New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-09-22
Az 1yGFyrOrS PARTY APPEAL.


The appeal for party harmony just issued
nv tho Executive Committee Of the Democratic
National committee is touchngy effective in
t. simplicity and ingenuousnesS. In the com
mtt"e's opinion "the prospect Of Democratic
success next year grows brighter every day
Rut though the chiefs Of the National orcaniza-
ton who mot to exchange views AT Chicago
profess 60 have every reason for confidence IN
the outcome" they are still painfully alive
70 al least one Of the handicaps under which
the Democratic party Will enter the approaching
Presidential contest The great need now
tho Executive Committees address declares. is
party unity We appeal therefore. 10 our party
friends IN all the States 10 put aside al local
differences keeping always IN view
"the great struggle Of next year. and remember
"ing that IN unity there is strength and in divis-
zion weakness" The obviousneSS Of this piece
Of political advice is only eQualled by SIS on
gagIng candor Rut the task OF putting aside"
the local differences" which distract the Dem
ocratic party is far more monumental than the
sangulne authors If the Chicago appeal seem
TO imagine IT, Were these local differences"
mutually set aside, conflicting interests and
opinions neutralizng and annulling each other,
could the next Democratic candidate for the
Presidency base his appeal for election; Local
differences" suppressed and compromised not
= single living or pertinent political issue would
no left 70 'he reunited democracy Democratic
divisions owe, the expediency Of free silver
coinage are TOO vital and too widespread 10
admit 81 any question Nor can they readily be
compromised or covered over in the interest If
party harmony For. though many shfty
Democratic leaders have been struggling 70
force the silver question 20 the rear and even
Colonel Bryan has advised AZ times an oppor-
tune enlargement Of the family Of Democratic
issues" the Ohio. Kentucky and Nebraska plat
forms Of 1899 show plainly that party unity is not
m he secured for 1900 by a covert or insincere
abandonment Of the paramount demand Of 1895
for a cheapened silver dollar How. too. on the
new issues raised by the Nations acquisition
Of title 70 the Philippines. can The dversties
Of Democratic opinion he logically composed or
reconciledf The two poles are not further apart
than the views Of National duty and opportunity
In the Far East held by Lent, Tillman. Croker
and BRYAN on the one hand, and by Morgan
Lindsay. Pattison and Watterson on the other
The Democratic Convention i'm Ohio regrets that
American soldiers are being unlawfully used
'in the name Of liberty 10 destroy dawning 70
'publicanism in the orient" while the venera
bic Senator from Alabama declares that nj
political party which opposes the United State
Government in its earnest attempt 70 suppress
"the insurrection in the Philippines will he sus
tanned by the American people
Even on the untried issue Of hostility 10 trust
the local differences" which the National Com
mttee dcprecates SO keenly threaten 10 resls
q successful adjustment Western ideas Of con
trolling combinations through Federal initiativ
are not 10 be harmonized with strict construc
,ion Southern views Of Federal limitations
How. indeed, can the Texas programme Of
mere voluntary concert in State action agains
trusts be squared with the recent offhand propo
siton Of Ex-Governor Altgeld that combination
can best be suppressed by the general Govern
ment's undertaking on the vastest Na'iona
scale the ownership and operation Of railroads
Evidently unity and harmony are precisel