Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, July 4, 1896, Page 4

Grand ‘Rapids HeradeMReview Published Every Saturday. By E. C, KILEY. Two “DOLLARS A YEAR IN ADVANCE Six Months..... $1.00 | Three Months........50¢ Officlal Pape Official r- » per Village 09 y_ua Rpaids. Oficial Paper Town of Grand Rapids. Entered in the postofiec at Grand Rapids Minnesota. as second-class matter. A QUESTIONABLE CRITIC. Our fellow townsman, C. C. ‘Mc- Carthy, wrote a lengthy interview with himself concerning Congressman Towne and sent it to the Duluth News Tribune, in which paper it ap- peared on Tuesday of this week, and for Mr. McCarthy’s sake the Herald- Review is really sorry that the editori- al judgment of the News Tribune did not protect him by consigning the communication to the waste-basket. That paper no doubt would have done so had it known something of our townsman’s political record‘in the past. However that may be, Mr. McCarthy has attacked Congressman Towne’s integrity and imputes to him dishonorable and _ selfish motives in refusing to accept a renomination for congress at the hands of the Republi- can party, and without presenting one able of argument for or against y monetary system of the past, present or future, he argues that Mr. Towne must necessarily be wrong and insincere because he attaches greater importance to the financial issue now than he did in former years. This is a most remarkable argument, to say the least, and one which stamps the writer thereof as a man of narrow In speaking of Mr. Towne’s masterful address favoring the free coinage of silver, delivered last winter in the lower house of congress, Mr. McCarthy asks: “Why did not Mr. Tow ne deliver his speech immediately the mind. bd for e 1894?” That question answered by asking why Mr. Towne n’t born a monkey, er why Mr, McCarthy was not ushered into the world a full grown man, and_ it would be as reasonable and furnish argu- ment equally as convincing to impugn e motives of Christ on earth for not having delivered his sermon on the mount two years earlier than he did. The Herald-Review is almost ashamed to ackilowledge that the man. who presents such argument, as does Mc- Carthy in his self-made interview. is a resident of Grand Rapids. But he is, nevertheless, and since he has thrown down the gauntlet and invites a cam- paign of personalities and mud-sling- ing, he must not complain if some comparisons here necessary to make should bea little odious. Mr.McCar- th y starts out with the statement that res to call the attention of the c toa few facts; and from that e to the final period of a three an article he makes a labored ot to create wrong impressions e does not hesitate to deliberately the facts. He studiously any mention of the tiorm upon which Mr. Towne was d—the financial plank of which Charles A. Towne wrote himself—but instead quotes from his own memory of a speech delivered two years ago, and presumes, upon that flimsy ground, to fix Mr. Towne’s position on the money question during the last campaign. We quote from the News Tribune interview: “Is there anyone foolish enough to believe that Mr. Towne would have received the nomi- nation for congress if he had delivered any such speech or. sentiments before the convention of 1894?” While he does not, because he dare not, say in direct language that Mr. Towne has irepudiated the platform upon which The was elected, yet this is the impres- sion that McCarthy seeks to create by msinuation, and in so doing he brands himself as a politician of the genus pot-house. Again we quote from. Py Grand Rapids defender» of the 20 cent dollar, in his contemptible et to make it appear that Towne was op= posed to the equal coinage of gold and silver during the ’94 campaign: “Let us remember that the last thing we heard from Mr. Towne in the fall of 1894 in regard tothe free silver men was that they were hke a few frogs, they made much noise but very scarce. Let us also re- member that when he made that statement he was discussing the very plank of the silver men, this very proposition of 16 to 1, and then let! were Brainerd convention of|a might be} us remember that he was against that plank and against that proposition.” Let us remember nothing of the kind if we would not misrépresent the facts. In discussing the financial plank of the Republican platform Mr. Towne eloquently defended his party’s pro- nouncement in favor of the equal coinage of both gold and silver at the government mints and “their common employment as the ultimate standard money.” He did hold, however, that the Populists desired to go still further, and use money based solely upon the fiat of the government. This pro- posed system Mr. Towne opposed and it was against it that his argu- ments were directed, a fact well known to McCarthy and well known to every person in the district who listened to Towne during his first campaign. In thus attempting to pervert the truth and establish falsehood at the very threshold of the present controversy— ata time when the vast majority ofmen of all political creeds are honestly un- dertaking to arrive at right conclu- sions regarding this vital subject—Mr. McCarthy has justly won the pro- found contempt of all citizens without regard to their views upon the finan- cial question. As stated heretofore, he studiously avoided any mention of the financial plank of the platform upon which Mr. Towne was nominated and elected.. He avoided it because the language and principles of the party contained there- in constitute a complete refutation and give the lie direct to every line from McCarthy’s-pen. For his benefit and for the benefit of others who are today repudiating their platform of two years ago the Herald-Review here quotes from that platform—and it is a quotation which they should paste in their hats and have indelibly branded on their brains. Read: By tradition, interest and conviction the American people are favorable to bimetal- nd the Republican party of the United and_of Minnesota is definitely pledged rate and national platforms. sipte we proclaim ouradhorence: Bimetalism is the equal privilege of coinage the government mints of both gold and inasmuch as the party is pledged ment, and beiieving it to be in the interest of the people, we hereby de- mand the certain and speedy accomplish- ment of it under such conditions as shall in- sure the parity of the two metals and their common employment as the ultimate standard money in the effecting of exchauges and the payment of debts. Is it possible for any*man to misun- derstand the language or to misinter- pret the declaration of principles herein set forth? The Republican congressional platform of two years ago was written by Mr. Towne, and read to the convention at Brainerd, where it was unanimously endorsed, from his own hand writing. Why did Mr. McCarthy not quote from that plank of the platform to prove that Mr. Towne 1s foliowing the light of a new, strange god? Why was it nec- essary for him to rely upon his mem- ory extending back over a period of two years, to quote from Mr. Towne, while a copy of that platform might be had for the asking? Surely it can- not he said that Mr. McCarthy or any one else charged Mr. Towne while he was “ stumping” this district two years ago, with misrepresenting his party or its platform. But Mr. McCarthy pre- ferred to draw upon his own imagina- tion because it afforded him ample opportunity to rant and romance—be- cause he is not honest and because he is msincere. But the financial plank of that platform stands as a mighty monument of defense to Mr. Towne and proves that the party has changed, not he. In the writing of his interview, if Mr. McCarthy had any object in view other than that of attracting at- tention to himself, it was to show that Congressman Towne is an in- grate for deserting the party which lifted him from comparative obscuri- ty to a position of affluence and which made it possible for him to become a man of national reputation. Mr. McCarthy appears to have made himself believe that this is a crime unpardonable. But if we should con- sent to agree that he is correct in this conclusion it places Mr, Me- Carthy: avery unfavorable light ;before f Pablic—that i is, ifthe ] pub- = Hic “gave him any’ consideration—bé- et To that prin ‘{cause, be it remembered, McCarthy has flirted with and made senous propositions to all parties. | He has basked in the alluring smiles of De- mocracy and toyed with the hand of the Labor party. This was down in lower Michigan where he made the hills on either side of old Saginaw valley re-echo withthe sound of his voice as he preached the doctrines of Jefferson and admonished the toiling masses to put their trust in Democracy. The party listened and thought he was siné€re, and elected him to the office of circuit court com- missioner. The young fellow was ambitiotis, He thought he deserved some higher honor, and two years later we find him in a Democratic convention asking for a .nomina- tion to the state legis- lature. Out of that convention he walked a defeated and disgusted man. He evidently: considered that he was not only bigger but better than his party, and shortly thereafter he shook the dust of the “Saginaw val- ley from his feet and came to north- ern Minnesota where the majorities are found in the Republican column, and ever since he has preached the doctrines of the g. 0. p. 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