Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1899-08-22
NOT THE ONLY ISSUE.
There Is Plenty OF Material for thu
Democrats to use In tho next
Campaign.

Campaign.
Isn't it about time that Democratic
newspapers andDemocratic politicians
arrive at some definite understanding
as to the rights and privileges of the
Democrats who will compose the
next convention? That issues cannot
be made by politicians has been said
by 30 many of them in 30 many diff
erept ways that it would seem idle to
repeat the assertion we're it not for
the continued nonsense that one reads
in the Colds standard journals about
the effort in Democratic circles to
betray Bryan and silver.
Nobody ever charged that the Dem.
ocratic convention of 1896 was dis
loyal to the tariff reform idea. That
convention declared for the free
coinage of silver and for a tariff for
revenue at one ana the same time,
and the very men who we're foremost
in insisting that strong free coinage
plank be incorporated in the plank
had been the most conspicuous ad.
Vocates Of the Wilson law. They
wore broad enough to understand
that party must stand for someth-
ing more than single iiea, and the
convention which nominated Mr..
Bryan so declared. The same Alt.
geld who is now leading faction in
Chicago has put buttons on his fol-
lowers aud labeled them Bryan
16 to l" had as much to do with the
making of the platform Of 1896 as any
one man in the Democratic conven-
ton. No one then charged that Alt
geld was luke warm In his advocacy
OF free silver, and yet Altgeld's sole
fight IN that convention was to have
incorporated in that platform a plank
denouncing government by injunction
and the interference of the federal
troops.
AS it was in 1896 30 it will be IN
1900. The delegates who will speak
for the Democratic party will be 10y
al bimetalists. They will be earnest
tariff reformers and will be ready to
denounce the entertainments OF fed
eral authorities on the liberties of the
people. This was Democratic doc
trine in 1896 and it will be Demo-
cratic doctrine in 1900. But as the
developments in the great Illinois
and other strikes caused the national
convention to declare against federal
interference in local affairs and make
that question an issue, 80 far as the
Democratic party was concerned, so
will the overcapitalization and the
unprecedented formation OF trusts
cause the Democratic party In 1900 to
demand their regulation by national
Legislation. And because the present
administration has plunged us into
an unholy war Of conquest and threat
ened the stability Of the republic
with pernicious policy of imperial
ism the Democratic party will speak
In such language that all the people
can understand what the policy of
the party will be il Entrusted with the
reins Of government.
There has not been a period an.
preaching national convention
since the war when there was 30 lit
tie friction among the Democrat 70.
garding the main planks in the ma
tional platform. And, just as the
Republican convention will declare
for something else besides the gold
standard, 80 will the Democratic oon-
vention declare for something beside
the free coinage Of silver, the cam
paign will be fought to a finish on
the issues Of the most concern to the
People.-Kansas City Times.