The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-07-28


be opposed by. a solid and united sound
money vote. 1t never can be IL, IN ad-
dit.on to Mckinley, Democrats must
vote for McKinleyism and all that 1t
represents The issues OF the past
should be buried until the country has
been rescued by patriotic action from
its present peril
'It ought to be plain TO all thoughtful
and patriotic Republicans that the time
has come when II IS absolutely neces-
sary for all good citizens to drop 1or
the time being partisanship and work
together earnestly and intell.gently Tor
the common good To tri1e with a
crisis 50 serious as this or TO attempt
TO ignore or belttle il would be both a
blunder and a crime. think tnat at
the present moment the multitudes or
sound money Democrats represented
by the a delegates who refused 10 vote
in the Chicago convention are iuIy
awake to the danger which confronts
the nation and are willing TO Cooperate
heartily and honestly with equally pa
triotic members Of other parties IN any
rational movement TO stamp OUT TINS
heresy. How long they will continue
In this frame of mind no man can ten
But one fact is certain: The present re-
sponsibility for meeting this situation
rests upon the Republican Candidates
and leaders, and if they are to act IN
diligently and practically there Is no
time 20 lose"
We are not afraid Of arousing the IN
nate party loyalty Of Democracy. 1t
is already aroused, what is there lett on
it. And the Republican party OF the
nation is not afraid Of the innate fire
of the Democrats.
Why drop the tariff? Fifty-two years
ago this fall Martin VanBuren was
bowling about tariff. He had written
q letter which became known as the
Indiana letter in which he announced
he favored an imposition OF taTin du-
ties for revenue purposes only. For
revenue only" we haired for many years
Martin VanBuren and Democracy made
it's campaign ON it. For fifty-two years
Democracy kept pelting away at the
nation on free trade and a tarln Tor
revenue only. Pierce's and Buchan-
mans administration the free traders
were arranging things when the war
overshadowed their plans. Then for
thirty-two years longer the Democratic
party howled to the republic that free
trade was the opening door to the mil
lenium. In 1892 the people took them
at their word. Democracy found the
free trade an impossibility. Now they
say tariff is no longer an issue. 1t
certainly is not, il after half a century,
Democracy is willing to drop it But
the tariff victory has been won; it has
been won by the Republicans; it has
been won by Major Mckinney, the chief
tariff advocate Of the time, and the
fruits of the tariff victory after a bat
tie has been co-existent with the career
Of the nation, will be enjoyed by the
Republican party. A diversion In some
other parts Of the field may grow TO
the uldSulluuC vi DstbI4O COh'O oU- y
but today, this year, this campign, the
ntion has resolved to put out the false
Democrats, the Democrats that were
false under VanBuren, under Pierce,
under Buchanan and under Cleveland
to put them out and put in their places
the Republicans, who have proved in
forty years their horse sense, and prac-
ticability, something Democracy has
never shown.
The Republicans have nothing to offer
Whitney. The milk and mush crowd
of dude Democrats in the east may re-
spect Mr.. Whitney but the mass OF Re
publicans care nothing for him.
He can carry out his threat to divide
McKinley's gold vote in the east. lie
is threatening more than he can ac-
complish. He will not divide the Re-
publican vote in those eastern states
he will simply divide only the already
diminished crowd of Democrats.