The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-07-09

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no one of many combinations the
adyersaries can make offers decent
chance of beating him. Take Mr..
Whitney's plan, for instance, and
Democrats would have to fight
Populist tickets right here in New
York and New Jersey, without a
ghost of a chance at the West or
South. Take Governor Altgeld's
plan, and Democrats would start
with every Nothern State lost as
far west as the Mississippi River,
and part of the Southern States, and
no chance of getting enough to
sage themselves. Take the plan of
Senator Dubois, and there would i
not be a Democratic State in the |
Union safe for the ticket, and out
side the silver lines not Republican |
State in danger. Take the Popu-
list plan, and the North as far west
as Colorado would be solid against
it. What difference does it make,
then? The future of the country is
at stake,
This silver craze is either an emp
tiness a dream and a fraud, or it
is a real peril to the country. Re
publicans can beat it, they feel sure
with mighty power of Protection to
swav thousands of voters in the
choice between Free Trade and
Sound Money. For that reason
; they want no makeshift and no
: botch about it, but as straight and
S square an issue as the Democrats
e and other silverites can make, 1t
f is of the utmost Importance to the
! country that this drift toward Com
&, munism and Anarchy should be
0 beaten, not a little, barely, in the
l electoral college and the House
4 only, but everywhere and COM
0 pletely and especially in the Senate.
: That is phase of the question
). which our Democratic enemies,
J. Messrs. Whitney and the rest, are
= disposed to leave out of sight
e Therefore it is that a most damag
e ing form of compromise and barter
e was offered to the silver men, as l.
d in the hope that it would enable
II sound money Democrats to stay IL
e the party and elect Representative
a and Senators who, at the next strug
,e gle in Congress, would use all thei
l. power, as they did in the last Con
e., gress, to give the silver men victory
lie sort of Democracy" AMn9eHh0R Ri "a va va
d vote with the silver boilers to sto-
% any revenue bill needed to provid
'e necessary means for the Govern
le ment, because they fancy that
e Government without money Nigh
?. be forced to pay IN silver only, ar
Y not hard-money men, and have NJ
e right to be so considered by the vote
IS and the more sharply the issue I
% made the better.
s Thus it would be a PARTICULAR,
'e good thing for the country that tn,
IS so-called sound money men who arr
q willing to barter with silver Anar
chists to bankrupt the Government
W should every one of them be beaten
e At the East they ought to be beater
II by sound Republicans, who will
'e represent the opinion of homes
Re Americans. At the West, if Their,
'e is State where Republicans canno
l. win, such Democrats ought to b,
d beaten by Populists or ANYBODY else
II who will not play falsely with tn,
;, National honor for the sake of party
e In plain truth nothing prevents an
o overwhelming victory for sound
o money, and for the revenue policy
y which makes sound money possible
t except the willingness of so-calleG
d sound-money Democrats to helr
d FreeTrade and National bankruptcy
1 by alliance with silver men. That
state of facts will influence many
: sensible Democrats to vote against
1 any party or ticket that may oppose
Mckinley, and the more complete
the combination against him is, the
more there will be of such Demo
Gratis to vote it down. N. Y. Trb-