Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1896-07-11

Thousands Of Colorado Republicans
Refuse to Follow Him.


OF the leading and most influential
Republican papers Of the state of
Colorado has the following editorial:
Senator Teller has carried out his
announced determination to bolt from
the Republican convention If the
gold platform were adopted and has
issued an address to his constituents
giving the reasons which have led
him to that determination. Viewed
from Senator Teller's standpoint and
that of those who share his views.
there is nothing else that he could
do. and his published protest will be
applauded as an ample justification
for his action.
Nevertheless, Senator Teller is
mistaken. His course is not the best
for the United States; not the best for
Colorado; not the best for Colorado
voters. Many of his constituents
will follow his lead; perhaps a major
ity OF them. but they will not all of
them do so. Each thoughtful Re-
publican of Colorado will ask for him
self the same questions which Sena-
tor Teller has doubtless considered
There are other things in the plat
form besides the financial plank.
There is the Democratic record of
unparalleled incapacity, dishonor and
disaster. There is the question of
protection, 1.-THE bulwark of Ameri-
can industrial independence" and
reciprocity, the attendant "twin
measure OF Republican policy"
There are the interests involved in
the withdrawal of the protection to
Colorado wool growers, and the boun-
ty to Colorado beet-sugar producers.
There is the matter of the full rec
ognition of the acquiescence in the re-
suits of the great civil war, and the
adequate care of its dependent servi-
vors. There is the maintenance of q
hrm, dignihed, honorable and con-
sistent foreign policy, such as charac-
terized the conduct of affairs by the
Republican administrations in for
mer years, instead of the vacillating
policy, by turns Indifferent to the
rights of American and truculent to
friendly powers. There is the pro-
lection of the American workman
and the American race by the enac-
ton of such restrictive laws as will
not allow the introduction of masses
of foreigners who have neither the
desire nor the ability to become Amer
lean Republicans.
"And finally, lift is decided that
all these are minor considerations, as
compared with silver, there remains
the question whether the Democratic
party, with an unbroken record of
failure in everything it has ever un-
dertaken, can be trusted-even if it
had the power-to perform new pied
ges. Tariff for revenue was the rail-
lying cry of the last election. 1t was
the nucleus of the platform and the
shibboleth of the campaign; but the
triumphant Democracy, in control of
house, senate and executive chair,
passed a sectional tariff bill which
failed to give sufficient revenue and
was nowhere more bitterly condemned
than in the ranks of the Democrats.
Can any cause be entrusted hopefully
to party like that? Is the Democ-
racy, repudiating its record, disown-
ing its President, protesting its ad-
miration for principles, which it
failed to put into effect when it had
the opportunity, confessiug its inca
pacity and its failure, but promising
anything and everything that will
give it another chance at power, an
object calculated to inspire confidence
in the mind of any reasonable human
beingf If silver depends on the De-
mocracy, silver is lost.
'And considering these things,
there are men and women in Colorado,
loyal to the state and believing firm
ly in the need of bimetallism, who
will stand true to the only party
which contains the best intellect and
the highest morality of the country;
the only party by which we can hope
for the successful administration of
government and the final and Just
settlement of all economic and fnan-
cial questions.