The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1895-07-15

Mr.. Carlisle declared that before the
true ratio could be discovered the stat
utes by which silver had been outlawed
would have to be repealed and the metal
completely restored to lbs old place in
our financial system.
| Senator Bacon's advice to bimetallists
is in the line of statesmanship-and
craftsmanship in its last analysis is the
| application of common sense TO the
theories and policies of government. lie
| advises bimetallists to tuck their indi-
vidual theories and plans in the waste
basket and take their stand upon the
| broad and patriotic platform which de-
|, mands the immediate restoration of sill
yer to its old place in our financial sys-
tenn as money Of final redemption. This
platform dispenses with all theories and
demands the restoration of system
under which the people were contented
and prosperous, and under which the
money dealers could not control the cur
rency Of the country. Referring to the
complexion of the convention, Senator
Bacon takes this broad and patriotic
view:
Your convention IL called as a bimetal-
lie convention. Nevertheless assume that
all of those who will be present are either
now, or have been in the past, members OF
the national democratic party; ana also
assume that they are all now believers In
the great principles of this party as they
have been handed down to us by lis nom
ored founders The fundamental principle
Of the democratic faith is that the organi-
cation and methods of practice of the gov
.yafg Ia gtrnh tn "a
equality of benefits, as well equality OF
burdens. 1t requires that all should have
equal opportunities, and condemns that
which denies good to the many In order
that an abundance may be enjoyed by the
few. The single gold standard In its con-
traction of the volume of the money of final
payment. i'm the concentration of over
wheiming money power I'm the hands of
the few, and in the dire consequences which
necessarily flow from II, is at war with
this fundamental democratic principle; but
this vital democratic principle finds its har-
mony, well as its Illustration, in practi-
cal gold and silver bmetallsm, which de-
feats the concentration of all money power
i'm the hands of the few, and insures to all
persons and sections the equal enjoyment
OF sufficient and stable metallic cur
rency.
This is broad gauge democracy. There
will not he Il man in the Griffin cOnven-
ton who is not now, or who has not
been in the recent past, Il member of the
national democratic party, and among
all the delegates, there Will not be one
who is not in profound sympathy with
the fundamental principles of the dem
ocratic party. The men WHO call them
selves populstS in Geors.d are those
who have persuaded themselves that the
democratic party, with which they have
acted until within the past few years,
would continue 10 be controlled by the
selfish wing which has been subverted
by the very element which controls the
eastern republicans That element is
the bondholding and money lending
class. which, having no political princi-
pies of any kind whatever, are satisfied
10 control the leading men of both par
ties
When the democratic party makes as
surance doubly sure that 1t will stand
for pure democratic principles not only
in its platform, but in the record of its
candidates. we shall hear no more of
populism ana third parties in the south
and west.
Fram beginning a. end senator Ba-
cons letter is statesmanlike document.