Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1898-02-10
REvEILLE SOUNDED.
REPUBLICANS ARE NOTIFIED TO
BE UP AND DOING.
Indications that Ii Is Time 20 Begin
the Political Day of 1903 : Pension
ers Not to BE Posted az scoundreis-
Democracy's swectMorsei.
To fave the Nation,s Honor.

10 cave tne NatfOn'o HONOR
The reveille has sounded. The first
signal, notifying the Republicans OF
the United States that 1t Is time to be-
gin the political day of 1898, was a
bugle blast from Cheyenne. Shall the
reputation policy OF Teller and the
Democracy prevail In this country to
the ruin Of our reputation abroad and
the Generalization of our people at
home?
Wyoming was very nearly evenly d.
vided In 1896, Bryan and Sewall carry
ing 1t by majority Of only 161. AS
between the two parties on the general
silver issue the State Is almost tie.
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 be no Republican
party, properly so-called, left In that
State. 1t will go the way of RepuOli-
canism In Nevada. The latter State
was always overwhelmingly Republic
can until the silver issue came 70 the
front. Now there are not, judging from
the vote of 1896, 1000 Republicans left
in the entire fifteen counties Of Nevada.
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
ark-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
ton to abandon any plank Of the Re-
publican platform. In some States
there is a very strong fractional feeling,
but there Is no danger that either fac
ton will be false to a 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 one owes
fealty and processes attachment, but
infidelity to any of it's cardinal prlnci-
pies Is what may we'll be called politi-
cal high treason.
The Teller resolution is simply ut-
paralleled in downright dishonesty. 1t
is the same, yet not the same, as the
Matthews resolution. At the time the
Matthews resolution was introduced,
December, 1877, the market value Of a
silver dollar was almost the same as
that of gold dollar; not only so, but
the present value of the silver dollar is
little more than half what 1t was then.
1t is as If corn were substituted for dol
lar wheat, bushel for bushel; then corn
was worth 93 cents n bushel, now 1t is
worth only 43 cents bushel. a small
cheat cannot be justified on the ground
of it's smallness, but surely the greater
the disparity the greater the dishon-
esty.
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 well 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.