The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-08-03
WHO ARE THE PATRIOTS?


The Review says: 1.-THE best and
most patriotic of gold Democrats give
it nomination of third ticket no en-
couragement and those who do are sim
ply tools of Hanna and the administra-
| ton. We see no occasion for our
neighbor to thus misstate facts. The
gold Democrats who favor a third
ticket are neither the tools of Senator
Hanna nor of the administration, but
rather are men who feel that they can
not vote for either Mckinley or Bryan.
Among the leading Democrats who
oppose the placing of third ticket in
the field are Grover Cleveland, w. G.
Whitney and Dan Lamont. The Democ-
racy of these gentlemen is unques-
toned. According to the view of our
neighbor, they are patriotic Demo-
Gratis. Yet they have either publicly
or to their friends announced the fact
that they intend to vote direct for
VIM. Mckinley. Holland, the New
York correspondent of the Chicago
Inter ocean, says that the close friends
of Grover Cleveland have in their pos
session letters lately written, in which
he opposes the placing of a third ticket
in the field because it will contribute
to the election of VIM. J. Bryan. He
says that Mr.. Cleveland states that all
gold Democrats should vote direct for
President Mckinley. or refrain from
voting and that he intends to vote for
Mckinley. Now will our neighbor
state who are the "tools of Hanna and
the administration, and will it allege
that Grover Cleveland, who but few
years ago, was its patron saint, is one
of them, and that Dan Lamont and W.
G. Whitney are others?
The fact is that the gold Democrats,
as whole, are going to vote direct
for Mckinley and Roosevelt this year.
HOLLAND, - in his letter, above quoted
states that all through the east the
movement is equal to or greater than
it was in 1896. Yesterday the Mime
apolis Tribune published interviews
with gold Democrats at Duluth which
shows that there is no break in the
gold Democratic ranks there. There
was a hope among gold Democrats
previous to the holding of the Kansas
City convention, that the silver folly
might be dropped, and other issues
taken up, on which Democrats might
unite, but the insertion of the silver
plank killed this hope. And even if
it had not, the declaration upon i'm
perialism and against expansion, would
not have thoroughly united the party,
as thousands of gold Democrats take
no stock in the Bryanite position there
on, but thoroughly agree with the
policy of the administration toward
the Philippines
Another prominent gold Democrat is
John G. Carlisle who was Cleveland S
secretary during his last administra-
ton. Carlisle was for years the CEN
trail figure of Democracy and one of it's
ablest opponents. He has declared his
intention of voting direct for McKin-
ley and Roosevelt He declares that
not only should Bryan be defeated, but
that he should be beaten overwhelm-
ingly, and that his defeat will be as
much of a victory for Democracy as it
will be for the Republicans. The sue
cess of Bryan, he says, will mean the
Populizing of Democracy under
Bryan's influence, and it's entire de-
parture from the paths of Jefferson,
Jackson and Tilden.
While there are some gold Democrats
who have gone back to the party and
will vote for Bryan because they
think the shadowy imperialism is more
| important than that of 5O-cent silver,
yet for every one that so does, several
who voted for Bryan four years ago,
will vote against him this year. His
ranks will not be multiplied but
rather depleted. Principle with old
line Democrats is not all dead yet.