Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1896-07-22
NJ THIRD CANDIDATE.


'" 'NNil HNllNIN
Together.
The political reasons for not putting up an
honest money candidate this year on a gem
timely Democratic platform are strong and
! obvious.
The nomination of another Democratic
candidate would contribute 10 the personal
comfort of Democrats who are reluctant To
vote for Mckinley, but iC would accomplish
nothing else. And this method of voting for
principle only would surely imperil the re-
suit In many a close State.
Better far to vote for principle in a way
that will count.
The voting strength of the repudiators and
revolutlonlsts IS a positively unknown fac
tor. 1t will not be known until after No
Nember y. 1t Is unknown not only i'm the
states commonly reckoned as safe for sound
money; In our own state, for example. Peo-
pie may talk this way or that way about the
lumber of their fellow citizens who want TO
see the hideous Chicago platform enacted at
Washington, but until the votes have been
counted nobody can talk with knowledge.
me electoral vote of no State among the
forty five should be risked by n mistaken
policy this year; the stake Is too tremen-
dous.
Every Democratic vote cast for William
Mckinley as the represe ntative of honest
money and the nations honor and the pres
erVation OF Democratic institutions against
the wild horde now preparing to attack
them, will do just twice as much service for
the common cause as can be done by a Dem
Onrntip Vnta for a third nonlfJoNo ,torlt,x
no chance of election.
Let every Democrat who appreciates the
magnitude of the present crisis keep this
fact steadily in mind: His vote for McKin-
ley and Hobart is worth double his vote for
the best Democrat that the sane part of the
party could put up as a protest against the
lniquity consummated at Chicago.
Is there any sincere Democrats who, I'M
Outstanding all that the election means for
our beloved country, is willing to cut his
vote In two this year, to deprive his ballot
of one half Its efficiency?
1t will be said that there are such Demo.
Gratis. 1t will be said that there arc Demo-
Gratis who can persuade themselves under no
circumstances TO cast their votes for any Re
publican candidate for President. Perhaps
That Is so. Let them register their protest
against Chicago. Let them concentrate their
partisan enthusiasm upon the State and To-
cal tickets. They will help in this way to de-
fend the nations honor and the continued
existence of the institutions which the repu-
diators and the revolutionists are assailing.
They will help, it is true, only half as much
as II they voted for Mckinley and Hobart,
49,
but they would help not one particle more
thar that by bestowing their votes upon a
sound money Democrat nominated for the
sake of their personal comfort and political
consistency.
On the other hand, there are hundreds of
thousands of Democrats, if not millions of
them, who see in the present crisis a call to
duty only less urgent and inspiring than
That which summoned to the front thirty
five years ago our patriot citizens, and made
them almost forget, as they shouldered their
guns and fell in line for the Union, whether
they had previously styled themselves Dem
ocrats or Republicans, These men, in the
sense ola satisfactory Democratic candidate
on a sound platform, will not consent to
surrender one half of the potency of their
SURFACES for the sake of over refine ideas
OF political constituency. They will want to
put their votes where their votes will do
most good as against Populism, reputation
and dishonor. They will fire their ballots
straight at the common enemy even though
the ballots be labeled Mckinley.
1t would be a piece of political folly
amounting to crime to divert the attention
of this class of Democrats from the main
question, and to jeopardize the result of the
election, by setting up inopportuue claims
to a partisan allegiance which, in an enier-
gency like this, is nominal at the best.
Mass every honest American vote on one
candidate representing honest money, the
nations honor,and the intention of this peo.
pie to preserve the government and the in
stitutions which their fathers handed down
TO them. Waste no ammunition when Pop
ulism is shrieking its battle cry, and apar-
ohy Is lurking close behind in the rear with
torch in hand.
McKinley's personality Is nothing in this
contest. His previous political Affiliations
are nothing. Accident has decreed that he
shall stand for the time for something a
thousand times more precious thar any
party badge.-New York SIM.