The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1896-08-28
BOURKE COCHRANO OUT
THE TAMMANY ORATOR
BOLTS.

He Advises Democrats to Stay Away From
the Polls and Says What is Needed is Not
u New Ticket, But q New Platform to
Stand on.
New YORK, Aug. 4.-Bourke Coch-
ran returned Saturday from Europe
by the steamer Paris. Mr.. Cochran
did not forget American politics dur.
ing his trip, and he has evolved a plan
by which he thinks the defeat CT the
Chicago candidates may be cncom-
passed. Speaking of the situation, he
said:
II regard 1t as the gravest in the
history of the country, exceeding in
Importance the crisis of 1860. The
secession movement was but an at
tempt to drive this country between
two governments, each of them de.
signed to protect property within the
limits Of its jurisdiction. The move
ment launched at Chicago is an at
tempt to paralyze industry by using
all the powers of government to take
properly from the hands of those who
create it and place it in the hands of
those who covet it. This is a question
OF morals as we'll as of politics. No
political convention can issue a valid
license to commit ofenses against
morality, and l decline to follow Mr..
Bryan in a crusade against honesty
and the rights of labor"
"Do you mean that you will actively
oppose the Democratic party or alb
stain from active support of it?"
In a contest for the existence Of
civilization no man can remain neut-
rail- Whoever does not support the
forces of order aids the forces of dis
order. II | cal do anything to thwart
. movement, the success of which I
should regard as anirreparable calam-
ity not only to this country, but to
civilized society everywhere, I shall
certainly do it,"
will you support Major Mckinley
outright, or do you favor the nomina-
ton of another Democratic ticket"
Il believe that al! Democrats who
are so thoroughly in favor Of sound
money that they place the defeat of
Bryan above the interests of any or
ganization or party should meet in
convention for the purpose of con-
sidering the former method, bv
which they can give the greatest
efficiency to the opposition. For my
part. l do not believe that the
nomination of other candidates for
Preslde emit and Vice President, how
ever eminent and deserving they
might be personally or politically,
would serve any useful purpose. No
body believes that they could be
elected, and any Democrat whose
hostility to Populism and Republican,.
ism would not allow him to D
either Bryan or Mckinley could show
his opposition to both by remaining
at home on election day quite as we'll
RS by voting for a third ticket. It
would be more convenient to himself
individually and would not create a
visible separation between himself
and bis party organization. What is
needed, therefore, is not q new ticket,
but q new platform which will declare
n u~nmistakable language the cardi-
nal features OF the party faith, and
which, while indorsing Mckinley
electors, will provide for a really
Democratic opposition to the McKin.
ley administration during the period
of its existence"
What is your opinion of the .ulti-
mate outlook"
Everything depends on the man
ner in which it is waged. To my mind
there is but n test OF prosperity
which can be applied to a country,
md that is the rate Of wages puid to
labor. There a be no prosperity
where low wages is paid. There can
be no distress where the rate Of wages
is high. 1t can be easily demonstrated
that this whole silver movement is a
conspiracy. against wages, and if the
campaign is fought on this line l have
40 doubt that every Northern state
that is to say, every state in the
Union in which it is practicable to
hold a free election-will be carried
BY the intelligence and morality Of
the American people against the mon
.trous propositions submitted to them
by the convention which nominated
MIR. Bryan for the presidency"
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