Omaha daily bee., 1896-11-30
GOOD SENSE OF AMERICANS
Careful Review Of the Various Phases Of the
Reolnt Election.
SENATOR CHANDLER IS CONSERVATIVE
Attributes BrSnn's Defeat Partially
to the Interest In Protection
and the General Honesty
of the voters.

and the General Honesty
of the voters.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 29.-The Pest in a
cable letter from London will print to-
morrow an advance copy Cf an important
article written by Hon. William L. Chandler,
senator from New Hampshire, for the De
ccmbCr issue Of the National Review, in
which he discusses the late election from
a republican standpoint His principal OBJ
ject is to encourage European bimctallists
to continue their propaganda. The Review,
commenting editorially upon the election of
Major Mckinley, dogmatically asserts that
"unloss the republican party settles the
silver question before 1900 there Will be
nothing left of that party after l9OO.'
Senator Chambers article is as follows:
European bmetalllsts need not believe
that the selection of Mckinley and Hobart
by overwhelming majorites is a decision
to permanently accCde to the single gold
standard. The Bryan proposition was soon
seen by the American voters TO be SIM
ply that the United States should adopt
silver monometallism; should deliberately
give up all attempts to keep gold and Sill
yer at a parity; should send gold TO pre-
MUM and thereby make II merchandise
merely, and should base all American prices
upon silver only. II can hardly be conSid-
ered upon reflection by any true bimetal-
list that such action on our part would
have helped the cause OF btmetallism IN any
country in the world
ut is true the Bryanites called them
selves bimetallists, and that Mr.. Bryan in
his recent outcry from his temporary politi-
cal entombment. addresses not the demo-
Gratis nor the pOpulists. nor the people, but
.l,.. toll lfgtg 10 a
afTectation. No Bryan orator or writer has
seriously denied that the adoption of MS
policy, The immediate unlimited free COIN
age of silver by the United States
alone would send gold to a premium ana
keep ii there for an indefinite period. surely
that would be silver monometallism; and
can IL be contended that silver monometai-
lsm is any better stepping stone to bimetai-
lsm than gold mOnome tallism2 | supposed
that II was generally agreed by thoughtful
and rational bimetallists everywhere that 1t
did not help, but rather hindered the cause
of bimotallism for the United States TO jump
at once to free silver coinage. How, then
can the late decision of the United states
against immediate free coinage in1ure the
contest for blmetallism? Here the question
might be left, Hut fuller survey OF all
the causes of the defeat OF Mr.. Bryan and
the election of Mr.. Mckinley may be use
full.
AMERICAN CONSERVATISM
more conservatives than Europeans think
were alarmed at the character of the fol-
lowers of Mr. Bryan and at their doctrines
additional to the one favOring free silver
coinage. All the socialists, anarchists, ana
wild men of society whom Europe has GenJ
us shrieked for Bryan, although the great
bulk of our adopted citizens voted for Nc
Kinley. The platform seemed to counte-
nance roting as means OF redress OF griev-
ances and IL made one OF its planks recon-
struction of the supreme court in order to
change legal decision.
"a !ty of the American people wlsh
n more energetic foreign policy than they
believe will come from any administration
named democratic They are deeply affected
by the lamentable condition OF the Christlin
subjects of the Turkish empire. They mean
to annex Hawaii they desire TO see Nene-
zuela allowed to retain her rghtful sole do
minion over the mouths of the Ornoco.
They are intensely anxious to see arrested
the atrocities in Cuba and to aid in making
tho island free and independent.
But none OF the foregoing reasons-hot
even the one concerning the national honor
:, connection with the currency-intiuenced
so many voters against Mr.. Bryan as dld
tho determination OF the American people
to rlainlv vindca.e and firmly establish the
rrincipIe of protection to American INDUS
tries by adequate tarin duties on iorelSh
products.
single goll standard and Is in FAVOR oi
retracing in due course and with caretul
regard to the national honor the steps taken
in the decentralization of silver untll both
gold ana silver shall be admitted to free
coinage at the ratio of l5h 10 l and made
the standard money of the world and the
measure of the values OF the world is
proposition which would receive the suhrages
of four-ffths of our voters, if this proposition
alone could be fairly presented to them,
even without further debate
"To such convictions entertained by
vast majority of American voters committed
TO bimetallism the friends of such none
tary system may confidently appeal. The
question is not one of four years nor
a decade. 1t may take as long TO remone-
tie silver as 1t has taken to realize the
paralyzing influence of demonetization. But
the fact that 100000 out of 49,
900 900 of American voters have
given their ballots for the wild
project of immediate free silver coinage by
the United States alone shows that the
question is one which must be compro-
misad and adjusted in some way. The
advocates of gold monometallsm are cry
ing out that the silver question is dead.
They hope, but do not really believe that this
is true Never was 1t more important for
biu,etalists to exert themselves. Mr. Nc
Kiuley Is pledged by his own words to CO.