The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-06-17

egates led by Lodge and Plat and
Honest Republicans from some Of the
western states, have done their best 70
save their party and country from the
! shutting coWardtce OF the Ohio men
and they have honorably succeeded.
The resolution now understood TO have
been agreed upon IS not so direct and
clear as It ought to be. 1t employs
many words where IL should use few, TO
conceal its meaning and allow it to be
explained away. But there IS nothing
/ in It incompatible with sound money
policy and st does contain distinct dec
laration that the existing gold standard
must be preserved
STULTIFTCATION.
Cleveland. Ohio, June 16.-The Plain
Dealer tomorrow will say editoT1ally;
Evidently McKinley's straddle Of the
money question IS beaten. It ought to
he beaten 1t is a good sign of the
times when a great party viii be honest
IN the expression OF it's opinions when
principles instead of policy can prevail
Four years ago two great political par
ties prostituted themselves before the
people They bowed down like arrant
slaves and then rose up in a half stoop-
ing and idiotic condition and gave ut
terances 60 two platforms ostensioly
different and yet both parties agreed in
stuItifying themselves by straddle on
the money question.
St Louis, No, June 1.-THE Republic
DemocraD tomorrow in a leading edi-
torial, will say in part: ''By pledging
a perpetuation Of the gold standard the
Republican national convention is MAX
ing the currency the overshadowing is
sue of the campaign. McKinleyism re-
mains in canvass to clinch harder the
determination Of the west and south
to assert their rights. But the gold
standard is an issue and on that issue
even the Republican party has spoken
for silver by denouncing the Democrat
10 party in 1888 In the national platform
for ''demonetizing silver This is a
false and silly accusation but the rec
IGNITION Of a truth and popularity Of
bimetaliism-"
The GIobe-Denocrat Republican, will
say: Everybody knows the Chicago
convention Will come out squarely for
free silver. What will the St Louis
a.ssemblage do? This is a question
which every financial interest in the
country Is asking at this moment. II
the convention prociaims that the stan
dard of great enlightened nations, gold,
will be maintained, prosperity VII
come. If there be any evasion or cir
cIlrnlocution which will give any ground
for fear that something else than gold
may have chance TO be adopted then
disaster Is certain"
THE PROVOST GUARD.
New York, June 1.-THE Press to-
morrow will say editorially:
I'm the last year of the war Of the re-
bellfon heavy provost guard was
necessary to keep some of the drafted
troops to the front. In this, we trust
and believe, the last year of the cur
rency war for this generation, the gold
standard viii prove an excellent pro-
VoSt.
Gentlemen who say that they will
lose their congressional district that
these people will misunderstanding that
they will think silver and paper are TO
be wiped out simply show that they
have been skulking and coffee-cooling
among the middle west for the last
twenty years. They show that they
have run whenever a cheap money
guerrilla showed his face. They can
run no more. But with the guns OF the
free silver foe and the bayonets of this
platform there is no escape save over
tomorrow, if the convention does its
duty, the provost guard will be set and
the skulkers viii have to fight"
WHAT THE WORLD SAYS.
The World will editorially say:
"In the useless preamble to the reso-
luton agreed upon at the conference of
gold standard delegates and adopted by
the subcommittee last night, 1t is az
1rTsJay. PaDnhlinan control
since 1879 every dollar has been as good
as gold Honest money men discredit
their cause by making false statements.
IF the st. Louis convention shall de-
clare for the best money it will be an
act Of wisdom and patriotism But II
Will not alter or atone for the fact that
our chaotic, distrusted and dangerous
currency is of Republican creation.
Neither the dumbness Of Mckinley nor
the volumiHty Of Lodge can alter his
tory"
DIVERGENT VIEWS.
Cincinnati, June 16.-The Enquirer
will say editorially tomorrow:
The Enquirer has no particular
choice as 20 which horn Of the financial
dilemma the Republican convention ac-
cepts. Anything IL does win practically
mean the single gold standard and the
continued practical delivery OF the
management of the government f1nan-
ces into the hands OF the speculative
syndicate and Wall street 'sharpers.'
The Commercial Tribune will say to-
morrow: The report Of the sub-com-
mittee on resolutions at ST. Louis is as
plain and unequivocal as words can
make ii. Now, as ever, the Republican
party has met squarely, fairly, frankly,
fully the issue Of the day. Today is one
Of the times when the honest policy IS
the best policy, when courage IS the
highest wisdom
PATHOLOGICAL
ST. Paul, MINI. June 1.-THE Pioneer
Press Republican, will says.
There is no straddle in this plank,
no tint OF cowardice or indecisiOn: no
hiding behind evaslve or equivocaI gen
eraliues- Ii IS bold. outspoken, plain in
every line. and that there may be no
mistake as to its meaning it says the
same thing several times and in several