The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-09-12
NO FUSION.
THE DEMOCRATIC TICKET.

| uolOH. lne democratic State Con-
| vent1on met, made it's nomina-
tlons and adjourned. We are glad not
| one word was said about endorsing
any one on our ticket except Judge
Willis. This is as it should be. The
middle of the road" is the place for
Fopullsts. Entangling alliances are
dangerous. Now we will have to pad
ole our own canoe andsink or swim to-
gether. Judge Willis was indorsed be-
cause the office of justice of the Su-
preme Court is and ought to be non
PARTISAN
Personally the ticket constitute a
respectable array Of gentlemen. AS
we nave repeatedly stated we are not
making campaign of personalities.
But while the candidates are good
men the plat form is plutocratic. Here
IS what they say on the silver ques-
tion
we heartily commend the wise,
able and patriotic administration of
President Cleveland. We are in favor
oI Jne free coinage of silver whenever
IL can be accomplished consistently
With the maintenance of sound and
safe currency"
1t will be observe that an endorse
ment Of President Cleveland and the
views of the conventions on the silver
question, are grouped together in one
paragraph. They favor the free coin
age of silver-J!
TOuchStone, in "As YOu Like II !,
says:
20 sir we quarrel in print. will
name you the degrees. The first the
retort courteous; the second the quip
modest; the third the reply churlish;
the fourth the reproof valiant: the
fIth the c0untercheck QuarrelSOme ::
the sixth the lie with circumstance:
the seventh the lie direct. All these
you may avoid but the lie direct. And
you may avoid that too with an If. 1
knew When seven justices could not
make up quarrel, but when the par
ties were met themselves, one of
them thought but Of an If, as If you
SAD so. then 1 said so; and they shook
hands and sWore brothers. Your If is
the only peacemaker; there is much
virtue in an IT,"
And SO the Democracy of Minnesota
are in favor Of the free coinage of sill
ver-J-if it can ''be accomplished
consistently with the maintenance Of
a sound and safe currency" There
you have it. And what is sound and
safe currency? Gold alone, says the
creditor class. Gold and silver, SAYS
the debtor class. But not one word
says the Democracy of Minnesota
but Il! Not one word abut 16 to /, or
100 to l, 100 to O. They begin in
hypothesis and end in conjecture.
This is a case of lucus non lucend0.
We don't refer to Tom. The old
Romans who invented that proverb
never dreamed Of such a paroxysmal
paroxysm of perturbed and perverted
humanity as the delectable and de-
lightful Tom.
The devil damn thee black, thou cream
Where gats't thou that goose look
But to come back from the ancient
Romans and the modern Tom to the
Democratic party.
Worse than all even this sop about
silver is part Of paragraph endorsing
1.-THE wise, able and patriotic admins
tration Of Cover Cleveland" God
help US. And part of that wise, able
and patriotic administration was clos
ing the mints against silver. and
smashing it down to about fifty cents
on the dollar, while wheat tumbled to
forty cents bushel.
Now we have too much respect for
the rank and file of the Democracy of
Minnesota to believe that they en-
dorse any such platform. They are in
favor Of free silver at the old ratio of
Is to 1, and the reopening of the mints.
and an abundant currency, that will
enable them to pay off those 1871 mil
lions of dollars realestate mortgages.
And they will vote the Populist
ticket-every mothers son Of them
except the moneylenders. Id.