The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-07-30
BRYAN OR uKINLEYs
Which of the Two shall the south
ern Democrat support:

ern Democrat support:
Editor Morning News. 10 view % the
/ fact that many leading newspapers hlth-
estO democratic. and .nciHl.ng cons.d-
/ cradle number in the north. are annoln ED
I a. either actively opposing. or pass-Fely
refusing 10 support the regular party
nominees during the present campaign.
| 10 seems advisable % make an earnest APP
/ pal % them ana 70 the southern voters.
before something b. said vhich they would
afterwards wish had never been said. or
some action taken which they would
afterwards regret
As text, we may take the editorial in
the New York Commercial aad Financial
Chronicle Of July Il. The writer Of the
editorial says: eve never NEEDLE with
politics" but his article does much more
than merely NEEDLE. lie says the Chi
cagO convention was simply a convention
Of anarchists: he says the nominees Of
that convention are not DIT
better than Tilman and Aitgeld.
and he says or implies that it is impos-
sibie for any honest Intelligent man TO
support that ticket. He never NEEDLES
with politics, but DE advises everybody
TO support and vote for the republican
ticket In this election. II Is for US 10
inquire how far We ought 10 follow sucn
advice.
The republican platform. which we
southern democrats are asked 10 sup
port, contains the most insincere, shame
tul and indecent abuse Of the present
democratic admDistfation- II plainly an
nounces the Intention OF further proceed
ing IN the present already tntOieraDle
pension steal. 1t would take us back TO
a robber tariff worse than We have ever
known. Otherwise the republican plat
form reads well generally, but we OF the
south know what We would have TO eX-
pect under "a republican administration,
and that Is sectional partisan govern
ment. The republican party has smooth
appearing velvet paw of pretended uni
Versal Americanism but the velvet paw
thinly masks the sharp claws OF malig-
nant sectional hate.
Can, then. a southern democrat consist
emily vote the republican ticket?
Before the Chicago convention the
sound money press kept insisting on two
things: first, that the democrats could
not possibly declare for free silver; second
that they could not possibly carry the etec-
ton on a free silver platform. and their
only chance Of success was to come out
strongly for the gold standard.
Now, long before the convention met, two
things were clear 10 most people: First,
that the convention was certainly going
unequivocally for silver and second that
such a declaration was absolutely the par
TVS only chance of success. To have de-
Clared for gold would have meant the alb
solute certainty of humiliation in No
Vember.
Well if these guides were so incompe-
tent, or 80 insincere before the conven-
tion, perhaps they may not be altogether
safe to follow now. While one would
hardly expect any efusiVe silVery elO-
quence from those who have always hith-
erto been firm believers IN the gold stand
ard as best. still there are some things
which we can see and say.
II we are democrats, we are democrats,
and should submit to the manifest will
of the immense majority What con-
tempt would we have felt for the democ-
racy of the silver fellows if we had the
big majority and they boltedi Has one
fourth of the party any right to charac-
| terize the other three-fourths as being
foolish or dishonest because they think
differently on a given subject?
The masses of the people have a griev-
1 ance. They may not have anything else
| In the world, but grievance they GER
/ tainly have. In the midst of teemlns
fields they are getting poorer every year.
| because all the country can make has
/ to go to satisfy the requirements of the
muti-millionairess who produce nothing
and acquire everything. Suppose a party
/ of ten boys went apple uniting and that
| they had gathered 100 applies. One of the
| boys manages TO get himself in such a
/ position as to enable him to acquire ninety
OF them, having only ten for the others
! AS they go on out of every hundred APP
! pies gathered ninety go 10 the ataocrat
| who loafs around in the shade eating ap-
| pies and occasionally chunking one or two
at a bullnnch in the hedge, While the
| other nine boys toll around in the sun
! So long as the nine agree that they can
| not honestly demur at established usage,
| the autocrat may continue to have mis-
own way; but when the imposed on begin
| to rebel they would not be apt to pay
/ much attention to his persuasive logic.
| What is good for one is not equally good
| for the other party And SO with the plu-
/ tOcrats and the populace The laboring
/ masses are tired of producing
everything and getting little or
| nothing and do not experience any
| feeling of gratified vanity at seeing a
| few score of the millions of which they
| are at least entitled to a living share,
| chunked over at some European bullfinch
with a gtlded crest!
Yes, the people have grievance Wheth-
| er or not they are going to help them
| selves by having free silver, ii may not
| be easy to say; but that they are going
| to have it does not seem any longer to
admit of any reasonable doubt, and vox
popuh voX Del
Once upon time all men were wise
| Only one was wiser than the rest, and he
| announced that upon such and such a
! day there would come a shower which
would turn into & fool whoever it might
| wet or sprinkle. He was not believed /;
| they laughed him to scorn; and when the
! day came they all made a point to get
| a sprinkle at least, and so all turned fools
| The prophet alone kept carefully dry
| but became dismayed when he beheld the
! direful results of the popular disbelief
What he exclaimed, 'shall 1 remain
! the only wise man in a world of fools?
| Mono! Better a thousand times make it
unanimousr'
So saying he rushed out into a puddle
! left by the shower and became a fool
! like the others. Wherein is found a les
| son to our reCalcitrant friends; rush into
the puddlei Make it unanimous!
! Democritus.