The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-03
3OURKE COCHRAN DECLARES HIM.
SELF OPPOSED TO BRYAN's
CANDIDACY.
NATIONS HONOR THREATENED
1T WAS IN 1860, HE
SAYS.
THE PLATFORM IN A NUTSHELL
To COnfiscate Created Wealth and
Give 1t to Those Who
C0vet 1t.

NEW YORK, Aug. 2.-Bourke Cock
ran returned last Saturday from Eu-
rope by the steamer Paris. Mr.. Cock
ran did not forget American politics
during his trip and he has evolved a
plan by which he thinks the defeat of
the Chicago candidates may be en-
compassed. Speaking of the situation
he said:
81 regard it as the gravest in the
history of the country, exceeding in
Importance the crisis of 1860. The Sc
cession movement was but an attempt
to divide this country between two
governments, each of them designed
to protect property within the limits
of it's jurisdiction. The movement
launched at Chicago is an attempt to
paralyze industry by using all the
powers of government to take property
from the hands of those who created
it and place it in the hands of those
who covet It, This is a question of
morals as we'll as of politics.
mo political convention can issue a
valid license to commit offenses against
morality, and I decline to follow Mr..
Bryan in a crusade against honesty
and the rights of labor
do you mean that you will actively
oppose the Democratic party or alb
stain from active support of it?''
'In a contest for the existence Of
civilization no man can remain neu-
trail. Whoever does not support the
forces of order, aids the forces of dis
order. If 1 can do anything to thwart
a movement, the success of which I
should regard as an irreparable calam-
ity, not only to this country, but to
civilized society everywhere, l shall
certainly do it,
What do you think of Tammany' s
action in indorsing the ticket?"
81 simply cannot understand it.
They strongly opposed the platform
at Chicago on the ground that it was
an assault on the integrity of the ma
tion. They decline to ratify it even
now, which shows that they have not
changed their opinion of it. Yet they
have indorsed the candidate who
stands upon it and whose election will
mean that the platform which they
have themselves denounced as singu-
lar combination of lunacy and villainy
shall be incorporated into the statute
laws of this country"
will you support Maj Mckinley
outright, or do you favor the nomina-
ton of another Democratic ticket?"
II believe that all Democrats who are
so thoroughly in favor of sound money
that they place the defeat Of Bryan
above the interests of any organization
or party, should meet in convention for
the purpose of considering the
method by which they can give the
greatest efficiency to their opposition
For my part, I do not believe that the
nomination of other candidates for
president and vice president, however
eminent and deserving they might be
| personally or politically, would serve
f111
that they could be elected, and any
Democrat whose hostility to Populism
and Republicanism would not allow
him to support either Bryan or Nc
Kinley could show his opposition to
both by remaining at home on cleo
tion day quite as well as by voting for
| third ticket. 1t would be more con-
venient to himself individually and
would not create a visible separation
between himself and his party organi-
| Zation.''
But how can men, rupturing party
ties, be sustained by some sense of as
sociation among themselves"
That end could be attained by the
| adoption of a platform declaring fol-
sound money; against extravagant ap.
| preparation; in favor of economical ad.
ministration in every department OF
government; in favor of a tariff fol
revenue only and ample for the pur-
| pose; against the paternalism Of the
! Republican party and the Populistic
| Socialism of both the Chicago and ST
Louis conventions; in favor of thai
| American liberty which can be main.
| tanned by so limiting the power Of the
| government that it can never interfere
! with the daily concerns of laW-abidins
citizens. The plank of pressing i'm.
portance in such a platform is OF
course, the currency plank. Now the
mere election of Mckinley will be the
defeat of the silver movement"
Your obvious policy, then would
| be to
INDORSE M'KINLEY ELECTORS.
Precisely. The Democrats who viii
nave achieved the success Of theil
financial plank by the election of Nc.
klnley will yet constitute an opposi.
tion to the Republican party the da,
after election, based on principle:
Which are certain to be ultimately
adopted by the American people
What is needed, therefore, is not a new
ticket, but a new platform which will
| declare in unmistakable language the
cardinal features of the party faith
! and which, while endorsing McKinle,
electors will provide for a really Dem
ocratic opposition to the Mckinley ad
ministration during the period of it.
existence"
What is your opinion of the ultimat,
outlook?'
Everything depends on the mannel
in which it is waged. To my mind
there is but one test of prosperit,
which can be applied to a country anC
that is the rate of wages paid to labor
There can be no prosperity where Low
wages are paid. There can be no dis
tress where the rate of wages is high
1t can be easily demonstrated that thi,
whole free silver movement Is con
spiracy against wages, and if the cam
paign is fought on this line, I hayi
/ no doubt that every Northern state
that is to say, every state in the uniol
in which it is practicable to hold a fre,
eleetion-will be carried by the intelIi
gence and morality OF the America
people against the monstreus proposi
ticns submitted to them by the con
vention which nominated Mr.. Bryan 70
the presidency"
NOT TO RETIRE sEwALL.
| Chairman Jones Deufes a St.ta