Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-12-08
THE FUTURE OF SILVER.
Lesson for Cheap Money Advocates
In the Late Elec-
tiOns.

There is no mistaking the significance
of the fall election in it's relation to the
democratic party as national organi-
cation which will not participate in an
other general election for congressman
and legislative or state officers general
ly until the presidential battle of 1900.
The results of the voting tend, greatly
to strengthen, consolidate and enforce
the power of the radical free silver
element, predominant in Chicago in
1896. and now certain to be in control
at the national convention of 1900.
Briefly summarized the results in the
south were more decisively favorable to
democratic candidates than any similar
elections have been since populism
threatened democratic local supremacy
| in many southern states. The popu-
| lists are again voting the democratic
ticket, and the price of their continued
alliance is adhesion to the radical prin-
ciples enunciated in the presidential
| election in the Chicago platform-the
| crime of 90.
| In those of the eastern states in which
| serious effort has been made, as in
| Connecticut, to attract the honest
money candidates to the party whose
allegiance they foreswore two years
| ago, it has failed utterly. In the states
| in which the policy of evasion of ma
| tional issues has been followed, New
| York, New Jersey and Maryland, there
has been no gain in consequence. IN
Massachusetts and Illinois, where the
| Bryan democracy reiterated its pur-
| L., h
| dates did better than they did
| year ago. In the far west, in Colorado,
| Utah and Idaho, what measure of sue
| cess the democratic candidates attained
was due chiefly to the aid of silver re-
| publicans; and it does not appear from
| the returns from any state that the sill
verites, whether democrats, populists
| or republicans have any mistrust of the
| sincerity of the democratic organiZa-
| tion in its temporary mutfled advocacy
| of radical policies, or that the honest
| money voters of the country, demo-
| Gratis, republicans or independents
there are no hcnestmoney popu!ists-
had, or have, a particle of confidence
in the professions made by some dem
ocratic orators of their disavowal of
silverite predictions and purposes.
The effect of the elections has been,
briefly, to tighten party lines with even
| greater frmness than was the case two
| years ago. The national democrats,
so called, have been eliminated entirely.
They now vote the republican ticket or
they vote the democratic ticket. The
middle-of-the-roadp populists, and there
l -, 6 IN
again in the fold of the fusionists. In
the south, the southwest and in the
mountain states, the populists and
democrats preponderate; in the east
ern, middle, middle western and Pacific
states, the republican party is the party
of the majority. There are no visible
recruits to the democratic standard to
be secured by abandonment of the prin-
ciples to which the party, rs national
organization, is committed; there is
the certainty of serious and positive
losses in any attempted abandonment
of the issues of two years ago.
Unquestionably, the present eco
nomic conditions, as well as the polit-
ical relations of the two parties toward
each other the prestige of republican
| victory and the Generalization of the
opposing forces, make almost hopeless
for the democracy the renewal of the
battle of two years ago; but. be the out
look propitious or discouraging, the
lesson of the late election is unmistall
ably clear: The democratic party is
committed irrevocably to the issues o
| 1S06.-N. Y. Sun.
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