New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-04-24

Those voting statistics are so important tnst tney
deserve reproduction in another form as showing wins,
happened e the chfagS pqk snsas and
Nebraska the former which gave H. 2ss plurality to
you has gone into the Republican column. and q the
latter b wna saye e yp last Year OF the Pacific
Coast states California, Washington and Oregon ,
ns former s a yasd dn ns 3 ct M EfPHsan lille
Washington, which gave you in 1896 plurality OF
as so sns
from 2ll7 to io77i OF the silver-mn I states,
and Utah you SarTee ime and
Democratic Ds vote last year was only se the
Sa Repabce canddae for po twice
as many votes as did Mckinley in 1895. You had
i IN 6n S Sa 1f @
Court Judge only 300 Do not nsed TO remna
and New -Jersey, which Cleveland carried in 1892
and which you lost in 1895 b,, tremendous plurail-
OF 56S I69 The vote OF the three States stood last
year for Governor as follows:
Republican Democrats e;
New 5STs Ss.Ss iss$ss
Connecticut ...............'.'...'.. eiolo of'-<'
The great Republican puralty gains in 1898 nl in
kota. Utah. WASHINGTON and Wyoming, amounting
in total to should at lest o sober ea rd b TO
for persuadng the country. North. East and West;
to qt the for pro ssp sSOrns
manufacturing and exporting conditions no" IN
I put to you in my letter two or three questions
easily capable OF an affirmative negative reply
one was. do you deem the money question as
presented in the Chicago platform as now para
mount to all others?" You evade.
of Ss eonsse y Si as on test Of
racy?" You again evade.
Another was, Must all Democratic voters line
up In 1900 on Federal statute making every con,
tract illegal which stipulates for payment In goldT
Another was. "Will a law preventing wage.
earners and salary earners from demanding and
securing payment In gold dollars. they prefer
gold dollars be a winning issue I'm 1902" You again
evade. ,x., ,,,,.,o,
You go out OF your way as defeated presidential
candidate of three years ago, and an aspirant Tor
denomination. to condemn my Democratic opinions
and nave subsequently done in that regard. / am
perfectly content with my course was present
at the conventions In 1876. 1884 1888 and 1882. and
on July I, 1896 I was correctly reported In the
New-York Sun as saying that had no candidate
at Chicago because the platform presented by the
free silver and Populistc elements would ruin any
candidate" At a meeting OF the New-York dele,
gat.on I remarked that "Atgeld cannot compel
me 70 Yield to Popusm" In THE New-York Her
add replied that "the contest has been oyer
depreciation OF the Constitution. II has been over
an effor, tear down the gold standard In the
interest of silver standard The vigor Of the on
saugh toTa Of the depression and disaster
enacted by the party Of Mckinley. The platform
Of 1896 came from the hard times which disap-
peared when the peril OF Popuism and silver
monometallism had passed That powder cannot
by YOU be burned again In a Democratic National
Convention.
When Mr. Bryan In Buffalo he heard OF MT
Belmonts letter. Turning to o. II. r. Belmont ne
said: You are Democrat. and good Democrat
/ think will turn this letter to you. and you
can instruct your brother In the true principles OF
Democracy"