The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1895-05-08
COMPROMISE.

he w llmlnSUOn star mas q timely
article upon the present contentious
! among Democrats, urging conserva
tism in expression and enjoining all
members of the party to go slow and
think. 1t thinks that compromise is
the key to thu policy that must
bring Democrats together upon the
currency question. We think that
the bimetallists occupy the safest
ground and that the position main
| tanned by them will be the basis of
compromise, if a compromise is
effected. The masses have suffered,
and are suffering, SO greatly from the
| effects of the present monetary
| system, which is, practically, based
upon the single gold standard, that
there appears just now some danger
OF flying to the opposite extreme OF
silver monometallism, but we believe
| that from agitation of the subject,
| the conclusion will be reached by
majority of Democrats, before the
| next Presidential election, that
bimetallism presents the most favor
able advantages for solidyfying the
party, as well as the promise of
greatest relief to the people, and
that this idea will form the currency
plank of the next national Demo-
cratic platform. Then, with a candi
date for President whose currency
views are in full accord with the plat
form declarations the party should
enter the campaign with fair pros.
poets of success.
From the Stars article we quote
as follows:
"The American people are quick to
form their political conclusions and,
as rule, stick pretty tenaciously to
them when formed The large
majority of them do this because
they believe they are right, that is
unless there are sectional or other
prejudices to cause people to be in
different as to whether they are right
or not. But there should be none OF
this in the discussion of a great
financial question which interests
| every one, and on which every one
should desire to lave thrown all the
light possible. BaDdying epithets is
not discussing it nor adding any
thing to the popular stock of infor-
nation. 1t requires no talent, study
or ability to call names; a fool can
do that and fools do it, and least of
| all should Democrats who differ
h
more or less difference throughout
the country be pursuing this course
of stupidity.
There are free silver Democrats
and Democrats who are opposed to
| free silver, who on everything else
| agree, and who if it were not for this
would be found marching shoulder
| to shoulder as they have in the past.
Why should they, because they
| differ on the question of the free
| coinage of silver, some believing in
free and unlimited coinage, some in
| free but not unlimited, some in q
ratio of 16 to 1, others in another
ratio, and some opposed to coinage
on any ratio save one to be agreed
upon by other countries and this,
| why, we ask, should there be handy
| ing of epithets at each other instead
of discussing their differences intelli-
gently and good naturally with the
intent of arriving at what is best to
do, and to learn by patient investi-
| cation which is right and which is
wrong?'
For years the Democratic party,
| or rather the differing elements in
the Democratic party, compromised
ON the financial question for years,
and if the party is to hold together
and attempt to make a canvass with
any hope of success they must COM
| promise again. One extreme cannot
draw the other extreme to it; it is
the moderate, thoughtful man who
| stands in the middle, between the