The sun., 1900-08-20

did the country so much harm for
years prior to and down to the enact
ment of the gold standard law of
March IA, 1900. The only way to
insure the continued stability of that
legislation is to defeat the Bryan
ticket in November and elect Repub
lican sound money majority in the
next House of Representatives.
COMMENTS OF THE NEW YORK
PRESS.
The way 10 defeat Free Silver, and
the only way. says the Troy Daily
Times, is to vote against Bryan. There
are some who have thought that If
elected Bryan could not accomplish
his schemes of financial disturbance
because there would be a gold Sen
ate during his administration. That
is comfortable hope, but it is not
sure one. A silver Senate is not
an impossibility, and there is even
| less impossibility of silver House.
1t is essential to the cause OF sound
| money, continues the Times, and every
sound money man should recognize
that fact by his vote, that there shall
, be man in the White House who can
be relied upon to do what Grant did
when Congress sent him an imitation
bill. So long as there is a possibility
of Congress with slender majority
or no majority at all for sound money,
the paramount issue" for every voter
who wishes to keep the country and
himself out of financial lunacy, bust
ness adversely and moral degrada-
tion, is to keep Bryan, now Populist
and formerly Greenbacker, out of
the White House, and Stevenson, now
Bryan Democrat and always fat
money Democrat, out of the presiding
officers chair and casting vote in the
Senate.
The New York Journal of Commerce
and Commercial Bulletin, careful
and conservative business journal, has
been trying for some time to disabuse
the minds of friends of sound money
of the confidence that Bryan in the
White House would be powerless to
oyerturn the gold standard and substi-
tute the forty-odd cent dollar. The
Journal of Commerce says:
Raymond e. Dodge, in Money" for
August directs attention to vitality
important phase of the political situa-
tion, the chances of the silverites
gaining in the Senate as well as the
House of Representatives. We have
pointed out this danger more than
once. and we shall frequently recur
to it, because there are persons in the
country who are trying to bully theiI
consciences into letting them vote
: for Mr.. Bryan by assuring their in
J ward monitors that the Senate will
defend the gold standard law. 1t is
! almost impossible that Mr.. Bryan
should be elected and that the House
2 of Representative should not be Of
e his complexion. The gentlemen who
! are contemplating the sacrifice of the
: real, substantial, vital interests of the
t country for the sake of gratifying
0 their feeling of repugnance to the
!. President do not pretend that thu
e House could be depended on; they try
S to pin their faith to the Senate. w,
L have shown that nine of the Senators
: who voted for the gold standard Law
II have been defeated for reelection, o.
/ are bimetallsts, or are from States
e which the silverites can carry if the.
l. can elect Mr.. Bryan at all, and thes,
l. nine are among those whose success
i, ors will enter the Senate on Marcl
" 4 next. Mr.. Dodge makes the anay
a. sis of the Senate ON different plan
II but with the same result. He find
d. for the gold standard on March 4
st 1901, thirty-nine Senators, including
d Mr.. Kyle, who is an independent, wit
ID leanings toward silverism and POP
,f ulism, but just now lined up with til
l. sound money Republicans, forty oppc
nents of gold and eleven seats il
c. doubt. 1t will be determined this fal
ut whether these shall be filled by SCUM
IL money men or silverites.