Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-06-17
TWELVE PAGES
SATURDAY. JUNE Ii. 1899.
WHAT DO REPUBLICANS WANT
US TO DO?

"A good plan in politics is to pursue
Just the opposite course that an oppos-
ing party recommends" says the
Staunton Spectator. The New York
Sun has been doing its best to rally the
free silver forces in the Democratic
party. to keep that question alive, and
to discourage anything like a compro-
mise between the gold Democrats and
the silver Democrats. Nothing would
please the Republicans better than for
the Democrats to conduct the campaign
of 1900 on the same lines that the cam
paign of 1896 was conducted.-Rich.
mond Times.
The Times is one of those curious
papers that always accuses another
paper of saying what always astonishes
the other paper very much, and also
all Its careful readers. The N. Y. Sun
has been seeking to impress on the
Times, the Louisville Courier-J ournal
and all other half-breed Republican
organs the utter stupidity, futility and
nonsense Of their attempt, encouraged
by the applause and quotation of the
great body of full breed Republican
organs (except the n. Y. Sun and one
or two others) to persuade Democrats
to commit suicide: that is. to throw
over Bryan for 1900 and put up some
"bank-runner, and to discard the Chi
cago platform Of 1896 and to adopt one
approved by billy-bynum and his In
dlanapolis deserters
The N. Y. Sun is the worst and most
open OF the enemies of Democracy. be-
cause 1t combines ability, honesty and
courage in degree much greater than
Nth ID
that there is no other Democrat to be
nominated next year but W. ]. Bryan.
and 1t says: it sees that the masses
and true leaders of the Democratic
party are for the platform of 1896, and
IT says so.-adding some expressions of
deserved ridicule and contempt for In
dianapolities who pretend to be friends
and advisers of Democracy. But the
Sun is mistaken against the man and
the measures of Democracy: and the
Richmond Times has no excuse for
quoting 1t as the friend of either, or as
rallier OF silver Democrats, or Of gold
Democrats. Here Is what the Times
can read in the Sun Cor something like
daily:
The Democratic program for 1900 IS
substantially made up already. 1t will
consist OF all the imaginary horrors
woes and delirium of the Chicago plat
form. reinforced by the new spectres OF
Trusts. militarism and anti-imperial-
ism. The Democratic party is nothing
but ghost, gibbering vainly from the
bushes at Progress striding cheerlly
by"
Speaking Of Bryan and the platform,
the Sun says in the same Issue, after
remarking 1t as "a strange thing in
politics" that the Democratic party
Shows "a characteristic sentimental at
tachment" for defeated candidates:
The Republican party does not make
the defeat of its nominees or the over
throw OF principles which they repre-
sent the key TO party favor. a de-
Ieateo Republican candidate may con-
tinue 10 enjoy the respect and regard
or MS party, but the circumstance
mat he has been defeated by the voters
is never accepted as proof either OF
craftsmanship or popularity. Another
ana more eligible candidate is selected
an nus place under the general theory
mat the principles which party pro.
IeSses are more important than the can
didate who defends or expounds them.
Aha mat the determination of the
VOTERS not 10 accept particular nomi-
nee as the best representative of GER
tain principles is a proof rather of his
nnavaliapiilty than OF their demerit
With the Democrats, however. II has
uniformly been otherwise"
That Is the uniform tone OF the SIM
foward Democrats: and vet. according