The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-20
wATTERsoN ON THE GOLD DEM
OCRATS.

The ST Louis Globe-Democrat of re-
cent date contained this paragraph:
1.-The Cleveland and Carlisle men can
no more hope for favors from the Bry
an and Altgeld party than Cromwell's
Roundheads could from the admins
tration of Charles II. Moreover, duty
demands that they should continue the
battle for honest money. The forces
of financial honor and national stability
are bound to achieve decisive success
in the next and final struggle with the
elements Of political dishonesty and
disorder, and the gold Democrats ought
to keep themselves in a position to
share in the glory of the victory"
To this the Louisville Courier Jour
nal made reply, in part, as follows:
But, when the Globe Democrat refer
ring to soundmoney Democrats in
general, says that a duty commands
that they should continue the battle
and holds out to them the prospect of
a share in the glory of the victory, :
it starts a most fruitful train of Sug-
gestion and reflection.
Two purposes inspired the sound
money Democrats when they formally
separated themselves from the main
body of their political associates and
set up a distinct organization of their
own. The first of these was the rescue
of the country from what they re-
garded as an imminent, deadly danger
threatened by the Chicago ticket and
platform The second was the creation
of a nucleus around which the old
Democracy might be rallied when the
fusion made at Chicago should go to
pieces, as they believed it would. The
results have cOntradicted both these
sincere but erroneous assumptions.
If the Indianapolis ticket had got
the vote it was expected to get, Bryan
and not Mckinley, would now be il
the White House. Mckinley required
all the Democratic votes he received.
1t may be that the Palmer Buckner
ticket constructed bridge over which
these Democrats could pass. But it is
quite certain that, if the Democrats
who voted for Mckinley had voted for
Palmer and Buckner, Bryan would
have been elected.
Subsequent events have in many
ways demonstrated the same idea. 1t
has been conclusively shown that, as a
separate and distinct organization, the
Cleveland Carlisle men, as the Globe
Democrat calls them. have not strength
enough to count as a balance of power,
and, as such. to control results. The
Republicans do not and can not recog-
niZe them. Between them and the reg
ular Democrats there is bound to be,
as long as their organization contin~
ues in the field. implacable hostility
Meanwhile the sound-money leaders
get nothing for their pains except OBJ
jurgation and contempt; for, when it
comes to voting, their followers either
do not vote at ALL or else vote the Re-
publican ticket.
On these points the recent test in
Kentucky was all-sufficient.
The failure of the one horn of the
original dilemma TO justify itself car
ries with it the failure of the other II
the sound money Democrats hold the
balance of power nowhere, they can no.
where form a nucleus for the rehabin-
tation of the old Democracy. In a
word, as an organized movement. the
Indianapolis rogramme-patriotic in
it's conception and ideal in it's express
sion-has been a disappointment to all
concerned in it. It's movers have
merely raked the chestnuts out of the