Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1898-02-01
SOUND MONEY DEMoCcArs.

LILO LIE E"cr2Clc parry. DenR IN
power, had tir st to meet the money
question. it proved reef on which
the parry struc'::. The Republicans
are now III power, and the reef beng
exactly where it was, can they escape
it's perils? in the Speaker of the
house they have a most s.;ill:ul and
resnlute pilot. in the President they
haze IL. st experienced and accom-
plished party. But there is the reef,
with two sessions of congress-a long
session and short session-and.
along with these, the certainty of a
great deal of weather. right before
them
They have cut themselves off from
much on side sympathy and support.
They will have to depend chilly up
on themselves. Every A me,ican be-
ing born financier, it is harGly like
ly that the Republicans, as an organ
lied parry, can Pgree upon any meas
ure Of fiscal policy to he put through
Congress at the end of the party lash.
Yet the game they started out TO
play is purety party G"me; and what
rhey can1ot accomplish within the
party may not be acco nplished at all
The course of even.s, az the. course of
the Republican leaders, has put it out
Of the power Of the sound money
Democrats to render effective assist
ance or tc make substantial show
ing. They have been, cor the time
being Mt least, crushed between the
upper and the neither millstones.
Two PURPOSES inspired the SOUND
money De.nocre: when they formal
~ stb.ira;ed themselves from the
mP n body Of their political associates
and set up an organization Of their
own. The first of these was the res
cue of the country from what they
regarded rs an imminent, deadly dam
ger threatened by the Chicago tickle:
and platform. The second was the
creation Of nucleus around which
the old Democracy might be rallied
when the fusion made at Chica~o
should 20 to pieces, as they believed it
would. The resJl;s have contradict
ed both these sincere but erroneous
assumptions.
If the jnGianadolis ticket he'd Sc
cured the vote it was c=pected to get,
Bryan. and not Mckinley, would now
be in the White House. Mckinley
required all the Democratic votes he
received. 1t may be that the Palmer
Buckner ticket constructed bri"ge
over which these Democrats could
pass. But it is quite certain that il
the Democrats who voted for McKIN
ley had voted for Palmer and ;'uc.. =
ner, Bryan would have been elected.
Subsequent events lave, in manV
ways, borne out the same idea. 1t
has been conclusiyely shown that, as
q seOarate organization, the sound
money Democrats, as oaicered and
ma, shaded by the 1Odiarppolis con-
vention. have not strength enor"h t.,
count as balance power, and, as
such. to shape results. The Republic
cans do not recognize them. Between
them and the regular Democrats
there is bound to be. as long as their
organization continues in the field
implacable hostility. Meanwhile tue
sound money leaders get nothing fol
their pains except obiurgatlon anC
contempt; for, when it comes vot
ing, their followers either d no
vote Mt all, or else vote the Ec2ubli
can ticket.
On these points. the recent test il
Kentucky was all-sutticlent.
The failure Of the one horn Of the
original dilemma to justify itself car
rle6 with it the f8iluro OF the other
II the sound money Democrats hole
the balance of power nowhere, the,
can nowhere form a nucleus for The
rehabilitation Of the old Democracy