The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-11-08
DEMOCRATIC pRErENsEs.
Insincerity aud Indifference to PatriOtis
Obligations.

Insincerity aud Indifference to Patriot10
Obligations.
The democratic party is always ana
everywhere a party of false pretenses.
1t never hesitates to sacrifice a prin-
ciple to which it has pledged itself IL
the party interests seem to demand
such a course. A very conclusive illus
tration of this degenerate tendency is
afforded by the campaign now in prog
ress in Kentucky. In that state the
party adopted at it's state convention
a platform in favor of sound money,
and nominated a candidate for govern
or who has lost no opportunity in adj
vOcating unlimited silver coinage. At
first there was a vehement cutlery from
many of the party papers and some in
fluential party leaders against this
practical reputation of the platform
by the gubernatorial nominee. II was
denounced as dishonest and disreput-
able. For a time it seemed probable
that a majority of the democratic
journals would refuse to support tho
nominee in his inconsistent attitude.
But, with two exceptions, according to
statement in the New York World.
all the democratic papers in the state
are now urging the voters to support
the recalcitrant candidate-tO condone
what was first denounced as treach-
ery-in order to save the state from
the republicans. And foremost in this
despicable betrayal of principle and tbs
sound money cause are the journals
Oh, Lei
organs of the Cleveland administration.
The truth is that the democratic
party in Kentucky is not, and never has
been, honestly in favor of the sound
money policy of Mr.. Cleveland. The
declaration of the state convention and
the subsequent clamor of the party
press as to Gen. Hardin's. course were
mere hollow pretentions. Really ths
party as such believes in the cheap
money doctrine of the late Senator
Reci1 and the school TO which he be-
longed. Free trade and cheap money
have been for years the rallyinX
cries of the party in that state. Mr..
Carlisle himself once trained with Sen
atCr Blackburn, the BreckinridEeS and
the rest, under this financial ffag; and
if he were not member of the admin
istration he would probably be found
still in the same company. Most of the
so-called sound-money leaders are con-
spicuOusly ''flabby" of purpose, and
care apparently nothing whatever for
consistency. Thus, in one district the
''gold-bug" president of national bank
is running as a candidate for the legis-
iature TO save the election of Blackburn,
the leader of the silver party. TO the
United States senate!
1t would perhaps be unfair to assume
that the president and his Kentucky
secretary of the treasury have advised
or are responsible for the sudden change
OF front on the part of the party news
papers as to this general subject. Bus
certainly it is somewhat significant
that so far they have not entered a
syllable of protest against this sub
ordination of principle to considerA-
tiOns OF craftsmanship. They profess to
be profoundly anxious that the demo-
cratic party should be held true to
traditions. Why is &, IL
th7y are honest in this profession, that
in q crisis of the party history that
solicitude has entirely fsiled to find ex-
preston? Is Mr.. Cleveland, after all,
SO much of a democrat that he cannot
be patriot? Does he, with all his pre-
tensions of loyalty to conscience, as e
matter of fact place mere party claims
before and above every consideration o.
the public welfare?
Among all the many pitiable exhibit
tons of party insincer;ty and indiffcr.
ence to patriotic obliga tons, there has
been in our recent political history none
more utterly discreditable than thar
which is afforded by the course of the
and it's followers in this
campaign.-Leslie's Weekly,