Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-02-18
REvEILLE SOUNDED.
REPUBLICANS ARE NOTIFIED TO
BE UP ANo DOING.
Indications that 1t Is Time to Begin
the Political Day of 1S0S-Pension-
ers Not to BE Posted as Scoundrcls-
Denocracy's swcctMorscl.
To save the Nation,s Honor.

To Save the Nations Honor.
The reveille has sounded. The first
signal, notifying the Republicans of
the United States that it is time to be-
gin the political day of 1898. was IL
busle blast from Cheyenne. Shall the
reputation policy of Teller and the
Democracy prevail in this country to
The ruiz OF our reputation abroad and
II decentralization of our people at
home?
Wyoming was very nearly evenly di-
vided in 1896, Bryan and Sewall carry
ing 1t by II majority of only 161. AS
between the two parties on the general
silver issue the State is almost IL tie.
But the two Senators, both pretending
to be Republicans, voted for the Teller
resolution. The question in that State
is. first of all. Shall there be any Re-
publican party in Wyoming? If the
organization of the party goes over to
the enemy. the same as the Senators
did. then there will Ike no Republican
party, properly so-called. left in that
state. 1t Will go the way of Republic
canism in Nevada. The latter State
Was always overwhelmingly Republic
can until the silver issue came TO the
front. Now there are not. Judging from
the vote of 1896, 1000 Republicans left
in the entire fifteen counties of Nevada.
To follow the lead of Senators Warren
and Clark in Wyoming would be as
fatal to the party in that State as fol-
lowing the lead of Stewart and Jones
was to it in Nevada. The contest be-
tween the genuine Republicans and the
Clark-Warren Republicans will begin
In the city of Cheyenne and the county
of Laramie, and extend to the thirteen
counties of the State.
In no State east of the Rocky Noun
tain foothills will this contest arise
within the Republican party. How
ever bitter the animosity between Platt
and anti-Plat, Quay and anti-Quay,
Hanna and anti-Hanna Tanner and
anti-Tanner forces there is no DISPOSE
tion to abandon any plank Of the Re-
publican platform. In some States
but there is no danger that either fac
tion will be false to Il single principle
laid down in the st. Louis platform. 1t
is bad enough to be false to the organi-
Zation of the party to which II ives
fe:llty II processes attachment, but
intidelity to any of its cardinal prlnc;-
pies is what may well be called politi-
cal high treason.
The Teller resolution is simply uil-
p%aralleled in downright dishonesty. lit
is the same, yet not the same. as the
Matthews resolution. At the time the
Matthews resolution was introduced,
December. 1917, the market value of Il
silver dollar was almost the same as
that of Il gold dollar; lot only so. but
the present value of the silver dollar is
little more than half what it was then.
1t is as ii corn were. substituted for dol
lar wheat. bushcl for buslel: then corn
WAS worth Ok cents Il busllcl. now it is
worth only !3 cents "a bushel. y small
cheat clnnot be justified on the ground
of its smallness. but surely the gleates'
the disparity the greater the d.shou-
csty.
The result in Wyoming will be await
ed with no little general interest. Still
the cause of national honor is by no
means dependent upon the good sense
and honesty of that outpost. What
ever the States do which are politically
as we'll as geographically on the divid-
ing line. the States, great and small.
which saved the nations life will save
also its honor.-Chicago Inter Ocean.