The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-10-15
An Inquest Into HornblOworllm.

O reporter OF THE SUN that he Is still q
sound-money Democrat. and stands where
he has always stood on that question. he
merely puts his own individual construc-
ton upon his present political attitude. 10
Is for others, and not for Mr.. HoRNBLowER.
to decide whether he is really o sound
money Democrat still. or whether he lie a
timeserver, and q backslider, and virtually
u traitor to the cause for which he pro-
fesses continued devotion.
Men who are physically unsound often
frequently imagine and declare that their
health is perfect. Men who have been
put under restraint in lunatio asylume,
for good reason, are quite positively con-
WINGED of the injustice Of their incarcera-
ton. Men who have lost the moral sense
which distinguishes between right and
wrong are almost always the last to recog-
nize and appreciate their own condition. 1t
is for the doctor to say, not for the patient ;
not the inmate but the Commissioners
must determine the question Of sanity;
the moral status Of the accused Is settled In
the jury box, not in the dock. Mr.. HORN
BLOWER ought to understand this.
What test shall be applied to Mr.. HORN
BLOWERS statement that he is yet q sound
money Democrat, and stands precisely
where he stood two years ago2 The
simplest and most reasonable method Is to
compare his present position with that Of
the leader Of the Gold Democrats Of 1895,
the embodiment OF the Democratic protest
against the crime and idiocy Of the Chicago
platform, the candidate for whom Mr..
HORSEPOWER voted, as we suppose, in the
last Presidential election.
Gen. JOHN NJ. PALMER has also declared
very recently that he is still a sound-money
Democrat. At the same time he has proved
IL by advising the s~ound-money Democrats
Of Illinois to support the Republican candi-
dates for Congress against the Silver Demo-
Gratis who have been nominated regularly
by the organization. Gen. PALMER has not
confined his advice to generalities. In his
own Congress district a Mr.. CALDWELL
is the regular Democratic nominee. He. is
not q sound-money man. The Republican
candidate Is the present Representative,
DANIEL ". MILLS, q s~ound-money man.
In this district" says Gen. JOHN MoAULEY
PALMER, 1.-THE sound-money Democrats
will not vote for BEN CALDWELL, but will
vote for Mr.. MILLS on the issue Of sound
money! They will do all they can to defeat
Mr.. CALDWELL, because sound money Is
the issue between him and Mr.. Mills.
They are Democrats"
Gen. PALMER's intellect may not be 30
subtly adroit and agile rs Mr.. HoRNBLow-
ER's, but 1t goes right at the heart Of the
matter in a straightforward and manly
fashion. His main purpose is to prevent
the election Of a House of Representa-
tIves In the Fifty-sixth Congress which
shall be controlled by Bryanite ell
YER men. There is no sophistry, nc
tortuous reasoning about the distinction
between local issues and national. no eva
sion of facts and principles, no ostrich bur
rowing Is the process by which he arrives
OF his conclusion respecting his own duty,
and the duty of sound-money Democrats,
in the present all-important contest. Gen.
PALMER Is, In truth, a sound-money Demo.
orat still, and he stands precisely where he
stood in 1895 when he headed the ticket
for which we assume that Mr.. HoRNBLowEH
voted for the sake Of principle.
But how the self-proclaimed soundness
Of Mr.. HoRNBLowER's political creed dwin.
dies and shrinks in the honest light of the
comparison we are here i~nstituting! How
contemplate appear the subterfuges Of the
false logic by which he seeks to persuade
sound-money Democrats in New York that
he and they can be true to their principles
while voting into the Governors chair q
man who gave his ballot to BRYAN and freq
silver In 1895; and while sending TO the
desks OF the House of Representatives al
Washington a rampant Bryanite Of the
stamp OF WILLIAM Aston CHAMBER ; and
while helping to elect a Legislature to bt
controlled by Chicago Democrats specially
chosen with q view to continuing In the
United States Senate that thorough Bryan
tie and particularly dangerous enemy o.
sound money, the Hon. EDWARD MURPHY
Jr., Of Troy, to represent the immense com
mercial and financial interests Of the EN-
pire STATED
Such Is Hornblowerism. Most honest Dem
ocrats Of the Palmer stripe, really solicitoul
about the preservation of this Government
financial honor, will turn away from Mr.
HoRNBLowER's special pleadings with sen
timents closely resembling disgust. Moth
ing In his labored statement" will oomI
nearer to stirring their souls to honest In
dignation than his attempt to justify hi
own intention TO vote for Mr.. CHANLEI
for the reason that he was not In the las
Congress and therefore did not vote for tn,
Teller BILL" and. In addition, the allega
ton that 81 have no reason to believe
that he would vote for free silver" Perhaps
we are wrong. Even more insulting
to ordinary intelligence is Mr.. HORN
BLOWERS declaration that the Legis
lature "should be elected primaril,
upon State issues" and that he doe
not understand that Senator MURPHY eve
voted in favor of the free coinage Of silve,
at the ratio Of 10 to i, or that he will Yot
that way II reelected" Does not every maj
and boy over fifteen know that Senate
MURPHY did vote for the free coinage o
silver at the ratio Of 10 to 1 when he votes
for BRYAN and the Chicago PLATFORM
The disease NebiCh has attacked Mr.. VIZ