Birmingham state herald., 1896-07-11

| all of his official acts or the adoption of platform diametrieally opposed to the | position taken by him on the financial question. To bring about the former re- suit the president and all of his adher- ents did everything in their power. An aggressive campaign, looking to that end, was waged by them. In that campaign, tas in all aggressive campaigns, many hard things were said on both sides, and no little amount of bad feeling was en- gendered.
 Democratic state after democratic state spoke out against the policy of the presi- dent. and before half the delegations which were to compose the national democratic convention had been selected it was clearly evident, and even admitted by many of the leaders of the forces combating the presidents side of the question, that a majority of the delegates to the national convention would be in opposition to the construction the ad- ministrn ton had seen proper to place upon the financial plank of the party platform adopted in 1892. We do not suppose any sane man, however much he may admire MT. Cleveland, will con- tend that the members of the democratic organization did not have a perfect right to differ from the president on the great question of finance if they chose to do so, and strive in the capacity of ofeindividuals to bring bout such action on the part of their party as would coincide with their convictions on political questions. This privilege was exercised and the result was that when the convention assembled at Chicago it was found that more than two-thirds of the delegates sent there to represent the democracy of the forty five states in this union were opposed to the financial views of the president, and, of course, the policy that has been pur- sued by the administration. Such being increase, the friends of the president should have been content to allow the convention to proceed to make It's pat form without being called upon, elther to indorse or condemn the president, just what it desired to and would have done but for the friends of MT. Cleveland.
 Senator Hill and every other adherent of MT Cleveland in tine Chicago conVen- ton and elsewhere knew that that pody could not with any degree of consistency adopt the resolution offered by hln' They knew full well that if left alone on that question, the treatment they were clearly entitled to and should have hao' the overwhelming majority there agalnst the financial policy of the admlnlstra- tion would have gone along and aoopteu- the party platform without reference 10 a want of confidence in the integrity ana fidelity of the president. MT. CleVelaho and his friends should have been entlref ly satisfied with such action on the part of the convention and not have pressed him upon it. Seeing that an adverse vote on the proposition was ineVltaple under the circumstances, the CleVeiano men certainly acted in bad faith towards the party in pressing the matter II they believed as they now claim, that It would be detrimental to the party to have the convention take such action rms we think they believed, and for the purpose, the deliberate purpose, of damaging the party we think the matter was pressed. But in the amount of damage it will like- ly do the party they are as badly mis- taken as they were in regard to the strength of the silver craze. The demo- cratic party is too great ana it's platform of principles just adopted are too near the hearts of the common masses of the com mon people for the fact that its national convention declined to gratify lot Of defeated politicians by stopping to give a man a certificate of good character for honesty and integrity when duty did not demand such action at it's hands.
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 WHY ARE MCKINLEY AND THE REPUBLICAN PARTY NO LONGER CONFIDENT OF SUCCESS? IT IS BECAUSE NO PRIVATE CHARAC- TER, HOWEVER PURE, NO PERSON AL POPULARITY, HOWEVER GREAT, CAN PROTECT FROM THE AVENGING WRATH OF AN INDIG- NANT PEQPI .E THE MAN WHO