The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-07-08

Iu4ly 10 your compromise platforms
and 10 your repeated pledges of bime,
tallism and have patiently borne re-
peated disa ppointment as TO their full
fiIlment
do not forget that at the last nation
al convention of the Democra tic party
in 1892, you proclaimed yourselves TO be
in favor of the use of both gold and
silver as standard money of the coun-
try; for the coinage of both gold and
silver without discriminat ting against
either metal, and that the only ques-
ton left open was the ratio between the
metals. Do not forgt-and I refer TO
the fact in no inferior sense-that just
four years ago in a Democratic conYen-
ton in this city, the New York delega-
ton stood here solidly and immova5ly
for a candidate committed TO the free
and unlimited COMA Of silver and
gold al the ratio of IL to 1. And if we
are still for IL, let it not be forgotten
that we owe ii in some measure to their
teachings.
THANKS FOR FAVORS.
THAT we owe you much, gentlemen
Of the east, is readily acknowledged
and we are grateful We owe you much,
gentlemen of the convention, and what
we owe you Of the east is the repeal Of
the force bill and the Mckinley bill and
the Sherman law, the triple infamy of
Republican legislation. The first was
aimed not more at the south than at
the great cities Of the east and, chief
among them, the great Democratic city
OF New York with its magnificent pat
ronase. That bill got its death blow in
the senate, but there was not a single
nHNoncr.o+ IN
land 10 vote against il. If it, gentle
men, mas helped to save the south. it
also has helped TO save you in the east;
but whether the south should be saved
or not those great American Republi-
can senators from the west. Teller.
Wolcott and your Jones and your STAN
ford Of California sank their partisan
feeling on the order of their patriotism
and came forward TO the rescue Of the
American Institutions.
NO man, gentlemen, in this high
noon Of our country's fraternity can re-
vive force bills now in this reconciIed
and reunited republic Our opponents
themselves have abandoned them. There
is none that can stand between the
union Of harts and tn union II hands
that L. S. Grant in his dying vision saw
was coming on angels wings TO all the
sons of our common country.
When Chicago dressed southern
graves in flowers she buried sectional
ism under a mountain of fragrance.
When southern soldiers on yesterday
cheered the wounded hero of the north
in Richmond, the south answered back,
Let us nave peace; peace for the Union,
and liberty, now and forever
MGR ATTTIrnE
AS the majority of the Democratic
party is not sectional, neither does it
stand for any privileged or class leg
Siation. The active business men of
this country, its manufacturers. merch-
ants, farmers, sons Of toll, in count
ing room, factory, field and mine, know
that contraction of the currency sweeps
away with the silent and resistless
force Of gravitation, the annual prof
is of their enterprise and investments.
They know, too, that the gold stand
ard means contraction and the organi-
zation Of disaster. What help IS there
,Or the country and what help for De-
nocracy unless the views Of the maj ori-
" here shall be adopted? Do not let
he people know that it was not silver
egisletion but legislation dictated by
-llt duNOCdLCS VI lIt EOlu SIddf0dIu IHdI
las caused, and now continues, the fin
sncial depression? Do they not know
hat when their demands upon Democra
" were complied with in 1898 and the
Sherman law repealed without a sub
;titute, that the very state of the east
hat demanded it turned against the
Democracy who granted It and swept
lway their majoritieS in a torrent Of
yaliots.
HEREDTTY BLAMED.
Had the silver men had their way
hen, instead of gold monometailists,
What storms of abuse would here today
De enptied upon their heads, but the
people, applying the power Of memory
md analysis alike to discover the
,auses Of their arrested prosperity, did
lot go far to find them. They do not
orget that when Democracy came into
power in 1893 it inherited from it's Re
publican predecessor the tax system and
he currency system which the McKin-
ey and the Sherman laws were the cul-
atrocities. II came to power
lmidst a panic which fifty followed up
N their enactment-With strikes, lock-
,uts, riots and civic connections, while
ne scenes of peaceful industry in Penn
" d4ltd -letu bENUAliC ll4AAAld1 OdllpS.
Besides manifold oppressive features,
he Mckinley law had thrown away
fifty millions of revenue derived from
sugar under the special plea of a free
breakfast table and had a substitute
,ountied to sugar planters, thus decrea-
ing revenues and increasing expendi-
ure, thus burning the candle at both
nds and making the people pay at
Ia
LOOK AT THE INCOME TAX
From the joint operation of the Nc
Iinley law and the Sherman law an ad-
-erse balance OF trade was forced
gainst us in 1898. AS surplus of $780,
100. 600 in the treasury was converted
nto a deficit of $50. 100000 in 1894 and en-
,raved bonds prepared by a Republic
an secretary to borrow money TO sup
'ort the government, were the i'll Omens
4 the programmed ruin that awaited
he incoming Democracy and depleted
reaSury. More significant still. the
cry authors of the ili-starred sherman
aw makeshift were already at confess
ioGaI upon the stool of penitence and
we're beginning TO beg Democrats 10 help
hem 10 put out the confiagration of
disaster that they had themselves kin
led SO far as revenue to support the
government is concerned the Democrat
c party with but a slender majority
n the senate was not long providing il,
nd had not the supreme court of the
-nited States reversed its settled doc
rine Of 100 years, the income tax in
orporated IN the tariff bill would long
ince have abundantly supplied il.
Respecting finances. the Republicans
'Opuiists and Democrats, while differ
ng upon almost all other subjects, had
United in 1892 in declaring for the res
oratiol OF our American system Of bi-
netaliiSm-
SHERMAN ACTS REPEAL
BY Republican and Democratic ef-
ortS alike The sherman Laws were