Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-10-02
Denver News.
DEMocRAcYs ONLY DANGER.

DEMOCRACY'S ONLY DANGER.
Party Leaders Caution the Voters
Against overconfidence.
Headquarters National Democratic
Committee, Chicago.
'Oyer-confidence," that. according to
wise political leaders, is the only dan
ger that Democracy has to fear in the
coming campaign. The most conser-
vatiye mea in the party have all along
anticipated a hard, uphill fight in a
large number of the Eastern States. 1t
was feared that in that region converts
would be hard to get. 1t was conceded
early in the campaign that the leaders
Of what has been termed the Gold
Democracy" would, with one accord,
support Mckinley. However, during
the last week the political situation in
the East has assumed an entirely new
aspect. David Bennett Hills dictum,
Il am Democrat" seems to have been
the slogan adopted by nearly all of the
leaders of the Palmer-Buckner move
ment of 1896 Being Democrats, and
being men with live consciences and a
keen sense of honor and patriotism,
they could not do otherwise than rally
to the support of those fundamental
principles of Democracy upon which
are grounded not only the Democratic
party but the fabric of our government
as we'll Whatever the fancied dangers
of free silver might be, they fade into
insignificance when compared to the
unutterable loss of free government.
Imperialism and militarism have been
termed "bogies," shadow issues"
"phantasies of light-headed politi-
cians," but within the last few days it
has become evident that they are re-
garded as of such vital importance that
the men who have been lauded by the
Republican press as the soundest and
ablest leaders of Democracy are will
ing upon those two issues alone to cast
their fortunes and unite their efforts
with the forces supporting the nomi-
nee of the Democratic party.
While the landslide in the East was
expected. it was not expected so soon,
and only the most sanguine entertained
hopes that the landslide would ever
assume the proportions of an avail
anche, but nevertheless the movement
has been started in the East that bids
fair to sweep away the dearest hopes
of Republican leaders.
Richard Olney, in an open letter, has
publicly announced his intention of
supporting the candidacy of Mr.. Bry-
an. Who is Mr.. Olney? Every school
boy could answer the question:: he was
Mr.. Cleveland's Secretary of State. He
was moreover man concerning whose
abilities. discernment, sound common
sense and patriotism the Republican
press in 1896 wrote volumes. He was
pointed to with pride as leader who
s.repudiated Organism" 1t will be in
teresting to notice the changed attitude
that the Republican press will assume,
Mr.. Olney will undoubtedly be termed
a cheap politician, a rattle-brained IA
matte; some may even go so far as to
term him a traitor, but let them say
what they will, the announcement of
Mr.. Olney. together with the declara-
ton of William l.. Wilson that he, too,
means to support the Democratific
ticket will have a tremendous effect not
only upon the campaign in the East but
upon the campaign in the whole Uni
ted States. 1t is confidently expected
that the next two weeks will see the
whole Gold Democracy" headed by
Mr.. Cleveland. in line for Bryan.
The coming out of Mr.. 0lney is one
of the most recent links in the long
chain of prominent men who have re-
nounced Mckinley and the interests
which he has officially subserved; he
is. however. the link which united the
hitherto diverging branches of Democ-
raey. Among other recent converts
may be named Thomas Wentworth
Higginson. Bourke Cochran. Webster
Davis, Senator Wellington, Patrick
Egan. Henry L. Johnson. John J. Val
entine, Patrick Collins. the friend and
adviser of Tilden and Cleveland.
The administration is evidently snsr
ring for wind in the little affair con-
corning the ceSSiOn of American terri
tory in Alaska to Great Britain. Secre-
tarv of State Hay has just announced
TO the miners in the district in question
that while it is true that the United
States has given not only them but
their lands TO Great Britain. that the
cesSion Is only temporary 1t was not
for nothing that the administration has
been engaged in negotiations with
Spanish diplomats for the last four
years. Hay can now inject the conven-
lent term tomorrow into all the af-
fairs of state with a grace equal 10 that
IF a CaStilian Don. Ii Will be remem-
0ered that the Spsniards were always
going 10 grant the demands made by
their Cuban subjects tomorrow"
Likewise they were going TO CRANE the
liberty demanded by the Filipinos to
morrow Bound 10 carry out the ira
ditions Of the worst government that
existed in Europe during the last years
Of the nineteenth century. il win be re-
membered that the occupation of Cuba
by American forces was TO be only
Temporary" We were going to retire