The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1898-09-30
DEAD AGAIN.
Ths OrEans OF GoIdOeracy once Mere
-Busy PubIIshfnE Notices OF 1he
silver auestion's Demise-

-EuEW PubI1sEfuE notice. OF Eae
silver auesfiOn's Demise.
The burial Of the silver question goes
merriIy on. There has hardly been
day during the past three years that
we have not been told BIZ the esteemed
gold organs OF the east and their cuck-
COS in other parts Of the country that
''silver IS dead" Every turn in the
affairs Of the government, foreign or
domestic, and every event that can be
construed as having any political bear
ing whatsoever, has been hailed as an
other evidence Of the great fact-the
death Of silver. That the issue with
the Iusty vigOr Of youth. persisted in
kicking out Of its ready-made, gold
plated coffin, made no difference with
the esteemed doctors charged with ed
iting the Wall street newspapers. They
had said it was dead, and dead it must
be, II they had tr keep on killing il
every day.
Especially vOluminOus and vigorous
have been these declarations Of demise
whenever a democrat Of any promi-
nence opened his mouth to discuss any
other question. Such conduct has
had abandoned silver, whether the
question he discussed was the tariff,
the crops or the weather. It made no
difference TO the doctors. For him to
think Of anything else than the-silver
question meant that he had aban-
dOned the position he took in the last
presidential campaign; for him [ o talk
Of anything else meant that the entire
party had abandoned the issue which
gave life to that campaign and showed
to the world that the party was still
the party Of the people.
When the democrats Of congress at
the extra session manifested differ
ences on certain phases of the tariff
question and discussed them, the sill
yer question was pronounced deader
than ever. The fact that all declared
themselves as firm in their belief in
silver as ever made no difference with
the critics, nor did the more impor-
tant fact that democratic conventions
everywhere were indorsing the Chi
cagO platform. Silver was dead-the
doctors said sO-and that settled i'll
There have been many manifesto
lions Of joy over the difference Of Opin-
ion among democrats on the question
Of territorial annexation, and this diff
ference has been hailed as further evil
dence Of the death Of silver" Here.
for instance, is the New York Evening
Post, chief organ Of the gold gang, as
well as of the tories and traitors who
have tried to injure their country dur
ing this war, which says:
A wink is as good as nod to a blind
horse This action in Missouri viii be &C
cepted by democrats in other parts Of the
country as evidence that silver is no longer
the leading issue in politics. The question
may be asked, what is the leading issue2
It is easier TO ask the question than to
answer IL. If the democrats drop silver
and go in for territorial expansion and
big navy, the republicans will accuse them
Of stealing their thunder Consequently
there viii be no issue
The Evening Post is just as close as
ever, and no closer. The cause Of sill
yer restoration is just as dead as 1t has
been the hundred and one times when
the Evening Post has chrOnicled its de
mise, and no 'deader.'' The action Of
the Missouri convention meant the
abandonment Of the party position on
silver Just to this extent; Resolutions
were unanimously adopted indorsing
the Chicago platform and specifically
indOrsing the party position on the
silver question.
If the actions of the democratic
conventions of Texas and Missouri on
the question Of territorial annexation
mean anything, it is that the demo
cratic masses 90 not propose to be
drawn away from silver as the over
shadOwing feature Of the party faith.
1t must be borne in mind that all
Of this discussion among democrats
was precipitated by thOsewhO thought
81 the duty of the party to go on rec
ord against territorial expansion. It
was the effort on the part Of some
2 democrats at Washington to make Op-
POSITION to Hawaiian annexation a
party issue that precipitated the dis
cussion Of the territorial question, and
the effort TO make the democrats Of
Texas assume a similar position
brought on the discussion there and
resulted in the convention taking q
position in favor Of the reasonable
and sensible expansion made neces-
sary by the war.
However much they may differ on
ether questions, the democrats Of
Texas and Missouri, and Of every other
democratic state of the union, are a
unit in support Ct the position taken
by the party on the silver question.
There are differences on tails of tar
if legislation, and there are differ
ences on this question Of territorial
expansion; but there are no differ
ences among real democrats on the
question of the immediate and indie
pendent restoration Of silver to it's
place beside gold in a system Of genu-
inc bimetallism. They believe in il,
and they viii continue to fight for it
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