The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1892-03-19
ELKTON, NARCH 10, 1892
THE SILVER CRAZE.

" says l4IS
Ledger, the most prominent Repub-
lican candidate for President is Mr..
Harrison. Accepting him as such,
the New York World, which is
staunchly loyal TO every wise and
good Democratic policy and princi-
pie, and profoundly concerned al
ways to secure the physical triumph
OF its party by the use OF moral
means, said on Tuesday:
"President Harrison could not
have conducted the proceedings OF
the House more to his liking than
the leaders of the majority directed
them on Monday"
In a subsequent issue the Itorld
pertinently says that In this Presi
dental year the Democracy had the
advantage OF certain winning issue,
that Of Tariff reform. With regard
to that vital question, says our con.
temporary, the country had in the
elections of 1890 rendered a verdict
in favor of the Democrats by ma
jority too great to admit of doubt as
to its significance. Upon that mat
ter the party was united and enthus
iastic. But, says the IE0yld, the
action on Monday.
"thrusts a new issue into the cam
paign about to begin, an issue on
which the party is sharply divided,
both in the House and out OF it. 1t
imperilS success where success was
sure. 1t unfavorably affects Demo
cratic prospects in those Eastern
States whose electoral votes are nee
essary to the election OF a Demo
cratic President, while it does not
promise to secure IN return a single
vote from the chick and thin free
silver States of the tar West, whose
people, as Mr.. Carlisle lately said,
vote the Republican ticket any
how"
Another journal, the Brooklyn
Eagle, which is of peculiarly repre-
sentative character, and the opinions
of which are held in the highest es
TEEN by the most distinguished lead
ers and the most thoughtful followers
of the Democracy, expresses itself
not only more clearly, but more en-
phatically, about what the Demo.
cratic majority of the House did on
Monday. The victory. worse than
any possible defeat, would not have
been won, says the Eagle, if those
Democrats OF integrity and intelli
gence who contested the result had
been listened to, as they recognize
that "honesty is right, and that only
an honest money party can win in
this country" Futher this inhuen-
tial Democratic journal says:
ANY event which sets off such
Democrats from the free silver error
lists in the party is one OF which the
ultimate effect will be salutary. In
cidentally involved in that effect may
be the failure of the Democracy to
gain the next Presidency. 1t would,
however, be a calamity to the party
to win wrongly, and a calamity to
the country that any party should so
win.
"It the Democracy, by majority
or by any considerable portion OF
their number, are intent on beating
their principles before making their
nominations, why let the suicide pro
iced. The post mortem eXamina
ton will be intelligently conduct
ed. :; =
ga midwinter days madness for
free silver and midsummer nights
dream of national victory on scheme
of clipped dollars will have an au-
tumnal disillusion that will render
the last session of an incapable Con
gress as interesting as the colloquies
in murderers' row in the New York
Tombs between sentence and execu-
ton.
Going futher South, in which sec
ton it has been confidently asserted
the free silverities are as many. as
the Democrats are numerous, the
voice of that sound exponent Of the
truest, best principles OF Democracy,
the Baltimore Sun, is heard in
solemn, indignant condemnation OF
and protest against the action of the
Democratic majority, which, declares
the SIM.
Cannot but carry dismay to
sound Democrats everywhere. They
see a question that was not contain
ed in the party platform of S8S pre-
terred to any other, and the Tariff
issue, on which the great victories OF
1890 and 1891 were won, relegated
to the rear"
The spectacle presented, it is tuth-
er said by our Southern contempor-
airy, is that Of a great party rent
asunder by the s-hemes of small
politicians afraid of losing their seats.
The SIN adds:
"To such an extent, it appears,
has the silver craze terroriZed many
Democratic members that they
are ready to sacrifice the Presidency
to the qualification OF their private
ambitions. They would rather cap
ture the third party vote in their dis.
tricts than secure the application OF
Democratic principles to the con
duct of the Federal Government
during the next quarter OF century.
They throw away a great opportu
nity-an opportunity which their
party may not again enjoy for life
time"
From the East, some OF the most
important States OF which have been,
during recent years, strongly sway
ing from the Republican to the
Democratic side, the warning cry OF