The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1895-06-28
Intemperate Politics.

Incorporate Politics.
The late silver convention of Demo-
Gratis at Memphis has established the fact
that the politicians are using the silver
question as means for the creation of a
new party. Prominent speakers threat
ened the formation of a new party if the
Democratic party failed to endorse their
views on silver. In the adoption of the
resolutions compromise was effected by
the presentation of plan referring the
whole matter to national bimetailc com.
mittee who is authorized to call nation
al convention should the National Demo-
cratic convention fail to take favorable
stand on silver.
Judging from this action silver is to be
fought out within Democratic lines. The
Democratic party owing to its dissOluble
character opens the way for new politics.
The new party managers are seeking the
Democratic hulk upon which to build
their party. The temporary postpone
ment in the threatened revolt was wise
expediency on the part of those Demo-
Gratis who care more for their party than
the political fortunes of men who make
silver their cause purely from selfish mo-
tives.
When party is in the throes of disso-
luton it is threatening and warlike. This
no al U1QrnnprrtS
are seeking the availability in the con-
summation of their plans; and ia this
failure they threaten to bolt.
Congressman Sibley, Of Pennsylvania,
with Presidential bee in his bonnet,
who addressed the convention, declared
in this Incorporate language'-''There
will be two avenues open to the people
after 1896. One will be reputation and
the other revolution, and both, 1 dread"
The effect of either reputation or rev.
OlutiOn would not relieve the embarass-
ments of the country. Either would
throw the country into worse condition
than the late civil war produced. Re-
pudiation would bring on blight from
which the country would not recover in
a quarter of century. Revolution
would reduce the country to chaos with
a condition worse than anarchy, and
every form of credit would be destroyed.
If construction, considered from phi
losophical law, depends upon destruc
ton, we hope the only disaster in the
construction of the new party will be
that of the Democratic party. The
country could survive that shock. This
it is hoped, is about the extent of the re-
pudiation and revolution proposed. 1t
can 90 no further, for the question Il, is
sue does not involve so much as Sibley
fears.
These new party organizers want veal
if not, then woe. Any other question
MIR. Cleveland's foreign policy, for in
form basis for a new
party as well rs the silver question. 1t
would have political complexion suita-
BILE to the formation of a new party; and
upon such principles wars are declared
and from which new parties grow.
The cause of silver is being injured by
such Incorporate utterances as come from
men like Sibley. Republicans and DEM
Ocrats observe the tendency of the new
party men. and they are closing in on
their lines; and of course the POpulists
look wistfully on hoping to profit by
the disaffectiOn.
Silver should be discussed calmly and
reverently, as it is an economic question
affecting every shade of political inter-
est; but the threat is timely. 1t is put
ting the people to thinking. We want
neither war nor reputation. One form
of distress will not relieve another The
country needs medicine, not surgery.