The Ravalli Republican., 1897-08-04
AN EXHIBITION OF MODESTY

one does not know. Or realize just how
modest democracy can be when it
gets. right down to business. TO
those who do. not know we refer the
resolutions in regard to bimetallism
passed by the democracy Of Maryland
at its state convention last week.
We quote
We note with satisfaction that the
demand OF! more than six and one
halt millions Of democratic voters at
the polls last November has compelled
President Mckinley and a republican
congress to urge upon the European
powers, through the medium OF a
duly appointed commission, the ne
cessty for an international confer
encc to arrange the terms Of a bimc-
tallic system under the operation OF
which both gola and silver shall be
used and recognized as money of final
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If our recollection Of the financial
plank Of the republican party is at
all clear, it said that the party was
opposed to the free coinage of silver
except "by international agreement
with the leading commercial nations
of the world WHICH WE PLEDGE OUR
SELVES TO pRoMoTE,' etc. If that
meant anything (the republican party
generally means what it says and the
democrats last year claimed that the
republicans meant the above but
woald never succeed in carrying out
thein program), it meant that the re-
publican, party pledged itself to do
everything within its power to pro-
mote sinternational agreement with
the leading commercial nations Of
the world This pledge President
Mckinley and the republican party,
Immediately after their induction in
to power, set about to redeem. No
party could have acted more prompt
ly in the redemption Of antc-elcction
promises than it has, yet Maryland
democracy now sets up the claim that
it was the demand Of chat party That
1'compcllca President Mckinley and
II republican congress- to the step,
when in reality, ever since the cleo
tion, democracy has ridiculed the
idea Of international bimctallisn.
But the modesty of democracy, as
eXcmplitied by the Maryland contn.
t55ingcnt, lies, ir the above quotation
in the opening words, :Thc demand
OF six and one-half millions Of DEMO
CRATIC VOTERS; How sweet thal
ought to sonnd to the three millions
Of silver republicans and populsts
whose votes went TO make up the six
and one-hall millions that Mr.. BRYAN
received last fall They are calmly
claimed as 'democratic' voters, and
the credit Of their votes in the cause
they, exalted to 4 higher plane thar
party fca}ty is n1odestly appropriated
and, their sacrifice Of all the Other
principles Of their original parties tt
the one Of free coinage is used to eX
alt and extol: not the cause of silver
which they imagined they were
struggling for, but the party and tho
glory Of democracy: What an objcc
lesson
But the Maryland democracy is no
done. It goes'on
The sufferings of the masses, Tho
honest toilcrs and bone and sinew
the brain and courage and manhood
OF the land, have met with the sym
pathy OF the democracy, and the pro
test OF our great party 50 eloquentl
voiced IN last years elections, ha
forced the republican party. despit
it's arrogance aed recklessness. &
recognize ohe needs Of an arouse,
and patriotic people.
1t is said that a hound pup is no
particular in its diet, but we opin
that it would gag at the above I'll
sufferings Of the masses, etc, cause
by the incompetency Of She democ
racy in power for the past four year:
shave met with the sympathy Of tn
democracy" Having reduced tn
people of the United States to a cor
ditien Of poverty and suffering, dem
ocracy now extends its :ssympathy
to them. 'Ihe protests of our greG
party, SO eloquently voiced in las
years elections," against chang
from the democratic methods Whic
brought. these unhappy condition
aboat, has forced the republican
to "recoguize the needs of an arouse
and patriotic people," and to haste
legislation that will lift the peop
out of the slough of dependency in
which democracy had cast them.
While many democrats have n
approved all the expressions Of the
party in national convention, bin
tallism1 will surely come. 1t nj
come through the instru,lentaliti
set in motion by the present admi
istration, though in truth inspr
by the intrepid action of the dem
cratic voters, but it. will come. a.
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