The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-07-03
DIVIDING THE CARCASS.


s0rb tile Democratic Party Into the Pop.
uiist Party. 80
New York Herald (Dcm.): Undcrithc
manipulation Of The silver fanatics tho
poor Democratic party has become al
ready the sport aud. As they think, tho
| pray or panuliStS, socialists and unarCh-
LIST leaders, who, In conjunction with free
| silver lenders. hope to control and de-
stroy 1t at Chicago. II they can. Tho
Democratic lion Is already treated rs
| though he was dead, and that, IN every
sense Of the word. original silver man,
Coin" Harvey, who II silver Is to rule
| justly feels that he deserves to have his
sny, publishes to the country In advance
VINO VIII get the lOavcS and ilShCS-or
rather, who will wear the Hons skin
whenever the lion Is actually slain. Here
Is Mr.. Coin lInrvcy's little plan, nv
developed by him In Il published dis
patch:
For President on tho Democratic ticket
wo favor Bland. OF Missouri II elected,
give him tho appointment OF ono cabinet
officer only, secretary OF state. Let the
Democrats indOrse tho PopullSt nominee
for vice president on the Populst ticket,
Senator Marion Butler, OF North Caro-
lima Lot the POpulists indorso tho Demo-
erntic nominee for President. Let Mr..
Butler, II elected. dictate tho appoint
mcntS OF secretary OF the Interior, sccrc-
tary OF agriculture. secretary OF war and
secretary or the navy. Concede to the
silver Republicans three cabinet posi-
tions-ScnItor Teller, OF Colorado. secre-
tnry or the treasury; Judge Caldwell OF
the United States circuit court, attorney
general, and Mayor pIngrcc. OF Detroit,
postmaster general.
There Is not much for Democrats in
mat programme: neither Democratic
policy nor Democratic administrators.
Mr.. Harvey needs the Democratic lion
Mt Chicago-needs him very much; but
he means to cut UP the poor beasts skin
rs soon as the live lion has put himself
into the silver and populIst net. The
silver cause Is desperate" continues
Harvey, and we cannot beat Mckin-
ley unless we combine rs hive indI-
Gated. l have suggested the plan 10
AltEcld. Bland and other leaders, but II
hasn't been made public yet. tell the
Democrats not to make their platforms
too Democratic. They cannot win rs
Democrats, but as combined Democrats,
Ponullsts and silver Republicans ! am
In favor of Bland for President. because
his name Is platform in Itself, Just M
Mckinley's name Is whole platform.
II they will let 4 few OF us fellows who
are next to the people make the platform
and name the ticket we will win. but !
nm afraid the politicians will fix the
ticket so we will be beaten"
There you have t. The silver men
can't carry the country alone or under
their own name. Unless they IRE allow
ed to capture the Democratic party
name they are gone, lock. stock aud
barrel, and Mr.. Clark, OF Montana,
agrees with Mr.. Harvey. He urges the
Democrats to take advantage of this
opportunity" To get the PopullstS, too.
In with them, and-well. and then. and
then-well, and then. and then-there Is
to be not Democratic, but 4 Popullst
silver administration, don't you see?
Mr.. Harvey, Mr.. Clark and many
other silver men are crying out for d
square issue, n square fight, and all that.
But Democrat may reasonably say
Gentlemen, II you are so hungry for n
square issue, why don't you hold
square silver convention and nominate
square silver ticket on square silver
platform and fling your square silver
banner to the breeze? II you are as
strong as you pretend to be with the
voters that is the square thing 10 do"
But no, the silver men are not that
kind Of men. They know themselves TO
be really weak In the country. AS Mr..
Harvey cOnfcsSes In the interview
quoted above, the silver cause is des-
perate." To go to the country In
square. honest way they dare not They
hung around the St. Louis convention aS
beggarS, and got nothing. q Now they
are gulnG to try to play big game OF
bluff Mt Chicago. They wanted to go 10
the country in the Republican name.
That failed. Now. they want to secure
the Democratic name, and desperately
hope 10 get themselves taken up at Chi
clgo.
The silver cause u desperate" says
Mr.. Harvey, and he knows he has the
best reason tn know. The silver cause
Is desperate unless the Democrats at
Chicago are foolish enough to take 1t up,
and II they do Mr.. Harvey proposes TO
sail under the old Democratic flag rs the
pirates In the West India seas used to
hoist the flag OF the Union TO deceive
honest merchantmen; and II the trick
should happen 10 succeed-well, then he
proposes PopuUstic cabinet, with
Republican sccretdry of the treasury In
the person of AIR. Teller
Aud II the Democrats at Chicago don't
jump at this wonderful proposition, then
we'll. then. Mr.. Harvey admits, the
free silver cause Is lost.
But Mr. Harvey Is wrong. II the
l)CInucTILS Ut l'iliCipO Wisely tuTn tnelt
backs on the silver howlcrs and make q
sound Democratic platform and nnmi-
nate sound Democratic ticket, the sill
yer cause IS not lost, but saved rs far rs
political action can save 1t. Let every
Democrat favorable to silver remember
that The bimctallIsts OF Europe. for the
sake OF bimotnllIsm everywhere ask
urgently that the United States shall re-
main on the present basis. Why? Re-
cause. as they Senaibly say, IL free Sill
vcr should be established here this year
by political action, all the gold Of this
country would ut once so to Europe and
destroy for many years to come BIZ
mGtalllsm In Europe.
Every Democratic voter who IL hNn-
eatly friendly to silver ought to resist
this attempt of the free silver leaders to
capture the Democra tic flag ana fatally
damage the cause OF blmetallism.
And every Democratic workingman
ought tn resent this Interference OF the
free silver, politicians, which, II It could
succeed. would work n vast and sudden
contraction Of the currency. disastrous
10 every interest In the country, but
most saragely, OF all disastrous to those
who depend unon their honest labor to
support their families.
Bsmocracy'S SOug.
DARLING. am growing old.
Silver threads among the gold.