The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-08-05
REPUBLICANS AND cALasl1rY.

The Richmond Times. which finds little
or nothing 10 love in Organism, discovers
one thing especially gratifying in the
Kansas City platform. That is that there
Is no calmity howl in it. In 1895 We We're
told that the country was going to the
dogs and that nothing could save the trade
of the country from ruin except the open
ing Of the minis 10 the free coinage of
silver"
The Kansas City platform tells the
country exactly this. Ii reattirms and in
dorses the Chicago platform. which de-
clares that monometallism mas locked
fast the prosperity of an industrial people
in the paralysis of hard tines Accord
ing 10 this same Chicago platform, and
consequently according to the Kansas City
platform, the Act of 1873 has resulted in
the appreciation Of gold and .. correspond
ing fail in the prices of commodities pro-
ducej by the people n heavy increase in
The burden Of taxation and of all debts,
public and private, the enrichment of the
money-lendng class at home and abroad.
1,rostrationq Of industry ana impoverish-
nent of the people"
There is more calamity howl in the plat
form of 1900 than in the platform of 1926.
for TO ali the mutations of the latter have
been aided the new screams about inn
perialism and trusts. According to the
Kansas City lament the country is not only
going to the dogs, but to the deInnition
bowwows
The Richmond Times forgets that the
Kansas City platform is the Chicago plat
form plus other insanity In the Demo-
cratic view prosperity IS still locked and
can only be opened with q silver key
New York Sun.
The Sun is a strict constructionist and
by a strict construction of the Kansas City
platform its contention is true But the
Sun knows and everybody else knows that
the reaffir1nation of the Chicago platform
of 1896 is not 10 be taken literally. As Bill
Nye said about the imaginary porch in
the picture OF his .Asheviile house. st was
tackled on merely as a bit Of pleasantly
Conditions in 1890 are so different from
conditions in 1896 that the Chicago plat
form is an anachronisln. and nobody but
a wild Populist would attempt now 10 cx-
ploit Its calamity plan1s
There was calamity in the land in 1896.
and it is not strange that the cry Of cala1n-
sty was heard. Worilngmen were 1ranl;l-
ing around seeking &, job, the industries
of the country We're paralyzed. money had
gone into hiding places, and there was
such distress everywhere as the people
Of this country Aad rarely Known bQt the
day OF calamity is done and so the occu-
patton of the calamity bowler is gone.
There is no calamity cry, we insist. IN the
Kansas City platform because there is no
occasion for it. and the stumpec who
would now go out before an intelligent
audience and make such a calamity speech
as he made in 1895 would be laughed to
scorn. There is no calamity in the Kan
sas City platform. and that is why the
free silver plank is SO lonesome.
II seems 10 US that the calamity bowling
this time is being done by the Republicans.
we see it stated in The Republican papers
that il the Democrats win there will be
a financial panic and great distress in bus
mess. That factories will stop. that work
inernen will be thrown out Of employment
and that hard times will come again. Let
The Republicans have care. II they keep
,,n their calamity talk, they may create
q scare and shake confidence and SO bring
an calamity before election.