The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-26
ABAsEAxD rnU1r1Ess Coxsr1rAor.
The Attempt to Eliminate the Republican
Party from the New York Campaign.

checkered history OF political manipulation III
New York than the malicious industry with
which certain Mugwump fanatics ana splto-
full Republican sorehoads have been conspiring
since last spring to steal from the Republican
party the advantages secured by 1t In its great
victory in New York last year.
No community in this whole Union owes to
that party 80 heavy n debt OF gratitude as is due
to IL from the three million people OF the Greater
New York. 1t is not too much to say that OK
copt for the courage of the Republican party
In opposing silver reputation, every business
and financial interest in this great centre OF
American capital and enterprise would now DO
in ruins. Instead of approaching the autumn
election with n buoyant feeling in every market
and In the breast of every citizen, we should
now be struggling with black adversely, had 1t
not been for the soundnoss OF the st. Louis plat
form and tho courage OF It's trainers in dealing
with the question OF the currency. II Mr.. Nc
Kinley had not been elected President, and with
him n Republican House OF Representatives.
the tariff question would still be a cause Of
disturbance to all business and an insurmount-
able obstacle to industrial revival. The ac-
cident Of q wheat scarcity in Europe would
have helped us to some extent. but all
trade and all industry would have been
In q condition Of paralysis from which
even that good fortune bestowed by nature
could rot have lifted them. Coming after three
years of fearful depression, tho election Of Bryan
and tho triumph of tho 18 to 1 reputation
would have produced q business and financial
cataclysm destructive to New York moro espo-
cially. Tho very men who are conspiring now
in all base ways to humiliate tho Republican
party would have been among the worst OF the
sufferers by that calamity, prevented solely by
It's courageous adherence to sound principle In
the face OF powerful temptations to yield TO the
false and vicious doctrine which captured the
Democratic party Mt Chicago.
The Republican party still stands for social,
political. and financial honor and stability, and
the Democratic party is still MS violently
arrayed against them as 1t was a year ago,
when the men engaged In the Citizens
Union conspiracy were trembling with fear
of the Democracy as the most dangerous en-
emy OF tho interests of society and of
property which had ever risen in this coun-
try. They were like men drowning. and
their only chance OF rescue was in tho
Republican party; yet now, when the Dem
ocratic party has no breath of existence
except what It gets from the Chicago platform,
and when the Republican party continues to
offer the only hope for all conservative interests.
they are banded together in a mad and malicious
attempt to strike down their political protector.
They are short-sighted men at best, ignorant,
without reflection, and incapable OF understand
ing the philosophy OF politics. but their petty spite
makes them all tho binder and the narrower.
They are the legitimate successors OF the bour.
Reois Tories OF New York in the Revolution,
and Of the venomous Copperheads who sought
to bring 1t to destruction by voting for a
pusillanimous peace in 1864. while the armies
of the Union were fighting for the interests of
these traitors on Southern battlefelds. Tho
blacklist stain put upon New York in its whole
history was the enormous majority for Nc
Clellan when he was craven enough to conduct an
assault from the rear on his brave comrades in
tho field by running for President on a traitor
Gus peace platform in 1884. l remember tho
time well. ] remember the anxiety, rising even
to acute anguish, with which Lincoln and the
soldiers OF the Union armies awaited tho result
OF that base and reasonable conspiracy.
Last year there was another conspiracy to do
grade this republic and destroy its social and
political institutions, and, as the vote Of $780,
600 for Bryan proved, 1t was Of dangerous, even
appalling. magnitude. 1t indicated that thereis
here portentous amount Of social discomfort to
which fanaiicism and demagogy can always
appeal with tho certainty of provoking a loud
response. This dangerous spirit is still In
voked by the Democratic party, which will hero
after rely permanently on its support. The Chi
cago platform may undergo some notifications,
tho 10 to 1 issue in its precise form may be
eliminated. but the animus expressed in that
platform will continue to give life and impulse
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to the Democratic party. II 10 to l Is set aside,
IL VIII Do replaced by nat money. The Demo
cratic assault from this time forward is to be on
the money power on trusts and monopo-
mes on the judiciary. and on the founda-
tons OF the social system upon which
the ci'iiizatlon OF New York rests. 1t Is Idle
to expect anything different. In their hearts
men ike Roswell +. Flower and William c.
whitney expect nothing else from tho Demo
cratic party. Ihey know that 1t has gone into
the service OF the devil as a permanent occupa-
t'on. Ihey know that the security Of property
ana OF society depends upon the Republican
party alone Fools may be deceived as to the
political situation, but wise men understand that
IL is thus nxed unchangeably.
this time. when In gratitude and for self
preservation the whole intelligent and conser.
vative community OF New York should be united
IN support OF the Republican party. never be-
iore so wei organized as now for the discharge
OF the duty assumed nv II n Cnpapira ~ ~ o,no