San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-02-10
DEVIL Or DEEP SEA,

Between BANDS excoriation of bis
party for their incertitude OF action
on the silver question, and Mills ar
raignment of them for their cowardice
in refusing TO attack the tariff meas
ures of the last congress, the demo
Gratis are in uncomtortably hot water
Bland charges that in refusing to
m I'VE strongly in favor of the remone'
tizatiou of silver, the democrats IN
the house are violating the pledges
m ,de to their constituents. There Is
no doubt that Bland arraigns his
party Justly on the record. In the
last congress, where the republicans
were responsible for the legislation,
the democrats, almost without excep-
ton, demanded free coinage meas
ure, and Bland very forcibly reminds
them of the fact. The democratic
press south and west have echoed
this demand of the party in congress
and the whole democratic constituent
cy has voiced its expectation of a free
coinage measure at this session;
measure that the republic party
was to be held respon sible for defeat
ing, or the president for vetoing.
There, has been no change of base on
the part of the democracy as to free
silver. The states on the Atlantic
seaboard, north of the old slave
line, never did favor the free coinage
movement, but they contain very few
democratic constituencies and do not
count. The rest of the democratic
territory is solldly for free silver coin.
age, and it had great expectations
from this congress. 1t is no wonder
that Bland feels sore over the situa-
ton and brings home to the con-
seriousness of his party their coward.
ice In taking back water at the die
tum of New York. Free silver
coinage is BANDS pet measure, his
his best girl, and to see
her sighted in this manner by
tho of his own political household is
not very conducive to blandness Of
temper. The Missourian grows warm |
and cites their former cowardice, in |
1888, as a warning and as an example !,
Of the danger of surrendering to the
eastern fraction of the party the cor
vic lions of the democracy as whole. !
It will be all in vain that Bland |
throws himself IN the breach to pre-
vent the qualification of his party on
the question of the free unlimited
coinage of silver. There is presi
Dental election on hand and the vote
Of New York is indispensable to DEM
ocratic success, and that vote Is lost
10 the party that passes free COIN
age bill. Bland Is entirely to child
ike and bland in expecting that
party consistency would be main
aimed at the expense of the loss of
he Empire state in the electoral COL
ege.
The attack that Mills will make on
lis party on account Of their coward
ce in matters of the tariff will be to
he full as vigorous as that made by
Bland on the silver question. The
I'D Texan is sore. as well as sorrow.
ul at the lack of back bone shown by
he party managers, and he is bound |
20 unbosom himself, The dethroned
esder of the democratic hosts in con
,ress does not take kindly to the
'hsnge of base, and considering it rs
stal to the success of the party before
he country, as he knows it to be
,owardly, he will attack with all the
orces at his command. The result
IAN easily be foretold. To the demo.
'racy, in the very hour when union
II policy and unity OF action is i'm.
'erstively demanded, will come di
'ision in council, rivalry In leader
hip, enlargement and defeat. Verify
he democracy seem doomed by fate
% ever stand between the devil and
he deep sea.
MILLS put himself on record ut that