Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-10-26

| temporary disaster, is too great and
| its recuperating energy is too buoy
ant to permit the misfortune, under
ordinary circumstances to long con-
tinue. The times are Frightening al
ready in the prospect of returning
Republican ascendency. Business is
starting up on hope which has long
been deferred. The spirit of Ameri-
can patriotism is around as it has not
been since the time of the war.
American pride, courage and honor
are wakened and there never wgs a
time when the people were more
eager to engage in and attack the
business problems of life than now.
The Republican party has no new f.
nancial schemes. 1t proposes no
change which will overturn all the
experiences of the past; it does not
cen inches long, a pound which shall
contain seven ounces, dollar that is
worth so cents.
Contrary to Mr.. Bryan's pet and
constantly reiterated statement that
this government is big enough to leg
islate for itself, in other words to es
tablish values Of it's own without re-
gard to the world, this party
recognizes that there are some things
which fat and the laws of one nation
can not do. To keep the best, un
alterable, the world standard, is it's
purpose, while it seeks to use all of
the silver product of this country
which can be safely foated and
steadily maintained at a parity value.
Republicans have no antipathy
against silver, but they are powerless,
as every party must be, to keep it in
trinsically at a given ratio. The party
has heretofore been able to hold up
S400, 900, 600 of it, but it does not at
tempt to support the three billions of
it in the worlds treasures, and all
that can be mined from the mountain
area of the Great West. We turn to
the other phase of the case: Con-
fronting the party of which we have
spoken is the broken element of the
old Democracy, which has joined
hands with populists and the odds
and ends Of all isms; the unfortunates
Of broken fortunes and disastrous
business, and the here and-there ones
who are ever found where absurdities
are thickest; the whole mass cement
ed together by the all powerful in
fuence of free silver The old party,
Oereft of almost all, who have in the
past been prominent in its councils |
and honored inits statesmanship, has
fallen into the domination of new and I
lntried men, and sets itself up on a
platform such as this country never I
saw, and such as only fragment of |
5he intelligence of the old Democracy |
,an support Outside of the silver in |
5erest and the populistic maniacs, the
silver theories, and all the leading |
7agaries of the Chicago platform are
discarded by the best men of the old I
,arty; by nearly everyone of it's lead
ng newspaper organs; by independ-
mt and mugwump journals, by the
college professors; by students of po-
itical economy and the intelligence of
he whole country. So bad indeed is
he platform that it is the bitterest
,ill to the great rank and file of the
I'D democracy, and it finds a silent
md enforced support by those who
eel that they must endorse it, or ig-
lore the party itself. They cling on
~ party fealty alone. 1t must be
hing of ugly mien when President,
Ill his cabinet, thousands of !. promin-
mt men and influential politicians
lbandon it.
The candidate, who has been select
I'd to ride upon the platform is it's
,est exponent. He has stated that he
endorses it in all its particulars. He
S committed to it's doctrines and de-
,larations. If elected he will have
t enforced in spirit and letter. In his
he has nothing outside
he platform to offer. The rankest of
I'll free silver advocates, he has moth
ng to suggest in finances except the
rec coinage of silver on the 16 to /
alto. This scheme alone he ad-
vances as the one and only thing ne
essary to bring about a millineum
condition. His belief is his only ar
Like all silver advocates he
ails to show how free coinage can ac
omplish ANYTHING. unless it NAV be.