Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1893-11-08
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! shall have restoration of sound constitutional and financial views. " "wHEkE ARE WE Ar"
 The discussion of the silver ques- tion, in congress, developed some very peculiar phases in politics. The St. Louis obe-Democrat, one of the straightest-laced republican pa- pers, in the United States, has taken occasion, at every step that has been made in the discussion, to pat President Cleveland on the back for the position taken by him. On sev- eral occasions it has linked the names of Cleveland and Sherman together, as the greatest fnanciers ofI the country.
 The Globe Democrat has not been the only republican paper that has endorsed and stood by Cleveland on the silver question, but many others throughout the east have done so also.
 While these papers have been ad- ministering large sized doses of sil- yer coated political taffy to the ad- ministration, the Examiner. of San Francisco, the leading exponent of of the so called doctrine of Jackson and Jefferson on the Pacific Coast, has been pouring shot and shell into the administration craft.
 In Virginia, Senator Daniels speech, in favor of silver coinage, were scattered broadcast by the pop ulists, to aid in the election of a populist candidate, while the author aud deliverer of the speech. himself was making an active campaign for. the defeat of the same populist can didate.
 In Arizona, the speeches of both republicans and democrats alike, have been distributed as populist literature.
 While the two great parties in the east have been divided on the question, the great majority of both parties, in the west and south. are united in favor of silver as money The poPulists alone, of all sections, have been consistently in favor of this measure.
 From this condition of political affairs, what will result!
 The answer seems plain; and that is that populism will gain many converts to it's ranks from both par ties and particularly from the demo cratic party, whi h has all the machinery of the government in its control, snd is, therefore. more directly responsible for adverse legislation. Already many of the leading democratic papers in the south have commenced to sound notes of warning to the leaders of that party, of the political breakers ahead, and in a direct line with the course in which they are steering the ship of state, and of the great danger to the party if this course is pursued.
 While the JOURNAL MINER is as un- swerving in its loyalty to the repub- hcan party a, ever, and believes as firmly as ever, in the everlasting principles upon which it was founded, and takes as great pride as ever in its brilliant record, which it made during a period of thirty years in power, it is neither so blind that it cannot see the manifestations of disapproyal, or so deaf that it cannot hear the mutterings of dis satisfaction among the rank and file 1 of the party, on account of the | position taken by many of its prom lnent representatives in Congress upon this question.
 It matters not to this class that the party is in a minority in Con- gress, and consequently not respon- sibIe for legislation, they ara in clined to hold the whole party responsible for the actions of it's representatives.
 The populist party originated from dissatisfied democrats and re- publicans. If it grows to any size as a national party, its growth must come from recruits from the old parties. As the democrats are in power in all branches of the govern ment, they. must be held responsi- ble for whatever of good or evil comes from the present administra- tion, and as only evil can come to the great masses of the producers and wage earners, the principal de- lection will be from that party to the populists. and it begins to look now very much as if the next great political battle was to be fought be tween he republicans and populists.
 In the meantime. it behooves those who are in the leadership of the republican party, to trim its sails in accordance with popular de- nand, and to look well to it's politi- gal fences, in order that sufficient number of the rank and file n,ar not escape into the ranks of thr populists, and with the dissatisfied democrats, encompass its defeat.
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