Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-08-20
NATIONAL POLITICS.
SECRETARY HokE sMrra's STAND.

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from his hostile position. Mr.. Smitl
consistently refuses to give out any in
formation, but in the meantime he ha
taken up cudgel that is likely to be fel
even in Buzzards Bay. In his paper yes
terday afternoon Mr.. Smith has the fol
lowing editorial:
/ "In political emergencies, as in othe
affairs of life, men are sometimes con
strained to make choice between two
evils or uncongenial situations. Being
unable after their best efforts to orde
things just as they would have them
both sound reason and pollsy sugges
that they should take this course. Sucl
an emergency now confronts many Demo
Gratis in all parts of the country. They
have done their best to influence theil
party to accept and indorse their fioanaia
policy, ana, having failed in the effort
they have now presented to them tht
political party with which they have long
associated and whose maintenance they
believe will preserve the people from
bad government and pernicious legisla
tion or to assist in the restoration to un
checked power of the party whose whole
record is marked by acts and policies OF
this character.
"All of us took part IN the choice oI
delegates to the Chicago convention, with
the implied agroement--an agreement
sanctioned by precedent and honor-tha,
we would abide by the decision of the ma.
jority of the convention. That decision
was disagreeable and disappointing to a
large portion of the Democratic party In
it's relation to one important question
Had this portion succeeded, instead OF
meeting defeat, they would have consid
cred bolt or antagonism by the othel
party as an act of bad faith. Is not the
implied agreement just as binding on
themselves?
"Let southern Democrats who cOntem-
plate the support of Mckinley or bolt
ing Democratic ticket, which could only
help Mckinley without a chance of ite
success in asingle state, seriously consider
the probable effect of their action. They
would help to restore to full power, and
perhaps to perpetuate in power, party
agreeing with them only OH one question
and that one attributable to condition
caused by Republican legislation and to
disrupt and consign to lasting defeat a
party agreeing with them on every other
issue.
sought the venerable Democratic party
to be destroyed because of it's dissention
or it's error in regard to single question
of transient importance? Shall we
abandon the vital principles and essential
policies for which it has long contended
simply because of disagreement on this
question: Those princip Piles and policies
are the preservation of the remaining
rights of the states and the people-right
often usnrped or disregarded by the Re-
publican party; just and impartial
system of federal taxation opposed to the
Republican policy of taxation for the
aggrandizement of favored interests and
classes; opposition to the growth and ex-
actions of trusts and monopolies, which
have been the especial objects of Re.
publican fostering and protection; the
protection of every state and sectioa OF
the country from invidious federal leGis.
lation or unwarranted interference witt
their local government.
"This last object is one of special i'm
portance to the southern states, whose
elections have hithertofore been domin.
ated by federal supervision and who are
threatened with renewal of such inter.
ference"
DEMANDS wATsON's wITHDRAwL.
Montgomery, Ala.-Philander Morgan,
of St. Clair county, the nestor of the
Peoples party in Alabama, the best be
loved and most influential of its leaders,
has written this significant letter to a
friend in this city:
Easonville, Ala, Aug. 10, 1896.-Col. A.
B. Brassell, Montgomery, Ala: My Dear
Sir-Replying to your favor of August 6,
would say:
gone conclusion 80 long as the pro.silver
vote Of the country is divided in any
thing like equal proportions.
2. That his defeat means not only a
continuance of the present congested
state of finance, bat it stands for still
greater contraction of our currency by
the destruction of silver coin as debt
paying money, and by the retirement of
the legal tender paper without any char
acter of substitution.
3 To elect Mr.. Bryan the people will
have to be concentrated on one or the
other of the pro silver presidential candi-
dates; and the question We are called
upon to decide is, which one will be sac
riticed, if the act of yielding to patriot
ic duty could be called a sacrifice.
The question the people are called
upon to decide is, whether this party pre-
judice shall dominate individual inter-
estsP And, while every sentiment of my
nature, whether controlled by sectional
pride or party preference, goes out for
gallant Watson, yet it is q duty We owe
to ourselves and to our country to defeat
Rerublicanism, and it should be the pride
and would be the immortality of Mr..
Watson to yield to the demands that cir
cumstances have created, by the renuncia-
tion of an ambition that would be con-
secration in proportion as 1t would be
voluntary. The arguments in favor of
Mr.. Sewall's candidacy are:
l. That the nomination takes prece-
dence in point of date.
2. That his political following is&ams
fold greater than that Of Mr.. Watson.
2. That Mr.. Sewall can exercise sec.
tional influence altogether necessary to
Mr.. Bryan's election.
We have at best but little margin on
which to speculate. II will be either Mo-
Kinley, with all the horrors OF q still
more depleted money supply, with all OF
the wrongs of protected monopolies-or
it will be Bryan.
In view of these things it becomes that
class of Populists who love princi pie
more than party, who are influenced by