Omaha daily bee., 1896-11-16
SOUTHERN VIEWS OF SILVER.

Savannah (GaD News: The issue in the
recent campaign was not whether they have
the right to change their monetary stand
ard but whether it would be advisable and
right to do so. They have just said that
1t wouldn't be advisable or right, and that
ought to settle the matter.
Macon CGa) Telegraph: The thing that
must be done is to get the democratic party
as promptly and definitely as possible back
to the old conservative 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.
Augusta (GaD Chronicle: The verdict i'm
the case has been rendered, and all must
bow to it. The people have declared their
belief that the surest road to national pros
perity is through the republican party and
the gold standard, and have called Hon.
William Mckinley to the presidential
chair. He has been chosen as the advance
agent of prosperity" and people of all
classes are ready to welcome better times.
No democrat will refuse prosperity simply
because 1t comes through republican chan
nels, and we propose to throw no obstacles
in the way of restored confidence and COM
mercial activity.
Montgomery CNa.) Advertiser: The dis
gust Of democrats with the Bryan populite
combine was most thoroughly demonstrated
in the three southern cities of Louisville,
Baltimore and New Orleans In the last
banned city only % 600 went to the polls out
of registered vote Of 63. 600. In Louisville
the usual democratic majority of 1000 to
5000 was changed to a Mckinley victory Of
10000, Baltimore gave Cleveland p 13O ma
jority and Mckinley 81 POI a change i'm four
years OF 53,42l votes, which is about one
fourth the total vote of the state. Yet Mr.
German and Senator Morgan predicted on
Monday night an overwhelming Bryan ma
jority in Maryland The truth is that the
democrats everywhere refused to recognize
the Chicago convention and candidates as
democratic and expressed their cgndemna-
tion at the polls or by remaining at home.
Atlanta Journal: The most ardent free
silverites, the most skeptical observer of po-
littcal events. must be convinced by the re
suit OF last Tuesdays election that the peo-
pic OF the United States will not tolerate
the free coinage of silver at l6 to l. If the
sound money sentiment were exactly the
Mckinley vote the result would be decisive
and final But beyond all question the sound
money sentiment is far stronger than the
Mckinley vote. There were perhaps lOOO,-
600 democrats who do not believe in the free
and unlimited coinage of silver and yet voted
FOR Bryan. They were democrats who think
that the preservation of their party OTganiza-
ton is more important than the money quys-
tiOn, or democrats who felt that, having
taken part in the primaries they were bound
by the action of the partys highest cOnvun-
ton. MCKinley's election is not the triumph
Of the republican party but Of the cause of
sound currency, While every free silver
vote in the country that was cast went for
Bryan, by no means the full sound money
vote was given to Mckinley. The free silver
agitatorS must perceive this; the democratic
party cannot afford to ignore it, 1t will be
useless to continue the demand for the free
and unlimited coinage of silver at IL to
it would be worse than folly for the democ-
racy to adhere to it as party issue.