Evening star., 1896-11-17
THE SOUTH ON, ,BIMETALLISM
Views Of Leading Journals on the Election
iResalta
Advice Gl.eassS to toab : the Democratic
Party by various Au-
fhortfles.
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For years the ,A1lyer agitation has Kept
the whole country Uneasy. Capitalists
have invested their money with the greatest
caution, because Vt the fear that free sill
yer coli age might be adopted and the cur
rency deprecated to a silver basis. They
now know that the silver question has been
practically settled and that 1t Is not prob
able that 1t will ever again be great
political issae. Therefore, they will put out
their money, either in loans or new en-
terprises. with entire confidence that the
money of the country will be kept as guod
as the best there is In the world.
What Mckinley's Election Mems.
From the Galveston Daily News.
1t means that the American people have
decided to destroy all sectional lines and
that no party can ever hope to win In this
country by vicious appeals to class pre-
JUDGE and to the baser instincts Of human
nature. 1t means that the doctrine CT dis
content and discouragement will not be en-
dured longer. 1t means law. order and
Ieace 1t means prosperity and progress.
1t ts q death blow TO the riotous scheme
of conquest and spoliation upon which the
desperate politicians decided at Chicago to
20 before the country. The credit and
honor of the nation must be protected.
Property rights and contracts must be re-
spected. The laws must lie obeysd. 1t
means a new hope and new life for the
younger or comparatively undeveloped
states of the Union, including Texas. in
which investments Of capital are needed
and invited. 1t is well for these states SO
severe a rebuke has bean administered to
the politics by which their progress was
retarded. 1t means restoration of conf
dence and a reawakening of business the
country over. We are hot yet ready to
tetake ourselves to reckless experiments
and dangerous crazes ike those by Whic
= -ttrt h-sa., ,fnrA Na
have made this fact known in an empha tic
manner about which there can be no mis-
take. There is to be no premium on gold
dollars in the United States. All of our
dollars are to be equal and as good as the
lest money oE earth. The nightmare is
over. and the sun of a new day is now
shining in our faces. Let us unite regard
less of former differences and disagree
ments in a patriotic devotion 10 our ooun-
try and in efforts to keep oar place in the
front rank of a progressive world.
The Thing for the Party to Do.
Ertm,, the Macon Ga Telegraph A,ce.,..f,,a,
The thing that must be done is to get the
Democratic party, as promptly and defin-
itely as possible, back to the old conserva-
tive lines. In no other way can it retrieve
its character and regain the confidence of
the people and make itself capable Of doing
useful work. In the past it has represented
the conservative thought and feeling Of the
countryside opposition to Capitalization of
government. In that capacity it has been
OF enormous benefit. II is incapable of be-
coming radical party, and If the expe-
rience OF the last campaign be persisted in
ii will be destroyed
Plain Lessons.
From the jacksonville tFiaJ Citizen.
The party that is beaten at election
is not Obliged TO bear the responsibility
that Ia imposed Hpon the victorious one of
formulating a policy of government and
carrying it's measures through Congress.
Sut' 1t is charged with responsibility of
another sort. 1t should study, the lesson
that has been taught by the voters of the
nation. II should eonsidcr what course it
should adopt for the future It>should de-
eide wherein it has erred, and wherein it
should make Improvement,
The democratic, party should learn from
the result of the late election that here
after it must stand by It's principles. 1t
made a surrender of those principles at
Chicago, and from the day that the plat
form was adopted until the day of election
it lost ground steadily. Moreover, this loss
was deserved. for principles alone render
party worthy OF success.
The party SHOULD learn that 1t must never
again enter into fusion movement EN-
tangiing alliances" are. as dangerous to ,a
party as to a nation. The democrats had
for Years denounced the populist party and
st ths Sepe nhey had for
dangerous organization. Suddenly to form
a union with the populists for the support
of common candidate could not but Of
fend all conservative members of the party.
''Give us Rest"
From the New York Post.
The demand of the democratic press in
the south now is that the siIverites, ,"ei .e
US q rest, I'VE look upon free silver COLI
age as a dead ISSUE says the Savannah
News. ut will never be resurrscted IT. is
laid i'll its grave along with the greenback
issue AS for the future course of the
democratic party, the News 'Is confident
the party will never adopt a platform like
thee. ChiSagp one again.. and we seriously
question whether 1t will ever again accept
as leaders the men who were chiefly in
strumental in making it" Of the talk
about doing the thing all over again. the
Mobile Register says that 1.-THE repetition
will scarcely be seriously attempted" as
what the people most want now is rest:
and we feel sure that when they get it, it
will be at such price that they will value
1t too greatly to permit themselves easily to
be led off into agitation second time
The Jacksonville Citizen says that .people
may talk about carrying on the contest.
Dut every sensible man knows that 1t is
ended" 1t sees "only one course open for
the democratic party" which il thus de-
fines:
1.-The fight was a foolish one and to prc-
pose its continuance woulI be nothing
short of madness. The party must turn its
back upon the unwise leaders who have
brought disaster upon il. 1t must return to
the safer path laid out by it's founders.
That is the moral of the ele.tion.'
When the newspapers which felt con-
strained by local conditions 10 give the
Chicago nominee a nominal support talk
in this strain. everybody can see that an
attempt to renew the silver agitation would
fail for lack of organs.
Disgusted With Organism.
From the Montgomery (Ala) Advertiser.
The disgust of democrats with the BRYAN
pcpulite combine was most thoroughly DEM
onstrated In the three southern cities of
Louisville, Baltimore and New Orleans. In
the last named city only 3,O0O went to the
pells out of a registered vote of $500. In
Louisville the usual demnocratic majority of
fooO to 5000 was changed to a Mckinley
victory Of 1900. Baltimore gave Cleveland
y. 130 majority and Mckinley 32,291. a
change in four years d3 3d. 42l votes, which
Is about cne-fourtR the total vote of the
state Yet Mr.. Gormah, and Senator Nor
gan predicted on 1Iofiday night an over
whelming Bryan ma jUtity in Maryland.
The truth is that, the democrats every
where refused to recognize the Chicago con-
vention and Candida ties as democratic. and
expressed their CONDENSATION at the polls
or by remaining al hone.