New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-10-02
NO TINE TO LOAF,

Republicans who have had any political ex-
perience will not need to be warned to pay no at
tention whatever to reports Of financial collapse
at BRYAN headouarters Stories in every respect
as minute, circumstantial and plausible have
been heard many times before. and not infre
Quently have been followed by deluse OF
Democratic corruption money to be used IN Inc
last hours Of the campaign. The appealing lel-
ter published in 1.-THE Salt Lake Herald. to the
silver-mine owners. in which they were told That
they could not afford to neglect the opportunity
to secure G31a cents per ounce more Tor their
silver, and asking them to contribute each
months profits at that rate on the product OF
their mines, to which the Utah journal added
an account of a meeting Of mine-owners I'M
mediatey held. and Of emnently satisfactory
subscriptions there made. Is entitled to quite as
much credit. to say the least. as the other ac
counts that the campaign has entirely collapsed
for want of funds to pay speakers. clerks ana
necessary expenses. At somebody's cost Bryan
is riding in private car. after the unholy man.
ner Of monopolists.
Another statement appears in "Thc New-York
Times describing the successful efforts of sun
dry silver and Democratic Senators in collecting
money from great corporations in wall Street
and it deserves some attention. The Times
may reasonably be supposed to have good an
thority for stating that some OF these men nave
in previous campaigns raised large sums for the
Democratic Committee by inviting the managers
of great corporations 10 remember that Senators
of large influence would feel obligated IL good
subscriptions were made TO the Democratic fuhd
Entirely in keeping with such campaign tao
TICS if pursued with success. would he the ap-
pearance of poverty, restitution. discord ana
seeming collapse at Democratc-Si!ver head
quarters. 1t would be- we trust. a waste OF time
to consider how much might be raised in these
and other modes for the peculiar operations OF
the last few days before the election. 1t ought
to matter very little, because no Republican 81
practical sense will neglect any effort, refuse any
contribution to necessary expenses, or abaie IN
the least the zeal Of his work for the good cause
on account Of the apparent hopelessness ana
destitutiOn OF the adversary. Good soldiers 40
not lie down and loaf when they get the enemy
on the run. Neither do they stop TO have a
dance over the victory, and expose themselves
to slaughter if the enemy chooses to stop run
ming. The time to put in the best and hardest
work is precisely when there seems good ground
to believe that the victory may be rendered so
decisive that no other battle will have TO be
fought with the same foe. That is the time TO
smash him so that he will stay smashed. and TO
! break up all his forces so that they cannot he
rallied for another struggle until generation
arrives which cannot remember the contest OF
| 1896
1t does seem somewhat probable. there can be
| no harm in observing. that the silver monaires
have sense enough about this time to concentrate
their efforts and their contributions on the sill
| yer States. The Treatment of silver boilers by
| Democrats and POpulists has so disguised them
| that they have withdrawn from the National
| campaign almost TO the last man. and gone home
| 10 look after their own States. The vigorous
| struggle which straight and true Republicans
are making there led by such men rs Senators
Wolcott in Colorado. Shoup in Idaho and Warren
in Wyoming. has caused alarm, and the silver
leaders may perhaps feel that It would pay bet
ter to save seats in tile Senate if they can. than
| to throw good money after bad in the Bryan
| campaign. But the business of Republicans Is
to take care that they &c. thoroughly beaten, no
matter what they do.