New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-04-16
LACK OF DEMOCRATIC SANITY"
Shown by Mr.. Cleveland's Free Trade and
Mr.. Bryan's Free Silver FaIlaeies.

To the Editor OF The Tribune
Sir: Your issue OF the 9Th inst contains a very
able. Instructive and appropriate article comment
ing on sx-President C1svelands discovery Of two
methods by which he believes the Democratic
party can prove its return to sanity" No man
has ever announced a soCnder conclusion than Mr.
C1eveland's. adjudging the party with which he IS
identified to be the present time insane: and
it has the unqualified approval OF every RepubU-
can on this continent, and will probably be in
dorsed by a great many Democrats before the can
Vass closes next fall Mr.. Cleveland has done well
by discovering tbs true condition Of his party at
the present time, and. II he investigates further
and discovers and announces that Il has been con-
tnuously characterized by the same lack of
sanity for more than fifty years. he will DO still
better.
Our ex-Presidens assumes that there has been
q tine when the mental condition OF his party has
been sound II he inform the public when
during the last fifty years. Il that safe and
conservative Democratic principles" have approx
mated any nearer TO sanity than free trade with
such revenue laws that the government was COM
PEELED to issue ard sell its bonds and incur an
enormous Increase OF public debt to pay its cur
rent expenses In time OF peace, with an fntsrnaI
revenue statute enacted that the United States
Supreme Court declared unconstitutional and an
nulled. the whole country at the tine realis-
ing ono OF the most general and distressing bust
ness Expressions during the whole Of his last al
rniniStratioD that this or any other country has
ever knownI or the absurd and mischfsvous fall
ratio OF 16 to 1. advocated by William J. Frvan
and made the prominent and primary Democratic
principle In our two last national elections thera
would be some reason to suppose that his homes
may be realized
OF all that enormous multituds who supportsd
the Democratic platforms adopted and ths tickets
nominated at Chicago IN 1856 and at Kansas CITY
IN 1865. whom Mr.. Cleveland apparently regards as
non compos ments and IS hopeful OF their recover
ing sanity" the most serious individual case "a
OF Rryar
remarks IN recent interview have been correctly
reported he has no higher estimate OF Mr. CIeve-
lands sanity than Mr.. Cleveland has OF his
Mr.. Cleveland and Mr. Bryan are two eminent
gentlemen. and each the pre-eminent leader OF one
OF the two antagOnisJo factions OF the same party
Colonel Henry WattersOn. OF THE Louisville Cou-
rer-Journal." was reported not long go to have
described them as the upper and neither mIstones
ground and by whom 1t is likely to be defeated
each enarnour.d OF ar absurd frnpractica nj -,
chevous and odious political fallacy that will incur
any other party that adopts it.
Absurd as free trade and free silver are they are
among the minor innumerable preposterous ideas
that the Democratic party and Its prominent rep
resentatives have continuously for years submitted
70 the people or tnlS country Tor consideration and
acceptance II - the only political party IN any
has ever been devoted to UNFOLDING human slavery
In its councils secession taught. as a legal
right, IN colsOnance with which disruption OF the
ton OF the most prominent pemocrats i5 tb d p0I-
try by bold insurrection were attempti1S 70
maintain nation at Richmond Va de-
voted exclusively to the promotion OF human
slavery-one OF the most fl-advised political ad-
ventures in the history OF mankind-the Democrats
leaders in the loyal portion OF the country assem-
bled In national convention In 1854 at Chicago and
In aid OF that mad scheme shamefully and shame
lessIy declared the for the Union a failure"
y Democratic Chief Justice OF the Supreme Court
Of the United States announced from the bench OF
that high tribunal that "a negro has rights that
a white is bound to respect, and that cruel
and Infamous sentiment received a general Demo-
cratic Endorsement. Kindred absurdties by proml-
nent Democrats. collectively and individually were
C1lrr and
tiOn with confident expectation OF their acceptance
That the people OF this country had no right 10
elect anybody President OF the United States In
1870 but Democrat; that after the election that
year IL was intOlerabe to live under the national
government of this country, while the baboon from