San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-08-15
SOUND MONEY DEMOCRATS.

The situation is only In part de.
veloped, as to the plan to be pur-
sued by the hard money Demo
Gratis, but enough is shown and
known to warrant that their Of.
forts will be put where they will
do most good. Hill and Cleveland
will be 10th to express themselves,
beyond the general statement that
they hope the Chicago platform
and candidate will be defeated.
There is not reasonable doubt
the convention in Indianapolis
will represent nearly every state
in the union, perhaps every one.
1t is also as certain as anything
can be that has not already hap
pened that the convention will put
out its own candidates, but this
does not imply that all Of
the gold standard states with
Democratic organization will
put the electoral ticket to
be nominated at Indianapolis at
the head OF their state tickets.
Already some Of the gold standard
Democratic states have declared
for the Mckinley and Hobart cleo
tors, but in the majority OF cases
the sound money Democrats in
the several states will put the
sound money electoral ticket in the
foreground. The sense of the
wisest leaders among the sound
money Democrats is that more
damage will be done the Bryan and
Sewall ticket through another
Democratic nomination than in
any other way, and it is to defeat
that ticket that the third nomina-
tion is to be made. Republicans
must concede that the Democrats
are themselves the judges of what
bait will best catch the votes Of
the old line hard money Demo-
Gratis, and as they are certain that
in Indiana and Illinois and
Iowa and Minnesota and Missouri
and Tennessee and Kentucky
and Maryland and West Virginia
the third ticket is the only remedy
for the freelsilver craze, there will
be no kicking at the program laid
down. There is no doubt that
many Democrats in all Of these
states will pronounce openly for
the electoral ticket put out by the
party, but there are
tens of thousands Of Democrats in
all these states that will vote
either some kind OF Democratic
ticket or none, andlthe sound money
ticket will catch these votes. To
the Republicans this seems like
going around the barn to get in
the back door, but 1t is not really
So There is much more in the
platform than the cur
rency, and to this the Democrats
seriously object, but they do not
think 1t as dangerous to the coun-
try as the free silver heresy, hence
the movement for a third ticket to
keep the sound money vote OF the
party from electing free silver
president. This movement also
caters to the states-right
feeling of the Democrats. 1t gives
them their state declarations on
all matters Of state policy and
preserves their solid state organ
izations intact. This is one of the
reasons for naming a third ticket
and organizing in opposition to
the free silver wing that has be-
come Populistic. This movemen t
is a protest against surrenderlng
the state governments to the free
silver wing OF the party, now in
fusion with the Populists, and a
bid for the autonomy of the party.
Unless the leaders Of the Demo
CT attic movement to check the free,
silver heresy are In grave error
their movement is going to give
much solid aid to the Republican