People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1896 — Pierce Archibald Speaks. [ARTICLE]

Pierce Archibald Speaks.

The republican candidate for represent ai-i-ve- after saying he favors “sound money as declared for by the republican platform, every dollar of which is equal in value to any other dollar,” thus disabuses the suspicious public mind of any impression which might be abroad that he might .have a kindly feeling for silyer, or might not support the republican machine candidate for United States senator.

□ I am unalterably opposed to the free and unlimited coinage of silver as proposed by the Democratic platform believing it to mean disaster,and to be in direct opposition to the best interests of our country at large and if elected a member of the Legislature will use my vote and influence to secure the nomination of an honest money republican for United States senator, and to vote for no one on joint ballot except the nominee of the republican caucus of the State Legislature for that office. Mr. Archibald has greatly obliged the public by this frank | statement of the condition of his financial conscience, though it-

would seem sufficient that a candidate wear the republican lable to establish his loyalty to the single gold standard policy. He avers that rumor is traducing him with bemga silver man. Is it not true, brother Archibald, that you were a little indiscreet in the days when your party played fast and loose with the heart strings of the fair silver maiden, and did you not then join the crowd that clustered at her feet, fairly turning her proud head with the petty compliments and expressions of love, and promises of undying devotion? Didn’t you do it, and are you not sufficient guilty to exhonerate Dame Rumor for remembering your more youthful follies and then indiscrietly peddling these entirely out of date stories on you? Of course it is well understood that Miss Silver’s titled sister the Countess English, the one that placed a crown of gold upon her own head and one of thorns upon her sister's has been holding court of late and that the glitter of her artificial beauty has quite captivated the former suitors for Miss Silver’s heart and hand. Deal gently with the past, brother, and if you have sinned but have regretted and reformed, why, just confess and ask forgiveness, not of the victim of your base betrayal, but of the gold bejeweled siren whose song beguiles you now.