Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-03-27
rnE NEW YORK pLATFoRM-AeAIN

We said yesterday that New YORK had
set the pace for the other States on the
silver question. To charge the Repubi-
cans OF that State with Sinking the
silver question would be to do injustice
TO our Republican friends, who have III
this instance. endeavored 70 conciiiate no
seeker after strange or new issues pu'
have toed the mark on the monetary
question and put New York, State hat
the time Democratic, at the head OF the
sound-rnouey men OF the whole Union
How this declaration Of the New hoiK
Republicans is regarded in pennsylvania
the Philadelphia Telegraph tells In the
following paragraph. We quote:
1T the New York PLATFORM atirms
the necessity of maintaining the present
monetary system Of the country oassu
on gold alone and declares that the
public faith with the creditors OF the ~,
ton must be upheld. Further than TINS,
n declares that the coinage OF silver At
the ratio OF l6 to /, or at any other ra
ito. can only do harm 10 the country. IL
not only explicitly favors gold. but II
as explicitly antagoniZes silver. III Is
as Main as print in what IT defines as
necessary Tor the welfare OF the people
and equally plain i'm what II denounces
az erroneous and injurious New loIh
"a at this time justly accounted hepup-
ucan State. and her example and innu-
ence ought to go far towards settling
the policy Of the Republican party.
II will be seen that the Republicans
Of the Empire State, backed up by the
millions of Wall street, go further TINS
wear than ever before since silver mas
threatened the disruption of either the
Republican or the Democratic party.
They not only affirm the necessity OF
maintaining the present monetary system
OF the country. based on gold
alone. but declare that the COIN
age OF silver at any ratio can only
do harm II IS rather inconsistent in
the New York Republicans to declare
for maintaining the present monetary
system OF the country. and in the same
breath denounce the coinage of silver lat
any ratio" as injurious.
The Philadelphia Telegraph thus tells
the world how the New York Republic
can platform is read and understood, not
in New York only. but in Pennsylvania.
This platform viii be insisted upon at
St. Louis, and there the New York Re
publicans will be reinforced by those Of
the six New England States, those OF the
Middle States, and. in fine. by those Of
every State I'm the Union. The sound
money Republicans will carry the day In
the Republican National Convention
And how will all these Republican
movements affect the Democratic party?
Before you answer tins question call to
mind the fact that in the DEM
ocratic National Convention the Re-
publican States will be represented
according to their population, and not
according TO their Democratic strength.
Vermont. Maine, New Hampshire, Hi
nois. Ohio. and in a word, all the
Republican States, will cast as many
votes i'm that convention In proportion
TO their population as will Virginia, Ark
ansas, Texas, Missouri. and other Demo
cratic States 1t will not be easy to keep
down the feeling that every State ought
TO be represented in proportion to Its
Democratic strength, but We hope for
the best when 1.-THE brethren OF the
Democratic party come together to take
counsel OF one another.
It must not be forgotten that 1t VIII
require a two-thirds vote in the Demo-
cratic National Convention to nominate
a candidate for President. On this regu-
lation or rule the sllverites Of that body
may take their stand and spoil all the
calculations Of the goldites. A stoFming
future is not far ahead OF us all.