Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1900 — SOME MORE DEMOCRATS, POPULISTS AND SILVER EX-SECRETARY CARLISLE WILL SUPPORT McKINLEY [ARTICLE]

SOME MORE DEMOCRATS, POPULISTS AND SILVER

EX-SECRETARY CARLISLE WILL SUPPORT McKINLEY

Hon. John Q. Carlisle, formerly Speaker of the House of Representatives and Secretary of the Treasury under President Cleveland, has accepted the Presidency of a Sound Money Club in New York and will assist in the re-election of President McKinley. Mr. Carlisle’s reasons are covered by two utterances made in a speech at Chicago four years ago. They still hold good. He said :

“The greatest crime, short of absolute political enslavement, that could be committed against the workingman in this country would be to confiscate his labor for the benefit of the employer by destroying the value of the money in which his wages are paid. But, gentlemen, this irreparable wrong can never be perpetrated under our system of government, unless the laboring man himself assists in forging his own chains.” Hon. John G. Carlisle, Democrat. ExSecretary of the Treasury, Chicago, April 15, 1896.

‘‘No man who has a particle of sympathy for working men and women, and their dependent families, can contemplate the possibility of such a calamity (free coinage of silver) without feeling that it is his duty, whether Jie occupies a public or private station, to employ every honorable means at his command to avert it.” Hon. John G. Carlisle, Democrat, ExSecretary Treasury, Chicago, April 15, 1896.