People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1896 — WILL REMAIN LOYAL. [ARTICLE]

WILL REMAIN LOYAL.

Senator Wolcott No Holter Advocates Submission to the Majority. Washington, April 29—Senator Wolcott of Colorado has written* a letter defining his position in regard to the St. Louis convention. The senator indicates his Intention of remaining with the republican party whatever action it may take on the currency question. In his communication, which is addressed to the chairman of the republican state committee of Colorado, the seuator says: “To secure the unlimited coinage of silver I would count party ties as nothing. At this moment, however, the situation which confronts us is this: Both of the two great parties are apparently opposed to the free coinage by the United States. The populist party favors free coinage, but only as a means to secure more currency and as a stepping stone to unlimited paper money, and unites with its free coinage advocacy socialistic and paternalistic doctrines which are dangerous in tendency and which would be, if adopted, destructive to free institutions. There is, in my opinion, one event which might involve our country in worse disaster than gold monometallism, and only* one, and that would be the triumph of populism. Colorado suffered under the degradation and blight of populist rule for two years. I believe it is the duty of every good citizen to stand up and fight in the open against a repetition of that ruinous experiment.” He thinks Colorado democrats should submit to the decision of the national convention.