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one OF those occasional inter
walls OF rest from hopping first upon
one partisan foot and then on Other
assumes a judicial attitude toward
those democrats who. i'll 1870, de
cIined to accept the Chicago platform
and to support the candidacy oil MT
Bryan, mainly because OF the silver
issue. 1t seems that the esteemed
Globe Democrat of st. Louis mas
sneered at Mr. German for SAYING
that the passage Of the gold stand
ard bill will help Bryan III this year
campaign, since the new law Will pre-
vent him, if elected, from going INTO
currency experiments. Mr. German
was clearly right III this. But his
truthful words do not please the
Globe-Democrat Your thick and
thin partisan requires you to 90 tile
whole hog or nothing. Thus the
GlObe-DemOcrat says:
1T is true that the republicans,
trusted by the country, have put the
dollar OF the people on a stable basis.
They promised to do this, and 1t
stands practically accomplished. But
why democrats who helped to defeat
BRYAN should now turn to him, for
giving his past capital error on the
presumption that he will never com
nit another. and furnishing, for his
sake, the party that served them III
the last momentous presidential
year, is mystery that no mind ex-
cept one like German can grasp
1t is here that the esteemed Wash
ington Post comes to the defense OF
Mr.. German and to the rescue OF the
gold democrats.
They return, says the Post, ito
their party, not to Mr.. Bryan or any
other man. Their work with the re-
publican party is done. Are they
Furnishing the party that served
them Ii farmer seeing his neigh
Dor hard pressed for help to harvest
his crops voluntarily takes hold graf
uitously assists him one year, does
that generous helper punish that
neighbor if he attends to his own
business the next year? Did the re-
publican party in 1896 serve them
any more than they served that
party? 1t is believed that but for the
assistance rendered by the boiling
democrats the republicans would
have been defeated. Would that have
been worse for the allies than for the
party? If there be a debt of graft
tude due to either side of the alliance
liz it not due to the minor contingent,
the outsiders, the political enemies of
the republican party who, in a great
emergency, came in and saved the
day? To attack such |
OF them as decide to go back, now
that their mission is ended by the as
sured passage of the gold standard
bin, is not only illogical, but extreme
" ungrateful. 1t is like ambushing
a man who has loaned you money |
without interest because the time has
come when he wants it Nay, it is
like abusing a man who, in your dire
distress, has loaned you money be-
cause he can not or will not loan you
any more.
The esteemed Globe Democrat
would do well to ask itself Just how
the republican party has SERVED
those democrats who saved it in 500.
They took all the risks and dangers.
They bore the brunt of the battle.
The country secured against a de-
based currency by their act, done at
such cost to themselves, they had
some right to expect little cOnsid-
crate treatment of those they had
helped into power. In case the re-
publicans looked for an extension of
The alliance some show of Difference
was due them. No one of them who
was worthy of respect wanted office,
Of would have accepted it. But, men
are men; leaders of political thought
like to be consulted Ii, since the day
Of election in 1896, to this good hour,
the president has asked the opinion
Of any gold democrat on any public
question whatever, We have not heard
of it. He might at least have asked
Mr. Carlisle to dinner. He might
have made a stretch ofpoliteness and
invited Mrs. Cleveland to pay visit
to the mansion which she had been
the mistress for SO long time. There
is much in signals. Signals like these