The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1897-04-21
THE NEW DEMOCRATIC PARTY.

The old democratic party is at an
end. says the standardization. The
proceedings OF the Chicago convention
last year settled the fact, which had
been lowering in the air for some
years, that the old-fashioned democ-
raey were done for No longer could
they sail into office under Grover Cleve-
land with the Confederate tariff plank.
Interpreted by British preceden:s in
colonial Gimes-with money plank
pure gold on one side and pure silver
on the other, mingled as one in a sys-
tenn of subtle punctuation. The truth
hay TO be told. and it burs; the eggshell
with crack and crash and whiz. as IL
bomb had broken into full bloom.
The old democratic party had been
whipped out on the tariff question
two years in succession, when there
was no dispute as to the issue. and
there was a new departure at Chicago.
consisting chiefly in confessing the
truth and formulating it on the money
matters-the mildest form Of demo-
cratic opinion being thar We must ac-
cept the silver standard Of money in
the name Of free silver, and obliterate
our credit. OF course this was and is
a vast scheme of Reputation and spo-
i!ation. and means war upon national
honor, private capital and our form Of
government. Those at the head of it
know that this program is revolution
ary. and they are for it for the revo-
luton that IS in it-and that Is the
democratic party. When it is well
shaken on this subject the fact will {
be demonstrated by the visible affinity
of the particles that the democratic d,
party is an organized revolution in the :
anarch.cal sense, and that it is going !
deliberately into the bottomless pit
AItgeld and Bryan last year, finding
themselves beaten on the mere silver .
toolishness-that is to say, Altyeld I
knew It clearly. and Bryan saw it az L
cord.ng to his DINNER faculties-came ?
East, invading the enemys country, ,
to arouse class and sectional animosl-
ties, class passions especially. They 9
are now the bosses Of the party and
are at it again, and think they are
bound to win next time.
There has been a good deal Of Gu n
riosity about Mr. Bryan's speech at the al
banquet in Washington He
N-as the CUES: of honor and spoke to
the toast of the evening. He had been n
chased about b. docile dem2c-at.c con- .
gressmen for some time, "a he fitted r
through Washington and fiuttered here ii
and there over the South. and the din ca
Ter was witness of the formal recogni-
ion Of MS leadership. This, it is plain, -.
s no longer contested, and he is per- Al
'onally convinced and proclamatory ia
lbout it, that the recent municipal R'
lections mean changes in public senti-
nent on the patent medicine silver a,
question since the election in NOvem- bo
er last. MIR Bryan improved the oc- ar
aston as the leader Of his party. He
that Grover Cleveland had N
hanged the issue-that, in fact, Cleve> og
and was not a democrat, because he ca
vas for gold as the standard of value " ~,
and by thus conflicting with demo- 90
ratio sentiment had put aside the cil
ariff and pushed forward the money ne
question. 1t
The important part Of Mr.. Bryan's
peech appears in the Herald, in these +
words: CIR
Mr.. Cleveland, more than any other da
ne person in this nation, is respon. ma
lble for the prominent position which o,o
be money question now occupies. 1t
as his determination to complete the
of silver and make the +
old STANDARD perpetual that aroused "E