| Show TWO PARTIES NEXT YEAR The St Louis GlobeDemocrat says there will be only two parties of any power in the field in the next national campaign I calls attention to the fact that the Republican seceders of the convention of 1896 are withdrawing from the Democracy Dem-ocracy And it says further The Salt Lake Tribune is right in its assertion asser-tion that Teller and his friends who ton I organized the bolt in the St Louis convention con-vention made the Bryanitc campaign of 1S9G not only possible but respectable respect-able But our St Louis contemporary probably from a perusal of the organ It cites a an authority falls Into the error of imagining that Senator Teller I and his associates have ceased to give their sympathy support and eminent respectability to the Bryanlte party I The GlobeDemocrat continues The significance of this collapse of the I Bryanite coalition I of 1896 is that there I I 1e idt ffa be only two parties in the field next year The Ponulists are going back to I I their earlier affiliations Republican and Democratic Many of the gold democrats I demo-crats will join the Republican I party on j the money issue and the rest of them will so to the basemoney ring of their I organization Most of the Republican seeder of 1S36 will come back to their old party That Is only partly true A few of I the Republicans who seceded from the Hanna organization in 1896 some of whom by the way used to shout the loudest for silver are going back to their old party giving as their excuse that free coinage has been eliminated i as a living factor from the political issues is-sues of the day that silver is dead or that the only place to look for a financial policy is in Europe But the great majority of them are standing by principle regardless of personal per-sonal grievances oldtime prejudice or new Inducements to join the administration adminis-tration crowd |
