The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1900-08-02
GOLD DEMOCRATS
SO Called, Will Put Up No
Ticket This Year.
IMPERIALISM
Brings Them Back Into tho Demo-
cratic FOld.-Matters Of State.

The official determination of the
gold democrats not to put a ticket
in the field this fall, is great
triumph for the democratic party,
as it is evident that nearly all those
who voted for Palmer and Buck
ner in 1896, will this year return to
their old allegiance. Some few
gold democrats may vote for Nc
Kinley, but they will nearly all be
men who supported him in 1896
and not those who put up at the
halfway house in that year. AS
everyone knows the Palmer and
Buckner movement was engineer
ed with the direct intention of get.
ting votes for Mckinley and not
for its own ticket. Senator Pal.
mer, himself, towards the end Of
the campaign, advised his support
ers to vote for Mckinley instead of
for himself, and his appeal, coming
from an alleged democrat, was
specious enough to lead away many
men who would never have yield
ed to republican representation
This year there will be no chance
to repeat that sort of thing. The
leaders of this faction, who have
been continually breaking into
print with the boas full claim THAI
they are democrats, and that they
cannot support the party, can do
so no longer. They have shouted
this from the hustIngs whenever
they were favored with an audi
ence, and screamed it from the
street corners and in the market
places. With the disbandment of
their organization they are left
without distinct political entity,
and will be swallowed up in name
as well as in fact by the republican
organization. This renders them
comparatively harmless, because
without even pretence to the old
name they cannot confuse the pub
lie mind or deceive unthinking
people. In other words, the gold
democrats as an harassing factor
In national politics, have passed
out of existence. From now on if
they vote with the republicans on
the currency Issue, they belong to
the republican party, and if they
vote with the democrats on the
issues of imperialism and trust,
they belong to the democratic
party. They have no party of their
own any longer. Meanwhile, Mark
Hanna has tried TO split the anti
imperialists in twain by organizing
the national party, and so prevent
the whole body from endorsing
Bryan. The new party has appar-
emily dropped dead, however, and
it seems at present that its corpse
will have no effect.
1t is believed here that some.
thing definite will be known in re-
gard to China by the end OF next
week. Earl Lii has declared that
The ministers are safe and on their
way to the coast, and this state
ment should be proved or dis
proved before long. At present,
the State Department does not
know what to think. Officially, it
accepts Minister Wu's reports as
accurate and continues to send
troops to China and to urge an ad-
vance on Pekin by the allies. There
is no doubt that what news has
been received recently tends to dis
credit Chinese representations,
which offer no proof and may de-
pend entirely on mere assertion
Admiral Kempff has cabled posi-
lively that the Imperial authorities
are In sympathy with the Boxers,
and that, anyway, they are power
lees and incapable OF controlling
the situation. This IL the first off,
ciai declaration to reach the United
States Government contradictory