The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-08-17

to be won by calling it traitor" and
'scoundrel," and showing it the door?
And whatever the event, wherefore these
insults? Do these party madmen think
that with epithet-mongering they serve
silver? Silver is gone-a prisoner in
the senate Jail. And who lost it? The
West-today SO fond of party splitting
and foul names. The West has lost
silver to the enemy. Therefore it should
have more of modesty; it should lean
more to sackcloth and less to sarcasm.
1t should take advice, not give it. Sill
yer for five years has by Western failure
gone where the senate woodbine twineth
Nor is to have release. Wherefore
then, go ringing senseless silver bell
to scare away the game? Why beat the
tom-tom of the bursted past? OF what
profit is that fustian, SO constant on the
vapid rostrum of the land, which be-
gins: Il would rather suffer defeat with
silver, than to win a victory"-and so
on ad nauseam, when silver has already
met defeat and wears a time-lock?
For one year our so-called leaders"
haven't said one healing party word.
Not one syllable for harmony has pro-
ceeded from their narrow lips They
say it's the Gold Democracy" that's
raising party Cain. This is bosh! The
so-called Gold Democracy" isn't utter
ing word; it's tending to it's local busi-
ness; it's saying nothing and saving
wood. Incidentally, while the silver
West is slipping, and falling, and blum
dering, and hurting names, the Gold
Democracy '-sO-styled-is getting it's
various states, lost in 90, back into
wherever there's Democratic strife, and
hubbub, and riot, and uprOar, it's being
fomented and sent forward by the silver
folk. The whole end and aim Of silver
effort would seem to be to kick every
body but itself out of bed. Thus, it is
in Boston, in New York, in Baltimore,
in Louisville, in Chicago, in St. Louis, in
Indianapolis, and the states of which
these cities are the citadels. Not one
word for union-everything for split!
One would suppose, to listen to the silver
folk of these towns-and silver stunned
and bound, a prisoner in the senate
that their last, first eagerness was for
overthrow in 1900. Perhaps it is. If
they keep on they are like to be graft
fed. They are doing the best work for
Mckinley of any between the oceans.
There be one matter which no one
need forget. The silver folk now
busy splitting Democracy in the
East aren't upholstered to stand de-
feat any more than those they calumni-
ate. Let every tub stand on it's own
bottom-every man skin his own eel!
Do you suppose that you can make the
New York Democracy abide Sixteen to
One," which lost the state by 246,000-
which lost the city for the first time in 40
years in a national election by 10000!
The New York Democracy is no such
simple Simon of politics. It will ac-
cept you as candidate; demands you as
candidate. But it is not for Sixteen |
to One" 1t has recovered the city, and
next time will reclaim the state. de-
spite the frantic efforts of local silver
folk to make party breach and lose 1t.
Boston is a hot-bed of anti-imperial-
ism. Democrats and Republicans of
worth and moment are alike against |
that sceptred doctrine of McKinleyism.
This is true Of all New England. Those
who style themselves Democratic lead
ers" in those parts would more deserve
the name were they to spend their en-
ergies and time, not in throwing Demo-
Gratis out of the party, but in helping
nti-imperialist Republicans in. In New
York, in Baltimore, in Indianapolis, in
st. Louis and in Louisville, the cry is
as we'll as "Anti-Imperial-
ISM" Those self named nOblemen OF
Just now so busy going to
down in it, shouting "Silver!" when
they've lost silver, might find good en-
ploy If, instead of studying to diminish
the party and make its numbers fewer,
they would go to the enlistment of
those antitrust and anti-imperialist Re-
publicans who stand all about. But no
unless we can find a "boss"-one big
enough and stern enough and strong
enough to drive these bandarlogs into
q corner and silence them, it would be
asking too much to look for them to
wax wise, and wordless, and active
all at once. It's about their
only way to be great. In the East, at
least, these folks Of tin-pan politics are
not the natural leaders Of their tribes
When the party in these Eastern states
comes ali together for serious work,
they cut a slender figure. They make
but a puny, not to say pulseless force.
You, who are to be the nominee, and
whose all is to stand the hazard of the
throw, should take some order. That
vou do so is Of warmth and personal
moment to you. Affairs today are in a
childish snarl. What goes on? The
rational committee should be met and
hecked in its usurpations, and told it's
imits It should not pass unchallenged