San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-07-15
UNCERTAINTY THE ORDER.

the populists, or the gold standard
!, democrats, have settled upon q
, definite course of action. Every.
thing seems to wait upon the con.
, vention to assemble at st. Louis
next week. What that convention
will do with the endorsement OF
Bryan Is as yet unknown, for it is
as yet as much at sea In its indi-
vidual opinions as it is possible.
Teller Is not certain that he wants
the nomination of boiling repub-
lican minority, but should he be
persuaded to it, there would only
be complication of the situation.
Some OF the leading sound money
democrats are openly for McKin-
ley, but they are few and long a
way apart. Illinois has taken the
bull by the horns, and issued
an address to the sound money
men OF other states, that is,
those of the democratic faith,
and asked a new convention to
nominate straight out sound
money ticket. What New York
and the new England states with
Pennsylvania and Maryland and
New Jersey, will elect to do is also
uncertain. The probabilities now
are in favor Of new convention
and new ticket. Thus there Is
prospect of two democratic tickets
In the field; ticket OF the boiling
republicans, headed by Teller; a
straight out populist ticket. two
prohibition tickets; and possibly
an A. p. A. ticket. This will give
variety sufficient to the campaign
and make music in the electoral
college. The silver idea is to put
out as many tickets as is required
to capture all shades of
political opinion, and have the
electors chosen come togeth-
er and unite their votes for the |
silver candidate having the most |
votes in the silver ring. The whole
situation is little foggy just now.
1t will take little time to clear
the atmosphere, give the, hard
money democrats an opportunity
to get their second wind and come
together in conference to determine
what is best to do under the cir
custances. While there may be
no offensive or defensive alliance
between the republicans and the
sound money democrats, there is
quite likely to be an understand
ing between them of practical
nature. 1t is hardly to be expected
that they will stand quietly by and
see the union of all the free sill
yer forces snd~not take some
steps to counterfeit that union.
What that action is to be
is one of the uncertainties,
just as it Is uncertain to what ex-
tent the various factions Of the
silverites will eventually put their
white eggs under one biddy. The
real hope Of the situation lies in
the wisdom and business brains of
the republicans and sound money
democrats coming to some agree
ment as to such cooperation as
will best head off the effort to
paralyze the industries OF the
country and flood it with depre-
ciated currency. The free silver
ties must not be left to unite while
the sound money men are divided
and pouring hot shot into each
other on tariff and party differen-
ces. United we stand for the |
Industries and prosperity Of
the country. Divided we fall
into the free silverites' hands.
II the Turks should be actually |
expelled from Europe in these
closing days of this century, 1t
would be about the longest step
that Europe has taken for civiliza-
tion, during its hundred years. The
eternal enmity between the Turk