| Show I ISSUES FAIRLY JOINED I Is a foregone conclusion says the New York S1n that in the election of 190 the Democratic party will not sus tain the gold standard Not even the most sanguine gold Democrat has the least expectation that the Democratc party will be for sold Therefore I urges all Democrats who left the part In 189 to ally themselves for once and all with the Republican parythe only organization that is irrevocably and unequivocally pledged to the maintenance of the single gold standard This is In line with the dee laraton of all Republican newspapers of national standing They claim that a sold man has no more business In the Democratic party than a silver man has right In the Republican part But there are a great many Democratic Demo-cratic bolers of 1896 who are heartily sic1 of the r chase sags an eastern contemporary They a more opposed to trusts scandals spQIspeddlng war of conuest and broken pledges than they fear bimetals What are 1 they going to do next year The Sun replies How can there be any question as to the matter I they are honestly for gold and believe that the substitution of the silver standard for i would mean business disaster and national degradation they must of course Vote for a party that favors the maintenance of the gold standard I points out that the Democratic congressmen elected next year are sure to be aggressively for silver I says that no man of intelligence doubts that the Democratic caucus will be for sit ver or that the national convention wi reede one hairs breadth from the po sitQn It took three years ago Accordingly says the Sun I Is settled that no Democrat who Is for gold as a prime necessity of the national na-tional credit and prosperity can vote for the Democratic party In HOG without with-out selfslulUfcaton A Prohibitionist might as consistently vote for free rum I is no less obvious that every man who wants to vote for the maintenance of the gold standard will have to vote for the Republican party Except for that par we should have had the silver sil-ver standard Imposed upon us In 1896 as everybody know and that party alone will bc positively for the gold standard In 190 A faction of the 0 called sold Democrats may bolt the Democratic platform and run a tIcket of its own but It will make no appeal to the votes of sensible men Ior the more vote i gets the more it wi help silver The only safety will be for everyman i every-man who wants the sold standard and dUly appreciates the disastrous consequences conse-quences of a silver standard to vote squarely for the Republican part I is useless for local Republicans to try to conceal from the public the issues I Is-sues of the coming camvalm |
