Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1894-04-28
THE OUTLOOK FOR SILVER.

manner. Mr. Carter Is Chairman OF
the National Republican Committee,
therefore what he has t. say IN The
Republican Outlook" is eniI,.ed 70
all the weight belonging to the high
est authority, and Mr.. Carter an
nounces that one of the plans Of the
Republican platform adopted st the
next Convention will be demand
for the restoration of bimetalllsm.
The Constitution recognizes the fact
that the silver question Is not and
will not be disposed of in the sum
mary manner with which it has hlth-
erto been treated.
1t concludes mastery review OF
the gains of free silver in these
words:
s.By the time the next campaign
opens the Republican party will
swarm with silver men. We do not
say they will be converted by the ar
guments of the bimetallists, but we
do say they will take up and indorse
an issue that promises them success
at the polls.
On the other hand, it asks how can
the Democratic party enter another
campaign processing TO be ID favor
of making both gold and silver the
standard, unless it had in the mean
time done everything in Its power to
carry out the solemn pledge made Ill
1922
1t would be hard to put the whole
situation into fewer words, or a
clearer light. The people have two
wears in which to choose the party
with which they intend to affiliate.
There are still two years of grace
during which the Democratic party
NAV make an effort to redeem Its
broken pledges, but there is not the
faintest hope IN the world that 1t will
do Sc. If, as the Constitution says,
cts speakers and its candidates
would be hooted in the West III
case of its failure to ''coln silver at
parity and on equal terms with gold
then the orators and nominees of
two wears hence may know what is
in store for them. The advocates of
silver have nothing to hope, and
they expect nothing from the party
in power.
The danger to bimetaliism is in
the very fact pointed out by this
writer. The cause of silver Is gam
ing in Republican ranks and the
leaders of that party, "whlle not
converted by the arguments Of the
bimetallists, will only be too glad to
indorse any issue that will hoodwink
the people and give them the victory.
The attitude of both the old parties
calls to mind the venerable campaign
story of the man who stood on the
rear of the car until the conductor
perez ptorily informed him that the
olatf orm was not to stand on, but to
get In on. The main idea is to get
in: af terward pledges and promises
can 90 the way Of other campaign
lies.
Tier are differences between the
parties in many particulars, but on
tinan ce they are the best OF friends.
II does net matter picayune wheth-
er Sherma n, or Carlisle, Harrison or
Cleveland ostensibly dictates the IL
nancial D Obey of this country. Wall
street is abs olute In either event.
Even if the rank and file of the old
parties were true bimetalllsts the re
sult would be the same under the
present leaders.
Both the old parties were pledged
r. "the larger use of gold and silver
in the platforms of 1892; DO" OF
them placed in nomination men who
were acknowledged and uncompro-
missing enemies of silver. Surely one
such object lesson is enough. Re-
,uhl,canism and Democracy have
been weighed and found wanting
The Peoples party is the only hope
OF the people. Every effort must
be made TO strengthen the support OF
the white metal in the House ana
Senate. Contraction has led us 10
the brink of ruin, and revolution Is
staring us III the face. There mus.
be change, but the old seesaw Of
the old and worn out tissues must
give way to real and radical altera-
ton in the Government at wash
,ngton.-Denver News.