Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1892-07-26
SILVER DOWNFALL.
1t Means the UpbuiIding of the
Third Party.

The failure of the silver coinag
bill in the House of Representative
has given a tremendous boom to tn
third party prospects. Anything
indeed, more suspicious for TIL,
party in November could not have
happened. The demand for fret
silver coinage, while strong in the
West is still stronger throughout the
South aud from the beginning of the
third party movement, the Southern
Farmers Alliance have served ex-
plicit notice on the Democratic party
that if the present Democratic House
failed to pass the silver bill they
would desert it in November and
vote in body for the new party.
The only argument by which a por-
ton of the membership of the South
ern Alliances has been hitherto kept
! back from committing itself outright
to the Peoples party, has been the
promise that the Democratic House
would heed their demands.
We do not believe that there is an
Alliance man in the South today who
has, not, within the last week def
nitely made up his mind to vote for
the candidates nominated at Omaha.
Even if the Democratic National con-
vention terrified by the situation,
should take the back track and insert
silver plank iii the national plat
form, it would De of no avail. After
the action of the House no promises
the convention might make, would
command any confidence and indeed
would make the situation of the Dem
ocracy more desperate by alternating
its gold standard constituency in the
North and East, which is all that is
now left of it.
In fact the probabilities are alto
gether that the Wall street wing
having now won the battle, viii
strengthen its grip and by The nom
ination Of Cleveland, bar the door
against the possible return Of the
disgruntlel Southeners.
What does this mean, practically!
1t means that the party in Novem-
be- will probably carry i've South
ern States, being the two Carolinas,
Georgia, Mississippi, and Arkansas,
and possibly seven, if the Southern
Alliance Congresmen may be be-
lieved In the North the new party
have all along been likely to carry
Kansas and Nebraska and the tive
Dakotas, but in the silver States of
Montana and Colorado, its prospects
of success are at least fifty per cent
better than before the defeat of the
silver bill That is to say there is
now reasonable probability that
the third party in November may
carry from nine to thirteen states.
This means that no President is
likely to be elected by the people |
and that if the House of Representa-
tives elect Democrat, he will be the |
worst case of a minority President |
that ever went into office.
But will the House of Represent
atives necessarily elect the Democrat
ic condidatel Surprising the solid
south, the stronghold of Democracy,
shall have repudiated the Democratic
by strong popular majori-
ties, will the Southern Democratic
Congressman who want to be re-
vote to make President, the
condemned by their con
stitlentsl Will they be selfsacrifcing!
Do you ask whom they will then
vote forl Well, the constitution re-
restricts their choice to the three
Presidential candidates who received
the largest electoral vote. They will
thus have to elect a Republican,
Democrat whom their constituents
have rejected, or the one third party
have voted for. Figure
out for yourself what they may pos
slbly conclude to do.
The fact is, the coming presiden-
tial contest, when the press and the
people begin to realize the realities
and possibilities is going to be the
most interesting one since 1860, as it
will be the most critical in it's polit-
cal consequences
The Republican party is already
Iplit to the base, and is kept stand
ng only by the hitherto solid oppo-
Iition of the Democracy.
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