New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-07-09
date. That sort Of passing is much like passing
to the honors of party sage.
THE DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM.

Safe and Sane Democracy" was betrayed IN
the house Of its friends when the Democratic
National Convention adopted platform yester-
day which lodged the money question and
failed TO recant lin clear voice. or in any other
voice, the financial heresies Of 1896 and leoo'
as Mr.. Cleveland said in 1894, after the SENATE
had tried its hand at converting the wilson
Tariff bill into practicable, revenue producing
measure: THE counsels of the brave are blasted
lu their hour Of might Under the influence Oh
Mr.. Bryan's hypnotizing personality the aoVo-
Gates OF q courageous gold standard declaration
seem to have been soothed 10 sleep at 81 LOUIS
and the date for the return to safety ana san
ity," so freely advertised, mas been pushed Tor
ward on the calendar for at least four years.
The refusal OF the convention to accept the
feeble apology for abandoning free silver coin
age framed by Representative John Sharp Will
Jams and its decision to ignore the money
question entirely leave untouched and stlA In
binding force this radical declaration OF the
Democratic national platform Of 1900:
We reair ndorse the principles Of the ,s ns
O9a & aao 5 sha at pasfo@ for an
M d fhem.ess 'f% h Ps
price Level and as par, Of n ssen DImed
coinage Of silver and gold. the present legal ratio
10 without waiting for the aid or consent Oh
any other nation.
II is of course no hardship to q candidate ike
Judge Parker to ask him TO stand on PLATFORM
which refuses to recant free coinage hefesleS.
Judge Parker is understood to have voted twice
for William ]. Bryan and to have given aid ana
countenance to the Democratic partys eHort 10
force this country 10 silver standard. NO III
consistency on his part is involved in accepting
low n declaration which he accepted uncom-
plainingly in 1896 and 1900. He is reported by
ex-senator Hill as willing TO mount on any
platform TO accept anything suggested by the
wisdom" of the st. Louis convention. But
what of the heralds OF the new era or SAFETY
and sanity who have been supporting Judge
Parker's candidacy on the understanding that
under his leadership the Democratic party
would recant it's silver sOphistries IN clear
voice as 1t did in other days in the case OF It's
''greenback heresies or its heresies regarding
the amendments TO the Constitution? How
are they TO console themselves for their lost
illusions? The Evening Post reproachfuly
declares that ION anything short Of an aftrma-
''tion of the gold standard Judge Parker cannot
stand. Short of il the party has not CLEAN
"of hone before it." The latter statement is the
simple and unvarnished truth. But what Is
''rhe Post going TO do about it? VIII 1t ana
the whole element of safe and sane reOrgan-
izers eat their hopes and words? VIII they, too,
try to settle the money question by completely
ignoring it?
OF the rest Of the Democratic platform little
need be said. Except in two or three particu-
lars in which Mr.. Bryan pumped some ylgor
into it, it is an evasive, umid straddIe, saying
Il good deal''-as one of the statesmen who
helped to frame it confessed yesterday-"an
meaning very little" An income tax plank was
killed as set-off to the killing of the gold stand
ard plank. On most other issues OF consequence
the platform writer's succeeded in being either
ambiguous or colorless. Except in its surrender
to Mr.. Bryan's demand on the money question,
the resolutions committee doubtless voiced the
real sentiment of the convention. II prepared
as it was meant 10 prepared lightweight and
short-measure draft of principles, suitable for
the uses of an organization without fixed poll
cies and conducting operations this year even
more openly than has been its custom in the
past as "A mere conspiracy for spoils"