The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-10-28

T
Is Tssgos PREVIOUS PREsl-
pEMTi CAMPAIGNS,
4 GIVES Ills REAsoNs &FOR REMAIN
FJc WITH s7zH - REP.uBLlcAN
7ARIsY AND SOUND MoNEY
Us YEAR S
oLLoWs:
New YORK, October 3a2a1 ao4- - -.
am asked bys SO many Iuen in diff,
Eerent parts kof the country, who are
dent 81 earnes { and sincere in wish
ing be ght WI the @Gold s. or
Ianesf SRf on democrat. as view
ne s{si tuation, cannot s.tppcrt the
ticket this year, that Is
am constrain to ask he privilege
5Sssof wing m reasons publicly for the
orn1a Il Of IN w. correspondents
and Others imilar1y interested:
sThe Gold or Honest Money Demo,
view The situation, cannot
support the Democratic ticket this.
ssgear onsistently wi tn The prncip
1or fhien he fou in SEQ and ! 900;
4 tie princ fples for which he was
sssforcgd In selfTespect and loyalty to
Democracy tosever his relat TONS With
Dennoc tic party as organized At
chicago. our principles were
fh fi ghtfng for then, involving
sacrifc of party associations,
SSsSs1h are worth sustaining now; and
" s1Ilti the party reinyestss Itself with
truesDemocracy and the two neces-
sary HE'D cond1 ions; of which it di-
s Ted itself Sat Chicago in $50
nanael common honesty and com
mon sense which are essential to
SssaTefy.S National honor and dignity
canno consi silently support it.
Te the question involved in the
I1rinci Of honest money IS not 50
n acute it5 was then, the faet that
5sstha part Of Free Silver has bsaf 9Se7z
canfed the heresyS and refuss8
brace the Democratic dofttHinssoa
God "a ard ls1ssflrtlier
money guest ION s5yeets
He'd sand incomIs efe, and that the
Cod Standardsis safe only 50 far as
safegnarded&byit its friends, tanders it
SlncuInb ID y belief. upon those
who have carried i to the present
S8stage ofssuccess to stand by it until
sScompIeted and entrenched beyond
dang from the enemy To now sup
port the party that abandoned true
agDemocradc principles in 1886, and
stituted#th machinery of the par
an attempt to substitute for
those principles the Bryanite heresy,
would sbe to betray our cause by is-
noble surrend err. The ELECTION Of
Judge Parker, and the consequent in
Endorsement Of the action Of the ST.
Louis convention would be accepted !
by he} ma ority element, as repre-
scented he convention as an in
Edorse of the doctrine that 'rHE
sMONEY QUESTION IS SETTLED,
Whi chseYery Gold Democrat holds to
VA untrue. Y etit woul,l be treated as
settled Suntil i the enemies Of the Gold
aStandard, n in control of the party, as
settled unit the enemies of the Gold
#Standard, in control of the y, party,
Were strong enough tos 1ecrec ether
wise when the history of 1896 aud
1900 would be repeated, party 10y
s@alty securing 81 from Judge Parker and
This friends support Of the party
measure. This,S a repear, we cannot
risk The snake has evidently been
85scotehed 4 must be killed, by wise,
sound Affirmative legislation to be
secured only from the proved fearless
friends Of honest money.
$8ss aware as one correspondent
pleads, thatwe are all anxious to get
home again; but, take it only into
democratic association, and under the
SSprincipIes of true Democracy, Meth
Of ich predominant today in the
S8Democratfc party. We saw demon
tStrLouis that 10 per cent.
sof the convention stood for the here
ssyS Of 1896, and that of the 80 per
$cent: not Il per cent. stood unequivo-
zeal for the Gold Standard, as a
EpTinciple, or for necessary monetary
reform.
Not even the candidate, in his ia
$n1ous telegram denounced the doctrine
sssthic She supported in 1896 and 1900.
HE simply recognized the fact that he
could not reverse, that the Gid Stan
$dard had been esta which in
great majority of Democratic at
iterances since has been treated as
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