Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-10-13
SILVER BEING DROPPED.
The Democrats Are Letting Go of
the Cumbersome Cheap
Money Plank.


The simultaneous reputation of sill
yer by the Connecticut democratic
state convention and by Brooks Adams,
a former Massachusetts Bryanite lead
er, show that the democratic party
east of the Alleghenies has forever
broken with the sixteen to one folly.
In the Connecticut convention there
was a square fight made on the sixteen
to one issue. An out and out gold ma q
was nominated for governor, and the
attempt of the silver faction to secure
a reaffirmati of the Chicago plat
form was overwhelmingly beaten.
About the same time that the Con-
necticut democrats were overthrow
ing the silver element of their party
Brooks Adams, one of the best known
of the living members of the great
Adams family, was declaring that the
silver issue was forever dead in this
country. The surprising part of the
Adams matter is not that he has aban-
doned the silver cause, but that he
ever embraced it. The only books or
tracts of any ability ever printed on
the silver side were written by Adams.
His advocacy of silverism in 1896 gave
a semblance of solidity and respect
ability to the sixteen to one fraud such
as it did not get from any other source.
This reputation of silver by the
eastern democrats is, of course, of ma
tional significance. Connecticut's ac-
tion will probably be followed by the
New York democrats in their state
convention. A strong attempt has
been made by the Bryanites to get the
New York democrats to indor.e the
money plank of their party's platform
of 1896. This object sent eX-Gov. Stone,
of Missouri, on his recent eastern pill
grimage. Stone, as well as Bryan and
all the other silver chieftains, feel that
if silver is defeated in the coming
New York convention it will have no
chance in the national gathering in
1900. If New York's democracy re-
fuses 10 sanction the democratic
money plank of 1896 no state in the
entire east will accept it, and this will
force its abandonment by the national
democracy. New York was whipped
into line for the support of silver tn
1896. but the plurality of PCS. 900 against
that folly in that state in that year will
frighten the western and southern
democrats from attempting any such
disciplinary measure two years hence.
The democratic leaders know that
while the republicans may be able to
win without New York, that states
electoral vote will be absolutely es-
sential to democratic success.
There is no room for doubt now that
silversm will be Immediately and for
ever abandoned by the democracy of
every eastern state. "The free silver
cause is hopeless in this country" says
Joseph b. Sargent, the Bryanite condi-
Nate for governor in Connecticut in
1896. Sargent has given up the silver
fight, and the majority of his support
ers of two years ago are following his
course. Silverism is doomed in this
country. and Bryan. Stone, Bland and
the rest of the fanatics will discover
this truth long before the convention
Of 1900 meets. The national democ-
racy will not deliberately throw the
whole CT the eastern group of states
into the republican column two years
hence, as they did two years ago. They
said Their that they could win without
the east, but the immense preponder-
ance against Bryan in the electoral
college has cured the western demo-
cratic leaders of this lunacy. No policy
which the eastern democrats viii re-
ject will be sanctioned by the next ma
tional convention. For selfish reasons
the republicans would be glad to see
the democrats two years hence put
up the ticket upon the old platform,
as that would make the republican vic
tory easier and bigger than it was two
years ago, but It is safe to predict that
q new set of men and different set Of
influences will be at the front in demo-
cratic politics in 1900.-St. Louis Globe
Dem ocrat.