Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1894-03-10
NO THIRD CROIcE.


opposition and whose tactics?
The history of the long contest
proves conclusively that the Demo
cratic party was yicronous and the
Republican party defeated. About
iiye-sixths of the Republican members
voted and flibustered against the bill.
Three-fourths of the Democratic mem
bers voted with Bland from the first
day until the vote of Thursday week.
1t was Republican filibuster. There
were no Democratic leaders of repute
on that side. Republican leaders sug-
.gested the filibuster and managed it
Reed, Burrows, Dalzell, Boutelle and
Blair were all on the same side. All
the Democratic leaders were with
Bland-Cnlbertson, Catchings, Hol-
man, the Breckinridges, Springer,
Bryan, Bynum and Hutchinson.
1t would be extravagant to call the
passage of the bill material advance
toward dislodging the gold standard.
1t is not. If the bill becomes law
the gold standard win still remain,
and a gold dollar, or its equivalent.
will be just as hard to get.
The significance of the vote is in
forcing INTO the open the intentions
of parties. The Democratic party by
about the same percentage of strength
has declared for silver, as it did in
1878 and has always done when the
question was brought to test. The
Republican party has declared for
monometalism as it did in 1878 and
has always done.
The Democratic party is controlled
by the South and West The Repub-
lican party by the Northeast The
ukase of the Republican bosses is
obeyed in the West as well as in the
East. Only few whose districts are
strongly contested by Populist obtain
a grudging permission from their mas
tiers to register themselves on the sill
yer side.
The common sense of the voting
masses can see that bimetallic re-
form is contingent on Democratic
success at the polls. A Republican
victory is the utter doom of silver.
And Democratic defeat is a Repub-
lican victory. The next House and
the next President will be either Re
publican or Democratic. A vote fol
any other party is vote thrown away
A Democrat who stays at home give;
a half vote TO repubIicanism and t.
a gold standard.
Populists insists that Federal tyran
ny in elections is no longer an issue
that the tariff is secondary; that thc
great overshadowing question now il
money. They are wrong. Subjuga
tion of the South is as much alive il
the Republican purpose as ever. Ac
tivity of trade and rate of profit ant
exchange has more to do with paying
debts than has the money supply. Blu
grant that there is nothing to be com
pared in Importance to the dealing o.
the Government with the volume anC
kind of money. The hope of the PEG
pie is still with the Democratic party
and nowhere else.
Democratic defeat removes the Yves
and South from participation in Gov
eminent If the Democratic party
holds its own in the West and Souti
this fall the Presidential nominee il
1896 will inevitably be Western
man and a bimetallist A complet,
Democratic victory this year and two
years afterward will give US bime
tallist President and also bimetaIlis
House and Senate. The greater thu
Democratic victory the larger the bi
metalllst majority in each house.
The Republican party is now NOR,
thoroughly under the dominion 0.
the gold idea than ever The infu
ence of Western ideas is weaker thar
in 1880. Put the Government in Re
publican hands and quorums would b.
counted and rules adopted to ruth
lessly carry out every measure order
ed by the intensified radicalism o.