The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, June 25, 1896, Page 3

> WouveR MEN BOLTED. f ‘ f j -— SS ee = eee $ I if e . _ 4 or is id 1e nk ne or Bago 232 BP Mblican nomince. We carried it on) dress you. nolicies we will put into exe We ask for them the con- judgment of the American Confident alike in the his- of our great party and in the 1g of our cause, We present our Yorm and our candidates in the gasurance that the election will yictory to the Republican par- od prosperity to the people of [oited States. 7SLLER MAKES HIS PLEA. jy soon 88 the applause which 4 the close of the reading of yeport of the majority of the FP’ . tions committee had died away chairman announced that he recognize, to move a substi- fer the majority report, the san from Colorado, Mr. Teller. Teller's remarks in full as follows: “Gentlemen of the tien: I will not attempt to ppon you a discussion ef the fssocial question which is di- the people, not only of this ry, but of the whole world. ngfow moments alotted te me by eavention will not enable me to «then state in the briefest pos- mapper our objections to the plank proposed for your deration. I am a practical man, I recognize the conditions exist. ja this convention, foreshadowed "fey were by the action of the ittee selected by the represen. assembled from the different s ts Wfhis plank or this proposition ted to the whole commit- ad by it rejected. Loyalty to « own consideration of the great ¢ that is felt in this country me in the face of unusual yalties to present this for your ideration, not with that bound. or with that courage that I presented thie in other bodies r measure of success than an for here. The great and prome importance of thie question tlone my excuse now for the few de that I shall say to you. “[a connection with this subject a public capacity I have dealt rith it now for twenty years. I rep- { astate that produces silver, Iwant to say to you here and ew that my advoeacy of the propo- ition is not in the slightest degree fiuenced or controlled by that fact. (Applause and a voice, Good.) WAY SILVER IS CONTENDED FOR. 4{ contend for it because I believe lhat there can be no sound financial Zrtem in any country in the world lat does not recognize this prinei- ne. Toontend for it because since 1873, when it was ruthlessly stricken from our statutes, there has been tontinual depreciation of all the products of human labor and human . Leontend for it because in this year of 1896 the American peo- pleare in greater distress than they tr were in their history. I con- wed for it because this is, in my judgment, the great weight, the great incubus, that has weighed down enterprise and destroyed pro- gress in this favored land of ours. I autend for it because I believe the Pogress of my couutry i+ depend- elton it; d cuutend tur it because I believe the civilization of the world ito be determined by the rightful te the wrongful solution of this financial question. “Tam tolerant of those who differ with me. Iact from my judgment talightened as best as I have been ible to enlighten it by many years thought. In my judgment, the American people in the whole line their history have never been alled upon to settle a question of eater importance than this. The gteat contest in which many of you warticipated, of whether we should bave two governments or one, was Not more important to the American people than the question of proper | solution of what shail be the money system of the land. A QUESTION OF PRINCIPLE. “have said enough to show you that 1 think this is not a question of | Policy, but a question of principle. | {tis not a mere idle thing, but one ‘a which hangs the happiness, the Posperity, the morality and the in pendence of American labor and erican producers. Confronted for the first time in the bistory of bis glorious party of ours, cop- fronted, Isay, for the first time, | with adanger of a financial system that, in my judgment, would be de tttuctive of all the great interests of theland we are called upon to give tothe provision of our platform our : tdhesion or our rejeetion moment, this provicic ‘publican Party of cin thimetallic port lits history bimetallis bimetal & single gold standard. in its ¢ au VISSS it decla Npresent—for whom? For the re | a x i a bimetallic platform. We carried) things that may seem to you to be | considering our vote, to that of any republican state from the hour of its admission. question, and I will not, except to say that this platform is such a dis- it with a majority that was equal,| personal and that they ought not to be introduced in an undience like this, I must beg your indulgence if I seem to transcend the proprie- , ties of this occasion if I shall say | something personal to myself. 1! have formed my conviction on this great question after twenty years of | study, after twenty years of careful thought and careful investigation. I have been trained in a school that it) seers to me ought to fit me pretty well for reaching just conclusions state in the Union. It has been a It has kept in the sen- ate a republican .senator and in the house republican members. INDEPENDENCE APPEALED FOR. “Mr. President, I promised you that I would not discuss the silver tinct departure from everything a = = = = = RK. 4 . C R R | ) F & (), Mr. Cleveland a Doubter on the Silver CANNOT BEL Question Washington, D.C. June 16—In reply toa question from the New York Herald for a statement con- cerning the Democratic situation. President Cleveland to-might sent B the following to that newspaper: “1 Greeting to all Cash Buyers of Groceries, Hardware, Stoves, c.f se= heretofore held by this party that it changes all our republicanism to ac- cept it. some platitudes about international conferences. we may do otherwise. first great gathering of republica:.s The platform contains It provides that we will maintain the gold standard in this country until the principal va tions of the world shall agree that This is the since this party was organized that has declared the inability of the Ameriean people to control ther own affairs (all the silver delezat>« rose ina body at this point and shouted their approval of the sext- ments.) To my horror this declava- tion came from the great national party of Abraham Lincoln and U. S. Grant. Do you believe the American people are too weak to actually maintain a financial system commensurate with the greatness of the country of their own fruition? Gentlemen of the conventien, you will have no bimetallic agreement with all the great commercial na tions of the world, and it cannet be obtained. So tbis is a declaration that the gold standard is to be put upon this country and kept here for all time. Do you believe that Great Britain, that great commercial na- tion of the world, our powerful com- petitor in commerce and trade, will ever agree to open her mints to the free coinage of silver, or consent that we shall open our long as she has the advantage of the low prices of declining values that have been brought to this country by the adoption of a gold standard in 1873 in a partial dégree only? We are the great debtor nation of the world. Great Britian ie the great creditor. We pay her every year millions and hundreds of millions of dollars as income on her investments in this country on her loans. The gold standard in my -judgment lowers pricesand decreases values. And e buys of us millions more than she sells us. She buys upon a geld standard, a lowering and depreciat- ing standard. How long do you think it will be before she will agree to such an extent that they became binding on my conscience. I be- lieve that the adoption of the gold standard in the United States will work great hardships; that it will in crease the distress, and that no leg- is!ation touchivg the tariff can re move the difficulties that now all aduit prevail in this land. I believe that th whele welfare of my race is departiwent upon a rightful solution of thts qvesiion; that the morality, the civilizativn, nay the very relig- iou of wy country is at stake in this contest. 4 kucw aud you know that wen ia di-tr. aa are reither patriotic or brave. You aud I know that Lunger and distress will destroy patriotism avd love of country. To have love of country, patriotic fervor aud iudependence you must have your citizens comfortably fed and comfortably clothed. That is what made me a Republican in 1863; that is what has made me a Republican during all these years because I be- lieved the Republican during all these years because I believed the Republican party was good for the great masses of men, that its legis- lation was intended to lift up and sustain the unfortunate and the dis- tressed to lift up and elevate and hold up and sustain the unfortunate and the distressed and give Ameri- ican citizens equal opportunities be fore the law. (Applause.) READY TO LEAVE THE PARTY. - “I do not believe that it can be, bad with the gold standard. You may doubt my judgment and many of ua will, but shall I doubt it? I must act upon my judgment and not upon yours. I must answer to my eonscience and not.to my neighbors. I must do my duty as it ia present to me and not as presented to you. Isay to you now that, with the solemn conviction upon me that this gold plank meane ultimate disaster and distress to my fellow men, I can- not subscribe to it, and, if adopted I must, as an honest man, sever my connection with the potical organiza- tion which makes that one of the main articles of its faith (prolonged nt, I donot desire to H sand in 1892 it declared In 1896 it declared | the convention, In 1888 | I would take but Wecarried the state which I now|I believe Iam allowed only a few applause.) I repeat here what I said yesterday in the committee, would not upon my own judgment alone, carefully as I have attempted to pre- pare it, dare to take this step alone. “My friends, Iam sustained in my yiew of the danger that is coming to us and coming to the world by the adoption of the gold standard, by the intelligence of the entire world. They may say that the silver ques- tion is a craze. Let me tell you that the best part of thought in the best of the world is with the advocates of bimetallism All the political teachers of Europe, with the exeep- tion of five or six are the pronounced advocates of bimetallism—unrestrict- ed and unrestrained bimesailism All of the great teachers ot! political economy in the European colleges without exception are in favor of bimetallism. My own judgement, based, as I have said to you, on care ful preparation and careful study of twenty years, bears me out and puts me in accord with them and I would be recreant to my trust, given to me by the people of my state, if I failed to protest here and if I failed, when to a system of values that raises the prices of the farm produets er the products of our mines in this coun- try. PROTECTION DECLARED IN DANGER. It is a solemn declaration that the republican party intends to maintain low prices and stagnate business for all time to come. (Cheers from the silver states.) There is a beautiful provision in this platform about the tariff. I subscribe to that. (Ap plause and cheers from all over the house.) [believe in a protective tariff. (More applause.) I have ad- vocated it for years (applause), but it is my solemn conviction that a protective tariff cannot be maintain- ed upon a gold standard. (Applause una cheers from the silver people The tariff protection principle is for the raising of the price of human toil; it is for giving to the producer more compensation for his labor. The gold standard, on the contrary, everywhere that it is enforced, is for the purpose ef reducing values. “Now, gentlemen of the conven- tion, I am going to make this simple jecti tive system, . your attention to one other fact, and | one of the glia obits — to sev- then leave it to your judgment |©) ™) connection from as Barty: whether this platform shall be adopt- | (API He e and cries of “No ed or rejected. Under existing con-| ditions we undoubtedly have tho) gold standard. 1 do not deny that. | * ~ . - e “Thanking you. gentlemen, for your kind attention, retiring from "but what I have sought for twenty | YOU as I do, perhaps never again | years is to change it to the bimetal-|t° Dave an opportunity of addressing lie system. I have believed, and I\a Republican convention, I cannot now believe, that when the Almighty do it without saying that, atter ell I created these twin metals He intend- j have in my heart a hope-nay, a have ed that the world should use them jan expectation—that if you should for the uses for which they were | be foolish enough to adopt this plat- created. And when He blessed this | form an: force us to leave the Re land of ours with more gold and publican party, better counsel will more silver than any other country prevail and ultimately, on a true Re in the world, He meant that we | publican platform,sustaining Repub should use them for the purposes | for which they were intended, to- wit: The use of the people as stand | you ard money. | “We to day reverse the traditions! of our country and declare we will use one. If the American people are ‘in favor of that, I have nothing to} say. I must submit to the minority timable privilege of againa How's This! vote and tbe wajority vote in this eountry of ours. Ido not believe this party of ours. if it eould be poll ed, is in favor of the gold standard that 90 per cent of the people are in favor of bi NINNAN & MAR to . O. ° ¢ I “Mr. President xz ; I promised you tha Mi a few moments and is y, Ky., 35 years old 3 a trifie over 400 pounds. S | moments in which I can rapidly ad- But I want to say a few i lican principles, I may have the ines-| rddressing | i the sac ir tion in the interest le Druggists, We are here as we have been for many years, and expect to and will give able action of the delegates already you as many (or more) goods for the same money as any other house in the | oh, b q City. We are not importers, but buy jour }goods as cheap as anyone in the | chosen, or to be chosen to the demo- City and intend to keep nothing but jwill be engrafted upon our demo- STRICTLY FIRST GLASS GOODS — and with our experience of twenty-five years in the grocery business i b y y : g y business and/ know that we know the best brands of goods, also know what they ABS cratic creed % temend fon te.tre, worth inthe market and atthe inside price, and the inside price is what unlimited and independent coimage we pay for them. It is not necessary to advertise$prices for other parties to| of silver. I cannot believe this, for I know the democratic party is nei- duplicate, but we ask youto come in with your |\ther unpatriotic or foolish, aud be- TER cause it seems clear to me that sueh 5 5 5 @ course will inflict a very great in- jury upen every interest of our eountry, which it has been the mis- sion of democracy to advance and will result in lasting disaster to our party organization. “There is little hope that as a means of success this free silver proposition, after its thorough dis- cussion duriag a political campaign, will attraet a majority of the votes ef the eountry. It must bo that many of the illusiens influencing those, now relying upon this alleged panacea for their ills, will be dispell- ed before the time comes for them to cast their ballots, whieh will ex- press their sober, second thought. The adoption by the democraey of this proposition would, I believe | give to our opponents an advantage, |both iu the present and future, | which they do not deserve. “My attachment to true democracy is so strong that I consider its sue- | cratic national convention, but I re- ifuse to belieye that when the time {arrives for deliberate action there or infact anything that you have for sale and we will give you as much for tas the market will bear, in justice to ourselves as well as you. QUR LINE OF HARDWARE ts eomplete in everything, from a sewing awl to a cook stove. Our line of @ried fruit were bought in Sanfrancisco, shipped direct to us and are strict- ly fancy. Our coffees are the best in the City, come and try them and you will be convinced, we tell the truth ‘‘so with all our lines.” * Only try them and you will be satisfied. rk We Guarantee everything we sell to be as Represented Snffice it to say we will duplicate any legitimate price quoted. We do not blow our horn but will leave the matter with our customers to determined whether we do a legitimate business or not. Come in and be convinced. Very respectfully yours, A. L. McBRIDE & Co. North side square, Butler Missouri. WILL NOMINATE BLAND. No Spht in the Democracy - The most significant feature in politics in the last few days is the | “Bilver Dick” Has Requested Senuter unanimous agreement of the leaders | Vest te Serve un Orater. whe have been interviewed that | Post-Dispatch. \cess as identical with the promotion there will be no split in the demo Mr. Bland was asked last evening of the country’s good. This ought cratic party. The report of the in | who would place him in rowinatisn (Caan to account for my anxi- evitable eplit have been exceedingly | at Chicago. lety that no mistake be made at our eommon for some time, but they) “I will aek Senator Vest to do so,” | Paty convention. In my opinion can almost all be traced to republi-/he replied. Continuing he said:|"° effort should be spared to secure can politicians and newspapers whe | “Some weeks ago Gov. Stone wrote such action of the delegates as will mistook their wishes for facts. | me, suggesting that I ask Senator avert party demoralization. It isa The strongest argument against | Vest to place me in nomination, and place for consultation and compari- there being any truth in the predic-) we had some correspondence on the son of views; and those democrats tions of the republicans in regard to} subject. Beyond that, however, I who believe in the cause of sound the democracy is that there is no|had not until very recently again |™0>°Y should there be heard, and reason why there should beany split | thought of the matter, all of us be- be constantly in evidence. 3 It is true that the democrats have|ing more intent on fighting for the] “4 cause. worth fighting for is been divided on the currency ques-| Chicago Convention by the bimetsl- worth fighting for to the end. If tion, but democracy means some-| lists than anything else. I will now, sound money democrats think there thog more than a question of the| however, ask Senator Vest to per- is danger of a mietake being made amount of silver to be coined by the | form this service for me. such | danger should stimulate their government. i | ‘Because of some misleading a a The democratic party is consider- | statements that have appeared in| ¢,_ a srrogating to myeelf a con- ably older than any of its members. | the newspapers, and to.prevent fur-| trolling influence upon the policy of It hasa long ard brilliant record be | ther misapprehension about this| my party; one who desires hereafter hind it. It has fought and won its | matter, I desire to say that Gov.|n0 greater privileges than to occupy victories not ona single issue, but | Stone first suggested to me that Se De Se nore because it was the party @ the peo- | Senator Vest should nominate me-| ini, much at this time in the inter- ple. Every question presents itself | This he did weeks ago.and has done | est, as it seems to me, of the grand to the democratic party only as it is | so beth by letter and in person. Told orgauizet:ons #0 rich In honor- or is not # measure in the interests | am also informed tbat this disposi- able traditions, so justly proud of ge se esa [tion of the matter ie approved by eee tog brave in ite battles fo In this way the democracy met | the Executive Committee having the the people's welfare.” the tariff question and enlisted itself | campaign in hand My long friend- eee against the trusts and in favor of | ship for Senator Vest and his high} 4 book on kidney trouble and its the people. So it is with the ques-/ reputation as an orator would seem Deegeerag pheroerers fren to ane tion of the free coinage of silver. |to make this arrangement of the|rhe Boker Pill Co., Bangor Maine,or The democrats as individuals could | matter not ooly satisfactory, but Shoe Oa Se ce oan Bogue. not agree as to whether free silver | sirable.” land one box of Buker's Pills will be was or was not in the interests of _| mailed together with the book, post the poople. At the Chicago conven 1] PO ee anes See eww ‘tion, however, the national democ reath, coated | yy 4rvellous remedy as rhature t ‘racy will proceed to ballot on the sk | question. When the national dem- | ocraey pas announced pies | asto what system of currency is 2 conszipated or | relieve clog ©} will al jwill also r € -! “| urinary troubles, backac Tl aches and pains thr Back-ache and kid ame and are very its decision |best for the people. it will be the | dis: or bowels | move the Et | duty of every democrat to accept Nae mee ote | Safe in allcas . ee eee \ 75 “| Being descovery, Buker’s +jgi00. = © Se | the decisio if 30Y) Kidn ite F I For what constitutes democracy’ drag Not the opinion of A B or S Wak reunion will take place at Richmond, cee | the epinioa of the whole democracy ! Ve Js | of the United States. It would be Cont absurd for any individual to put! oo oonive int himself above the whole party and/ 40° the rest of the { The Unitea Confederate Veterans me s to the general Leadquarte declare thet unless Orleaus, La, for necessary pay dopted his ideas he! coasto participate in this r with Such a There are no 33 camps w sruption plications for near 100 more jon. no | low ig a list ef camps by Yexas 213, Alabama 57, ath Caro- that lina 71, Miss ), Reed and Secreta ter the 4th of Mare ‘democrats at would not ac them. thing would lead to the B states: for the only way to of the peo tic part ‘through the demo this reason the de land 6, Oxleb the above eratic a 2. West Virgi - ied ie I 1, Mo ually auswer the « on regarding ple of sub of theiy 7 nal a 1, Dist President Cleveland s tentions 43 majority so every man who cerat —RKansas to a fourth nomization. f i abs Cc j i i i ; tconinernseeennnianeansas nett Ate REACT DANII