The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-07-30
SICK, VERY SICK.
Ihe Palmer-Buckner Democracy
Sick Of Last Falls Work.

Inc gold democracy is very sick
of the part it took in the presiden
tial campaign of 1896, when it en-.
listed its best efforts in behalf o]
national honor" and ''integritv'
ard aided in electing the advance
agent of prosperity. y The Chicago
Chronicle, the king bee of the gold
democratic movement, in comment
lng on the recent meeting of the
national committee of the gold de-
mocracy says:
Various gentlemen meeting in
New York for the purpose of con
tinuing as distinctive organization
the sound money democracy were
disappoin ted, SO it is said, because a
number Of politicians who were ex-
pected to be present from Iowa,
Kentucky and Ohio to talk over the
prospects Of the fall campaig gn did
not come.
They did not come, why? Because
they see no benefit to accrue to the
democratic party by maintaining an
organization which practically is an
aid to McKinleyism. Union direct
or indirect with republicanism,
which is welded to it's idol, is death
to democracy.
Democrats will differ, as republi-
differ, upon the question of the cur
rency, but democrats no longer diff
fer on the question of the tariff, and
the main, the only result of demo
cratic dissens;on in 1896 was the
triumph of the republican party,
whereby an enactment pronounced
by even republican senator to be
the meanest tariff ever enacted is
placed upon the statute books.
Democratic disunion means repub-
lican ascendency.
The gold democracy of 1896 elect
edWilliam Mckinley president cf
the United States, and what have
he and the republican party, which
shared it's triumph, done to merit
the support then received? They
have given us a more drastic robper
tariff than they gave US in 1890.
They have returned like dog to
their vomit and vomited anew.
1t is idle to ask democrats to with
hold their votes from the candidates
OF their own party, practically to en-
courage McKinleyism. Democracy
is eternal opposition to Mckinley
ism, to its sophistries and thieveries
its subordination of the general in
terest to the general welfare of a
class.
When dissensions existed in the
democratic party last year we heard
from the republican leaders that
their one purpose was to place the
union upon sound currency basis
and that their idea Of the tariff was
to make it exceedingly moderate.
They abandoned all suggestion Of
currency legislation only to make a
tariff SO immoderate that the Nc
Kinleyism OF 1890 seems in compari
son mere petty larceny.
1t was said at this gathering.
which consisted of few persons, that
the gold democrats had a good
lighting chance for a victory in
Ken tn ckv. and a fair chance in
Iowa. This is arrant nonsense.
Though the vote OF gold democrats
Ill both states last fall was not fair
ly Indicative of the gold standard.
yet in the pending elections in both
states gold democrats have not a
ghost OF a show, because gold demo
Gratis themselves have resolved that
no further aid mediate or Immediate.
shall come from them for a party
which abuses it's opportunities and
deliberately robs by legalized form
the people of this republic.