The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-07-26
THE REAL DANGER TO SILVER

| Inc movement TO IIloTe tHoTouSHiy CO.
tablish the gold standard will become
really alarming only when such changes
can be made in the complexion OF the
United States senate as will give to the
cause of gold monometallism clear ma
jority Of votes IN that body. In care
fully considered presentment. only
few days ago, we showed how narrow
the margin now is, and pointed out the
basis for the hopes of the Republican
managers of obtaining control, in forth
coming elections to fill the places of thr-
| ty members whose terms expire on the
4th of next March.
| We also, in the same connection, took
occasion to remind the friends of bimet-
allism that such a contamination would
| offset in advance the advantage of elect
ing free coinage president in 1900. With
senate in opposition to the re-estab-
lishment of the double standard, Bryan
( in the White House would avail little to
the cause, for his hands would be as eff
fectually tied as are McKinley's at this
time, so far as currency reform Is con-
cerned, that being the instrumentality
by means Of which the gold standard is
sought to be more firmly established.
| Important as is the election of fusion
| governor and fusion congressman in Cal
ifornia this fall, those considerations are,
after all, subordinate to.the necessity for
choosing a legislature pledged to the Sc
| nf froa ira n t,
Senator White. A union of all of the re-
form elements upon a good state ticket,
headed by Judge Mcguire, makes its
election by safe majority an assured
certainty, and the prestige with which
| the allied parties will enter the contest
must give added strength to the legisla-
\ tive ticket in the various districts.
The prospects are really so encourag-
| ing as to give alarm to the Republicans
throughout the commonwealth and the
apparent desperation of their cause will
be the mother of devices innumerabe to
thwart the will of the people. Their en-
ssaries are already busily at work in
this section of the state upon a scheme
which, If successful, promises to distract
and divide the reform forces, and COM
pass their defeat in detail. Efforts are
being made to induce Populists as we'll
as Democrats to yield to Silver Repub-
licans in the nomination of legislative
candidates, with the view of electing
of power in the assembly, and of concen-
trating their vote upon a compromise
Republican candidate for the United
States senate who shall presumab bly, be
silver man, but in reality single stan
dard advocate in disguise. There is
scarcely limit to available timber of
the adaptable kind for this purpose, but
the intriguers have gone so far as to
make a choice of their man, and one, it
need hardly be said. who will be accept
able to the administration Republicans,
and to whose standard the regular Re-
publicans in the assembly may be rallied,
should they be unable otherwise to con-
troll it on joint ballot.
1t will not be difficult to identify the
individual who has been selected to mas
querade as Republican Moses, and less
| difficult even to trace the plot to the sub
tie influence in this state which Is using
the machinery of the Republican party
| as an instrumentality in pulling it's own
chestnuts from the fire. Members of
| the Peoples party will not be surprised to
| learn that the chief conspirator is an ex-
| leader of their organization whose mask
was recently torn from him, in a more or
less public way, disclosing the features
Of the ordinary. everyday corporation
| tool.
| There should be no mistake about the
dual purpose of this scheme-to influence
the nomination of men for the legisla-
ture, in the first instance, whom they be-
lieve can be overthrown by the regular
| Republican nominees; or, in the next
contingency, to foist upon the fusionists
men who, if successful at the polls, can
be stampeded in the legislature, and, I'M
der one pretext or another, made to do
their final bidding.
No conscientious Democrat, Populist
or Silver Republican will knowingly lend
himself to such base scheme, and sim
pie hint should be sufficient to put all
such upon their guard.