The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1900-04-19
ELECTROMAGNETIC.
Gold Democrats Find Nothing In Present
Conditions Which Commands
Their Approval.

Conditions which Commands
Their Approval
The painful position of the Gold
Democrats is indicated by the action of
a group of these homeless wanderers in
the world of politics at a recent meet
ing in Indianapolis. They hate Bryan
ism badly as ever; at least they say
they do, for in their recital of princi-
pies they express their adherence of
all the leading features of the Bryanis-
tic crusade of four years ago, including
the assaults made by the Chicago plat
form of 1896 on individual freedom, the
right of private contract, the independ-
ence and integrity of the federal judi
ciary, the authority of the president to
enforce the laws and to denounce its
advocacy of the radically wrong and
fundamental dangerous demand for
the free. unlimited and Independent
coinage of silver and gold by the Unit
ed States at the ratio of 16 to l. and
its reputation. at the instigation OF
Republican and Populist allies, of the
Democratic doctrine of tariff for rev
enue only.
There can be no compromise with
those who propose to support Mr.. Bry-
an or any other candidate on the Chi
cago platform
But it must not be supposed that
these Gold Democrats love Mckinley
more because they love Bryan less.
No; they find everything to condemn
and nothing to approve in the acts of
an administration accountable for the
most stupendous achievements in pros
perity and progress that the world has
ever known. This is the way they
look at it:
Recent events lead US to fear that
the continuance in power for another
four years of the Republican party, I'M
der its present masters, with its cen
Trailing policies, protective tariff leg
islatiOn and capitalistic tendencies,
would be disgraceful and calamitous,
and, above all, the people of the Unit
ed States cannot safely tolerate even
a suggestion that the inhaD1lants of
any of our territory are not entitled
to the right of trial by jury, to the ben
ehcent protection of the writ of ha-
beas corpus, to the freedom of religion,
to the personal liberty granted by the
constitutional prohibitions against
slavery, or to any one of those sacred
rights of person and property which
are guaranteed to all, not only by the
express words of the constitution, but
by those fundamental principles of lib
erty on which our whole system of
government rests.
One would think that the superior
creatures who got together at Indian
apolis could find it in their hearts to
say something decent about a party
and an administration which has just
placed upon the federal statute books
a law permanently establishing the
gold standard, a financial policy on
account of which these same Gold
Democrats were wild with anxiety in
the dark days of 1896. Common graf
itude for great service rendered in
warding off the menace of cheap dol
lars would seem to call for some slight
manifestation of appreciation and ap-
prevail the part of those who lay
awake nights four years ago because
of this identical menace, and who have
been shuddering more or less about it
ever since.
But no; there is nothing good in Re
publicanism, nothing good in Bryan
ism; and there you are. 1t looks as
though the country would have to de-
pend for absolute safety and certain
salvation upon political remnant
that will not cast one-tenth of one per
cent of the total vote next November