The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-07-08
the POLITICAL KALEIDOSCOPE
Has Turned Rapidly Since the Ad-
j0urnmrnt Of Congress.


aOJOufnment OF congress the political.
kaleidoscope has turned rapidly. Devel-
opments of the political situation have
been so rapid that before the public
ceased discussing one important phase,
something else, equally important, has
demanded attention.
While the public was, to some extent,
prepared for the action Of Senator Teller
and the Western silver Republicans at
the National convention, yet, the god
politicians claimed and predicted, up to
the last hour, that Senator Teller and his
friends would not leave the Republican
party. Men who are not themselves
moved and actuated by patriotic impul-
ses., but who are largely, If mot wholly,
influenced by the desire for party success,
or the desire to sreve sordid, selfish, and
class interests, cannot well understand
how men rise to the patriotic plane, and
take the bold stand which Senator Teller
and his colleagues did solely for their
country's good. Senator Teller was the
hero Of the Republican convention, and
his action has found a responsive chord
in the hearts of the great masses Of Amer
lean people from ocean to ocean. Even
many Of those who most radically differ
from him are first willing to admit his
sterling integrity and patriotic devotion
to his country's welfare.
A number of Democrats are now pre-
dieting that Teller and his friends will
60 into the Democratic party. OF course
this Is Idle talk, for he will do no such
thing. What grevious blunder it would
be for Teller and his friends to leave one
old party that has broken its promises
and to go to another one with equally as
bad record, simply because il is making
more fair promises at this tine. There
is but one hope for silver, and the people,
and that is for every man who opposes
the gold trusts and monopolists to rally
together under the peoples banner at
st. Louis on July 22d.
WHAT THE WHITNEY PROGRAM
MEANS.
The announcement that ex-SecretHry
Whitney would hold up his European trip
and that he and number of other prom
inent gold men would go to the Chicago
convention, has been seized upon by the
silver Democrats for party advantage.
That is, these silver Democratic leaders,
who have so long deceived the people,
and kept the financial question in the
background, when they knew 1t was the
overshadowing question, but who are now
trying to hold the honest rank and file of
their party in line when they can no
longer fool them, by declaring for silver,
are busily engaged in putting up a man Of
straw and knocking him down to show
their courage and patriotism. They cry
out that Whitney is going to Chicago to
get the Democratic party to declare for
the gold standard, and that II the people
will put faith in them that they will show
how they will defeat Mr. Whitney and
his evil schemes at Chicago. Now the
truth about the matter is that neither
Whitney nor any of the gold men are 60
ing to Chicago for the purpose of getting
a gold plank. The gold ring does not
want two candidates for president this
year. He is going there for quite another
purpose. 1t Is to prevent the silver men
from uniting this year. It L. true that
when Mr.. Whitney gets to Chicago that
he will urge the Southern delegates to
agree to gold plank. When they de-
cline he will urge them to accept COM
promise plank. When they decline, then
he will agree to straight free coinage
plank on condition that the silver men
will agree to compromise candidate for
president, and here is where the deal will
be made. Whitney Will say to them: IF
you take Mr.. A as your candidate the
East will not furnish any campaign
AuAOo, Out IL yOu IoAC M1s D, WHO dkSO
claims to be a silver man, the East will
put up the money for your campaign"
The thing that Mr.. Whitney and the gold
men fear most is that the Democratic
national convention might indorse Teller
for president, and they fear that if this
were done that the st. Louis convention
might also indorse him, and thus the
silver forces might be united. This, he
knows would be the sure defeat of MoKin-
ley, which means the same thing as the
defeat of the gold combine. But even II
Mr.. Whitney fails in everything else, his
last card will be to have the gold men to
apparently indorse or submit to the &C
ton of the Democratic convention in or
der to discred.t 1t, and make the union
of the silver forces impossible. Mr.. Whit
ney knows that the Democratic party is
so odious on account of it's false promises
and treachery to the people that any can
didate and any cause that bears only the
Democratic label is doomed to defeat in
the coming campaign. He wants the
Democratic party to run free silver can
didate and to be defeated in the coming
campaign, but he wants to hold the party
together to keep the Southern Democrats
bound to the Northern Democrats, be-
cause in 1900 the Republican party will.
have become SO odious. if unfortunately
it should get into power, that it will be
necessary for the gold men to control the
national Democratic convention put up
gold bug for president, and elect him
through the machinery, and by the help
of the Democratic party including the
South. This is Mr.. Whitney's scheme,
and for this, and for this only, he goes
to Chicago, Those who doubt this will
learn to their sorrow that it is true when
it will be too late. And we predict, in
addition, that the silver Dem crats will
be caught in his trap, either knowingly
or unknowingly.
WHY CONGRESS DID NOTHING FOR
CUBA.
II one could have judged by the fiery
and apparently patriotic speeches made
by Democratic and Republican congress
men and senators last winter in behalf of
Cuba, he would have felt sure that con-
gress would never have adjourned with
out this government taking an active
hand to stop the infamous cruelties of
Spain, to hold Up the hands of the pa
triots struggling for liberty against OPP
preston, and to have asserted and main
tanned the principles of the Monroe doc
trine as true Americans should. But 1t all
proved to be talk and nothing more
When those in congress who were sincere
In their devotion to the Monroe doctrine
and their love for liberty, and their desire
to see Cuba free, attempted to put meas
ures which would have such beneficent
result, the gold Democrats and gold Re
publicans, who had formerly made such