The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-07-17
THOSE NINETY-TWO BOILERS.

| Ninety-two Democrat papers have
bolted the Chicago nominees. The
power of gold is beyond estimate. Nc
patriotism, however exalted, no cause
however sacred, no affair of state, nc
| interest Of church OF of society but
that is Influenced by it, that is not sub
| jected to it in a greater or less degree.
No cause pertaining to human welfare
has ever proved wholly superior to
this root of all evil" By it justice
has failed and courts have been cor
rupted, liberty rendered mockery and
mankind enslaved. Ninety-two Dem
ocratic papers, ninety-twO recognized
organs Of their respective states and
communities, ninety-uwo journals OF
wide influence and political power,
have deserted their party and its prin-
ciples, and the political associations of
life time, only because their party
in national convention refused to bow
to the mandates OF gold. In taking
this step these papers proclaim their
belief that Of all the principles of a
government of, for and by the people,
no cause, no tenet, in element or mo-
tive is so sacred as gold. All other
rules and maxims set out by their
party weigh nothing as against this
medium O exchange and measure of
material values. No other single
enunciation could have been made by
the Chicago Democratic convention,
touching either state, church or So
ciety, that could have impelled these
rich and powerful organs to forswear
allegiance to their party. The Ques-
ton is, have they not weakened rather
than strengthened their cause. Does
not the fact of such a swift, vehement,
and almost unanimous outcry, tend to
convince the people that the oft reiter-
ated charge that the selfish power of
gold is enslaving the world, must be
true? When the people see these rep
reSentative journals Of aggregated
wealth and of financial influence aban-
doning everything in the interest of
this single potentiality, as being the
only adequate attribute Of civiliZa-
ton, as the one thing encompassing
honor, truth, sOundness and justice,
will they not be given pause? Are
too much? With them is it not more
Of interest than of principle, the kind
of interest which is paid in the single
standard of measure, or If of principle
then that kind which is spelled ''prin-
cipal?" Would it not have looked
little less suspicious If these ninety
two organs had stood by their party
with simply a protest against its silver
plank. The Republican nominees do
not want such 4 support The Repub-
lican party will not be helped by such
boiling support, but will be injured be-
yond question. Now mind you, we do
not charge that these ninety-two pa
pers have been bought up by the gold
power. Nothing OF the kind It's
their commercial and financial environ
ments, just as the paper of the south
is for cotton and the paper of the west
for corn and the hog, the only differ
ence being in the inordinate estimate
placed by the goldbug paper on the
yellow metal. They have no use for
Mckinley, they are against the protec-
ton OF American products and against
every other plank of the Republican
platform, save the present standard"
and international bimetallism."
With the Republican party in power.
with its protective policy and business
ideas. the country will be far more
prosperous than il is now, under any
medium of exchange and standard
measure of values, whether of gold or
silver both, but these boiling goldbug
papers in declaring for Mckinley are
not helping him.
Gold Nor silver are largely used as
currency by the American people. nor
never VIII be. We simply want money
that is good as gold and silver. as
medium OF exchange in our business.
and then. and above ali. we want bust
ness, a business that means activity.
life and prosperity. The Chicago con
vention strikes for silver monomeral-
lism and free trade. The Republican
party-the people. want bimetallism
and redeemable paper money. and pro
lection, protection for the products OF
both farm and factory, protection Of
labor and of credit. and the protection
OF all these things against foreign Ia
Der. foreign products and foreign iinan-
cial manipulation America wants
the chance 10 make the most OF her
unequslled resources and natural adj
yantageS. the independent and seIf-suf-
ficient chance, the chance which is our
natural right -Four more years Of
Democratic rule will ruin the country.
With the Republican party in power
everything viii be changed. current