Middletown transcript., 1896-06-06
M1DDLErowN. DEL, JUNE. 8. 1895

MIDDLETowN, DEL, JUNE. 9. 1895
THE PATRIOT's OPPORTUNITY.
Not within our recollection have ma
tlonal parties been SO unsettled as they
are to-day. The Prohibition Party has
held its convention, nominated its
candidates for the highest offices in the
gift of the American people, and set off
a new party, the Matt NAL Party, which.
incorporates woman's suffrage, free.
coinage and other theories in its plat
form in addition to Prohibition, to
which plank The marrow guage"
party holds by itself. This split in the
sthirdi, party, the weakest numerically
OF all, only shows the intensity of the
feeling along The lines of policy on
which men differ. Two of the Mary
land delegates to the PittsBurg Con-
yention have been in Middletown the.
past week, Presiding Elder Smith OF
Oxford and Mr.. G. w. Covington, of
Still Pond. They give very interesting
accounts of theproceedings, and while
the very foundation of the party is the
prohibition of the manufacture and
sale of alcoholic liquors yet so inten-
sely earnest were the delegates upon
the '.isms,o especially the white metal
and The suffrage, that every inch of
ground was fought over from the or
ganization to the bolt that advantage
might be taken to advance the views
of the contestants. Committees sat up
all night to formulate platform only
to bring in majority and minority re-
ports, the suffrage plank was accepted
only to drive some of the delegates to
leave for their homes in disgust, and
when the vote was taken on the 16 to !
free coinage resolution at II o'clock at
night, of The nine hundred delegates
here was but a majority of forty
against it. Sooner than accept com
promise to stand upon the one plank
which the very name of the party indi-
Gates that every member accepts two
hundred and sixty delegates withdrew
and launched their new party upon the
troubled political sea. 1t is not because
these men are temperance "cranks"
that they carry their differences to such
an extreme since many of them have
national regulations and are talent ed
and able but they represent the confic-
ting financial views that now disturb
the country, the east against the west,
the north against the south. There is
an unrest among the people the climax
of which no man can predict.
In Ten days The Republicans will
meet in National Convention in st.
Louis. 1t is apparent that Major Nc
Kinley will be nominated, perhaps by |
acclimation, and a platform will be
made that will be acceptable to him
and to the masses of the Republican
Party but it is not unlikely that tho
Colorado Senators and perhaps other
white metal men in Congress may bolt
the convention. The sectional inter-
ests are so varied in this vast country
of ours that it is difficnlt for any party
to formulate platform acceptable to
all. The Republicans are fortunate at
this time in having candidate SO pop
ular in all sections that his nomina-
tion and election is apparently assured.
Republicans believe that four years of
Protection and Patriotism will restore
Prosperity; the people evidently are
anxious to try it.
The National Democratic Conven-
tion is just month off, July Tth, and
not near all the delegates have been
elected to it,yet already it is foregone
conclusion that it will be a free coin
age convention TO the most radical
type, and not only the possibility but
The probability of split in the panty,
equal to the division in 1860, is being
discussed by the ablest Democratic ed.
itors in the country. the Democratic
strength is in the south which is for
the white metal even of the most raG-
ical extreme. Kentucky has declared for
silver by q seven to one vote at the pri-
maries which puts Blackburn at the
head Of the party here, relegating Car
Isle to the rear. Indeed the Cleveland
does not appear to have
much influence with the Democratic
State Conventions and The idol of a
party four short years ago is for the
time without following. 1t brings to
mind the query, "Are Republics un-
The TRANSCRIPT has no
defence to make of President Cleve-
land or of bis policy. His first admin
istration was successful but he had a !
Senate to direct him and Q
)sepubllcan legislation oi quarter OF
/ century TO operate. His second ad-
with Democratic Con-
yress on bis hands has been co-tempo-
ranious " itll hard times and financial
disaster. His friends should hunt out
ne reasons for the different conditions. =
Locally there is political di, quietude. !,
Delawareans are conservative, but the d
,eople ara beginning to Ieaiizs that
hey have mt be-n alive lo their inter- '
ST ss they shoulJ. The Stale of Del {
rsaie should have had anew Constitu- !.
ion twrnty Years age, and legislation
.Iso HAT wuuid have stamped cut the
vii OF bribery which nov threatens to :,
t.lly control The State. Is not this the a,
,atrict's opportunity Parties are a