Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1896-06-17
A FoRLoRN PARTY.
eiesetAn"s silence Fatal Embarra<s-
mcnt To the Democracy.


mcnt To the Democracy.
Maj. Mckinley being apparently NOM
mated, with a quiet understanding be .
tween him and Mark Hanna that the
campaign is TO be made - far as possi-
Ole on the tariff. attention turns TO Chi
cago. What will the democrats do?
This question is frequently asked.
but never answered. No ofiiceholder.
no member of congress-. no leader. is
willing even TO guess. n few weeks ago
the administration and the mugwumps
had IL all circumstantially laid out. tn.
lines drawn and fixed. Then the plat
form was to be for sound money and the
candidate was to be named by Grover
Cleveland, in the event of his determin-
ing at the last moment not to take il
himself.
But all that is changed. The condi.
ton of the administration is almost for
iorn. III any hopes are entertained for
the nomination of the president for n
third term, they are nursed secretly and
by those only who Turk in the very
shadow of the candidate. That they are
entertained at all is inferred only from
his refusal to speak when TO speak, II
not n candidate, would relieve his party
and his faction of almost fatal embar-
easements
Mr.. Carlisle's candidacy has withered
under Cleveland's deadly silence. Billy
Russelrs is dying under the suspicion
that he was brought out rs n sort OF
forerunner of the third term schemers
The power which Mr.. Cleveland seemed
To have six months ago To shape the
convention and frame the issues has
been frittered away and lost, or worse: :
for the active favor of the administra-
tion and its peculiar friends would now
injure more than IL could help any can
didate.
The termination of the Cleveland reign
would Ice n relief TO the party il the
collapse, just on the eve of the conven-
ton, did not involve certain disaster to
the cause of sound money. III the sill
yer men are in "A majority at Chicago,
and in n temper TO reject all compro-
mise, and thereby insure the election of
Mckinley. with n republican congress
uncertain on the money question. the
sound-money democrats may thank Mr..
Cleveland and his agents and ofiicehold-
ers for their plight. Three things have
recently contributed heavily to depress
the sound-money side and 10 raise the
silver side, or, thanks TO Mr. Cleveland's
course, the anti-Cleve,and side, i'm the
democratic fight.
III President Cleveland is not n can
didate for n third term is there any rea-
son why he should not say so? He
knows that the party is Stage ring
under the weight of the charge that he
its official head, three times honored by
its nomination and twice elected by it's
votes, contemplates this assault upon
the cherished traditions of the republic
He knows that the cause of sound money
is failing because IL is, by his silence,
identified with the third term; and that
the outgiyings of his friends and Office
holders encourage the belief that his
nomination at Chicago is TO follow the
control of the convention by the sound
money wing. In all the great states
where the fight for sound money is be-
ing made against growing odds the
sound-money men encounter the in
vincible conviction that sound money
and the third term are 10 be combined
If the administration can command 4
majority. II knocks them over i'm piles.
1t is doing more than anything else
to carry Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and Ken
lucky over to free silver. Senator Bricc
started in to stem the tide i'm Ohio.
but the very fact that he did so M
Cleveland's request was ? handicap, and
now he AYERS that he and all other sound
money men are paralyzed, and every
thing is going to the devil everywhere
for want of n letter from the president
saying in plain English that he is no
better than George Washington and
Thomas Jefferson and that there must
be no nomination for n third term.
Brice's experience is only that of every
one else. 1t is doubtful il any relief
is practicable at this time of day.
Should the president now decide to get
off the neck of the party and give IL n
chance, IL would be too late to afford
much relief. The damage is done. the
delegates are elected, or the fight is
about over. No wide-awake democratic
politician in Washington has the least
idea that Illinois, Ohio, Indiana or Ken
lucky can be saved. The administration
is simply amazed and Numbering.
If sound money is killed at Chicago IL
will have been killed chiefly by Mr..
Cleveland's selfish silence on the third
term.-N. Y. Sun DemJ