New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-07-15
WHY THEY BOLT.

their platform and ticket are bOlted instantly
by thousands of strong men who have Tor
years been asserting to free coinage OF silver
In party platforms, but only In sort or AGA
demic fashion, as theory which they had no
idea would be put into practical operation
Things have now come to such point that
every intelligent bimetallst on this side or the
water is forced to agree with General f. A
Walker, in his address before the Blmefa1lic
League at London, on Monday. He deeply
regretted" that the Chicago Convention last
week declared for free coinage Of silver with
ont waiting for the action Of other countries"
and said this twas done passionately." but
1.-THE maintenance Of a gold standard was not
rendered whit less secure by reason OF any
ching that was done at that Convention The
slverites. he explained, were not bimetallists
at all, but simply inhationsts.
Nearly twenty years ago it became perfectly
clear to NJ Cernusohi and other leading bi-
metallists of Europe that nothing could be done
TO bring about international agreement on coin
age so long as the United States consented, or
seemed likely to consent, to take upon It's own
shoulders the loss and risk Of all commercial
nations by trying to hold up the value OF sill
yer all alone Not until that notion Is abso-
phatic that all the world will understand II IS
final, will European nations begin to consider
seriously what Is to be done for their own in
terests Hence it is that tie genuine bimetallist
Is at this point perfectly in accord with the
man who believes In permanently maintaining
the gold standard alone. Each must equally
condemn the Chicago platform as reckless. dis
honest and full of peril But for that very rea-
piofS N
free silver 1t stood for thing UNNECESSARILY
brOader-for warfare against all creditors and
all property rights, for population Of all debts,
and destruction of capital In the insane Idea
that labor would profit thereby.
Tho rest Of the Red platform distinctly In
terprets the silver demand. The declaration
against any issue OF bonds in time of peace,
even though it may be necessary to prevent
National bankruptcy and disaster; the denun-
citation Of National bank issues, with exactly
the reason given by the old iat-nOney infa-
tionists: the demand for an income tax by
which New-York and a few Eastern States
would be forced to pay taxes for more than
half the rest of the country; the daring assault
upon the Supreme Court, and the suggestion
that 1t may be constituted otherwisc-all cast
the lurld light Of revolution over the main pro-
DOSdl 10 TtNtlSt luOHttdIy pont. VI tHc
Government 1t Is the deliberate intent to
kindle all the basest and most dangerous pas
sions In an outbreak against the existing state
of society, in order to overthrow all the guar
antees by which the rights Of creditors and
property owners are defended. 1t Is not strange
that Democrats In great number, the instant
they realize what all this means, throw to the
winds any theories they may have about silver
But the Red platform goes still further. APP
pealing to the Anarchists whom the courts
condemned but Governor Altged pardoned, and
to the rioters who suppressed freedom Of labor
at Chicago by mob law, with the connivance
Of the Mayor and Governor, until the United
States interfered to protect the rights Of its
citizens and to secure the enforcement Of the
laws the Chicago platform denounces such
Federal interference las a crime against free
Institutions and government by injunction
"as a new and highly dangerous form Of Op-
preston" The plain purpose here Is to draw
all the Anarchists and revolutOnsts and the
lovers Of mob law, as a means Of enforcing their
will. to the support Of the Chicago ticket. 1t
would disgrace any silver Senator to stand on
such platform, or to support any candidate
willing to approve It, and II Is not strange that
days have passed while the boiling Senators
are In private consultation without any an
nouncement from them