New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-10-29

The very same Democratic leaders who worked
with frantic energy to stir up fight on the sill
yer ouesfion between the freecOinage ana the
anti-silyer wings Of that party are just now
publicly Boosting thai the party is united again;
that Hardin may be elected in Kentucky be-
cause his free silver supporters and the Admin
istratou Democrats are working together; mat
Senator Brice may succeed in Ohio because the
frcc-sver Democrats and the sound money
Democrats have been fused by the nomination
OF Campbell; that the silver question has been
entirely forgotten in the talk about excise in
New York, and the like. And in part they are
right but wha. a disclosure they make of their
own nsincerity. Pro-silver or antsilver, what
slo they care il the man is Democratic can
didate? Principles 90 for nothing, when the
question is whether the party can get office. II
is precisely this amazing indifference TO all the
objects for which political party has any right
to exist: this instant readiness 10 sacrifice every
conviction and the welfare Of the country in
every RESI- ct when an advantage can be CAMEL
for party, which brought the Democratic party
its unparalleled defeat last year.
II does not appear probable that Democratic
voters will all be found as destitute Of honesty
and political conscience as some Of their leaders.
There are great many of them who have pub
licly declared that they would not vote for the
frce-silyer candidate nominated by the Demo
Gratis in Kentucky, and the Republicans there
have other reasons for the confidence they ex-
press There are sincere men Of differing con
victiOns about the money question who declare
that they cannot vote both for the gold side and
for the silver side In Ohio, and who insist that
either Senator Brice or Governor Campbell ought
10 be beaten There are honest Democrats who
know that the election Of McGill in New-Jersey
would stop reform. There are decent and clean
men who never have consented to the crimes Of
Hill and Maynard in New-York, and will not
even if every friend and representative Of Presi-
dent Cleveland beseeches them The same old
party is on trial again, 10 determi lie whether
il has enough honest men left in 1t TO deserve
any measure of public respect
Its misfortune is that it is on trial with all its
vices and crimes in the forefront, as before.
Hill and Maynard and Sheehan and Murphy are
upheld in New York, exactly as If they had never
been guilty of robbing the people of their rights.
The worst and most diSreputable end OF the
same old Tammaiy Hall is hoping for victory
in this city, and the same gang which stole the
Senate in New-Jerscy. The men who thought
the least Of Campbell, when he was Governor
and the ally Of those who robbed the voters Of
their rights in Ohio. and the men who talked
most harshly of the methods by which Senator
Brice gained his election. now following
Campbell and Brice in the hope Of party sue
cess The widest ard most unreasoning free
silver men find their candidate in Kentucky
supported by Administration Democrats, who
have just enough principle to vote for anything
that Is Democratic. 1t is not spectacle cal
culated TO make men believe that the Demo
cratic party has in il more integrity, more sin
cere conviction, or more care for the public wei
fare than it had in its worst days when it earned
its tremendous defeat.