The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1896-12-12

Dental Campaign.
We are told that cause which mus
tiers 100000 votes. as po2ocracy's did
in the recent canvass, cannot be crushed
eternally by single defeat by a
popular majority of 100000 or 100000.
a combination which carries % states,
or almost half of the whole number,
must necessarily have sufficient vitali-
~ TO enable IL 10 make at least one more
hard contest. The republican party in
its FIRST national canvass was 100000
behind the successful party on the
popular vote, aud yet il carried the
country four years later. With such
talk as this popocratic papers are at
tempting 20 keep up their party's cour-
age.
The attempted parallel between the
Bryanite forces in 1896 and the repub-
licans in 1886 is destroyed by the fact
that the Bryanites were only coalition
while the republicans were party. and
by the further and much more imipor-
tant circumstance that the republicans
had morality, intelligence and civiliza-
ton with them, while these are all
supporters were a coalition of two dis
tinct parties, in which one element
called itself democratic and the other
populist. IL was formed for that car
vass only, and the leaders of the popu-
list section OF IL say now that no more
combinations of the sort can take place.
end That they will not support any man
for president hereafter unless he gets
squarely over on their side and adopts
their party name. The men who sup
ported Fremont in 1856 did not call
themselves wings. or democrats, or free
sellers, though all of them had pre-
viously belonged TO ono or other Of
those elements. They called themselves
republicans, and the union which they
formed and the party which they
founded was designed by them TO last
until the purpose which drew them to-
! gether was accomplished, whether de-
feat or victory came in 1895.
No reasonable. unbiased being now
believes that all the forces which sup
ported the Chicago ticket can ever be
arrayed again under the same banner.
Even II another coalition were formed
between the populists and the silver
! democrats, and this Is exceedingly un-
likely, the silver republican element Is
still 10 be reckoned with. The present
temper OF most OF the many republicans
In the silver states who supported Bry-
nm is 20 drop oil obstruction 20 re-
publican legislation on purely partisan
| ques sons aside from silver. and this
disposition indicates that the greater
part OF them will be back In the re-
publican fold by 1900. IL is safe 10 as
sumo that third or a fourth OF the
democrats who supported the Chicago
ticket were opposed 10 the platform,
but voted for the candidate because OF
his regularity" IL would be unreal
sonable to suppose that this element
would vote against it's convictions n
second time. IL the same issues should
he up in 1900 most of this faction would
undoubtedly support third ticket
| like that recently represented by
! Palmer, or vote for the republican can
didate as 100000 or more democrats
did four weeks ago. A 100000 or $780,
600 popular plurality for honest money
on an aggregate vote OF 13,500,000 or
thereabouts may not look formidable
20 the popocratic fanatics, but every
sane person believes that IL the election
were TO take place to-day under the
new light which has come to the cheap
money dupes since the election, Me-
Kinley's plurality over Bryan would be
between 100000 and 3,000,000.-St.
Louis Globe-Democrat.