Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1897-04-19

wiped out on the tariff question two
years in succession, when there was no
dispute as to the issue, and there was q
new departure at Chicago, consisting
chiefly in confessing the truth and formu.
lating it on money matters-the mlldest
form of Democratic opinion being that we
must accept the silver standard of money
in the name of free silver, and obliterate
our credit.
OF course this was and is a vast scheme
of reputation and spoliation, and means
nothing less than war upon national
honor, private capital, and our present
form of government. Those at the head
of the scheme know that this program is
revolutionary, and also that they are for
it, for the revolution that is in it--and
that Ia the Democratic party. When it is
well shaken on this bject the fact will
be demonstrated by the visible affinity of
the PARTICLES that the Democratic party
ia an organized revolution in the strictly
aEarchial sense, and that it is going de-
liberately into the bottomless pit.
Bryan and Altgeld last year finding
themselves beaten on the mere silver
foolishness-tha is to say, Altgeld knew
it clearly, and Bryan saw it according to
his DINNER faculties--came east invad-
ing the enemies country, to arouse class
and sectional animosities, class passions
especially. They are now the bosses of
the party and are at it again, and think
they are bound to win next time. There
has been a good deal of curiosity con-
cerning Mr.. Bryan's speech at the Jeffer-
son banquet in Washington. He was the
guest of honor and spoke to the toast of
the evening. He had been chased about
by docile Democratic congressman for
some time, as he fitted through Wash
ington and futtered here and there
through the south, and the dinner vas
witness of the formal recognition of his
leadership. This, it is clear, is no longer
contested, and he is personally convinced
and proclamatory about it, that the re
cent municipal elections mean change
in public sentiment on the patent medi-
cine silver question since the election in
November last Mr.. Bryan improved the
occasion as the leader of his party.
He announced that Grover Cleveland
had changed the issue-thatln fact, Cleve-
land was not Democrat, because he was
for gold as the standard of vslue-and by
thus conflicting with Democratic senti-
ment had put aside the tariff and pushed
forward the money question.
The important part of Mr.. Bryan's
speech as reported in the New York Jour
nal, is as follows:
"Mr. Cleveland, more than any other
one person in this nation, is responsible
for the prominent position which the
money question now occupies. 1t was
his determination to complete the de-
monetization of silver and make the gold
standard perpetual that aroused the
masses of the United States to active re.
sistance.
"If you doubt the permanency of the
Chicago platform as party creed go
among the rank and file of the party and
measure the zeal and enthusiasm which
that platform has aroused, and you will
realize the impossibility of taking a
backward step"
Democrats should ponder we'll this ut
terance from their acknowledged leader.
II they we're not for silver, with paper
swindle on top of it, and if they are not
for the spoiliation of the so.called capt.
talistic states, for class legislation of the
meanest sort, contrived by theorists of
mischief and discord, they are not Demo-
Gratis at all, according to the leader.
These are sentiments that form the
ground work of the new Democracy, of
which Mr.. Bryan is the leading exponent.
With his own hand he has laid the founda-
tion stone of the new party.