The herald., 1893-11-02
THE ATTACK ON SILVER.

The Disruption of Parties Is Beginning
to Work.
EDITORS HERALD: When you say in
your editorial in thie mornings HER
AID; "It need surprise no one of the
ultimate effect of the measure (the pass
age OF the repeal billy should be the re-
organization of parties on basis of the
west and south against the east" you
touch the keynote of the present politi-
cal situation.
1 am lifelong Republican, but /
found myself today much nearer my
Democratic friends in the west and
south, than my fellow Republicans OF
the north and east. The Democrats in
the west, with whom have talked, feel
the same way towards western Repub-
licans as / do towards western Demo-
Gratis.
The issues between the two great par
ties in the past are now killad and the
new economic questions that are now at
issue demand new organizations to solve
them successfully.
Tue vote Monday on the silver repeal
bill shows that the west and south are
already combining. Every state west of
the Mississippi except Minnesota, Ore
gon, Washington and Wyoming voted
solidly against repeal, and every south
ern state except Maryland and Delaware
gave at least one vote in the same direc-
ton. The people OF Washington and
Wyoming are against repeal, and 60 are
the people OF Texas, Virginia and Ken
lucky. Oregon would have voted against
repeal if it's senators were not both we'll
known corporation attorneys. The states
that voted against repeal have 100 elect
oral votes. The repeal states, including
Washington and Wyoming, have 2l8
electoral votes. OF the 21 states which
voted through their senators for repeal ~
gave their votes for Harrison in 1892 and
II for Cleveland. OF the anti-repeal states
eight voted eolidly for Cleveland last
year; and of the states which split their
senatorial vote three were Republican
in 1892. A union of the west and south
on broad and liberal platform would
hold all the anti-repeal states and all
the doubtful states. 1t would add
Washington, Oregon and Wyoming to
the ranks of bimetalism; and would
elect president pledged to bimetalism.
But the west and south have other in
terests in common besides the money
question. The south has ite negro
/ PlOOiOlA, oliO WObp III OhihOpO bkOuOiCs
Both sections are opposed to the same
common enemy-New England.
The west wants broad foreign policy
and the annexation of the Hawaiian
islands. Senator Morgan, in his speech
before the New York chamber of COM
merce, as he was about to sail for Paris
to cit in the Bering eea case, voiced this
sentiment more forcibly and eloquently
than any living American has done.
The west and south favor restricted
immigration and reasonable protec-
tion on their products. Fruit growers
in California, hop growers in Washing
ton, lumber men on Puget sound, coal
miners in West Virginia aud iron foun-
dries in Alabama, all demand protec-
ton. New England and New York want
absolute free trade for the benefit of
litheir importers.
Lst US have convention OF the west
and south. say at st. Louis, and let the
union Of these two sections be accom-
plished, to be solemnly confirmed three
years hence by the nomination OF a
presidential ticket with western and
southern man as our. standard bearers.
Our cause is common, SO should our
work be i'll union. WEsTERNER.