The San Francisco call., 1896-06-26
EASTERN DEMOCRATIC SCHEME.

The platform adopted by the New York
Democracy IS the same one that has been
in use by the party for several years. 1t
looks we'll and reads we'll, but When one
digs down and gets at its true meaning he
finds the same old basic principles of per-
fdy, hypocrisy and falsehood. The usual
pointing with pride" to the record of the
party was performed, and the leaders in
dulged in the time-worn habit of self
glori6cation. The convention was har-
monious-unusually so for u New York
Democratic gathering-but then the occa-
sion was not offering opportunities for the
Tiger to break into the arena. 1t was
consultation to find out how best the lie
of the party could be saved-a party that
is too sinful to die and not good enough
to live. Even the unterritied Tammany
ward bosses felt the solemnity or the oc-
casion and kept paratively quiet.
1t Is no surprise that the convention
blamed the Republican party for the fail
ure of the Wilson-G German tariff act TO
provide revenue enough to maintain the
Government. Had occasion required there
would have been no hesitation in declar-
ing that the Republican party is response
the world. 1t is a cold day when the
Democracy of New York fails to put the
consequences of its rascality and duplicity
upon the shoulders of some other party.
But the declaration that Democratic rule
is necessary to the we'll being of the coun-
try must have made every delegate smile
at his own capacity for lying. The last
time the country was under complete
Democratic rule prior to 1898 was between
1857 and 1861, and which eliminated in
one of the most destructive civil wars the
world ever saw. The next advent of the
democracy in public as the controlling in
fuence IN the affairs of the nation was in
1898, and which Immediately plunged the
country into commercial and financial dis
asters of such force and character that the
nation was driven to the very edge OF
country wide bankruptcy.
History does not substantiate the claim
of the Democracy that it is necessary to
the well-belng of the people. eff l can
throw the patient into fits" said quack
doctor, 'he will be all right, for 1 am a
fits specialist" The Democratic party
has thrown the country into fits, which
the people know very well, for they are
sHill equirming under the influence of the
dose, but they will not risk the old polt-
ical luack's 'cure ALL" The hair of the
dog is not, in this case, good for the bite;
besides, these are political dog days, and
the Democratic dogs are raving mad. The
effort of the New York Democracy to
make Western and Southern Democrats
take its medicine will, therefore, only in
tensify the spasms. Whitney, Hill and
the other New York bosses prescribe
milk and water, meaningless but thor
oughly hypocritical dose called 'straddle'
for the National party, and intimate that
if it takes OF it freely all cases of fits will
be cured and the party become SO strong
and powerful that victory next November
would be assured, but the West and South
have not lost their wits if they are mad.
1t is an insult to the West and South to
ask them to join in a scheme to cover up
their own views on the money question
with deceit so as to appear that they are in
harmony with exactly what they are bat
ting against merely to please Whitney, Hill
and other attorneys of Wall-street syndi-
Gates and trust com binations. The West
and South will not be caught by any such
chaff as the New York conventions kind
of bimetallism. The declaration is
adroitly drawn, and it is intended to per-
suade the Chicago convention that it is
best to make q straddle on the silver ques-
ton: But no doubt the silver delegates
will be able TO see that what the Cleve-
land wing is after is an all things to all
men kind of platform, hoping that such
veneered declaration of principles will
give the victory in November to it, when
it would fasten the gold standard upon
the country for all time. Whitney, Hill
and company should have held their con-
vention in the Morgan -Rothschilds syndi-
Gates parlors on Wall street. They cam
not deceive Western and Southern silver
Democrats by rushing off to an interior
rural village SO as to make it ppear that
they are not the authorized agents of the
gold monome tallists of this country and
Europe. The bait on the hook is more re-
pulsive than the hook itself. In refusing
to name Presidential electors the conven-
ton made a stupid blunder. 1t was in
tended as threat-the threat of a would
he hulIv