bla.ine was toe abia a nijau to ever be foiind chasing ratobowe. The official returjis fraai Arkansaf have vrtiittled the pHirality oí 80,000 or more down to 40,312, and in e -i of that ofbtaüied by fraud. The democratie plurality for governor in 1894, in Arkansas, was 48,724 ; and in 1892 it was 56,471. This year the democratie managers made a special effort to roU up a txlg vote as üm oiief" to the Vermout verdoet against BryaLism. They have been claiming from 70,000 to 80,000 plurality for their candidate, and pointing to the result as a sure indication that the people of the west, at least, are overwhlmingly in favor oí repudiation and cheap money.

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