Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1897-04-29

'ng his last administration did more
than any other one thing To arouse
the American people to acknowledge
the iniquity of the Gold standard
HELPING HIS ENEMIES.
His thinly disguised support of the
Republican ticket in the late cam
paign did much to drive Silver Repub-
licans out of the Republican party,
and their loyalty to bimetallism has
not been shaken by defeat. In his
address Saturday night lie aided the
silver cause still further by removing
whatever danger there might have
been Of concessions from the regular
Democrats to bolt us. If he had dis
cussed the fundamental principals of
Democracy and then urged a union Of
forces upon platform comprising
the differences on the money question,
he might have done harm in some Sec
tlons, but his dogmatic insistence
upon foreign financial policy, in his
emphatic endorsement of the organi.
zation of Gold Democrats, will have
wholesome influence Ia convincing
timid Democrats of the folly of any
attempt to reunite Democrats who
believe in bmetallism with Demo-
Gratis who are welded to gold mono
metallism.
Mr.. Cleveland recognizes that the
contest oyer money, instead of being
ended, is justbeginning; he recognizes
it as an irrepressible conflict, and in
this he reasons rightly. The Demo-
cratic party will in 1900 reiterate its
demand for the free and unlimited
coinage at 16 to l, and it will be op-
posed by those who at that time be-
lieve in gold standard. This being
as certain as any future event can be
why should those affiliate now who
expect to engage in combat so soon
hereafter? We now haye a harmon
ious Dem ocratic party, and we have
boiling organization which claims
to represent another kind of Democ-'
racy. Let them both exist and time
will determine which is fittest to
survive. If any bimetallist is con-
verted to the gold standard, he can
join their organization; if any gold
Democrat repents, he can return TO
the fold.
CLEvELAND's SUPERB COURAGE.
However much we may differ from
Mr.. Cleveland we must admit his
courage. A less resolute man would
hesitate to assume the leadership of a
little band of 10000, many Of whom
voted the indianapolis ticket by mis-
take, and then accuse 6,5O0,000 voters
of being either designing agitators
or dupes of designing agitators.
A man of less self-reliance would re-
examine his own conduct to see
whether it was his folly or theirs
which separated them from 100000,
of Democrats who once idolized him,
but in the lexicon of Mr.. Cleyelaud's
maturer years there is no such word
as "mistake."
The gold Democracy is impotent in
bringing any relief to the country.
II is long on platitudes and short on
performance. 1t reached its maxi
mum at banquet and its minimum
at the polls. 1t is the toy of those
financiers who prate about national
honor while they fatten on the ma
tion's extremity, and is powerless to
protect the people from the extortion
Of trusts and the greed of unrestrained
corporations.
| Those democrats who belieye in
equality before the law will naturally
IgraYitate toward the regular Democ-
racy, and those Democrats who. believe
in government by syndicates aud for
syndicates will naturally drift into
the Republican party, because it Of
fers them the best prospect of success.
Truth in Nutshell
Impure blood is the natural result