Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1896-06-26

The following leading editorials from
the Denver Republican, tnat for years
has been one of the most able and widely
circulated republican newspapers of the
extreme west; the Denver Post also re-
publican, and the World-Ierald, lnde-
pendent, of Omaha, are very suggestive of
this disintegration of parties and the
forming of them on new lines:
When he (McKinley) accepted the
nomination of the money power, he just
ly forfeited the respect and support of all
true believers in bimetallism. and we
hold that the Colorado delegates and
others who went out with them are en-
titled to the lasting gratitude of their
constituents for the courage and inde-
pendence they displayed in this matter.
As the chief representative of protection,
Maj. Mckinley will prove popular can.
dldate in the manufacturing centres of
the Eastern and Middle states. where
that policy is deemed sufficient to insure
a return of prosperity which the country
enjoyed under President Harrison's adj
ministratiOn, when we were adding 500
100000 to our currency on account of
purchases of silver, but we believe that
as the campaign progresses, the money
question will rapidly become the leading
issue in every section, and if this opinion
is sound, it is wholly within the range of
probability that the platform and the
ticket approved at st. Louis will be de-
feated by the greatest majority in the
history of American politics next No
vember.- Denver Republican.
All honor to Teller, Dubois and Can
non, trinity Of thoroughbred and patri-
Otic American citizens, who, in defense
of principles which touch to the centre
the hearts of all true Americans and, in
Its ultimate, involves their very liberty
itself, without a moments hesitation,
without thought of self or the effect of
the action upon their future career, sever
the associations of lifetime and cast
their fortunes with the plain people and
against the domination of plutocracy
which already has national party at its
feet, and a mailed hand thrust forward
to grasp the thrOats of the people, Den
veI Post.
Senator Teller and his associates repre-
sent in their protest and by their with
drawal the sentiment of every republican
who has studied the money question suf-
ficiently to acquaint himself with its first
principles. He will have the sympathy
and Endorsement of every Republican
who has learned that with men of all
parties the parting of the ways has been
reached. senator Teller prefers to fol-
low in the pathway of the people, and he
will take with him every man who has
learned the first lessons of the great
financial question. Henry NJ. Teller is
brave man. Men of all opinions will
honor him, and the genuine bimetallists
within the republican party will follow
him Denver World-Herald.
It is well understood that neither Mr..
Mckinley nor his chief spokesman, Mr..
Hanna, wanted the gold standard adopt
ed or even referred to at St. Louis; but
the money power was too strong for
them. Mr. Hanna remarked that he
thought it a great mistake to make in
this way perfectly sure election doubt
ful. Mr.. Mckinley, who throughout
the larger part of his life has been con-
sistent supporter of blmetallism, and
who, we had hoped, would prove man
enough to stand by his colors whatever
came, flunked and accepted the gold
standard. We can only add, using Lin
coins expression, that to those who
want this kind of man he is exactly
the kind of man that they want.
The remark is attributed to Henry
Clay, that he would rather be right
than be president. We would not want
to say that the converse of this is true
of Maj. Mckinley; but it is quite evident
that his convictions of right and wrong
in political action are not strongly
drawn.