The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-08-30
THE SILVER "REPUBLIcANS. "

n MONG the resurrected political fragments
I l which go to make up the Mcguire fusion party
none occupy quite so humiliatng position as
the Silver Republicans Representatives OF these faction
lists met in State convention at Los Angeles Friday
last adopted platform and meeky accepted the NOR
sci of patronage doled out them by the fusion
mittee which conducted the Populist and Democratic
conventions. But there enthusiasm, and no
interest no exutant feeling of victory, cheering
nothing, in fact, except feast OF indigestbe
This may have been due to the circumstance that
out OF the fusion division the Silver Republicans have
obtained but two Offices One OF these is Justice OF
the Supreme Court who is without political pull
patronage, and who cannot even stump the State-at
least not without sacrifice of judicial dignity and
neglect OF duty Walter Van Dyke, the nominee re-
ferred to- Superior Judge OF Los Angeles County.
The other crumb doled out to the Silver Republicans
was the clerkshp of the Supreme Court-a position
which has been given to H A. McCraney, old line
stalwart the better part of whose life has been
pended in scalpng Democrats and putting Populists
to the torture
But the Silverites have accepted what has been
given to them with thanks, and in return they have
swallowed the entire fusion ticket unwashed and all
How many of them will vote for the candidates other
than Van Dyke and McCraney remains to be seen.
If one may judge from the platform adopted by the
convention not many Of them will do that The
Silver Republican declaration "reafhrms the pr1n-
ciples and doctrines of the Republican party as de-
clared and promulgated by Abraham Lincoln and
James G. Blaine. These principles and doctrines do
not accord with those declared and promulgated by
Thomas Jefferson, who set UP by the Democratic
convention as the political deity of the day. How
can the Silver Republicans support ticket which
represents in great part the anthesis OF Republican
ism? How can they vote for nominees who regard
the Dinpev law as the invention of the devil, seeing
that that law establishes the great principles tor
which blaine contended all his life? How can they
vote for nominees who look upon Mckinley as an
"enemv" while they commend him for his earnest
ness and patriotic zeal in the prosecution OF the war;
On one point however, the Silver Republicans
,ree with their fellow fusionists They are united on
The If to theory on their opposition to the retire
nent Of ereenbacks, their aversion for bonds and
denuncation of international bmetallism, and on their
view that bankers are birds of prey who feed upon the
remains of the people. But all this has an ancient and
fsb-ke smell Are the Silver Republicans aware of
the fact that these things repudiated by the peo
ME in November in 1896, and have since been in
TERED in the political graveyard? Evidently the poll
tcians of the Silver Republican party have Just re-
covered from long nap and yet their platform indi
Gates that they are actually aware OF the war with
Spain and have an linking of the new issues which
have in consequence sprung up and which are now
engaging the minds of men.
The only hope for the Silver Republicans however
is to keep awake II they fall into slumber again they
may open their eyes after election and find themselves
dead.