The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-24
STANDS FOR SOUND MONEY
IF 1T LEADS HIM TO THE STAKE
SILVER SURE TO
LOSE.
MORTON ALSO IN THE RING
iowa Democrats May Support His
Candidacy-Terse Words
Against silver.

patched to Geneva in order to ascer.
tain the views held by the Kentucky
editor on the subject. Mr.. Waiter
son was first asked whether he would
| accept the nomination.
ITO decline what has not been Of
fered and what nobody has a right
to offer," he replied, sis presumption
To accept is solicitation, and to refuse
to speak is to invite misrepresenta-
ton.
Immediately after the Chicago con-
vention I wrote to Messrs. Whitney
Carlisle and other friends at home
representing the need Of another con-
vention. platform and ticket That by
any chance my own name might be
considered as a nominee did not occur
to my mind, and 1 gave reasons. which
seemed to me sufficient, why Carlisle
should take the leadership of this
movement toward good government
and sound Democracy. In his default
the names of Gen. Palmer and Gen
Buckner and Gen. Bragg and Secre-
tary Morton readily came to me. Can
1t be possible that each of these gentle
men has refused to wear the crown OF
thorns, at once so honorable and 50
distinguished, or is this some phan-
tom cross of gold with which you seel,
to tempt me?"
1t is merely simple question. Mr..
Watterson, in want of simple and
direct answer"
Quite two years ago. answered Mr..
Watterson, ''I withdrew from all per-
sonal relation to party politics, which
circumstances and not Inclination
forced upon me. have not now and
never have had the faintest political
ambition. Surrounded by my family
and my books, I am living an idylIic
life in an ideal region, happy in my
work, which is not merely congenial.
but which produces fruits I shall need.
for am not rich man To abandon
this is to throw myself into the activi-
ties Of an exciting campaign,to to become
participant in an embittered family
quarrel, to give over to angry crimina-
ton the associations of lifetime,
and in advance to mortgage the re-
pose of my old age-far this is but
the beginning Of national movement
and controversy the end Of which no
man can clearly see.
SAYS HE WILL ACCEPT.
There are sacrifices before whose
contemplation one Of an easy-going.
peace-loving disposition may well stand
aghast. If, therefore, anything could
move me to bolt the forthcoming In
dianapolis convention it would be my
own nomination, but have never urg-
ed any man to do what I burst not
myself attempt, and when the con-
UpnfiOn q
ticket in the field and is unable to
induce any Of the other gentlemen /
have named to take UP the thankIess
post Of duty, I would take it if | knew
it led me to the stake
But I am clearly of the opinion that
no such ticket should be put in the field,
and no citizen placed in such a position
unless it be with the warm and active
support of the administration, for whose
vindication the movement and it's nom
inees must be largely enlisted and will
be held. I can only hope, so far as
my own nomiation is concerned, that
no such contingency will arise, for to
me it would fall little short of a catas-
trophe.'
"Have you anything to say about the
campaign SO far as 1t has gone, Mr..
Watterson?''
''I think It extremely unfortunate. -
who favor sound money, but who would
not otherwise support the Republican
ticket, have declared for Mckinley. 1t
was precipitate, to say the least of it.
We can always surrender, and to swal-
low McKinleyism, with all that it i'm
plies, hide, horns and tallow, without
considering any alternative of waiting
to see how far sound money might be
really in danger, was a surrender 1t
W. in q nil 10
ital and property are proverbially
timid
DISCOUNTS THE SILVER CRAZE.
There is no silver craze represent
ing the majority Of voters in any ex-
cept a few Southern states, misled by
the race question and their fear of negro
domination, and in silver mining camps
of the far West. A majority for honest
money in most of the old states North
and South may be counted on The
rest is sheer assertion sand noise. which
a fearless and energetic campaign of
education will dissipate. In my iudg-
ment there is no immediate peril, for
I believe that the Chicago ticket will
in any event be disastrously beaten"
But, after the election, what?"
THE Republican party is not equal
to just conservation of free institu-
tions, regulated by orderly government.
because it is largely responsible for the
evil condition that threatens the coun-
try. If in the future the country is to
be reduced to the single Issue between
paternalism on the one hand and agra
rianiSm on the other hand, it is only
a question Of time when agrarianism
will carry all before II There must be
an intermediate barrier, something to
save the government. from the dizzy
heights Of the pendulum alternately
swung to the one or the other extreme
This can only be be supplied by a sound
national Democratic party organization
laid in the best traditions of the great
Democratic leaders, who made the par
ty great and strong before it's machin-
cry was engulfed by Populism. If it
Genes into power it wilf prove as un-
able adequately to deal with them and
to settle them definitely under the ad-
ministration of Mckinley as the Demo-
Gratis have shown themselves to be un-
der the administration Of Cleveland
The Republicans are likely to go to
pieces, just as the Democrats have gone
to pieces. They. are now held together
chiefly by expectancy.k
The time for the concentra ton of al
the forces Of law and order and o,
national credit has not arrived Before
tive and final, there will have to be-
and there will be-a complete readjust
rient of party forces Till then it
Indispensable that conservation of tn
people should not lose Its organizatio-