The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-09-05
PROTESTED TOO MUCH.

PROTESTED TOO MUCH.
The administration, goldbug, single
Idea Democrats of this country hav'
about protested themselves out OF ex
istence as national party and the POI
party into prominence Their latest pro
test, at indianapolis, is just as foolish
and short sighted as the'oDes made a
Chicago. Had Mr.. Hill and Mr.. Whit
ney and all the Cleveland clan refrain
ed from SO much protesting at Chicago
the platform would have been more In
accordance with the old mossback idea
of the Democratic party. and Mr.. Bry.
ans nomination would have been an
impossibility. These and other lead
ers have done so much protesting in
the name of sham virtue that the great
body Of the party in its disgust has
about kicked itself over into the arms
Of the Pops. Every protest made by
the Cleveland contingent in the inter-
est Of Wall street has had the effect of
cementing fusion. That Indianapolis
crowd whose virtues were voiced by
the graceless Breckenridge, and whose
ideas Of statesmen are two old octogen-
arians, cannot carry a single precinct
OF township in the United States. We
challenge them to name a single county
anywhere between the Atlantic and
Pacific which will vote for Palmer
and Buckner. A gold decorated hall,
golden badges and glittering oratory
are all well enough but they don't
count in face Of Pop fiat and fate and
the fact that there is not at this mo
ment a single gold dollar in free circu-
lation in the United States. The great
scare-cry at Indianapolis, therefore,
that gold will be driven out of circula-
ton doesn't amount to as much as the
midnight howl Of a trapped coyote
Under every Republican administra-
ton, from the hour the resumption act
became law up to the time the policy
Of Cleveland and his party was
thoroughly fastened upon the country,
gold not only circulated freely but
there was surplus in the treasury.
But for this over much protesting Of
administration tools, the protesting of
bank presidents and insurance COM
pany presidents, the protesting of the
Eckles, the Hills and the Whitneys. the
Chicago convention would never have
gone to the extremes it did in either it's
platform or nominees, and the pro-
testing Democrats would have been
Shared the hypOcritical donkey-dOod-
ling at Indianapolis which but all the
more surely Popocrizes the party of
Buchanan and Calhoun, or jefferson
Davis and Cleveland, for the southern
Democrat IS as surely being Popocrized
as is the northern Democrat. But for
the vehement and scathing protests of
the eastern Democrats, under an as
sumption of superior wisdom and viz
tue, the national Pop convention at st.
Louis would never have indorsed the
Chicago nominee. whether Bryan or
whoever
The truth Is the Democratic party is
not a factor in this campaign. Bryan
Is not Democrat save in name. He
Is a Pop. His platform Is Popocratic
from one end to the other There is
not Democrat who had made I'D his
mind to vote for Mckinley and q sound
policy, who viii now vote for the In
dianapolis octogenarians, even if the
ballots should be printed on gold-sized
paper There may be a few Demo
Gratis that will vote for the Indianapolis
nominees who otherwise might have
voted for Bryan. In so far, the In
dianapolis protest will prove a success
and a blessing. Cyphered down to it's
ultimates, however. the fight is be- |
tween that national element which !
stands for a stable and solid govern
ment administered by the party OF Lin
coin and Grant under the patriot Mo |
Kinley, upon the one hand, and a rule |
under unuied, wlld-eyed calamity |
spouterS, with guess-work and per- |
sonal preference as their sole proposed /
policy.
There are but two courses open to /
the true-hlue Democrat One is to vote /
for the party, for the policy, and for
the kind Of times we had in this cogn-
try under Arthur and Harrison. The |
other is to vote for the character of
rule experienced by the states
of Kansas spd Colorado under Waite
and Lewellihg. respectively, with all
the additional chances to be taken IN
der the rule OF the man with a tongue
who heads party which holds only to
fat and fate.