| Show WHERE TilE SILVER STRENGTH I LIES I i The Denver Post discusses the silver situation in a very excellent and conservative con-servative article It thinks that the action of Chairman Taubeneck of the Populist party in proclaiming for Senator Teller as the presidential nominee nom-inee of his party is both hasty and ill J advised It is of the opinion that the Democratic convention which meets I in Chicago in July may take such action I ac-tion as will prove eminently satisfactory satisfac-tory to all those elements in the country coun-try whose first hope is silver It says that should this be the case and the Democaitic party faces the issue and meets the emergency then no matter how much it might desire Mr Tellers nomination in the light of his eminent emi-nent services to the cause it should I nevertheless support that nominee and I believes it would be the duty cf every other silver man to do the same It goes on to say that when the Democrats Demo-crats have failed or fallen shcnt there is plenty of time left in which to put forward candidates who represent the popular deslre tor free silver Thea it says Look at it as we may It is undeniable undeni-able that the basis of success is found more clearly in the Democratic parity than elsewhere because of the great electoral vote of the south which it I may at any time command Therefore I any movement organized now to head I off or discourage the silver work in the I party which is soably being peffcmn ed Is not merely ill advised bui falls little short of being inimical to the best interests of the people who are demanding de-manding silver relief without any special spe-cial reference to the brand the party may bear which gives it to them I There Is a world of wisdom in that observation It must be plain to ail who calmly observe the situation as it I is that the ultimate reliance for the success of the silver cause is on the I Democratic party If that party should not take It up and make it Its issue on which to go before the people sliver sli-ver would have very small chance of success That it will take it up is a foregone conclusion The Post says thait a movement to force Senator Tel > 1 1 ler upon theDemocratic party would be particularly unfortunate at this time as leading l to possible dissensions and the shrewd good sense of Mr I Teller himself would be the first to I discover it and that any movement to give Mr Teller the Democratic I nomination should come spontaneously from that party itself Had Senator Dubois the dils cretion to have acted on such advice as this instead of pompously and patronizingly 1 pat-ronizingly saying that we offer the Democrats Senator Teller as a candidate i candi-date and telling them that now was the opportunity for them to redeem their pledges he would have shown I far more poljtical sense than he did and would have made friends for his candidate instead of losing them for him The great fault with the bolters I from the St Louis convention is that they have been in much too big a rush j I to run things I |
