The times., 1899-09-20
WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 20. 1889.
An Appeal for Harmony.

All ApDeGi tOE
The subcommittee Of TIE Democratic Ma
tionai Committee. which met in Chicago
on Monday. very naturally and properly
considered the state of the Union. as to
sectional and local danger spots, and be-
fore its session closed issued Al appeal to
the party in the interests of unity AID har-
mony.
Certainly there was good reason for thus
attempting TO stem the tide of dislntegra-
tion, which the foolish utteranees and in
sistenees Of certain Democratic orators
and seIf-constituted leaders into new and
strange paths. have brought about. We
can only hope that the admoait.on does
rot cone too late.
II the people who in chief assume to
speak for American Democracy had ad-
herod closely 10 the gospel Of the party and
The text OF its only legal doctrine, COZ
1ained in the Chicago platform. a unitei
Organization might easily he elected Bul
they. CT some of the principal amcng
them. taYe arTogasea 10 themselves the
power 70 reErite. revise, and alter the
declaration OF 1886. and to aid TO It with
out authority from the people they claim
TO represent. provisions which are neither
pstriofic. Democratic. nor in accordance
with party beliefs. traditions. history.
precedent or practice,
Thus Mr. Jones, Chairman Of the na-
tional committee, issues from London a
ukase TO the effect that the next campaign
Is 10 be fought on the issue OF imperial
ISM with silver, trusts. and the tariff as
minor considerations Nov. who gave the
AriEansaw traveller power and dominion To
decree that question rot in any way rec
ognized by any body entitled to speak for
national Democracy shall be. on his order.
Or that OF postulant Bryan or any ether
man. nov accepted and recognized by in
dependent voters, as an issue? II the or
ganization should decide to agree with
these snu-expansionists, and to help them
in an effort 10 stuItify the records Of Je1er-
son. jackson, and Polk Ii has the r;gat Of
suicide SO definitely stated in Connecticut
decision the other day; but the act of sell
murder VIII rot and cannot be committed
until the meeting OF the national conven-
ton. Until that event. all attempts to
bind the party in advance TO things not in
the Chicago platform and, especially. to
things known to be obnoxious TO the inde-
pendent, patriotic sense Of majority of its
members, are simply evidences Of madness
From this point OF view it is TO be re-
GREETED that the Chicago message of the
Democratic Executive Committee, pleading
for harmony. did not include the one thing
necessary 10 harmony. /. e., a disclaimer OF
any organized OF official intent TO forestan
the action Of the national convention, and
z denunclsIion Of ali individual Efforts to
construct platform for 1890, over the heads
OF the party lawmaking body.
II IS time that gentlemen who are ex-
erting themselves TO convince the country
that they are one in hope. sentiment and
aspiration with the Boston Filipino junta,
end Hoar. Hale. Atkinson, Schurz. Eliot
Norton. Carnegie. Aitgeld, Most, and the
late Grover Cleveland, should pause before
the mischief they are doing to true Democ-
rscy SHAH become irreparablei
They are raising q mock issue which can
never become real one Expansion Is an
accomplished fact. The Philippines. Guam.
Hawaii. and Porto Rico are ours irreyo-
cably. II they were acquired without the
consent o. the governed" so were Louis
sana-including Nebrsska-Florida. New
Mexico. California. and Alaska, The con-
tention that we are at war with the poo
pie Of the Philippine Islands is arrant non
sense. Part OF one comparatively small
tribe out OF hfty or sixty is in revolt against
our Sovereignty. which came TO US regularly
ns the result Of war. and which has been
definitely and finally accepted and assumed
By Congress. Where is the issue!
Moreover. the provincial element whsch
would turn back the clock OF American