The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-07-24
W. c. WHITNEY'S WARNING
URGES REPUBLICAN LEADERS TO
 BURY PAST ISSUES.

Says the Issue is Gold vs. silver-To Bring
 in Other Questions in This Crisis is Like
 ly to Alienate Many Democrats Who
 Might otherwise Vote for Mckinley
 The Silver Vote Will be United, and It
 Should be Met by the Undivided Votes of
 Those Who Would Maintain the Coun-
 try's Honor--An Analysts of the Situa-
 ton.
 New York, July 23.-William c. Whitney in an interview with repre- sentative of the United Press to-day was asked if in his judgment there would be third ticket nominated by the sound money democrats. He re- piled:
 T think events and the course or the republican leaders are making It inevitable. The general situation IS far worse to-day in my opinion than 1t was ten days ago. The republican manag- CTS and candidates have shown no SeHS6 Nl IllC oitootASAA' -AN1 have failed to avail of a great oppor- tunity for benefitting the country. II the present condition continues TOT any length of time sound money democrats are bound to organize and it cannot be prevented.
 "The truth is there does not seem to be in the east a realizing sense of the seriousness and sincerity of the free silver movement. You may call 1t craze, but it has captured the imagina- tions of the great mass of people throughout the entire west and south and it has a much stronger following in some portions of the east not closely allied to large commercial centres than is generally supposed. It is the result of reading and agitation. It has be- come a fixed opinion and an unreason- | ing one.
 T think it may be accepted as a fact | that the vast majority of free silver | believers are not open to conviction. l Their minds are made up. was satis- l fled before W'e went to Choicago that nothing could be accomplished in the direction of changing or modifying the | free silver idea and l said so. Never- theless it was our duty to go there and emphasize the strength of the con- victions of the eastern democrats and further to afford the country an object lesson showing so plainly that it could not be misunderstood by the undemo- cratic and revolutionary spirit which l dominated the movement.
 l Tn this we were successful. The democratic mask was pretty effectually removed from the face of the populism which had forced itself for the time being into a position of control. That was all that the sound money demo- crats could hope to accomplish and that they did effectually and unsel- ffshly.
 There never has been in any party convention such a vigorous declaration of independence as was exhibited at Chicago when two hundred and fifty four delegates refused to participate in the selection of candidates, What
 should have been the next step in the
 fight for the preservation of national
 honor and sound finance? We had
 suddenly come upon new and very
 great crisis, one that called for the
 sinking of partisanship and the union
 of sound men to rescue the country
 from disaster
 Hundreds of thousands of democrats
 stood ready to declare themselves upon
 that issue and were ready to subordi-
 nate everything even to voting for the
 republican candidate. What was the
 duty of the hour? Clearly it was one
 that devolved upon the republican par |. ty and it's candidates There should have been an immediate recognition o1
 the situation, and the republicans
 should have been the first to welcome
 sound money democrats to a non-par-
 tisan union, subordinating all other things to this question of nationa honor. It was new issue It dwarf ed all others. An opportunity was of . fered to fight for the established in.
 stitutions of the country; the funda mental things that underlie party diff , ferences-law and order, the integrity . of the courts-all such without whici we do not exist as nation.
 "A single glimpse at the Chicago , platform and at the spectacle of one : third of the democratic party in opei ' revolt should have been enough t,
 iidNC oiicWI tiiciH illStdulIy the n6CeS
 sity of new alignment of parties upo, non-partisan lines. No greater oppor tunity for patriotic action was ever of /. fered a party and it has all beel q thrown away.
 What has been the course of the re publican leaders and the republical press? They have insisted upon put
 ting the free silver enthusiasts and tn = sound money democrats into one clas , !, and denouncing all together under tn
 name of national democracy. Mr. Me Kinley continues to discuss the tariff which has ceased to be an actual issu - in this campaign as completely a slavery, and the republican press an leaders persist in deriding all demo l. crats en masse. They jeer at democ Il racy and yet admit that the doubtfu ; states are those where republicanisr | has been dominant for thirty years.
 This can have but one effect. It wi U arouse the innate party loyalty of pat :. rotic democrats; it will make ther angry and will result in drawing shar
 party lines. It is difficult enough fo T a democrat to contemplate the possibi lity of voting for Mckinley or to loo [ upon him as the leader of any grea y cause and the present course of the re e publicans is tending to make it impos e sible. If they continue in this line on
 thing will certainly happen, the soun
 money democrats will nominate a thir