The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1897-02-26
HIS PRACTICAL VIEW
SOME SENSIBLE WORDS FROM A b.
METALLIST.

Mr.. Charles ID. Lane, Chairman of the Bt
metallic Party. Says 1t Is the Duty Of
All Good Citizens to Accept the situs-
tion and Help on Prosperity.
The chairman Of the national CON-
mittee of the bimetallic party, Mr..
Charles ID. Lane, appears to differ from
the majority of the free silver cham
pions in the respect that he is still oapa-
BILE of entertaining an intelligent and
practical view. He laments the defeat
of Organism and predicts its triumph at
a later day, but declares that for the
present the question is settled and that
il Is the part of wisdom to accept the
decision of the American people in good
faith and Sin spirit of patriotism IN
sullied by partisan rancor and unem-
barrassed by fractional agitation Of the
issues that have just been fought out"
The duty of all citizens, he goes on
to say, is to do all they can to promote
the success Of such policies as the Re-
publicans may adopt, and to "join in
upholding the hands of Major MoKin-
ley as president Of the United States
and to support him in all his efforts
to increase the prosperity and we'll be-
ing Of the people of this republic.
There is nothing to be gained, he con-
tends, by the continued agitation for
free coinage under existing circum-
stances, and active operations in that
relation should therefore be suspended
and postponed to more opportune sea-
son, which he describes, with a pardon
able astronomical smile, as the time
when truth and principle shall finally
rise above the darkened horizon and as
sumo their rightful position as the guild
ing stars of popular government.
In view of the fact that Mr.. Lane
was one of the most liberal contributors
to the free silver campaign fund these
observations merit general attention
and should be particularly considered
by those who acted with him in the re-
cent campaign. The verdict of the peo-
pie in favor of sound money, after lis
tening to all that could be said on the
other side, was positive and conclusive
and should be so regarded by those who
vainly tried to prevent it. When de-
oision is thus made, it implies that the
winning party has a right to fair
chance to carry out its doctrines and
purposes. The counting of the votes
means that the contest is ended, at least
for four years, and that given policies
are to be put to square and practical
test in the management of the affairs of
the government.
This is all that the Republicans ask
in the present instance, and they arc
Justly entitled to it, as their adversaries
would have been if the election had
gone the other way.
They firmly believe that they can re-
store the country to its former remark
able prosperity and are entirely willing
to take all the ordinary chances Of fail
ure, with the understanding that if
they do not make good their promises
and predictions they are to be condemn
ed and displaced in 1900. In attempting
to accomplish this beneficent and inn
portant result they do not expect or de-
sire the assistance of the free silverites
strictly speaking, but they do insist
that they shall be permitted to apply
their ideas and methods without unrea-
sonable and INSCRIPTIONS obstruction.
>-St. Louis Globe-Democrat