Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1896 — As Hood A Pop As They Make ’Em. [ARTICLE]

As Hood A Pop As They Make ’Em.

We have William J. Bryan’s own word for it in 1893 and 1894 that he was no longer a democrat and that he had become a populist. In addition to this we have the testimony of his friends at the St. Louis conventions of last week that he is a populist and not a democrat. Senator Stewart, republican silver plutocrat, of Neveda, said to the silver convention: I know William J. Bryan. HE BELIEVES WHAT WE BELIEVE. HE IS NOT A DEMOCRAT IN GOOD AND REGULAR STANDING. Judge Green of Nebraska said to the Populist convention: I know Mr. Bryan. I know him personally. He is my frienA and I say to you HE IS AS TRUI| A POPULIST AS YOU OR I. It will be seen, therefore, that there is no democratic candidate for the presidency in the field as yet.—Chicago Chronicle.

The Republican party is unreservedly for sound money. It caused the enactment of the law providing for the resumption of specie payments in 1879; since then every dollar has been as good as gold. We are unalterably opposed to every measure calculated to debase our currency or impair the credit of our country. We are therefore opposed to the free coinage of silver, except by international agreement with the leading commercial nations of the world, which we pledge ourselves to promote, and until such an agreement can be obtained the existing gold standard must be preserved. All our silver and paper currency must be maintained at a parity with gold, and we favor all measures designed to maintain inviolably the obligations of the United States, and all our money, whether coin or paper, at the present standard—the standard'of the most enlightened nations of the world. —Republican National Platform, 1896.

James H. Chapman will loan you B. and L. money as low as any one. Payments are limited.