Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1896-03-27
THE BEE AND THE PARTY.

We will make this agreement with
the Bee: The APPEAL will supper the
Republican nominee if there is ~
square 16 TO l plank IL the National
platform, providing The Bee will de-
cline to support him if there is not.
The Bee replies AS follows:
We will not make anv such public
or private agreement. It has not me
slightest hesitation in declining the
invitation, nor hoes it feel a shade of
reluctance in openly giving its reasons
for such declinatioh To be explicit.
then: The Bee is not a Mugwump
paper, with a threat on its lips and a
bowie knife up its sleeve. 1t cannot
enter into such a compact with a jour
nal which boasts it is already out of
the party. The Bee is making this
fight within the ranks OF the R publt-
can party. to bring that organization
over to the camp Of silyer and to the
cause of the people. It's efforts are al
ready making themselves felt, and the
public opinion heretofore latent is
crvstalized and will be a united and a
potent force to that end. A sorry spec
tacle the Bee would present, if it would
say to the delegates to the Republican
National Convention: "Gentlnrnn,
we ask Won to do what We believe
would rebound t. the benefit Of the
party and would he 20 the best inter-
ests of the people. If the National
Convention at St. Louis does inst as
we want it to do, we will stay in the
party. If it does not, however, we tell
Won that we have already made a
compact with the Carson APPEAL to
get right ont and fight the orga1iza-
ton
IF all the newspapers who believe in
silver were to make the compact the
Bee declines so emphatically, there
would be very little doubt about the
course of the party on the silver ques-
ton. The press of the party is its
main fighting wing in a campaign,
and as long as the party managers
can make the silver newspapers bow
beneath the party lash and advocate
interests they do not believe i n,so long
will the Wall streetmanagers continue
in power
If the Parliament of England should
tomorrow pass a resolution demand
ing an indemnity Of fifty millions
from the United States and say TO the
people of America, "Pay or Fight,"
the Bee would demand at once a resorr
TO arms and call upon every patriot to
shoulder a II usket in ~resenting such
an ~insOlent demand. Yet it seems to
overlook the fact that the people Of
England in p quieter way are getting
at least one hundred millions cut of
American interests by the mainte-
nance of a Government in America
which openly manipulates bond deals
and other nefariOus schemes to impov-
erish the country for the benefit Of
Europe, and the Bee, rather than be
charged with DESERVING its party bows
to this state of affairs year after
year.
But the Bee, we are happy to say, is
already beginning to waver in its al
legiaEce to the party of the bond deal
ers, for it says:
Principle should always be held t.
be above party, but if that principle
can be inoculated into tue essence of
a great political organization, already
held in esteem for the good it has
done, it is far better to accomplish our
ends thus than to go int the woods
and beat the tOm-tOmS, to the lonely
accompaniment of our own approval
and that Of a few scattering friends.
The question Of a lonely accom-
paniment" cuts no figure when a ques-
ton of principle is involved. The APP
PEAL has seen the Bee fighting almost
single handed and alone against des-
perate odds because it believed it was
right and never before have we seen
it counting the force Of the opposition
or declining a fight on the grounds Of
the odds against it.
It does not feel certain that the Ma
tional Convention will give it a free
silver plank, for it says:
This paper does not mean to say,
either, that it will never desert the Re
publican party. No man can tell what
n years may Drlng 1ortn, nor now
obstinate the pa TALLY deaf and near
sighted leaders Of a great party may
continue to be.
We venture to predict that the Ma
tional Republican Convention will give
the country no silver plank, for al
ready the party leaders are repudiat-
ing the proposed tariff-silver compro-
mise, and we also venture to predict
that by that time the Bee will see the
folly of endeavoring to work a finan-
cial reform inside the party, and leave
it as squarely and absolutely as the