| Show WILL DECLARE FOR GOLD Some bimetallic backsliders are try ng to convince their friends and pos sibly themselves that the Republican party will declare for international bimetallism again next year and thus furnish an excuse for those whom they regard as prodIgals to return But every leading organ ot the party in power every prominent politician ot that party every state convention that party has held reaffirms allegiance allegi-ance to the single gold standard and treats the International saving clause i as an abandoned sUbterfuge The chairman ot the Republican national organization renounces the international interna-tional project as chimerical and characterizes char-acterizes it as an iridescent dream The New York Sun an authority On the new Republicanism second to none In this country says The Republican I Repub-lican party wlll again decare for gold and it has roved Its faith by its works by maintaining the gold standard stand-ard as it promised to do in 1896 Nobody No-body has any doubt as to that matter Nor Is there any doubt that the Democratic Dem-ocratic party will not declare for gold But 1l takes the position that no further legislation Is necessary for the maintenance ot the present monetary standardexcept that Republican success suc-cess Is essential to its preservation because be-cause oC the guard thus placed about 1t A Virginia gold bug paper that deserted de-serted Bryan In 1896 speaking for a little band of socalle gold Democrats Demo-crats says that before the Republican Repub-lican party can again COUI1t upon their cooperation its congress must answer this question What do you propoSe to do at the coming session to JUt th n country on a sound basis that needs no artificial props to keep it sound The Sun answers It and says Whatever the next congress proposes to do it will propose in vain if It starts out to do anything ot that sort more than has been done already Already gold is the legal standard and it cannot can-not be made any more the standard by the next congress Gold Is the standard not Iby authorIty author-Ity of law but by an act of fraud perpetrated per-petrated on the merlcan people twentysix years ao durIng a Re puplican administration and the Sun regards that part and that standard as absolutely necessary to each others 1 existence I |
