The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-05-07

stand upon such a platform, the bust
ness of mining green cheese in the moon
will be more hopeful than chat of try
ing to carry New York for the Dem
Ocracy.
The same thing is true of New Jer-
sey with its ten votes, which will pretty
surely be Democratic on a sound
money platform, but certainly Repnb
lican if the free silver issue is made;
of Connecticut with its six votes, and Of
Indiana with its fifteen.
Here are sixty-seven votes to be
won or lost accordingly as the Chicago
convention shall declare for sound
money or free silver.
I'm 1892 Illinois gave twenty-four
votes to the Democracy and Wisconsin
twelve On a sound-money platform.
with Mckinley for the issue, both
these states would be hopeful fighting
ground this year. On a free-silver
platform there would be no more hope
of carrying either than Of carrying
Rhode Island.
Here are LOB electoral votes that
will be certainly thrown away if free
silver platform is adopted at Chicago.
again, even in the solid south DIAL
lance with free silver has lost six
states to the Democracy within the last
two years-viZ., Delaware with three
votes, Maryland with eight West Viz
ginia with six, Tennessee with twelve,
Kentucky with thirteen, and Missouri
with seventeen. These fifty-nine votes
would be reasonably secure for a sound
money Democratic candidate on a
sound-money platform. Nearly if not
quite all of them viii be certainly lost
if the Chicago convention shall declare
for the free and unlimited coinage of
silver at 16 to /. The list of votes TO be
lost in that way is thus swelled to 1872.
''Where is there the fainteSt shadow
of hope or votes TO make good these
losses, or even the half of them? Min
nesota is both a Republican and a
sound-money state So is Iowa. North
Dakota went nearly three to one Re-
publican in 1894. South Dakota gave
Harrison more than three 10 one over
Cleveland in 1892. There is certainly
no Democratic hope in either of those
states.
kansas was Populist in 1892, but
gave 10000 Republican plurality in
1894. Nebraska, which gave Harrison
-, -, TlnnannF.Qfin
1894, and may perhaps be claimed as
doubtful. But it has only eight cleo
roral votes with which TO offset the
probable loss of 162 in sound-money
states.
Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, Montana
and Utah are all Republican states. and
together they have only an Insignificant
sixteen votes. Oregon and Washing
ton are strongly Republican. The
former has enough Populists to turn
the scale should they all vote a free
silver Democratic ticket and should no
sound-mOney Democrats stay at home.
Oregon has four votes that might pos
sibly, therefore, be added TO the doubt
full list, reducing the practically certain
net loss of electoral votes through a
free silver declaration To- 40. Con-
ceding California's nine votes to free
silver Democratic candidate-though
he would pretty surely not get them
there would still be a net loss of 141
electoral votes from the Democratic
list And even should ali the sage
brush states go Democratic they would
not offset the loss of New York alone.
''In brief, as The World has already
said, if the free silver Democrats shall
control the Chicago convention and
write their demands into ifs platform
they might as we'll indorse the nOmina-
ton of Mckinley and make his election
unanimous"
The above sounds very much ike
death wall, while the following piteOuS
appeal from the Baltimore Sun. sounds
like the weak remonstrance of an i'm
beetle parent to a refractory and way
ward son. and is of rather too patrOniZ-
ing a nature. as is generally supposed.
TO be acceptable TO southern stomachs:
''It is to be hoped that the condition
of the southern Democracy is not quite
as bad as represented in a Washington
dispatch in today's issue of The Sun
For some time past it has been very
plain that the silver craze was max
ing such strides in the south that I'M
less its progress could be halted the
Democratic party would be doomed TO
disaster. There is time yet for the
sober second thought of the south 10
assert itself. Unless il does there Is
not the faintest prospect of Demo
cratic victory this year, nor possibly
for many years TO come. as the ma
joT-ity Of the people Of the United States |
will not give their support TO political |
that champions so vicious |
a theory of finance Is the independent |
free coinage of silver by this govern !
ment IL is 10 be hoped that the south |
will take counsel of those who are best |
able 70 advise il in this crisis. Demo |
cratic defeat in November may involve !
the control of state administrations at |
10 remote day By a coalition Of Popu-
lists and Republicans
AROITT CHINCH BUGS.