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that times were good during the thirty
three years of the Republican tariff, and
the nomination means a return to that
tariff policy under which the country
prospered and under which prosperity
will not only be restored, but increased
This is the issue, and the only real issue
before the American people. The peo-
pie who do the voting recognize that
this is the issue greater than all others,
and includes all others. They know that
when that policy was changed by the
Democrats business reverses came quick
in the train of the tariff flop. They
know that American factories were
closed; that the savings of labor were
eaten UP in the enforced idleness of the
laiborer; that the owners of capital,
fearful of losing it, withdrew it from cir
oulation; that instead of industrial en-
terpriseS increasing those in existence
suspended, and thousands of laborers
were thrown out of employment. Farm
ers know that thousands instead of
buying what they produced were forced
to compete with them by raising the
food they bought when employment was
plentiful, and thus the number of home
and the farmers were rendered mora
than ever dependent on the foreign mar
ket.
IT IS DIVIDED.
Santa Cruz Sentinel: We do not pre-
tend even to guess who the Democratic
Convention nominee for President will
be; but no possible choice will fully rep
resent the Democratic party, made up
as it is of the fag ends of all theories,
even Drydens butt who was everything
by fits and nothing long. When Marion
Butler was twitted in the Senate for
representing a political fusion of Re-
publicanS and POpulistS, he asked some
body to name a single plank to which
the Democratic party as body would
a gree to cling. Nobody took up his
challenge at the time, and nobody has
tackled this job since, so far as we
have seen. The Democratic party is
split apart so widely and adversely
that no one living man can straddle it
or represent it.
THE PLATFORM
Oakland Tribune: The Republican
platform is the full and explicit declara-
ton of principles which will govern the
the country for it's sanction. There is
hardly doubt ais to the result. 1t keeps
nothing back The Republicans have
never made any concealments of ma
tional policy On the two great issues,
finance and protection, it stands by the
principles which have guided the party
since it came into existence. 1t is the
champion of American industry. The
platform reviews in substance the out
line of that policy. 1t is squarely for
national revenue ample for all needs to
be raised by a tariff. 1t is for sound
money represented by gold, silver and
paper.
SILVER COINAGE SENTIMENT.
Oakland Enquirer: You can't believe
all that you hear is a familiar saying
and a true one. 1t can be applied
with safety to a good deal of the talk
about the money question which is cur
rent Certain Western States and Ter
ritories have been assumed to be solid
for free silver" when in reality there
has been the same division of senti-
ment which exists in other places and
upon other questions. Often the free
silver opinions of the politicians have
taken on for the sake of policy. As an
example of the real moderation, or in
difference, of some supposed free silver
representatives, two delegates from
Arizona whom an ENQUIRER represen-
tative met on their awy to St. Louis,
were rather interesting. Both were
business men and Of considerable in
One of these delegates said: I'VE are
going to get free silver in the platform
if we can. But, if we fail, we shall not
bolt. / believe the characterization of
silver was a crime, of course, but. con-
hdentially, I don't believe it has hurt
Arizona a bit. All our silver miners
have turned into gold miners. and they
are having just as good luck as they
ever had
The other delegate said: I'm a be-
lever in free silver, of course, but I
don't expect everybody to believe as
do. I'm quite free to admit that
however beneficial free silver might be
eventually to the industries of the
country, it would cause a great dis
turbance in getting down to that basis.
So, if a majority in the convention
thinks il best to wait for an inter-
national agreement before retiring sill
yer, we Will be satisfied Protection is
needed great deal more than free
silver"
These men Were speaking at a time
when ii was not known so well as it
became few days later what would
be the policy of the managers at ST.
Louis, and therefore they had no mo-
tive Tor trying to make their opinions
agreeable. They spoke as they thought.
and they are representative of thou
sands OF conservative men in the So
called free silver States and Territories
who have been counted as radical sill
yer advocates. when their real senti-
ments, if they can be ascertained. are
notably moderate
ON TRUE LINES.
Redding Free Press The Republican,
platform, as outlined by the committe g
at the st. Louis Convention. bears II,
impress OF being constructed on tr ue
republican lines. and has the clear
ring Of true patriotism, and she rvs
c5nclusively that the Republican lie ad-
ers are imbued with that liberal and
progressive spirit that has always beer
Tor the best interests of the poop le OF
this great commonwealth. Every lank
IN the platform is a rampant bris tline
with clean-cut Republican prime iples
which. under former Republican rule
proved so conclusively that Re oubli.
can doctrines, fairly carried out ant