Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-03-04
UNWINKING HYPOCRACY.
PLATFORM PLEDGES SANCTITY
HOOTED AND SCOFEED AT.
The Pledge to promote International
Agreement" is Populated by Republic
cans. The Party Is not Bound by the
Platform.

Hartford the seat of rich and lnnuen-
tian insurance companies, is the CEN
ter of puritanical New England-She
New England that shoulders with hor-
ror at the mere mention of reputation
that prides selfupon an ancestry that
hunted heretics and burned witches at |
the stake. The city of Hartford is in
that section of the country that dreams |
bad dreams about omniverous west |
and shouts 'repudiationists," "5O-cent |
dollars" fanatics, with as much en-
phasis and unison as it shouted here
tics" and ''witchcraft" 200 years ago,
The Courant is daily newspaper, pub
lished in this city of Hartford, that
lies so close to the heart of New Eng
land. The Courant was one OF the
chief howlers against what is termed
Reputation and national dishOnor, and
it cried in double-headed editorials and
shouted in back face type against GO
ing back upon what it termed tine
financial traditions of the country, and
denounced those whom it classed as
men who were willing to sacrifice hon
or and pledges for personal gam. The
Courant stood up on its rear underpin-
ming and shouted for Mckinley and the
republican platform until the sun hid
its sorrowful face behind the western
hills on the evening of November 3, 1896.
The Courant declared in thunder
tones, that might have been heard from
Hartford to Woonsocket, or from Dan
bury to Norwich, that bimetallism was
an impossibility for this country alone,
and that the only hope was for inter-
national agreement, which was prom
Used in the st. Louis platform. And
now that the election is over and thou
sands were duped into placing credence
in republican promises, the Courantre-
marks:
1.-The republican party is not bound
by anything in the st. Louis platform,
or out of it, to undertake the impossi-
BILE. The bimetallic paren-
thesis il the st. Louis platform had
just about as much to do with the re-
suit as Andrew Jackson's removal of
the deposits.
"A good deal of the current talk
about the ''sanctity" of every part and
all parts OF the modern political plat
form as put together in the room of the
committee on resolutions, rushed
through the convention and accepted
by the candidate is mere folderol-and
worse. 1t is unwinking hypocrisy"
So that republican promises of inter
national bimetallism by and through
international agreement was nothing
but parenthesis, ELI? There is moth
ing approaching sancitity about repub-
lican platforms? The planks in repub-
lican platforms are rushed through the
convention after being fixed up in com
mittee and republican candidates shut
their eyes and swallow them just as
they would SO much ipecac: quinine,
spirits frumenti or plain ordinary beer?
1t threatens national honor for men
to frame a platform and stand by 1t be-
cause they believe in its enunciations;
but it is defending national honor and
standing up for honesty to frame a
platform and then declare after the
battle is over that the men who made
it are not honor bound to stand by its
principles, according to the Courant
That sounds great deal like the rea-
soning of Cotton Mather, the eminent
mind reader of the old time, when
New England nights were turned to
day by the blazing fires that consumed
tn, witches. The republican party is
mot bound by anything in the st.
Louis platform, or out of it, to under
take the impossible, says the esteemed
Courant. Then the republican party
is guilty of pledging itself to promote
an impossibility when it said I'VE are,
therefore, opposed to the free coinage
of silver except by international agree
nlent with the leading commercial ma
tions of the world, which we pledge
ourselves to promote. " Republican
pledges are not binding, says the
esteemed Hartford Couraut, news
paper published in the heart OF the
country where people suffered horribly
at the mere thought of national dis
honor. Republican promises are at
heavy discount just now, which asser-
ton is amply borne out by republican
authority. As "a matter of fact, repub-
lican promises are deprecated about
as much as the price of gold standard
corn or international agreement wheat
and oats.-Omaha World-Herald.
Postal Banks of France.
Now that there is such a universal
demand for safe banking system and
public interests is so generally attract
Cd m this subject. the people are taxi