New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-08-13


scarcely a day now passes wllic' does not
bring fresh evidence of the hopeless dispersion
Of the roli,icaI forces Il, whose head the Boy
Orator cf Nebraska conducted last years free
coinage campaign. Even lhrc" m"htiis ago
Will, confidence SIN LACED in the return OF
PROSPERITY. and ~" WosG of business question
irg,v awaited in, Passage OF the Dinglcy Tariff
law. sisn> were 10, wanting cf The impending
breakdown of the silver coalition The Nash
vile confer,nr. of pOpuli>i leaders last spring
led the wy hy broadly asserting the incNpedl-
,ncy ~ further fli,.ou> with the Democracy IN
any State. 80 fiery champion Of the silver
cause in ,S,N; A. MI. Lease. % Kansas. next
declared her Remuneration of The Bryan pro-
cran,n.o a, altogether too limited and moderate
for he pnrio,..s Of another National campaign;
Will, in 4 different quarter. and on exactly op-
uosi,c grounds the Nebraska Orators leadership
was rcpudiatcd hy - conservative represent
alive of Western Democracy IL Ex-Governor
Horace Boios
But foY onc ..cc,irr from Ne silver coalition
three months aso one hundred can i'c counted
uow in every State iato which Mr.. Bryan has
for a wear past been carrying his gospel of
calamity III, prosperity when on his recent
,-,u through TIE Pacific Coast States IIc tried
nnforlunately for thc eXigcncics OF his logic
spread in 4 golden we've over the valleys oi
ih. Mississippi and The Missouri. and between
full es.nagirs and high prices prophet OF Ma
tional disaster. even OF Mr.. Bryan oratorcal
ana imaginative resources. is certain very soon
10 find hs occupation gone. If, indeed the
Democratic party is TO maintain itself on the
revolutionary lines lad down at Chicago year
NJ, q, hot "A
ular unrest must be shifted TO some other ground
than The mere demand for free-silvcr coinage.
With wheat rising and silver falling the whole
fabric of tie free-conagc argument CollapseS,
and II IS only natural 10 find the hodgc-podge
coalition which last year gave the silver agita-
ton lis fOrbi1ding strength everywhere diss0lv-
ing one, more into It's original political elements.
The latest deSertcr from the frec-coinacc com
Mnafion of 1-,"i Is "t;cncral' jacob s. CoXey.
ot Ohio the acknowledged head and front of
the Popust organization in that State. Gen
eral" COXey's chief claim 10 martial and pop
ular distinction rests On his leadership of the
fantastic "Comm0nwcai'' or ''hobo" march 10
Washington in 1888: yet he has played nhnbc
and spectacular. if not "A wholly impressive. role
in Ohio politics for two or three years past.
In 1894 he was ;hc POpuli>t candidate for CON
yress in the Canton District. and in iS9., he
accented the pariy's nomination FOR the Gov
ernorshp polling Icy far the larges, Popust
yote-52 675-evcr cast in Ohio. Last year
General" COxey was one OF the conspicuous
figures ID the Bryan CANVASS, and 10y his efforts
a fusion on Presidential Electors WAS accom-
pshed between the Topuljs's and the silver
Democrats. which had the effect OF reducing
Major McKney's plurality in his native state
70 a little more than hale OF that given Gov
srnor Bushnell in 1880.
Now, however. :he "GencraT has tired Of the
frec-colnage alliance and N the Popu,isi CON
vcnt!on held on Tuesday AT the State capital
he again accented ronIation for the GOV
ernorship The platform OF no further part
nership win tl,c Silver Democracy. The gather
t2G was 4 turbulent one, and order could b.