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Show " NOT USED BY DEMOCRATS j Ailjertlto Tor Willi h l'uilirr'a 1'ollotTMJ ' l!ut. ITnp. "We know what we mean when vr speak of an lioim-t and stable currency," cur-rency," said I'lexltliMit Koosevelt hi his speech of ncceptuiiu1 In no otticlal uttcri.tico of the Democratic Demo-cratic pint, or of Its e.inillditcs for president or xlee piotldcut during the labt eight .xeuivn, lnive tlic iidjeetlves "lioiiot" or "stable" evei been used to designate the Ulnd of cuireucy Democrat demanded, and this not-w'ttlibtaudiug not-w'ttlibtaudiug the Demociatle phrase makeis will iie adjective-, tieely and recklessly whenever they have any "paramount" or "tantamount" Idea to advamc, like In the plattoim adopted at St. Louis which said "the existing Ilcpuhllcan iidmhilxtratloii has been SPASMODIC, KHItA'lIC, .SENSATIONAL, .SENSA-TIONAL, SPLCTACULAU mid Alt-HITUAHV." Alt-HITUAHV." Alton H. I'aiker bas the gold standard stand-ard is "htevoeably established," but lie does not say that his own pergonal belief hi it as aftordlng an "IIONLST AND STAIILD CUUHUNCY" has been inevoc.ibly established, nor, furtliermoie, that he deemed tho Democratic Dem-ocratic party wrong, xvlieu In congress con-gress In lMiO, It almost to a man voted ugaliist the establlhlimeiit of the gold Haudind. As the gold standard nf value was then "Inevocably establlhlied," not by the Democratic party, hut b.v tho Ilcpuhllcan party, the only gold stand-arc! stand-arc! that tho Democratic pirty can honesty claim to have "Irrevocably established" es-tablished" Is the gold standard of silence on a subject on which It never did talk extept to lower itself In the estimation of intelligent people, and to breed appiehenslon In business circles. |
