Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1898-08-25
ISSUES OF THE PRESENT.
PRESENT CONDITIONS MAKE
THE ISSUES FOR 1900.
Tho Party That WIN Triumph IN the
Next Presidential Campaign Ia That
Party That Correctly IhtcrprstS Pres
ont Tissues and Conditions.

lbhuch HTe UOTH Ol COHultlOHb anu uTo
not made or unmade by political par
ties. Issues, whom due, assert their
right Of way and test the fitness or un-
fitness Of existing parties, Tho party
will be triumphant that correctly In
tcrprets present conditions and re-
spends TO the demands Of the time.
The party that fails In It's interpreta-
tion Of the peoples demands or seeks
to evade them Is certain to be over
wbelmcd In crushing defeat
Only small fraction OF the Demo-
cratic leaders were sufficiently in
touch with the masses Of the people In
1898 to forsce the consequences TO their
pnrty OF the repeal Of the Sherman
law for the purchase and coinage OF
silver. But the action of the demo.
cratic majority in the flfly'thhd con-
gross called from the people singing
rebolSe In the elections OF 1904, which
gave overwhelming republican MAORI
ties generally throughout the North
and broke tho solid South.
The republican press OF the country
interpreted the success OF their purity
In 1894 to mean the approval Of the
people OF the action Of the republican
minority In the fifty-third congress In
sustaining the financial policy OF Gro
YER Cleveland. Hence the republican
majority in tho fifty.afth congress act
ed In perfect harmony with Cleveland
on the money question, and the gold
press, republican and democratic
alike, proclaimed the silver dead and
not likely to ever again disturb the
politics Of the country,
From all the information that could
be CLEANED from the commercial press
OF the country, no suspicion would be
aroused that the then leaders OF both
parties were seeking TO stihe the de-
mands of the people such was the
effrontery with which they asserted
that silver was dead issue und that
no public man espousing this "lost
cause" could command respectable
following. On this point there was no
difference of opinion between Cleve-
land, Carlisle, Whitney, Hill, Villas,
tray, caffrey and Palmer on one side
md Sherman, Reed, Morton, Harrison
Hoar, Dingley or Hanna upon tho 9TH
n.
The true situation at last became
risible TO the plain people Of the coun-
Try from whose labor the nations
wealth is created and its taxes paid,
Ind muttcrings OF discomfort and re-
oellion were heard Mt the cross roads
md at the village stores throughout
The country.
In 1886 tho superior organization
and discipline Of the republican party,
aided by the banks, monopolies and
trusts of the country, secured the dele
gates from q large majority Of the
states to their national convention In
Lhe interest OF gold monopoly but
well knowing that candid avowal OF
their intent meant defeat, they pledged
The party to secure an international
agreement for the coinage Of silver
and the restoration of bimetallism.
This subterfuge, however, was not
sufficient to hold the party together
and under the lead Of Teller, Dubois,
Pettigrew Cannon, Hartman aud 9TH
ers the delegations from several states
repudiuted the action of the party and
walked out of the convention.
Commencing in the early spring of
1896 battle royal was being fought
by the rank and file of tho democratic
party to reclaim the party from the
control of the gold combination. The
power Of the administration in control
Of the entire patronage Of the govern
ment was active everywhere in the
fight The contest was entered into
heartily by the plain people every
where, and was carried from primary
TO county convention, from county
convention to state convention, and
from state convention to the national
convention, each convention in turn
instructing its delegates. The result
was the Chicago convention in which
the plain people Of the democratic
party repudiated their former leaders,
and condemned the action OF their own
administration then in power The
conduct Of the democratic voters In the
contest OF 1896 reached the highest
plane Of citizenship, and It's glorious
elimination constitutes the grandest
achievement OF the human race In its
effort to realize popular government,
and is the surest earnest Of the future
Of republican institutions
The American people sympathized
with and desired to aid the struggling
patriots Of Cuba in their efforts for
liberty. II popular vote had been
taken on tho question OF granting
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