Show I 1 I 1 S 2 SK 4 I 1 I 1 i 3 Z t yi az i 4 E I 1 l it 1 ra 7 Z il ze Z at TJ 14 1 DERO GRATIC PAR 1 TE e I 1 VOICE OF OUR PRESSON P RES S ON ISSUES OF TH THE is DAY I 1 1 I 1 I 1 the republican congress the mot most cw cow I 1 1 ardly mefody that B L the american people tho grest opportunity port unity ity chicago chronicle the I 1 democratic party of the united slates faces a great opportunity such as Is seldom pre ir dented in the career ot of a party parts a nation or an individual it wai was anun in an almost hopeless minority at the state elections two years ago at the opening of this year it was almost ready to permit the presidential election to go by default within a few d days ays it has been surprised by a situation in which the gravest possibilities are involved the republican party will be disrupted by the silver question this year as the democratic party was disrupted by the slavery question in 1860 I 1 or it 11 will be compelled to adopt a platform and enter the presidential campaign campa agn with silver pledges to restore the sher shery man act or to recognize silver in some still more vicious measure to debauch and degrade the currency the republican party must challenge chal lengs defeat as asan ln honest money party or it must surrender to the silver conspirators on an a makeshift false and fraudulent platform the republican silver contingent will desert unless its de mands are granted in a platform which the honest voters of 0 the country will be compe compelled lied to reject in this supreme political crisis the democratic opportunity is presented if the democrats shall adopt a platform of which honest money sentiment is the inspiration the platform of jefferson of jackson of denton benton and of tilden ani and it if a candidate with faith in the platform shall be nominated a new era of democratic advancement will be b installed leading to permanent demo claue supremacy in a majority of the states and in the nation the path of democratic duty Is the path of safety and the path that leads to eventual v victory c but the history of the past Is an admonition that democratic party leaders may be blinded by false visions of suc eiss through shameless s compromises compromise a and by prostitution the disastrous greeley campaign of 1872 is an instance the democrats then agreed to toab abandon amdon an honest tariff platform and to relegate that question to congress a makeshift a straddle and a fraud for the purpose of temporary success with the most malevolent and grotesque enemy of the democratic party tor or its lea leader eier and presidential candidate the ovar wh whelming whelm elming ng defeat which followed this utterly false and perfidious policy retarded the restoration odthe of the democratic party lol more than twenty years but that lesson was unheeded fatuous in ir impulses pulses prevailed A few years later the pernicious greenback falsehood a ad id heresy became popular imong among d imo cratic politicians and blind leaders ci the blind they adulterated democratic lemo cratic platforms with the vicious element ement 31 f faith in a dishonest finan ial rys am they formed a combine with the loose factions that had codes I 1 of belief but blit little removed from the rascality of repudiation this policy was as disastrous in its results as the coalition with Greely ism the supreme question now pre presented to honest democrats relates mates to the course which snail shall be pursued pursue ed in view of the silver rupture in the republican party false and blind leaders again will present their claims to leadership the quicksand quack sand kand im impostors posters will offer again agabi their fallacious pleas hon est money democrats conscience democrats will be told that by just one more treacherous departure from democratic principles by another surrender by another act of diseased prostitution a temporary victory may be gained including the spoils and plunder of office this Is immoral counsels counsel what may be of more interest to timeserving time serving I 1 politicians it will lead only to a worse catastrophe than all those of the past if f it shall be followed democrats cannot outbid republican sih schemers emers conspirators spira tors and for the dishonest vote of the country false issues will fall fail and each successive failure will be more disastrous than ihan any which had bad preceded democrats should adopt an honest money plat platform forra to be followed bytha nomination of an honest money candidate on entering the campaign of 1896 nothing can be gained but everything wt will L lie be lost by a silver coalition A single honest campaign for honest money and an honest tariff maya may end in present defeat but it will be fruitful af pf t good and will prepare the way for a long series of democratic victories victorie s in the future which will be of jp permanent value to all the people ot of the cini country attacks on an secretary morton chicago chronicle the partisan Pirt isau republicans publicans public ans in congress coi IM ss have hav e made a series of attacks on governors gofer Gover nor norT Z arter I 1 ling morton secretary secre tarr agriculture bf of foghis for his refusal to distribute sajda under the absurd legislation 0 on i n chit that d for other alleged irregularities es by i aich h he ehas e has refused to ex pend bambi money estrata ext raTa ganay Y with wit no useful 4 z purpose e la y I 1 ew 11 an 7 7 1861 of 1 Sec R orton for f hla ac I 1 iga ese adum roylis 0 e t WOW ceus cre cinas ilijin f iii ae er iio f an anem english EM i t iliff i 6 I 1 I 1 ibi sat 7 the iw seed aih W I 1 he t abrea if anal cost wasia 9 sanc aguil VA alb t I 1 1 I 1 can tiu idt lit 0 z t tol IJU p wpm r I 1 ow t e I 1 I 1 1 l k 16 im I 1 J 41 illi illia 1 uia I 1 I 1 r akil I 1 C it I 1 I 1 AM 11 x ege ar N k gag s M Z 4 j 4 i e IM 11 2 5 F C aal av r 0 3 P na i e tes c I 1 ff V 7 i i s f y 1 ya m and other vegetables which hucic ca could al f adnot not be raised in our soft boll and or f that would be of no value it e grown end and c brought to maturity even if the seeds of exotic eg tabled table 3 would have produced an available avail aole harvest hari I 1 in the I 1 united states 3 its value would have been trifling compared with the ahe expenses to the 40 government demeul efin it individuals divi Alvi duals had desired to mako make experiments in strange productions of tae soil it would not have cost them cents where it costs the government dollars s to procure the seeds private enterprise could have established better results at a trivial cost than were obtained by the government at an e expense of at millions of dollars I 1 the seeds bought by the government were not equitably distributed under the old rule the secretary of agriculture gave to each member of congress his share members of congress ofte otten rold the seeds to speculators or guve gave them other members or made no use of them in fraud of the law providing for their the reasons for abandoning the seed abuse were abundant and conclusive all the other acts of Sedre secretary tary morton which the partisan republicans criticism criticise critic ise lse are equally worthy of praise he is entitled to popular commendation even if he be should receive the censure of a partisan and corrupt congress protection in n great britain washington post it is the intention of the british ministry to open at the next session of parliament a fight against tree free trade and for protection true this struggle is to be waged in a single item of imports live animals but it involves the whole question of free trade versus protection it the english conservatives succeed in imposing a protective duty on cattle the farmers will next demand protection for cereals supposing the farm products ate are to be protected and the cost of living to be increased the men who work in the factories mines and all occupations other than agricultural will have to be protected from starvation by increase ot of wages and then what will become of english supremacy in the markets ol of the world silver men logical at least philadelphia record the chairman ha irmin of the republican national committee senator carter of montana declares that the vote of the senate practically defeating the dingley tariff bill will bring the republican party to its senses if iron and copper and lead and coal and wool and wood are arc to be protected why not silver silver and lead come out of the same game mine why make drakes of one metal and ducks of the other protection forever shouts mr carter but let every everything thin 9 be protected unless the mountaineers are to be taken in under the cover of paternalism they will kick and according to the protective logic they are quite justified McKIn mckinless leys load lead full fall of peril philadelphia bulletin there Is no more place that a presidential candidate can occupy four months in advance of a national nation al convention than to be in the lead this is the position which william mckinley mckenley occupies today he can count on more delegates with reasonable certainty than any two of his competitors in the race even his enemies admit that he will be in the van on the first ballot at st louis this Is the reason why every other candidate is now directing his special attention to heading off mckinley it looks as if the buckeye statesman would be a wiser politician it if he held back his tables of estimates fro free coinage and mertal 44 tam boston post the free silver republican senators are am logical in their jle mand that their party must take free conage coinage with McKinley ism the republicans public ans who denounce as they did on the of the senate the antagonizing protection with free col coinage nage are weak and illogical it if monopolies in iron in wool in coal in scores of other products are to be protected why should not the ring of silver mine owners claim a like protection this Is the sensible logical commercial view moreover it is the view which prevailed in 1890 when McKinley ism won its short lived triumph honesty the only thine needed philadelphia record if the republican congress were honest in its anxiety to put money in the treasur treasury y it would pass a bill for the purpose which the president could approve the dingley bill was framed in the interests of the trusts ind and with a view to appease the mutiny of the sliver silver mountaineers by a 6 tax on wool happily the revenue from customs is steadily in creasing and there Is surplus cash enough in the treasury in excess of at the gold reserve to carry the country along until a new congress shall have leen b ee n e elected I 1 ec tel the present Con congress greis summed up new york sun beyond A doubt tte the present con congress congreso gresi making ng all proper allowance I 1 I 1 tor for the shining exceptions la is tho the most unenlightened incompetent n eteng sordid and 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