The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-08-03
A THIRD PLATFORM
Bourke CoCkran's Plan for
Solving the Presiden-
tia1 middle.
WANTS M'KINLEY ENDORSED
Free Silver a Blow at Wages
intelligence Will Pre-
vail.
WANTS M'KINLEY ENDORSE


Bourke Cochran returned from Europe
Saturday by the City of Paris. Mr.
Cochran did not forget American politics
during his trip. and with his keen IN
sight into the situation. he has evolved
a plan by which he thinks the defeat OF
the Chicago candidates may be accom-
pashed. Speaking of the situation, he
said to a reporter y~esterday:-
Il regard il as the gravest in the
! history of the country. exceeding in i'm
! portance the crisis of 1850, The seees-
| sion movement wal u an attempt to
| divide this country between two Gov
| ernnlenrs. each Of them designed to pro-
teet properly within the limits of its
Jurisdiction. The movement launched at
| Chicago is an attempt to paralyze in
| dustry by using ali the powers of
Government to take property from the
hands Of those who created IT and place
it in the hands Of those who ceyet It.
This is a question of morals as well
as of politics. No political convention
! can issue a valid license TO commit Of
fences against morality and I decline to
follow Mr.. Bryan in a crusade against
honesty and the rights of labor"
do you mean that YOU will actively
i ~ AAS |SAt4t - 49, <t@Ne~
| from active support Of it,"
aIn a contest for the existence of civil
ization. no man can remain neutral
Whoever does not support the forces Of
order aids the forces of disorder. If 1
can do anything to thwart a movement
| the success of which l should regard as
an irreparable calamity o only to TINS
country but to civilized society every
u-baro r shall car+oirIx- 9n II .
What do you think of Tammany's
action in indorsing the ticket?s
q simply cannot understand it. They
| on the ground that it was an assault on
the integrity Of the nation. They decline
| to ratify 1t even now, which shows that
| they have not changed their opinion of
It. Yet they have Endorsed the candidate
who stands upon it, and whose election
means that the platform which they have
themselves denounced as a singular COM
bination of lunacy and yillainy shall be
Incorporated into the statute laws of this
| country"
wal yea p Major Mckinley out
right, or do you favor the nomination of
another Democratic ticket21
II believe that all Democrats who are
/ so thoroughly In favor of sound money
that they place the defeat of Bryan above
the interests OF any organization or party
should meet In convention for the purpose
Of considering the form and method BY
which they can give the greatest eff
cheney to their opposition.
For my own part. l do not believe hat
the nomination Of other candidates for
President and NIee-Presidenf, however
eminent and deserving they might be per-
| sonally or politically, would serve any
| useful purpose. Nobody believes that they
could be elected and eny Democrat whose
I hncfi9ftN A0-bE ~ Io0ni1ffcra and p1nr1hHa-
anisna would not allow him to support
| either Bryan or Mckinley could show his
| opposition to both by remaining at home
on election day quite as we'll as by yet-
ing fer a third ticket. 1t would be more
| convenient to himself Individually and
| would not create a visible separation be-
tween himself and his party .organiza-
Hon
But how can men, rupturing party ties,
be sustained by some sense Of association
among themselves"
That end could be taine by the
| adoption of a platform declaring for
sound money, against ~extrayagant appro-
| priatio9s, IN favor of economical admin
istration in every department Of govern
| only, ard ample for the purpose. against
! the paternalism of the Republican party
and the Popllistic Socialism Of both the
! Chicago and St. Louis conventions: in
be maintained b. SO limiting the power
of the Government that it can never in
terfeHe with the daily concerns Of law
abiding citizens. The plank of pressing
importance in such a platform is, OF
| course the currency plank. Now, the
mere election Of Mckinley viii be the de-
feat of the silver movement"
Your obvious policy, then, would be
1 to 3ndorse the Mckinley eiectors?p
Precisely. The Democrats who will
| have achieved the success of their hnan-
cial plank b the election Of Mckinley
will vet constitute an opposition to the
Republican party, the day after elect
tien, based on prineipieswhich are GER
tain to be ultimately adopted by the
American people. What is needed there
fore. is not a new ticket. but a new plat
form. which will declare in pnanistak-
aole language The cardinal features of the
party faith. and which. while indorsing
Mckinley electors. will provide for a
/ really Democratic opposition to the Nc
kinley administration during the period
of its existence"
WHAT. is your opinion of the Ultimate
Everything depends upon the manner
in which it Is waged. To my mind there
is but one test of prosperity which can
be applied to a country. and hat is the
be no prosperity where low wages are
paid There can be no distress where
the rate Of wages is high. 1t can b
/ easily demonstrated that this whole free
silver movement is a conspiracy against
wages, and II the campaign is fought on
Northern State-that Is to say. every State
In the Tnioni in which it is practicable 10
hold a free electjon-will be carried by
the iutelfgenceNard morality Of the Amer
tons submitted 70 them by the conven-
ton which nominated Mr. Bryan or the
Presidency
-n 1890