The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-06-05
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

State of all, New York. with its - dele
ratcs, has not vet spoken, but its declara-
ton for sound money and its uncom-
pomising vote in that direction are GER
tain.
Its influence at Chicago may well eN-
cecd eXcn its voting Importance: because
New York's electoral vote is absolutely
necessary to the election OF any Demo
cratic candidate. 1t is certain beyond
even question that New 1ork's eleCtor-
al vote will not and cannot be controlled
for any free-silver candidate: If every
Democratic leader in the State were to
consent to that it still could not happen
The people of New York of every party
regard sound money as the essential condi-
ton of prosperity, and they will give the
electoral vote of the State to 10 cause or
candidate that imperils that security OF
property and business.
Under such circumstances it is not wise
to assume, as many timid persons are do
ing. that the Chicago Convention is going
to invite inevitable and overwhelming de-
feat by declaring for free silver.
1t is still an open question whether the
free silver men or the soundmoney men
will have a majority in the Convention. 1t
is practically certain, even conceding their
largest claims-that the freesilver men
will not have the two thirds necessary TO
make a nomination.
Better still, it is wholly improbable that
the Delegates now classed as for free sill
yer will deliberately insist upon wrecking
their party upon that idea after they shall
have consulted with the men of the sound
money States and have come to under
stand how inevitably defeat of the most
disastrous character must follow such Il
course.
These men are Democrats as well as
free-silver men. Their Democracy Is
| lifelong principle, while free silver is but
| s Temporary issue 1t is not reasonable TO
suppose that Democrats such as they will
hesitate to put an end to their party Tor
the sake of an issue which must, after all,
90 down with the party?
They will see clearly that to commit the
Democracy to free silver will not secure
free silver 1t will insure the defeat OF
| both Democracy and free silver. 1t Will
make Republicanism and protectionlSm
and the policy of bounty, favorlsm and
force dominant for years tt come.
Is it to be assumed that a convention OF
Democrats Will do such a thing as this
when the delegates see what the situation
really is?
DISASTROUS THEATRICAL SEASON.
New York Hearld says: There is a
general agreement that there are too many
| theatres, which is quite true, if what is
meant is that there are too many theatres
| to provide with good entertainments and
| that the public, disguised with those which
are unworthy of support, visit their sins on
| theatres generally and seek other amusc-
ment too, that there are too many bad
actors One bad actor is one bad actor
| too many, but during this past season he
appears to have multiplied and increased
| upon the stage until he has seemed to be
| everywhere Not only has the bad actor
| been conspicuous, but he who might be of
| worth in stock company has taken to
| starring to such an extent and in such Ill
fashion that the theatres are given over
to a series of alleged star performances
that have lowered the tone of the stage,
brought into the profession host OF
incapable people in the lesser roles and
turned the public from the support of the
drama. One of the San Francisco managers
put it with breezy franknesS when he says
that lit has come so nowadays that every
| newSbov who can make faces and every
| girl who can sing wants to go into business
as star The man who can make faces
and the girl who thinks she can sing have
been with us and have helped to increase
| lHC VI tlllItN btI'SuCS VI WIN a
the managers have complained in 1895 and
| '96.
The actor was not alone to blame. Poor
authors as well as poor actors helped to
| ruin the season. and New York has not
been alone in the affection, but through
| out the country there has been Il dearth
| of sterling dramas and an awful increase
| of crime in the way of penny dreadful
melodramas.
| Managers have come to realize also that
| there are two new rivals in the flelt
challenging for public patronage roo
garden and the bicycle. The theatrica
season is now much shorter than it used tt
be. No sooner are the spring days at hant
| and evenings pleasant outdoors than thu
roof garden and the bicycle are rare temp
tations to those who have long been house
| bound. Who would stay indoors on &;
pleasant May or June evening listenin!
to poor actors and a worse play when hi
could seek relief from both in a delightful
roof garden or spin miles away on hi:
| bicySle9
The season of 1886 has been dis
astrous one, but if the managers will Learn
the lesson it has taught them they viii
bear in mind some of the causes for thu
misfortune of the past and avoid greate
disasters that are before them, but which
may be stunned if they will be wise il
time
| NO COMPROMISE POSSIBLE.
The Philadelphia Times of Tuesday say
There are weak politicians in the Demo
| cratic party, and some who are enfeeblet
in intellectual grasp by Presidential ambi
ton, who cling to the idea that there many
| be some compromise on the money ques
ton in the Chicago convention, by whicl
both the friends of honest money and o
| dishonest money can stand on the SAM
platform and support the same candi
date.
This is the widest of political decisions
| There is no middle ground between homes
and dishonest money. There can be NJ
compromise between those who seek t(
maintain the money standard of the en-
lightened world and those who seek to @
| back to the money standard of the pagan
and emi-civilized nations. He who is no
for honest money is against it and he wht
is against honest money is against nationa
credit, against business confidence, ant
against every attribute that can aid in
dustrial prosperity.
! The national conventions to be held Il
St Louis and at Chicago must declare dis
tinctly for honest money or for chea]
money. They must declare in favor o
the gold standard that has been the stan
dard of this government since it was fOun
ded, and that is the standard of ever,
civilized nation of the word, or they mus
proclaim their purpose to convulse tn
whole business and industrial interests o
the country by adopting the silver stand
ard, that would halt enterprise, cheaper
labor and compel everyone who earned
dollar to pay two dollars for one dollar
worth of the necesSarieS of life.
, There can be no middle ground between
the champions of the free silver currcnc
that is sweeping some of the Western an,
Southern States like IA whirlwind, and tn
honest gold dollar upon which every con
tract of this government has ever bee
based from the day that Washington wa
. inaugurated as President until now Their
can be no evasion, no cquivocation, n
glittering generalities meaning anvthin
or nothing accepted by either of the Ma
tional conventions of the two great pan
ties of the country. They must be for O
against the gold standard; they must b
for or against the maintenance of the Ma
tional credit, and they must be for o