The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1896-08-03
THE QUESTION OF SILVER
More Grave Than That of
Secession
POLITICS AND MORALS INVOLVED
Civilizations Existence is In
Danger
BOURKE COCHRAN RETURNS
And Announces His Determination to
Support Mckinley
BOURKE COCHRAN RETURNS
But Will Stubborniy Oppose Him II he Is
Elected
The Hx-Congressman Probably Wants His Old
Job, and Secs No Chance Of Recog-
milton Among the Silver
Leaders
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ran returned last Saturday from Europe
by the steamer Paris. Mr. Cochran did
not forget American politics during his
trip and he has evolved a plan by which
he thinks the defeat of the Chicago can
didates may be encompassed. Speaking
of the situation he said:
IT regard it as the gravest period in
the history of the country, exceeding in
Importance the crisis of 1860. The seces-
sion movement was but an attempt to
divide this country between two gov
ernments each of them designed to pro-
tect property within the limits of its
Jurisdiction. The movement launched
at Chicago is an attempt to paralyze
industry by using all the powers of gov
ernment to take property from the hands
of those who created it and place 1t in
the hands of those who covet 1t. This is
a question of morals as we'll as politics.
No political convention can issue valid
license to commit offenses against NOR
ality, and decline to follow Mr.. Bryan
in q crusade against honesty and the
rights of labor
do you mean that you will actively
oppose the Democratic party or abstain
from active support Of it?"
"In a contest for the existence Of civil
Z ization no man can remain neutral Who
lever does not support the forces Of order.
'reparapIe caiamrry. not only to this
country but to civilized society every
where, I shall certainly do it,"
What do you think Of Tammany's
action in indorsing the ticket?"
Il simply can't understand 1t. They
strongly opposed the platform at Chi
cago on the ground that it was an as
sault on the integrity of the nation
They decline to ratify even now, which
shows they have not changed their
opinion of 1t. Yet they have endorsed
the candidate who stands upon it and
whose election will mean that the plat
form which they have denounced as a
singular combination of lunacy and vii
lainy shall be Incorporated into the
statute laws of this country"
"Wll you support Major Mckinley
outright, or do you favor the nomination
OF another Democratic ticket?"
II believe that all Democrats who are
so thoroughly in favor of sound monev
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 former
method, during which they can give the
greatest efficiency to the opposition
For my part l do not believe that the
nomination of other candidates for pres
ident and vice-president. however emf
nent and deserving they might be per-
sonally or politically, would serve any
useful purpose.s Nobody believes that
they could be elected, and any Democrat
whose hostility to Populism and Repub-
licanism would not allow him to support
either Bryan or Mckinley could show
his opposition to both by remaining at
home on election day quite as well as
voting for third ticket. It would he
more convenient to himself individually
and would not create a visible separa-
t1on between himself and his party or
ganization."
But how can men, rupturing partv
ties' be sustained by some sense of as
sociation among themselves?"
THAT end can be attained nv tho
adoption of platform declaring for
sound money; against extrayarant an
propriations; in favor of economico1 ~
mlnlstration In every department Of tho
government; in favor of a tarifr for
revenue only, and ample for the MIR.
pose; against the paternalism of the
Republican party and the PonrI,stio
sectionalism of both the Chicago ana
st. Louis conventions; in favor of tbo+
American liberty that can he roin
tanned by SO limiting the power of ~.
government that it can never interfere
with the daily concerns Of law abidjns
citizens. The plank of pressing i'm.
portance In such platform is. of course
the currency plank. Now the mere eIec,
tion Of Mckinley will be the defeat of the
silver movement"
Your obvious policy then wouyd ho
to endorse the Mckinley electors?"
Precisely. The Democrats who will
have achieved the success of their flnan-
cial plank by the election of Mckinley
will yet constitute an opposition to the
Republican party the day after election
based on principles which are certain to |
be ultimately adopted by the American |
people. What is needed, therefore. is |
not new ticket, but a new platform
which will declare In unmistakable Ian
guage the cardinal features of the party
Saith, and which, while endorsing the !
Mckinley electors. will provide for q
really Democratic opposition to the Nc.