The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-10-28
MAaoRsJoEif9 BYRNE,, PRESiDENTs
DEMOCRATIC SOUND
IN ON LEAGUE E. 4 ~ til e
Mo8PREViousa 2REsl-s s
DENTIA AM PAlGMs, s53
sGiWEs EiIsgREAso ssFoR3REMAlH-
~ ~ REPUBLICAN REF. ~
EsARTYs AND soUND5M MONEY
S YEAR As
EoLLOW

be5 g1t, why The Gold or
Money Democrat, rs. view
tine tuat on. cannot support the
Demo ticket this $ ear that 1
am cons trained to- ask the privilege
.EgofS giving IA reasons publicly for the
I sinfo NATION Of my correspondents
ana others sfmi larry nterested.
odd or Honest NJ oney Demo
as eW$t he ituation cannot ar. ct
support me Democratic ticket this
year stentI he principles
for which he fought Sina1 Ss6 and 1900;
the principle for which he was
forced, IN se1frespect, ard #loyalty to
Demo sever his relations with
Democratic party as organized at
sgchicaso our principles We're
WORT rs hitting for then, involving
sacrffice Of party associations,
IN are worth sustaining now: and
gsilntil party reinyes1s itse.f with
triie Democracy and the two #neceS-
sary allie dsconditio ions, of which it di-
vested itself at Chicago in E $50
4 namely. common honesty and com
I mon sense, which are essential to
safety, i National honor and dignity
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES s9up pS't -
While the question involved in the
princ PIE OF honest money 81 not 50
4 acute as twas then, the fact that.
the party Of! Free Silver has ess SeS
canted I'll heresy aud refusssT
brace tn Democratic oc!Afna On
Cold standard wi ID e f.utller
fllatSt q money question sSas yets7
ssettIed and SincomI anu nat the
EsoId STANDARD is Safe only So far as
8 safeg nardedS by Its friends, lenders it
incumbent I'M m ~ belief, upon those
Who have carried it to the present
sstage#of success to stand by it until
3scompI eted and entrenched beyond
dangerfrom the enemy. To now sup
j port the part hat abandoned true
Demo- principles in 1886, and
pros titut@d the machinery Of the par
afysS in am attempt to substitute for
those principles the Bryanite heresy,
would be to betray our cause by ais-
noble surrender. The election Of
SJndge Parker and the consequent in
Of the action Of the st.
Louis convention, would be accepted
the ajority element as repre-
scented by the convention as an in
dorsement3:of the doctrine that THE
MONEY QUESTION IS SETTLED,
which every Go1dsDemocra- holds to
:sbe untrue Yet 1t gWoul.l be treated as
settle dsnnti$ the enemies of the Gold
STANDARD lin control of the party, as
settled until the enemies of the Gold
STANDARD, in control of the party,
were strong enough tos .iecree other
Sc4S Of n
1890 would ) he repeated, party 10y
atty securing from Judge Parker and
his frfendsEs support Of the party
measure. This, y repeag, We cannot
risk. The snake has evidently been
scot ched Il it$must be killed by wise,
sound firm alive legislation, to be
secured only from the proved fearless
friends of honest money
am aware as one correspondent
pleads, fhat8we are all anxious TO get
home again; but, take it only into,
5Democra association, and under the
principles of true Democracy. neith-
$Eer of Which5predominate today in the
SSDemocraticE party We saw demon
strated t%stTLouis that 10 per cent.
%of8the convention stood for the here
SySSCISSlo 5p,& eilS oO pea
Gent. not per cent. stood unequivo-
#cally for the Gold STANDARD. as n
principle. or for necessary% monetary
reform:
Not even the candidate, in his ia
nous telegram renounced the Doctrine
swhich4he$ supported in 1896 and 1900.
ssHe simply recognized the fact that he
could that the G.>ld Stan
$ydard had been established--which in
$sthe8 great majority of Democratic at
terancess since has been treated as
"a settled .squestion-and therefore
not under consideration; a fiction as
audacious and erroneous as Senator
8saill's bimeallic base substitute for
sound money.
+ We cannot consent 10 put such
men on guard. We can Judge them
safely only by their record and not
the eli: promises when seeking pow
The Democratic party mad the OPP
aportunity at ST. Louis to frankly and
l1onegtly declare for the doctrine Of
Demo racy on which I; 1T would
have popular supp ort;; a Ininol!ty