The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-09-22
Democratic nntx.

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There are democrats who believe that
they would be doing their party and their
country a service in voting for Mckinley.
or at any rate against Bryan, in Novem-
| Der. In this contest, vote against
! Bryan is a vote for Mckinley, virtually,
whether it is cast for him directly, or for
some other democratic candidate;
! hence. a vote for the Palmer-Buckner
| ticket Is in effect a vote for the republi-
! can ticket. It may not be out Of place
TO remind such democrats as have the
idea that 1t is their duty to vote for Nc
Kinley, either directly or indirectly, that
1t is McKinley's party that is responsible
for the present unfortunate state of az
fairs.
1t was in the power of the republican
party in congress to prevent the silverltes
from securing the advantage they now
enjoy by setting aside partisan politics
and giving President Cleveland their sup
port in his patriotic endeavors to place
the finances of the country upon sound
basis and restore public confidence. The
republican congressman, however, pre-
ferred 70 sacrifice country for party. and
declined to give the non-partisan efforts
Of the President their adherence and
votes.
As matter of fact, no one expected
the republicans to do otherwise than
they did. The republican party is con-
trolled by a few hundred men, in and out
of congress, and when the whip of the
bosses cracks the party trots along as
the bosses pull the rens. The republican
party was not cast in heroic mold Its
leaders are politicians, not statesmen.
The adoption of the Presidents plan
of funding the treasury notes so as to
prevent the manipulation of the national
finances by the movement of gold, or of
the repeal Of the 10 per cent. tax on state
bank currency, would have remedied the
condition of affairs. and the current agi-
tation would have been avoided. But the
republicans did not want the public in
terests conserved, unless they could make
party capital out of the matter. They
preferred to put the democratic Presi-
dent, and the democratic party Unto a
hole" and pulled wires to destroy them,
if possible. If business interests were de-
stroyed at the same time, so much the
worse for the business interests for hav-
ing the temerity to run counter to the
plan of the hungry and self-seeking re-
publican bosses.
If there is one single good and sufficient
reason why a democrat-more particular
ly a southern democrat-should vote for
Mckinley, that reason has not been dis
covered by us. Maj. Mckinley is the
candidate of a party that has never hest
tated to adopt any expedient to the end
of keeping itself in power 1t has been
found ready and willing to steal a pres
idency. to drive white voters away from
the ballot box at the point of the bayo-
net, and to turn well qualified and duly
elected white gentlemen out of congress
and seat negro republicans in their places,
when all of the facts were against the
republican side of the case. 1t has been
called the grand old party" but in reali-
ty it should be called the grand old pill
lager" And there is no reason to think
that the party is better now than it has
been heretofore. All it wants is an OPP
portunity to prove that it is as much the
enemy of our democratic form of govern
ment as it ever was.
Let no democrat support Mckinley with
the idea that he is performing a high and
patriotic public service, He is doing
nothing of the sort. He is stutifying the
record of the south, and aiding in a
scheme to perpetuate in this government
those iniquities that have been so stub
bornly fought by democrats since the
foundation of the party.