Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 1895 — THE REPUBLICAN’S SILVER VIEWS [ARTICLE]

THE REPUBLICAN’S SILVER VIEWS

The American people, from tradition and interest, favor bimetallism, and the Republican party demands the use of both gold and silver as standard money, with such restrictions and under such provisions, io be determined by legislation, as will secure a maintenance.of the parity of values of the two metals, so that the purchasing and debt-paying power of the dollar, whether of silver, gold, or paper, shall at all times be equal. The interests of the producers of the country, its farmers and its workingmen, demand that every dollar, paper or coin, issued by the government, shall be as good as any other. We commend the wise and patriotic steps already taken by our government to secure an conference to' adopt such measures as will insure a parity of value between gold and silver for use as money throughout the world.—Republican National Platform, 1892. A very pleasing and satisfactory eature of Tuesday’s elections is ound iu the returns from the former strongholds of populism in the west. Iu Nebraska it is now hard to find a populist, while in Kansas, the hot-bed of all the impractical and unreasonable polititical isms known to the country, the populist vote was exceedingly light. It looks as though the legitimate offspring of the defunct greenback party had been apprehended and removed to the same asylum to which its parent was taken a few years ago. It is not in the nature of things that either should be discharged cured.—Jo - iet, IIL, Republican.

The fact that hundreds of people have —written letters to Mr. Gage, of Chicago, to ascertain if he was present at Professor “Coin’s” school shows how grossly deceived thousands have been by the Chicago Inter Ocean’s publication. To state that a prominent man was at a meeting which was never held and to 'make him answer (|U-.st;°:;s that were never asked him is indefensible because it is no better than forgery to give currency to a-statement as coming from a man who never made it. — Indianapolis Journal. Col. Ingersoll, being asked his opinion of the figure the Populist party would cut in the next presidents 1 campaign, answered: “Very little., <-The Populists do not know what they want or how to accomplish it. Their creed is a mass of contradictions and absurdities. They think the government should support the people. The fact is, the people have to support the government. The government is a pauper, a non-producer, and we must take care of it. I do not think that the Populists will have any great influence. That party is growing smaller day by day. If the times get better it will fade from sight.”