North Park union., 1896-07-31
A SOUND ARGUMENT
Binnetallists Should Unite
for Bryan.
Although the Democratic Platform
is not all That Could be
Expected,

have read for many day we
noticed in The American of Phila.
delphia of July 11th. 1t says
substantially the following:
The adjournment of the Demo
cratic Convention marks an epoch
iii our history. Grave response.
bilities rested on the shoulders of
the bimetallic delegates who en-
tered that convention, and great
possibilities of success and failure
hung upon their action. Upon
their patriotism and wisdom, their
ability to discern the responsible
ties that developed upon them and
subordinate party ties and preju,
dices to the general veal, rested
not alone the future of the Demo
cratic party, but in large measure
the salvation of our country.
The producing classes looked
with hope to the Democratic Con,
vention to give them leadership, to
name the candidate who would
unite all bimetallists. who would
point out the road to victory and
the path to the observation-disclosures of
our industrial classes from the
grievous burdens that grind them
down. More than ordinary res
possibilities weighed upon those
bimetallists who controlled the
Chicago Convention. The duty
of uniting bimetallists of all part
les devolved upon them. They
were called upon to speak, not
alone for those bimetallic Demo.
Gratis who chose them rs their re-
presentatives, but for bimetallistS
Of all parties. The responsibility
of marshalling the producing
classes against the money eliques,
of naming candidate who would
be satisfactory not to Democrats
alone bit to Populists and bime
tallic Republicans as well, fell to
their lot, and upon their ability to
discern such n man and their cour.
age to choose him rested the pros
poets of uniting the bimetallic
forces and success.
Great We're the possibilities Of
success rtiIat opened before the
bimetallic Democrats Who con
trolled the Chicago Convention;
even greater We're the chances of
mistake and failure To nominate
man from a purely partisan
standpoint was to court defeat.
Confronted with a bolt of the gold
Democrats, it was and is evident
that, unless bimetallists of all
parties could be united on the
nominee of the convention, the
success of such nominee at the
polls would be impossible; that
the silver Democrats by themselves
were and are in hopeless min.
ority, just as are the Populists
and himetallic Republicans; and
that the only hope of victory lay,
as it now lies, in uniting all bime-
tallists. 1t was this task of choos-
ing a candidate acceptable to all
bimetallists that lay before the
Democratic convention, and upon
the ability of the delegates to that
convention to fulfill is satisfac,
torily rested the possibility of
success.
The action taken by the Demo-
cratic convention is therefore of
much more than ordinary import,
for bound up with that action are
the prospects not alone of the
Democratic party, but of the wei
fare of our producing classes.
To say that the bimetallists in
the Chicago Convention took full
advantages of the possibilities that
lay before them, to say that they
took such action as will insure the
union of bimetallists of all parties
on the platform there adopted,
and in support of the nominee
there named, would be idle. 1t is
to be regretted that those who
drafted the platform did not rise
above partisanship. The financial
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