The record-union., 1896-09-19
Weather Forecast.
THAT STATE PLANK.

can State Convention pronounced in
favor Of free coinage Of silver. 1t is
perfectly true that the National Con-
venton, the supreme body of the party,
dissented from the view Of the State
Convention, by declaring against it,
except it can be attained through in
ternational agreement, which it pledges
itself to labor to bring about
No one attempts to deny these facts.
There is nothing in them to cripple any
Republican. His national party has,
as it had the right to do, written the
articles Of party faith and qualified
but one Of those he had in advance set
out.
But the National party did not desert
any party precept or the vital issue of
protection; 1t did not abandon a single
principle upon which the party has
been built and on which it's foundations
rest. 1t reaffirms its tariff policy, it
demands the restoration of the Amer
lean shipping interests, it pronounces
against the ruinous policy Of the De-
mocracy; it is outspoken on every pa
triotic line, and stands forward, as it
always has, for law, order, protection,
stitutions, and the liberties and rights
of all the people.
1t has given the State Republican a
platform to stand upon that calls for
a1 n nd
asks Of him only to concede that the
settlement of the silver question will
be more wisely and safely attained by
q method differing from that which
he has heretofore favored.
But if the State Republican is still
unconvinced on that point it simply
remains for him to say If he is pre-
pared, for the sake Of an idea un-
tried and doubtful. to turn over the
National Administration to the COM
bined opposition. the rag-tag and bob
tail elements of all parties that have
united and fused and coalesced against
his party, and denounced it as a mon
strous thing, the tool of autocracy and
greed, the thing of Wall street, the
prostitute of money changers, vile
drab, and that it's black Republican"
membership a servile crew, is paved
over by the money power. Is he pre-
pared to bed with those who say his
party is moved by enmity to the people
and antagonism to the best interests
of the Nation, that party which has
once saved the republic from traitorous
hands and is going to perform the feat
again? Will the State Republican in
such a crisis play into the hands Of
his revilers, desert the traditional faith
Cf his party, put behind him his be-
Lief that in protection Of American in
dustry is found the surest and swift
est road to prosperity; abandon unity
for sectionalism, loyalty for denial Of
the right Of the Federal Government
10 loose the clutch of the hands Of in
surrectionists When they fasten upon
its throat?
Is he going to turn over the Supreme
Court to the mercy Of the piebald op
position and see it packed to suit the
fancy Of Altgeld, Tillman. Tom Jones.
and the representatives of all the dis
eordant and envious elements which
are whooping through the mouth Of
Bryan that the day Of doom is at hand
unless they are placed in the seats Of
the mighty?
Republicans are taunted with the de-
.1- -
The free silver propaganda, and are
besought therefore to desert their party
because the National organization is
not agreed with them on that one and
only proposition. They are daily urged
to join the enemy's forces and labor
to the undoing of their own household;
and for what. to establish Bryan and
free trade; to precipitate commercial
panic that Bryan admits will come on;
to put double seals upon the doors Of
industry; and to thrust their political
brethren in the side, to crafty their
traditional foes.
We apprehend that true Republicans
are going to do nothing of the kind.
and led away. We expect them to
return before November But many
Democrats who yield not jot of their
opposition and political antagonism to
Republicanism, have had the manliness
to step out Of the house of the usurpers
of their party. But their case Is a
very different one. They are standing
for the ancient principles upon which
the Democratic party Is builded and
has had it's growth; they are protesting
against perversion and prostitution Of
the party. We respect and honor such
men. We cannot conceive that such
tribute can be claimed by any Repub-
Hcan who deserts his party, since there
is no parallel between the cases.