The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-06-26
SPIRIT OF TIKI PRESS
Tut STAKE At CHlCAGo-

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and the honor of their party at Chicago.
If a free silver plank shall be forced
through il will not matter in the least what
the Convention may resolve III regard /"
the tariff trusts ana munopollcs, State
banking. economy III expenses, Tree Cuba
or ANYTHING else The honesty and sound
ness of the money of the country and the
inviulahilitN Of the nations obligations
are questions that Will sink all other is
sues out of sight The country can get
along, as it has done, with a 10 per cent.
tariff There Is disgrace ~ we'll as iiSaS-
ter in 1O-ccnt dollars.
1t i To save the party from ONerwhcm
inc defeat, and from dshonor and demon
aliZatIon as well, that the supporters Of
Democracy against Populism are striving.
With a sound-money candidate on Il sound
money platform the party wound have a
chance of winning. But even if defeated
it would have maintained its principles
and secured honorable standing ground
for another contest in the near future.
Defeat with dishonor would leave it crush
ed and hopeless.
The Democrats of the sound money
States hope to induce the Convention to
abide by Democratic traditions and princi
pies. II they fail the responsibility for the
consequences will not be theirs, ana they
will have preserved the respect and conf
lcnce of the voters of their States With
out this the local organizations would
| share in the general disreputc and could
hardly avoid disintegration.
The contest involves the very existence
of the party. Shall it he Il Presidential
campaign OF party suicide:
MIR. MoKRISoN'S EYES OPENED.
The New York Times says: The mind
of Mr. William r. Morrison Is not :" in
| turatcd 'bv time and fate as t" be lnsen-
sible to the impact of a large and solid
fact For the past three months he has
been quite generally regarded by the sil-
yer Democrats az an available candidate,
and nothing that he has said or done has
| led them to suppose that he would decline
| Within the past week Mr. Cleveland has
| issued his appeal for a fight for the gold
| standard and the life of the Democratic
| party. Mr.. Whitney has enlisted tor the
war, the gold-standard men have triumph
cd in the Republican National Convention
and placed the greatest trimmer OF the age
where he must accept their terms, and MI
Morrison straightway sends the following
| telegram to a friend in the city of Spring
field:
The Illinois Democracy evidently favor>
do not The majority of the National
Convention will be for free coinage of sill
yer. and should not be expected to nnmi-
| nate any man representing other than that
policy Under these circumstances my
| Endorsement by the State Convention
| though ii would he Il great compliment
| cannot be insisted upon by my friends.
This is not very strong statement but
| it is IA great deal stronger than any Mr.
Mex inlcv could be driven to make before
| he was nominated, and stronger than any
Mr. Morrison has felt called upon to make
| heretofore. 1t is ii sign, and "A very I'M
portant sign of the direction i'll which tn,
! current of public opinion is setting.
MIR WHITNEY AND BIMETAILIC SCIENTISTS
The New York sun says: Mr.. William
| c. Whitncv'S statement of his views on tho
| silver question one passage occurs from
| which we must express our dissent. MIR
| Whitney SAYS:
From the discussion of the last 20 years
| it has come to pass that among the per
sons in Europe who are trained, rccognlZ
| ed scientists upon monetary and economic
| questions, scarcely one is not, at this mo
| ment, advocating the deSirability of the
| Joint standard as the real solution of the
monetary difficulties of the world. The
| includes every professor engaged III teach
Ing or lecturing on these subjects III tho
universities of Great Britain
Mr. Whitney has evidently been deceived
| by the talk Of the bmctalliSts whom ht
| met ill London two wears ago, and accept:
as we'll founded their arrogant assertions
In the first place, there is no such class o
| men in existence as TRAINED. recognize;
scientists upon monetary questions.
| Plenty a and lIStnllrSt nDDl
| these questions, but not one of them ral
| be said to be ''recownlZcd' as an authority
| W hcthcr, too, those among them who ad
| vocatc the Joint standard are or are not IL
| the majority. there Is no proof. At al
| events. they have not vet succeeded II
| making any serious impression upon thu
| business community, and with the poll
| ticians their influence has not, i'll elthe
party. secured any considerable number o
converts TO their views. As for the pro
| fcSSors in universities of Great Britain
| they receive a. little attention there as GU
| professors do here. Our college prOtes
Sors are almost to a man, and have been
| for 80 wears, advocates of free trade ant
opponents of protection, and their teach
ings have had no effect whatever,
Questions like those which Mr.. Whitney
| seems to think are going to Toe settled 10y
| scientists and professors cannot be settlct
in any such way. The majority Of gu
| citizens have got To be convinced of tn,
truth ot theories, financial as well AZ politi
cal, before they will accept them, and the,
cannot be convinced by an array of name
alone They demand reasons, and unit
the reasons are Forthcoming they vii
spurn all attempts to impose opinions up
on them by the mere weight of authority
J If the scientists who hrljrN, in the inin