The Republican journal., 1896-07-16

Edlt0f OF Inc sun Bolts the Party Platform.
VIII Vote, He says, Us should all Democrats,
for Mckinley.
The New York Sun repudiates the ma
tional Democratic platform and supports
William Mckinley for President. 1t says
in an editorial:
The agony is over. The Democratic
party, assembled in national convention,
pledges itself to revive the free coinage Of
silver at the old ratio of Is to l, and to
accomplish the imposition of an income
tax. The Democracy of Jefferson, from
which have been drawn invariably the
ideas which have given political stability
and republican enthusiasm to this country
has passed into the control of Jetferson's
dlametric opposite, the socialist, or COM
munlst, OF as he is now known here, the
popuist.
The process which eliminated yes-
terday at Chicago has been going on for
much longer than the last 10 years, which
has been manifest to all
''Since the wal, while the Democratic
party was being built up again in the
north, the south, where lay the Democ-
racy's main strength, made no sign of
desire for a new departure 1t accepted
willingly as its candidates that pure dis
ciple of the Democratic faith, Samuel J.
Tilden of New York, Winfield Scott Han
cock of Pennsylvania pretending to moth
ing but party orthodoxy, and Grover
Cleveland, an unknown quantity, but,
like Tilden, coming from the conserva-
tive State of New Y York. But the seeds
of socialist revolution were in the south
all the time, and by a singular fatality,
the first man to obtain possession of the
presidents office in the Democratic name
both weakened Democratic sentiment and
famed populism's destructive flame.
"a political freak, of alien instincts,
without conception of party government,
and aiming at personal government only,
has destroyed the idea of party coherency,
all allegiance to tradition, headed and in
spired in the mad crusade of 1892 against
capitals ''iron heel' and against the rich
as robbers of the poor, the greatest social
lstlc demonstrations yet recorded, made,
by his financial laundering and falsfying,
the national monetary standard hateful in
the eyes of every waverer, and actually
proposed the populstic income tax now
openly made plank in the Democratic
platform. Southern poverty, engendered
by the war, and the common discomfort,
stirred up to recklessness by the agitating
into demand for debased coinage and a
tax on wealth, and have carried the ma
| tlOnal Democratic convention.
''Its platform cannot be accepted The
| United States was made Democratic and
it must remain SO. Free silver coinage
would be national dishonor and monu-
| mental anachronism. Silver has had its
| day as a money standard The commerce
| of civilization, which has used as medi-
um of exchange pretty much everything
from shells to the higher metals, has pro-
gressed beyond silver 1t has adapted it.
| self to gold and to gold it will stick until
it finds something still more convenient.
The silver campaign is based upon de-
lusions which have no justification and on
statements which are not so. 1t cannot
prevail and every sincere believer in fair
| dealing and in business honor as the
foundation of commercial prosperity must
put aside all other purposes and unite for
its defeat
''1n the different States the State candi-
dates for the mortified and disheartened
members of the Democracy to follow are
yet to be determined In them, and es-
pecially in New York, where David Ben
nett Hill has struggled for his party
against overwhelming odds, the nucleus Of
Democratic regeneration must be found.
But from now until the night of election
day in November, 1896, the presidential
candidate of every Democrat who favors
honest money and who still hopes to
crush the enemies of the fundamental
principles he was bred in, should be with
out hesitation, evasion, or sop to prejudice,
William Mckinley