The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-06-16
SILVER snd Cold at St. Louis.

silver end Gold at St. Louis.
The New York World" publishes these
two dispatches. side by side
ST. LOUIS, June 15.-I do not /. think
tina the people who are for the gold
standard VIM gain anything by saying
they flavor maintaining the existing
standard when they are for a gold
standard.
So far as the West is concerned, it has
only contemps for men who believe in
a gold STANDARD and are afraid to say
so. They like men and parties to have
the courage of their convictions.
No votes will be gained or held for the
Republican party by failing to say gold
when 1t means gold. If it is for gold It
ought to say SO. H. M. TELLER.
ST. LOUIS, June 15.-The friends of
sound money are highly elated over the
events Of today. Many delegates who
doubted the expectancy of a candid dec
~laration for the gold standard have been
converted.
/ can say i regard it as certain tonight
that the Republican party will again take
the proud position of stating its prin-
ciples in its platform in such unequivocal
terms that no one can be in doubt as to
its policy.
/ believe tina the Committee on Reso-
lutions will report a plank satisfactory
to- the convention. If it should not, the
convention itself will correct the blunder
of eowardice and make its own position
clear.
On a t~sstraddle'' platform we would go
to defeat: On a sound gold platform we
will sweep the country. T. c. PLATT.
These brief messages epitomize the sit
uation. They show the strength of the
public demand for gold all over the coun-
try. They show the reluctance of the
dominant Republican faction to identify
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est money. They show the cowardice
and false-heartedness of the candidate
and his hackers. Thy show that only
the use of the club by both the silver
and gold men has sufficed to force these
trimmer and jugglers to take up a def
mite position.
They also show that the Republican
party is just as much corrupted with
silver heresy as the Democracy, and the
silver element is not to be concIiated or
paciied by anything but a complete sur
rende on sthe part of gold. 1t is, there
fore, a practical certainty that when the
gold plank is adopted by the convention.
the silver element will secede.
1t would be pleasant to think that ex-
actly the same thing would happen at
Chicago. If the silver element could be
driven out of the Democracy by the
adoption of an uncompromising gold
platform. the present prosperity of the
country and the future triumph of the
party would be assured facts. The sill
get together and make an Independent
nomination. They would receive a lesson
that might render them modest for the
next twenty years.
If Senator Teller and his following
take immediate aggressive action upon
leaving the st. Louis circus, something
like this may result. If they issue a
call for a national convention and make
nominations for President and Vice
President of extreme silver men, some
Of the present self-styled Democrats,
such as Tillman and Altgeld. may. go
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Chicago Convention of their presence;
or they may act in such a manner at
Chicago-as for instance in urging an
endorsement of the silver nominees, that
the Honest Money Democracy may be
compelled to cut aloof from them, make
strong gold nominations on a gold plat
form and reorganize the party machinery
in States like South Carolina, Kentucky
n Illinois. where the Anarchist ele-
ment has got control of the party ma
chinery.
Whether a gold Democrat could be
elected under these circumstances Is a
matter of speculation. The distrust of
the personal character of Major McKin-
ley, which his recent course has engen-
dsred, might very probably cause all
conservative men, at least in the East
eEn and Middle States, to give their
support to a candidate like Russell OF
Massachusetts, or Pattison of Pennsyl-
vania, whose convictions and courage
were well known, or it might be that
in such . case Grover Cleveland might
have to answer to an overwhelming call
as the mar of men to whom the public
faith could be pinned.
Mayor wanser's street Plans.