Show ANCIENT DEMOCRATS AND SILVER SIL-VER REPUBLICANS On Monday the 6th inst the Democrats Demo-crats of Colorado met in convention at Denver At that convent < an effort was matte to naive it Indorse the nonis natwm of Judge Hyat but tihe effort failed Judge Hyat had > taken a McKinley Mc-Kinley convention nomination before A few mornings after the Democrats of Colorado had held their convention and refuse to indorse Judga Hyat the Tribune made their action the subject of a long editorial entitled The Ancient An-cient Democracy That editorial was in part as follows Whenever the Democratic party find that the blunders of their opponents have given them a striking advantage which if i properly used might enable tem to control matters political for a long time to come rhctr rule is to im medateJy forgat their past sorrows the nature of their advantage to assume as-sume that > henceforth they can never agafcn he overthrown and to put on a bearing which is sure to land them In IShe ditch at the next turn of th road A sample of it Is seen in the handling and results of their Tuesdays conven Kv d f < J Ion in TJEiAer They have always been in a minority in Colorado When j eve they have won a victory ft has not been upoa their own merts or I ciumbers but through the laches of tiheIc opponents Last year the elec ion was carried overwr nii5iy > for a emciMratic candid forDresidest but no fact was ever plainer that he was voted for not because he was a p mo I craft net becaucrj a majority cl those I who voted fcr him weie DimK < s but solely on the sher plank in the platform oat which he stcod If a grain of sense lout ruled Cbs 1eadsr of Ccto I recta Democracy they would have ria Wed that when orc a oler breaks away from tbs p toni allerCa e which for years has held him in Its meshss no matter what his immediate motives may have bean he is haLls I lever again to be just wheat he was te l fore and the more especally if tho dh i tya of tile c5d love continues to oppose op-pose what Ws conscteinc approves and their struggle would have bean to sftow hat okus of men that their act was apiTteated and tint the pvty was grateful for what they had done But that scorns to be an imp ssIbiMiy with our Democratic friends If we ire iRftUy iniormed after a person has iolnsd a church and bas bean baptized in care he later decides that the Roman Ro-man cattoJic faith apceals more 10 hs religious instincts arid he goes over 10 I it he is leccived if accounted worthy but is > not agate baptized because tine r icorng is tftat ready he hu bjn baptized in tte name of the Father the Sea and the Holy Ghost and that no mater it unworthy lads spcinkl the water upon Iwm the waiter Usalf was saPCtSflK But there is nothing of thTs with the Democratic party The subject must be ducked in the deepest fic03 in the pool he mu t come up shouting that the muddy stuff is clearer than ciystal Jai like tbs men with fh ftfos he 1 has been cleansed and that nevermore never-more will lie drink cf or bathe in any other poCRisal water ThIe is nothing in the article that is in any way remarkable but having denounced the Ancient Democracy generally and that of Colorado in particular par-ticular it is just as well to draw et tcnt on to the fact that a Silver Republican Repub-lican convention in Denver the other day refused to Irdorse Judge Hyats nomiraationv and for the reason that ho had accepted the nomination of the administration ad-ministration Republicans We have seen no ccmments in our contemporary on the action of these Silver Republicans but presumably they > would have been much the same as the ones above quoted The Ancient Democracy and the Colorado Silver Republicans are very much alike In this case I |