New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-09-27
PLATFORM or DISHONESTY.

4 PLATFORM OF DSHONESIf.
The party which nominated Maynard AMI now
nomnates Hill. solcmnly resolves that IL DO
licves in an honest ballot and fair count
The whole Democratic platform Is Illuminated
by this one assertion. II * PLATFORM oI men
who have not only no honesty left, Dut no
faculty Of seeming 10 know what honesty Is
From first TO last 1t is platform of such shame
less and indecent mcndacty that Democrats
who respect themselves will either refuse TO
stand on It or refuse to support the cnndiua''
whose impudcnt prctensions IL was frameu 10
III. If Ill., who planned and dictated the INA
nous theft for which Maynard was buried. ~ III
any sense n representative Of the party lis pat
form il merely lie.
Eoually indecent and mendaclOus Is the re-
heated assertion that the business prosfratioh
Of 1899. the loss Of employment by millions ana
the reduction Of wages for all were the coIlse-
ouences Of Republican legislation. There Is
reollv nothing 10 be said Of such an assertion
exccnt that II Is n falsehood. outrageous that
oven the least respectable Democratic Journals
and leaders have been forced 10 attribute the
disasters of last wear and this year 10 the intol-
.rah,e DELAY and infamous corruption Of Il Dem
ocratic Congress. in order 10 escape admitting
that its radical change Of the National policy
was the main cause Of disaster This one 1ea'-
,re ~ there were no other of like character,
would be- enough 10 mark the Democratic plat
farm ~ tho u,terance of demagogucs utterly in
different TO truth and incapable Of shame. The
single fact that the most prosperous month III
,be whole history Of the country thus far was
the month Of October. lS92. Just preceding 'h'
election Of President Cleveland and Democrat
IA. ,,,.y ~
closing Of mills and the reduction of wages De-
gan the very next Month after that election
sutficcs to put OF the Democratic PLATFORM 'he
STAMP Of deliberate dishonesty.
But there is much more Of the same sor'.
The assertion that the Republican SILVER ACT vi
1890 'threatencd 4 single silver standard ana
that the Democratic party rcjoccs III lis r'pcai
when that repeal was effected only by the Vo''s
Of nearly all X pubcans and a minority "i
Democrats. would Of itself brand the PLATFORM
~ one Of almost unprecedented indccency. II ~
the kind of platform which man Ike I'M
might frame for himself, bui it is hard I" see
how respccteblc Democrats who bellev" III non
psf money can thus commend Congress when
would have defeated all the efforts II President
Cleveland hut for the Republican members Nor
will il escape the attention al business men 'h''
the platform carefully Ignores any statement Oh
Democratic beliefs or purposes on the SILVER
question: because Mr.. Hill wants To be the one
Eastern favoritc Of the frec-coinage extremists
Of the West and South.
Perhaps for sheer impudcncr the sentences
about Trusts take the palm. Their" are some
Democrats intelligent enough 10 ask Win Won
der what stringent legislation for the suppress
sion Of trusts" has been enacted 10y me Demo
cratic Congress" and there ar" millions VII"
know that it is IN impudcnt fraud To condemn
such trusts in one paragraph while pralSlhG III
others the tar.n dictated and bought through
the Senate by the Sugar and Whisky trusts.
Not a word Is found In the platform "i crHsurr
for the corrupt Senators who sold themselves to
these monopolics. and in naming their pre-"
framed the tariff which the Democratic 'onv"n-
ton approves. OTc" more the old truth Is Illus
trntcd that Democratic managers consider The
voters too stupid to detect even Tie most gross
and papablc dishonesty. With false tongue III
brazcn cheek the Democratic politician bcratcs
the Sugar Trust which could never have robbed
the people Of Millions this year but for The vote
Of Senator Murphy. and as Ia the income tax
which he might have defeated. mildly regrets
"a direct tax 10 which many Democrats were
enormously opposed" II H. hard TO find. in The
long and dshonorable record Of partisan men
dacy anything TO surpass these declarations.
What such platform has TO say Of State
affairs could hardly he " weight, but the as
sertion that the Republican candidate for Gov
ernor is "a gentleman whose principal qualifica-
.tlons for the office are believed TO he his ability
ito buy it and his subservicncy to the man who
'compcllcd his nomination." relating 10 one who
has been honorcd by both parties as NicePrcsi
dent and as Minister to France. closely rivals
the basest indccency ever displayed in PARTISAN
ship II might with infinitely more truth be
said Of Senator Hill that his chief qualification
for office Is n proved ability to steal IT, In The
same vein Of reckless mcndacity the acts Of the
Legislature and the Constitutional Convention
are mentioned in this extraordinary PLATFORM
In truth while there Is in II nothing OF political
principle to attract. the Democratic platform
this year surpassc> almost any other on record
as evidence of the contempt Of Democratic poll
ticians for public intelligence