Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1895-06-06
A M'KINLEYITE.
Replies TO An Editorial From the
Eugene Journal.

laUd-leaders Of the party generally
anticipate future success and harmonI
Gus action throughout the entire state.
II Is therefore a matter of regret that
the great editor Of the Oregon State
Journal should again aud again at
tempt 10 foment ttriie within the fold
Of Republicanism To him bis opin
nion unlimited free coinage Of silver rs
to may be correct, but the great mas
ses Of Republicans don't propose that
auy individual shall cram this fallacy
r. any other down their throat. The
attempt to do so, headed By the hon
uraDle gentleman at Eugene, resulted
in an absolute rout and an ignomini-
Jus failure at Portland May %. Yet
still be aud others of like peculiar pO-
lltical faith continue to harp upon the
vote in that convsnti onto attempt to
pluck the "rose Of success" as 1t were,
from the ''stinging thorns of defeat"
Referring to the editorial In your
worthy paper, issue June 4, copied
from the Oregon SLATE Journal, quote:
sin the first vote when the line was
sharply drawn between the silver men
and tse goldiles the silver party car
fied their proposition by vote of 243
yeas to 22O nays. That vote was
taken by rising and standing until
counted and shows the strength OF
those present In the convention, The
silver men Outnumbered the gold men,
AZ the count showed" Continuing the
writer says: "The election of delegates
10 the Cleveland convention was no
test Of the strength of either side
some goldbugs being defeated" 1t is
astonishing to note that any honorable
gentleman would thus juggle with
we'll known facts. Upon the first prop
osition will say, that the writer occu-
pied q position upon the stage oyer
looking the seats Of delegates and will
cbeerfully and readily make affidavit
that when this first vote was taken the
true count was 249 Tor free silver and
320 against. Mr.. Davey innocently
made an error of 100 in his count and
no reconsideration was allowed by the
over.confident Bourneites and Kim
caidites. AS later ballots fully demon.
strated the free silver men were out
numbered from 800 to 400 majority and
how any man more especially an edi-
tor would attempt to prop upa blasted
and withered hope upon an incident,
later proven al error, would tend to
confirm the Darwinian theory. As to
voting "proxies" the Oregon State
Journal editor might well remain
silent. Barkley received his proxy; Egg
gleston, the mighty mover Of the silver
resolution, emptied his 20 proxies reg.
ularly ia the hat, and all over the state
silver clubs were formed just prior 10
the convention for the sole purpose OF
carrying the convention against the
Republican national platform on this
subject. The most strenuous efforts
aud machine methods Of politics were
resorted TO In order 10 climb the ladder
OF success opposed to caucus rules,
opposed to rings, opposed 10 modern
machine politlcs, rantlng against
Dolphism aud Dolpbites aud comblnR.
tl0ns Of any kind; yet these men, ffssh
from the people, catered Into caucus,
made slate. organized, combined,
sohemed and lAbored 10 carry their uB.
limited 10 10 brelhsren through.
OppoAsd 10 this combination aud these
modern Simon pure Anti.DOlph ring
sters, were arTaysd representa- Of |
the spaople u, 9, itepublioau people, loot
Pope, not bound by caucus rule 10 any I
individual aud IN . fair snd square
light overwhelmingly defeated the 0p- /
position, The Oregon Journal elAinis
come " the delegates slsolsd are Ffas
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