The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-05-28
IT. WON'r WORK.

Following up the talk which Mr..
Harrity started, administration cir
cles in Washington are industriously
circulating the word that silver must
take a back seat at Chicago. These
people insist that there is to be no
compromise-'to that proposition the
silver democrats assent. But the gold
bug coterie asserts that it will organ
ize the convention, it's theory being
that this result can be accomplished
through the arrogant interference of
the national committee.
one of the most trustworthy CORES
pondents at Washington sends to the
Chicago Times Herald the report of a
recent interview with a member of the
cabinet who denounces the regular
democracy in Illinois and who says of
those who refuse to operate with the
regular democratic organization in
that state that, in his opinion, If these
anti-silver democrats stand on their
rights and appeal their case to the ma
tionai convention, it will sustain them"
Candid people must admit that these
administration democrats have no
rights to stand on, except as the arbl-
trary action of the national committee
will manufacture what will with gross
est injustice be described as rights"
Speaking about threats of boiling,
which Mr.. Harrity is so noisy in de-
nouncing, this member of the cabinet
is quoted in the Chicago dispatch as
saying: mo matter which side gets
control of the convention, l believe
there will be two democratic tickets
in the field. 1t is obvious that demo-
Gratis who believe free coinage will
ruin the country cannot support a
free-silver candidate for the presiden-
cy. Nor do we want to vote for Nc
Kinley. There seems nothing left to
do but to set up a ticket of our own"
Isn't that as loud threat of boiling
as anything Mr.. Harrity has heard
from the other side?
Notice the inconsistency. These
goldbug democrats, who declare that
the Chicago convention must vote the
single gold standard propose to ex-
clude from the national convention all
silver democrats who will not bind
themselves to the support of a gold
| platform. Yet these same men flip
PANTY announce that, If the national
democratic party presents itself at
Chicago with a majority of properly
accredited delegates who favor silver.
! then they, the goldbugs, will blandly
declare that the convention is not
democratic. and they will bolt.
/ Let these self-appointed censors per-
sist in their remarkable bluff They
will consolidate the silver forces and,
more than that. they will discover that
their dictation will not be accepted by
a goodly number of democrats in the
anti-silver ranks. Already. In goldbug
circles, opposition to the Harrity-ad-
ministration scheme is finding vigor-
Gus expression. For instance the New
Haven Register. democratic and gold
standard, in a state which Cleveland
carried in 1892, insists that the plan is
strictly undemocratic and will not
work. Says the Register: IF the MEM
bers of the national committee will
stop and think. they will discover that
| there Is but little difference between
a threatened bolt and a threatened
boycott. II they reserve the right to
boycott the others are sound in insist
ing on the right to bolt" -
Mr.. Harrity's scheme will never
work. 1t is the device of the desper-
ate; IL cannot be made operative
among fair minded men.