The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1897-02-06
oEMooRAoY ANp lie FuruRE.
The Question Of the Democratic Party,s
ReuniOn-The South.

heuniOn-The South.
THE Future of the Democrati,
Party" We have but little doubt thai
the Democratic party viii have a fut
ure. 1t would be difficult for anything
that has had past to shy away from
its logical hereafter. We are less
positive, however, as to whether that
future will be one of stable common
sense or of blind staggers under the
burden of Altgeldism and free silver.
| When one contemplates the capacity of
people of supposedly normal intellects
to absorb and assimilato an infinite
amount of political madness, as ex.
emplified in last fails campaign. ons
realizes how unreasonable it is to ex.
pect to read the riddle of their future
alterations.
The only possibility of Democratic
success hereafter will lie either in the
conversion of at least three or four
million voters from the follies of free
silver, reputation, and subversion, or
like conversion Of one or TWO millions
OF voters from the principles of sound
money, national honor, and orderly
government. Is either of these CONVEX.
sions likely, and if so, which one? 1t
IS waste of words to talk of harmony
IN the democratic party until the great
mass of one faction or the other aband
ons the position It took in the Novem.
Der election. The two positions are
absolutely and forever irreconciIable.
The issues were such as to admit of no
merging. They were as distinct ,s
pro slavery and anti-slavery; as aDtag
onistic as water and fire. Wherein lies.
then, the possibility of a unit d Dc.
mocracyp Certain it is that no Dem
ocrat who went so far as to vote for
Mckinley could, by any chance, ever
vote for a Chicago" platform. It is
equally certain that but very few, if
even any, who voted for Palmer and
BuckneT, will ever accept the teachings |
of Mr.. Bryan. In short, the anti BRYAN |
Democrats are rock that will never |
melt.
Nor is this all. Despite old party |
ties, old enmities, or even new protec- |
ton. this element of the Democratic |
party will gradually, as choosing the
less evil course, go over to the Repub- |
lean party, unless a sufficient share of |
The Bryan Democracy quickly returns
TO the honest and substantial faith of
It's forefathers. Without this sound. |
money element, and which, at least in |
The Southern States, is vastly stronger
han was indicated in the late election,
The future of the Democratic party will
be one of sure defeat and disintegra
Ion. 1t would be but childish vanity
o nope that the so called regular" or
Bryan Democracy could ever muster a
elaClVeiY stronger following than il
lld Ia the November election. The
conclusions at which we arrive, and
which seem the only logical ones, are
therefore,, that the time is not vet AT
land to bruit the harmonizinp of the
Democratic party; and, that the only
onceiYable interpUsition between De-
nocracy and doom will be the whole.
ale abandonment of the Chicago plat
orm and its opponents. There can be
10 thought of compromise; and even
he first steps toward an Impeachment
re out of the question until this is
one.
There are, we believe, but compar-
lively few Southern Democrats who
re genuinely in sympathy with the
Western sherestes of Bryan and his col
sagues. In their distrust of the Re.
ublican party, and its attitude toward
he South, thousands reluctantly follow
d the Bryan standard. 1t needs but a
lOments reflection to apprehend that
entlments entirely different from
with financial rotteness and
'cialism led our people to follow, even
its errors, the name if not the sub. =
,ance of the party that had Heretofore
zen, as they believed, their only safe.
lard: The time has come, however. for +
lem to view the situation in an en-
rely different light; and it will rest
18th the South to say whether the
emocratic party shall have a future
success and usefulness, or of decay
I'd obliteration. Until they return .
IDLY and boldly to the principles OF
70 Indianapolis platform it is idle
'nsense to pirate of Democratic harm.
y or of the party's future triumphs .
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