New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-07-13
BEv4REABLE CONVEPSTON

Yes, the Democratic party is a hard-mOnry
party again. OF course it Is. 1t says so in It's
platform (the latest, and emphasizes tho saying
bv nominating a Presidential candidate who
knows netting and cares nothing about the
money question; and a Vice-P Presidential can
didate who has been fer twenty years bond
holder and cOupon-clipper," but who is now
seeking the votes of the ultra tationists and
regulators in order to carry Indiana. That
settles it, The party is a hard-mOney party, Of
course
There have been some marvellous cases of
conversion IN history, but none more
marvellous. For three ears past, as every
body knows, this same party has been
voting for every mad scheme OF initiation or dis
honesty that was offered In Congress. 1t tried
to stop resumption. 1t tried to- expand the note
circulation indefinitely. 1t tried TO make all
creditors OF the Nation take silver CONS worth
eighty cents in so-called payment of debts
worth one hundred cents on the dollar 1t tried
to break the contract 10y which customs duties
are pledged to secure the payment of interest
on the public debt in gold. In word if there
is any dishonest, disloyal, reckless, and finan-
cially revolutionary scheme, which has been pro-
posed and brought to vote within the past three
years, for which the Democratic party has not
voted, 1t is one SO unimportant that the public
has lost sight of it. But now the party sits,
clothed and in its right mind. with Hancock at
the front.
There may be detected in the public mind some
doubt as to the sincerity of this conversion.
Some persons say that General Hancock, hav-
ing no intelligent impression about the matter,
is a particularly good fgurehead for the
Democratic party because 1t wants to have the
country forget Its repudiatng prOpensities.
Long ago @PoK, Dallas and the Tariff of
"1s42 was the CITY by which the Democratic
party carried important States, and Immediately
Polk and Dallas helped to enact law repeating
the Tariff of 1S42. Friends Of the public faith
charge that this pretended loyal merchantmen
is only another piratical cruiser in disguise,
with big crew of cutthroats well hidden
under hatches-
In support of this view, 1t Is observed that
there are some heartily loyal men who are not
ashamed OF their soft-money notions. Mr.. Kelley,
of Pennsylvania, for example, Is very much in
error, but he Is not disloyal, will not sacrifice
the honor of the Nation, and does not try to sail
under false colors. There is Mr.. Weaver, also,
who wants to defeat the Republican party, but
does not go about trying to disguise rebel re-
pudiatiOn In hard-money garments. These men
can be understood and fought, we know what
is the best and the worst of them. But these
Democrats who vote for Reputation in Con
gress and pretend TO believe in hard-money In
Convention are looked upon with dread because
they do not dare to fly any flag that belongs
to them.
People WHO have an interest in the industrial
and financial welfare of the country hesitate
much before putting themselves within the
power Of the party whose white flag and black
record make 1t suspicious. They say, with good
reason, that the country is doing very well as
matters stand, and they see no urgent need of