Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-07-11
SENSIBLE DEMOCRATS.

SENSIBLE DEMOCRATS.
 The Democratic nominees on the State ticket in Kentucky at meet ing the other day unanimously agreed that the currency question should have no part in the State campaign, and the State Central Committee was requested to map out the party program accordingly. The published report of the meeting says: While the nominees met for the sole purpose of discussing the polit- ical situation, and have not the power to control the campaign, or the manner in which it shall be con- ducted, they were unanimous in the sen timent that the currency ques tion had been settled by the Demo- crats of the State in convention as- sembled, and that it should be, and, in fact had been, eliminated from the campaign by the platform adopted, which is the partys declar- ation of principles.
 Feeling that the question had been settled, so far as the party is concerned, by a majority of the Democrats in the State, the nomi- nees feel that it would be both un- wise and unnecessary to reopen it or to discuss it from the stump. The declaration of party principles stands for itself, and by it the nominees propose to abide. The nominees also felt that the currency question was not State issue, and that it properly had no right in the cam paign in which State officers were to be elected, none of whom would have anything to do with the question as a National issue.
 Kentucky Democrats have again done what is pre-eminen tly the pro- per thing. The Kentucky Democratic convention has expressed the will of the majority on the currency ques- tion, and there is no cause to further continue discussion of that issue. There are plenty of local issues to discuss in Kentucky without ap- pealing to National questions upon which the party is divided. If the l Democratic nominees will stand by the record of their party in that State and the administration of Gov ernor John Young Brown, there can be no doubt of their election. The State candidates have no more to do with the currency question than the man in the moon. The individual views of the respective candidates on the silwer question should have no more to do with the State contest than their private views repecting the late Japan Chinese war or the foreign policy of the United States. The currency question is purely a National question, and one that should alone be settled by the Ma tional Democratic convention in 1896. All truly loyal Democrats will abide by the action of that con vention, and until the National Democratic party has spoken the duty of Democrats is not decreed. If in the present State contests now in progress throughout the country the Democratic standard bearers will stand by the record of their party,
 both State and National, they will have plenty to talk about and thera can be no danger of their defeat. State candidates from the very na-
 ture of the positions to which they aspire, will not be required to act on National questions, and they will !, therefore play a sensible part to dis 2 cuss local issues, which are, in the end, vastly more important tc their respective constituencies
 than any National question now be fore the public Candidates fOl
 Congress and the United States Sen
 ate, in whose province it is to act } on National questions, are the pro , per persons to discuss National is ; sues.