Evening star., 1900-09-24

will do so again while the Germans are too
patriotic, shrewd and too intelligent a class
of business men to be led away from the
republican party by and on the empty argu-
ments of a party which was never their
friend.
"It is so with the free silver issue in
Ohio. The democrats reaffirmed ii in the
Kansas City platform purposely to catch
the populistic vote. AS an issue it is abSo-
lutely buried in the business centers, and
it has no substantial effect with us.
"Ohioans stand by the flag and they in
dorse the attitude of the President on the
Chinese and the expansion questions. The
democrats have lamentably failed to manu-
facture the capital they hoped on these
questions, and have slipped up and fallen
down hard
The Ghost of the Democracy.
There is a lingering ghost of what was
once the democratic party, but it is very
ETHEREAL and sepulchral AS their party is
now organized it is made up of anarchists
iconoclasts, populists and every other ele-
ment which differs from the highest and
best type of American citizenship. 1t
stands now as 1t has always stood-against
the country, with Bryan as its boss. its
king and imperial dictator, who would
were he elected, dictate to Congress what
it should do just as he at present dictates
to his populistic-democratic party what it
shall and shall not do.
What better evidence of the democracy 8
deoadence can be adduced than its alleged
Issue of government by the consent of the
governed when its spellbinders utterly ig-
more the sad condition in the south OF the
diSfranchiSed negro voters, VINO, under the
Constitution they prate so much about, are
as much entitled to vote as any Wmte
man?
TT is rot, simply rot, and they know it.
1t is almost amusing this assumption by
the democrats as being the special guar
dams of our liberties and the self-appointed
and only keeper, as 1t Were of the Con-
nj
the other foot, and our people we'll know 1t.
The Safety of the Government.
.T prefer to trust the government in the
hands of the men who fought to preserve
the Union rather than in the hands Of
those who fought to ruin it, and 1t is from
this quarter that two-thirds of Bryan's
electoral votes came in 1896. 1t is this
element which dominates that party and
their talk now is the same as in 1S64-'65.
Recently May 1S, 1900, when Senator Till
man in the Senate publicly stated that 80
per cent of the southern people were sorry
they did not defeat the north and destroy
the Union. he must. as their representative.
have spoken the truth. Mr.. Tillman was
the most prominent man at the national
democratic convention. He was the oracle
and mouthpiece of that convention. He is
a confederate up to date.
"Ohio shares in the prosperity OF the
country through republican influences. re-
publican policies and republican govern
ment. Our party has kept its trust with
the people with consequent unprece-
dented condition of prosperity. 1t Is the
party to which the people look to preserve
their liberties and constitutional rights. 1t
was the republican party which made this
country one and indivisible today, and 1t
is the one party which stands for national
honor and the maintenance Of our rights
and privileges in all sections Of our do
main."