Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1901-07-11
TIE NEED OF A NEW PARTY.
!. sterllng Morion's con.ersalIve.

]. Sterling Morton's Conservative.
When neither OF the national partisan
organizations 10 the United States rem
resents any principles or policies OF
pure and uudehled patriotism, third
party is needed.
The Republicans of the country are
organized into large machine for
making and getting Offices, and the
whole aim and object of the managers
and operators OF this machine is TO
better their own political and financial
affairs without regard to the general
welfare. The recent appeal of Foraker
to an Ohio convention OF place and
plumber hunters illustrates the low
grade of intelligence to which the
craftsmanship OF which he is lumi.
nous type, addresses itself. In that
speech Mr.. Foraker ignores facts in
finance and history Of the country, and
utters absolute falsehoods as truths,
He knows, and all decent. thoughtful
citizens admit, that the statements made
in that harangue, as to the carsee Of
the panic of 1893, are lies. Primarily
the cause of that financial cyclone was
the Blaud-Allispn act of 1875. 1t was
an act 80 dishonest and wicked that
acting President Hayes vetoed it and
bdN6 CuRtTb ulbuSWbTaDlt reasons
why it should not become law. Bur
over his just veto, by the votes of Me-
Kinley and other Getty partieaus, the
bill became n law.
1t was a disastrous failure. IL did
not, by the coinage Of silver. at this rate
of four millions OF collars a month,
keep up the bullion Price of that meial. :
Or the contrary, it declined daily.
Then came the next makeshift, the SO.
called Sherman act, also Republican
measure. By the operation of this law
the government became silver junk
shop. 1t received silver bullion up to
about four million ounces month, and
paid for it at the market price In treas
ury notes. 1t issued warehouse receipts
for pig silver to circulate as money.
The two acts named-the nd-Aliison
act and the Sherman actT-put so much
bad currency afioat that good money,
under the jnexorable operation Of the
Gresham Jaw, fled the country.
All that Fire A larui FORAKER attrib-
utes to Mir. Cleveland and his slectinn
is refuted by Mr.. Cleveland's first adj
ministfation. Ii was a successful. clean
and economical management OF public
affairs. 1t quit business with between
three hundred and four hundred mil
lions Of dollars in the national treas.
ury. The talk Of the time was upon tie
question, what shall we do with our
surplus money IN the national treas
ury?"
In March, 1889, the Harrison admin.
istiaticn began a solution of thst prob
lem. In four years the surplus had
disappeared. In its stead deficiency
and vacuum had materialized. Tie
\ Las e.. -
Mr.. Cleveland had yanishaa and this,
too, under The benign rigor, ia stop
| ping profitable trade, of the Mex inley
tariff. These facts are not overthrow
by the yaparings OF Fire Alarm For
aker, whose pedigree, political. is kept
by the Chicago Record Herald.
In March, 1888, the second admins
tiation of Grover Cleveland found that
four years of Harrison and Mckinley.
ism as to tariff duties on imports. bad
drained the treasury dry. 1t found
debts due, the payment Of which had
been postponed by Secretary Foster for
weeks and months. 1t found not enough
money TO pay those debts and meet cur
| rent expenses. 1t found letters from MIR.
Foster and positive orders from him an
to the issuance oil bonds upon which tc
borrow money with which to run the
| government. But the Harrison admin
istration stood off" creditors, like an
intending absconder, until it ESCAPED
into history. 1t left nothing in the
treasury, where four years previous Mr..
Cleveland left three hundred millions.
And now Fire-Alarm Foraker. whose
vareer was exploited as that Of fakir
and fraud by kohlsaat in the Times
Herald, of Chicago. only a short tim
ago, attempts with mendacity and
brayado, to obscure the truth and oblit
crate the facts of history with flatulent
declaration. Surely new party is
needed. For Justice is itself the
great standing policy of civil society;
and any eminent departure from it,
under any circumstances, lies under the
suspicion OF being no policy at ALL
What is the policy Of either party to-
day? Who can map it out?, Following
either an alleged ieputlicanism or an
alleged democracy as now run, where
will this republic bring ups