The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-06-20
THE CINCINNATI CONVENTION.

Next Tuesday the Democratic national
convention meets ut Cincinnati. The dutleS
of that convention arc to nominate candi'
dates for president and vise-presideht on the
Democratic ticket and to enuncatea platform
of principles. 1t is not presumed that new
set of principles will be formulated ana
given forth, but that the old-time principles
of the party, upon which it has stood since
the day of its birth, will be again set forth
in new verbiage and with the notifications
in the way of application and curlailmAnt
suitable to the age and the times. There IS
one plank which, in our opinion, should &C.
cupy but minor position. That is TO say,
| it should be small plank,
but decidedly firm and solid one. We re-
fer to finance. Hard money is true Demo-
cracy, because hard money is the only kind
of money there is; the only tangible, real
sensible thing in the way Of money that any
government can base its financial operations
upon. Gold and silver means Democracy,
and anything else means only expedlency'
1t is well enough, perhaps, that there be
paper currency bearing the sign manual OF
the government, but it must rest upon gold
and silver, and be, in fact, gold and silver to
all intents and purposes, and be limited In
quantity to the actual necessities of trade and
commerce. Initiation and unlimited
issues of paper money are suicidal. The
Cincinnati convention wants to say as little
as possible on the subject of finance in its
platform, but what it does say must be just
right strictly in accordance with time-hon'
ored, genuine Democratic principles, recog-
nizing gold and silver only as the standard
of currency for the country without inter
fering in the least with the greenbacks now
in existence. Finance regulates itself and
the least political parties have to do with it
the better for them and for the county.
1t should never be made an
issue in any contest, or any feeling among
the people excited over it, just let it alone;
for supply and demand, which regulate
themselves, regulate it. Scientific gentle
men, philosophers, statisticians, political
economists and theorists, may write learned
papers on the subject and evolve mighty
rows of figures and give utterance TO ponder
Gus thoughts and opinions on relative values
and the financial requirements of this and
that country, but it all amounts
to nothing moro nor less than so
many words written or printed.
AS the great sun shining above us is the
basis, the father of the rainbow, so is gold
and silver the basis of all Legitimate fnan-
cial matters. The sheen Of these metals
must tinge all that pertains TO finance, else it
is like an artificial rainbow--but the mere
semblance. We don't know what policy
may obtain in the Cincinnati convention on
this question. 1t may be that solid hard
money plank will be put in the platform and
given prominent place; or it may be that
the quintescence Of folly will prevail and
a seft money plank be inserted; or it may
be that nondescript hybrid arrangement,
partakiDg of both, may be made to fit in
some how, with the hope that any Demo-
crat who cannot stand upon may be able to
straddle it. We do not know what the con-
vention will do, but we know that it ought
to do what we have outlined, and in just as
few words and with Just as little prominence
as possible. There is no question but that
the Republicans have weak ticket in the
field. There is no infamy of which the party
has been guilty that the filth thereof does not
attach to the skirts Of Garfield. And Arthur,
the candidate for vice presdent, the man
that even Republican President Hayes him.
self could not countenance because Of his
open-handed wrong-doing as collector of the
port of New York; Arthur, the friend of
Conkling, and one of the New York political
machine, in whose behalf several Democrats
in the Senate were enlisted to favor their
friend Conkling. eve intend to examine
the record and see if anybody from Texas
had hand in the thing.) In the ides of No
vember when the people march in solid phal-
anx to free ballot.box and deposit their
votes which will consign to that retirement
so appropriate for them. Let the convention
at Cincinnati give the country clean ticket
that is the word, "elean"-a ticket of gentle
men above suspicion in their private and
public lives, and the people will elect them.
Seymour and Davis will carry the country
by storm, and give the land peace and pros
perity.