Omaha daily bee., 1896-06-11
THE SUPREME ISSUE.


Springfield (Mass.) Republican (ind. dem.) /:
"hoever he may be. let him stand for
something. If free silver is to be the
cardinal faith of the party in the coming
campaign. let him stand for free silver,
not merely on the platform, but on his
own feet. Away with compromisers and
straddlers.
st. Paul Pioneer Press 0ep): Since the
democratic party is certain to declare for
free silver in platform and candidate, it is
plain, therefore, that sound money of the
cearest ring is the winning card for the
republicans. For it will win not only in
all the normally republican states, but in
four, and probably five, of the usually
democratic states.
Chicago Tribune (rep): The sounder the
republican platform on the money question
the greater the majority for the republican
ticket from top to bottom. The greater
the contrast between the courageous honesty
of the republican money plank and the de-
fiant dishonesty of the democratic plank
the more sweeping will be the republican
victory. Honesty is truly the best policy
here as elsewhere.
New York World (dem.): In brief. the
utmost strength possible to free silver
democratic candidate is 1872 votes, with the
probability that it will be reduced to about
100; while as against such candidate
even granting Oregon, Washington, Idaho,
Wyoming, Montana and North Dakota to
of the republicans will be 229, with pretty
secure prospect that 1t will rise to 2S9, and
possibility that it will exceed 300. Will
the democrats at Chicago surrender all
hope, of election in advance by thus yielding
to a factional craze? VIII the party that
has survived so many heresies and won so
many glorious battles ingloriously commit
suicide?
Philadelphia Times (dem): The only
party of the three to which the friends of
national honor, business tranquility and in
dustrial and commercial prosperity can now
turn is the republican party, and If it shall
follow in the present tendency toward ma
tional dishonor the great republic of the
world would receive a wound deeDer and
vastly more dangerous than that inflicted
by the madness of secession that main
tanned the bloodiest war of history for
four long years Better far that Pickett's
charge at Gettysburg had riven the union
army in twain and defeated 1t without hope,
than that after the sacrifice Of countless
thousands of lives to maintain free gov
ernment, it should fall in dishonor, smitten
by it's own suicidal hand
Louisville Courier-Journal (dem.): The
men who on Saturday captured the name
and organization of the democratic party
of Kentucky have completed their work at
Lexington by formally consigning II to dis
ruption and defeat-a consignment which
can only be frustrated by cooler counsel
and saner action at Chicago So far as the
state convention of Kentucky has power to
speak and do, the democratic party is new
party, retaining some of the principles of
the party which has heretofore been known
as the democratic party, but making an
alien faith, hitherto the creed of the popu-
lists, the keystone of the new democratic
arch This means, il endorsed by the ma
tional convention that the democratic party
is to be northumberland radically revo-
in truth, than If the Chicago con-
vention should declare for the highest OF
protective tariffs, the re-enactment of the
Mckinley law, and should nominate Nc
Kinley himself as the democratic standard
bearer; for in comparison with the issue of
sound money the issue Of the tariff Is as an
inlet to the ocean.