The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-08-26

maintaining the gold standard, has |
itself repudiated that standard, be- |
cause Senators HOar, Allison and |
Chandler have urged bimetallism in
opposition to the views of certain
other senators who do not believe it
practical or possible. The whole con
tentiOn of this paper No. 4 may be
summed up by the declaration that
the Republican party has only sought
to fulfill its pledge upon the money
plank of its platform, viz, to create
commission to settle this problem
through the consent of the powers,
and Democrats who voted for Mr.. Nc
Kinley knew when they so voted that
such an effort to secure an interna-
tional agreement would be made, nee
essarily opinions vary as to the best
method of securing the desired result.
Many of these views may be harmO-
nized, or at least not become antagOn-
| istic to the real desire for securing the
consent of all enlightened nations to
the adoption of a monetary system ac-
ceptable to the}commercial and tinan-
! cial interests of the world. This whole
| question is one of science, not possible
to be handled by the masses, and it
should never have been made a poll
teal issue, but having been forced
upon the country by interested specu-
lators its prolonged agitation has
served to block the machinery of bust
ness, which but for it might have long
ago recovered its natural activity.
Happily it is now committed to the
Judgment of an intelligent board, and
there it should be allowed to remain,
but our editors know, and the whole
country knows, that Mr.. Bryan and
his followers do not intend to let it 50
rest.
The whole unwholesome, feverish
and disOrganized agitation, revived
even before the heat of our late con
test had subsidized, is again to be
brought to the front. 1t is not to be
kept down, for as soon as the late con
ventiOn had adjourned after having
eliminated much of the Chicago plat
form, we hear the call for convention
of Free Silver Democrats i'll Baltimore
to meet and give expression to their
contempt for this ''co1cardlY Su3-
rendeT.'
With this status of the present out
look the opening text of our Demo
cratic editors paper may be trans
posed to read thus: Maryland Demo
Gratis, anxious to get away from the
record of their financial question, are
seeking to take refuge beneath the
bridge which failed to carry them
over.
The Republican party stands out i'll
the open field Of accomplished en-
chantments, having placarded them
amidst the flying darts of the enemy,
who now from beneath their Bridge
of Sighs' are shooting popguns that
/ Iall snort OF Inelf marx.
As quotations were the main stay of
our Associations paper No. +, let the
words of some Marylanders be record
ed upon the gigantic straddle which
now represents our Democratic Ed
tors platform.
Mr.. keyser says: II confess to a
. / s., %,
to party driven to the necessity of
resOrting to such a straddle. When a
great party finds itself driven to hide
behind glittering generalities when
vital questions are uppermost and inn
pOrtant issues affecting the welfare of
the country are at stake, it cannot
fail to invite contempt and disgust.
Skjllful as he certainly is in such per
fOrmances, Mr.. German has, | think
quite outdOne himself. If the object
of party platform is to commit the
party to nothing; if, instead of being
declaration of pridciples, it confines
itself to a wholesale abuse of its op-
ponents and personal laudation of
itself, then this document is undoubt-
eddy a marked success.
If the object is, as it seems to be,
to carry water on both shoulders,
very much doubt if it succeeds. 1t is
perfectly evident to every one that
the convention was gotten together
in the interest of Mr.. German and
!
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