The Saint Paul globe., 1896-07-24
NEW TICKET FORCED
MIR. WHITNEY SAYS REPUBLICANS
GIVE SOUND-MONEY DEMO-
Gratis NO OPTION.
OPPORTUNITY WAS AT HAND
FOR THE REPUBLICANS TO SHOW
THEIR HONOR AND THEIR
PATRIOTIsM,
OPPORTUNITY WAS AT HANI
BUT HANNA FAILED TO GRASP 1T.
Mckinley and McI<inleyfsm
IN Democrats.

NEW YORK, July 23.-W. G. Whit
ney was asked today if, in his judg-
ment, there would be third ticket
nominated by the sound money Demo-
Gratis. He replied: 81 think the course
of the Republican leaders is making
it inevitable, and the situation is far
worse today, in my opinion, than it
was ten days ago. The Republican
managers and candidates have shown
no realizing sense of the situation.
They have failed to avail themselves
of a great opportunity for benefiting
the country. If the present condition
of affairs continues for any length of
time, sound money Democrats are
bound to organize and it cannot be
prevented. The truth is, there does
not seem to be in the East a realizing
sense of the seriousness and sincerity
of the free silver movement. You
may call it a craze, but it has cap
tured the imaginations of the great
mass of people throughout the entire
West and South, and It has a much
stronger following in some portions of
the East, not closely allied to large
commercial centers, than is generally
supposed.
''It is the result of reading and agi-
tation. 1t has become a fixed opinion
and an unreasoning one. 1 think it
may be accepted as a fact that the
vast majority of free silver believers,
at this time are not open to convic-
ton. Their minds are made up, and
they are quite as little inclined to
delegates whom they sent to Chicago
81 was satisfied before we went to
Chicago that nothing could be accom-
pliShed, in the direction of changing
or modifying the free silver idea, and
l said so. Nevertheless it was our duty
to go there and emphasize the
strength of the convictions of the
Eastern Democrats. and further to
afford the country an object lesson,
showing plainly that it could not be
misunderstood, the undemocratic and
revolutionary spirit that dominated
the movement. In this we were sue
cessful. The Democratic mask was
pretty effectually removed from the
face Of the Populism which had forced
itself for the time being into a posi-
tiOn of control. That was all that the
sound money Democrats could hope to
accomplish, and that they did effec-
tually and unselishly. There never
has been, in any party convention,
such a vigorous declaration of inde-
pendence as was exhibited at Chicago,
when 254 delegates refused to partici-
pate in the selection of candidates.
What should have been the next
CT in, Hch4 fOr4 4ior
of national honor and sound finance?
We had suddenly come upon a very
great crisis, one that called for the
sinking of partisanship and the union
of sound money to rescue the country
from disaster. Hundreds of thousands
of Democrats stood ready to subordi-
nate everything, even to voting for
the Republican candidate. What was
the duty of the hour? Clearly it was
one that devolved upon the Republi-
can party and candidate. There should
have been an immediate recognition
of a
NEW SITUATION,
and the Republicans should have been
the first to welcome sound money
Democrats to a non-partisan union,
subordinating all other things to this
question of national honor 1t was a
new issue. 1t dwarfed all others. An
opportunity was offered to fight for
the established institutions of the
country, the fundamental things that
underlie party differences-law and
order, national honor common hon
esty, the integrity of the courts-all
such things, without which we do not
exist as a nation at all.
"a single glimpse at the Chicago
platform, and at the spectacle of one
third of the party in open revolt,
should have been enough to have
shown the Republican leaders the ne
cessity of a new alignment of parties
upon nonpartisan lines. No greater
opportunity for patriotic action was
ever offered a party, and it has all
been thrown away.
What has been the course Of the
Republican leaders and the Republi-
can press? They have insisted upon
putting the free silver enthusiasts and
the sound money Democrats in one
class, and denouncing all together un-
der the name of national Democracy.
Mr. Mckinley continues to discuss the
WHICH QdS ceased TO De an dC-
tua1 issue in this campaign, as COM
pletely as slavery, and the Republi-
can press and leaders persist in derid-
ing all Democrats en- masse. They
jeer at Democracy, and yet admit
that the doubtful states are those
where Republicanism has been domi-
nant for thirty years. Such a policy,
persisted in, can have but one effect
1t will arouse the innate party loyalty
of patriotic Democrats; it will make
them angry. and will result in draw
ing sharp party lines. 1t is difficult
enough for Democrat to contemplate
the possibility cf voting for Mckinley
or to look upon him as the leader of
any great cause, and the present
course Of the Republicans is tending
to make 1t impossible.
''If they continue in this line one
thing will certainly happen-the sound
money Democrats will nominate a third
ticket, and thus divide the sound money
vote in the great battle ground of the
middle West to save the vote from
drifting back to the Chicago ticket
The Republicans will need in Novem-
Der, all the aid they can obtain from
sound money Democrats. If they think
they can hold their natural strength
through the middle West, or even in
Soma Tarfg of +ha East hv tha Gin ole