Show THROUGH GOLD SPECTACLES In 1896 our morning contemporary in formed its reader that Grover Cleveland Cleve-land had ceased to be a Democrat since the attitude of the two parties on the financial question had been clearly de fined and thttt the Louisville Courler Journal had passed Into the possession of the same influences that controlled the St Luis convention In 897 the lIbune repeated its assertion as-sertion that the Democratic part had purged itsel dC Cievetand Carlsle and all the holdltes who used to Insist upon straddling the money question and that uU those influences had properly identified themselves with lcKinleys campaign and administration I said that the Democratic part revolted especially and specifically against Clevetand and his measures and how any Cleelander could ever hope to inluence a part that had heroically he-roically thrown off such a tyrant was one of the things the Tribune pronounced pro-nounced inexplicable Today the Democratic part is farther far-ther from Cleveland than it ever was I Is closer tan ever to Bran And yet the Tribune since its recent conversion con-version toHannaism trIes to hold the men who made and still uphold the Chicago platform responsible for Clove land l whom they repudiated and forte for-te utterances of the CourIerJournal which advocated Bryans defeat and continues to champion the single standard and Imperialism Our contemporary has changed wonderfully derful sInce It gavel informed the goldbug party that it was prepared to acknowledge the demise of sliver I now support McKinley and the fnan cIal policy outlined In the St Louis platform while i refers to Grover Cleveland as that sterling silver and I antitrust candidate |