The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-08-13
Are Democrats Getting
Together?

The money question in its acute
form is disappearing by the mere
force of gravity; hence the willing
ness of Democrats to put 1t aside
and deal with the extravaganza of
the Republicans; their vicious
system of taxation, their weak and
dangerous foreign policy, and their
failures in the conduct of State gov
ernments in Illinois, Kentucky, New
York, Pennsylvania and other great
States.
The Evening Post published last
week editorial articles from the
New York World, the New York
Times, the Macon Telegraph and
the Chicago Chronicle. The At
lanta Journal, and the Montgomery
Advertiser, and other Southern
Democratic Journals speak in like
spirit. Gov. Boies, Senator Vest
and Senator Jones, of Arkansas,
have indicated their dissatisfaction
with the supremacy of Organism as
interpreted by Altgeld and Tillman.
The force of this new movement
is felt and recognized in Washing
ton. The careful correspondent of
the New York Evening Post treats
of this topic at some length. He
says:
"From this time forth, it is likely
that Democrats will strive very
hard to find graceful ways of with
drawing from those vagaries which
made such a party havoc in the last
campaign. In case their national
platform should take the position
of the Maryland convention, it is
easy to see that the Populists and
the Teller Republicans would no
longer be able to work with them.
That would mean a very large split
in the ranks, and compel the fight
ing along new lines. Just what
those would be is not now apparent
in Washington. At heart, the Pop
Ulists have always been very sus-
picious of the Democratic support
of free silver; they consented to let
the Democrats take the lead last
year, because they thought an organ
lied party with several millions of
others was worth capturing. But
hey never beliey; : the Democrats
were quite safe to lust, and now
this action of the party in Maryland
corroborates the impression. If
the Populists viii only hold their
convention first, and SO set the pace
of the campaign, very easy way
will be open for the Democrats to
part company with them on both
platform AID candidates. This, it is
freely predicted, is likely to take
place"
The sooner the Democratic party
frees itself from the domination OF
the Populists. the farther away it
can get from the unfortunate alliance
the better; it has cost and it will
cost us far more than the Greedy
episode of unhappy memory.
The effect of the German move
ment in pennsylvania is thus de-
scribed by the Washington CORES
pendent of the New York Evening
Post:
''The German platform may be of
great service to the Pennsylvania
Democrats this year. 1t is now re-
ported that the anti-Quay Republi-
cans will nominate a separate ticket
'or the two State offices, the Audi
and Treasurer, to be
elected this year. If the Democrats
hen come into the field with a
platform not absolutely antagonis-
ic to the gold standard Democrats
n the three-cornered contest which
would follow, they might have a
nance of success. Feeling against
he Quay machine is very strong,
nd if the Democrats will only les
en- the obnoxious element of their
latform sufficiently, they may count
n a considerable break from the reg {
lar Republican ranks. This is the /;
7ay it is viewed by certain politi- f
ians here" &
The situation in Ohio is not in the c
east bright. Ohio Democrats al a
-ays do the wrong thing at critical I
This year it reaffirmed t
he Chicago platform. Of Ohio the q
correspondent already quoted says: s
"The Ohio situation continues to f
e regarded as a fine specimen h
: Democratic capacity for blunder- I
g, If the party had played a poor d
ans hand, one of its member said e
day, making the issue against a
,nator Hanna one of the plain peo-
e against plutocracy, and had kept Q
; own millionaires in the rear Of b
e drawing checks they would have b.
ID a good prospect of success. In b,
cad of that, however, they 90 out to
fight the pluto, under the tV
knowedged leaders. p of a group m
millionaires. After declaring ia
ainst trusts, monpolies, the gold to
!ndard, and everything else, they ha
inmate a national bank director Up
Governor put the President of me
Washington Gas Company for lar
rd for Senator, and have such toe
-llonaires as Sorg and Brice as
in the front. This is I'll