The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1904-07-11
BlU,DER OF DEMOCRATS


World, the leading Democratic paper
of the Empire state:
Have the managers of the st. Louis
convention lost their senses? Do they
wan to give Roosevelt a walkover In
the election? With a two-thirds ma
jority to nominate Judge Parked it is
incredible they cannot control a simple
majority to give him a sane platform.
yet they present to the country the
extraordinary spectacle of permitting
Bryan, twice defeated candidate and
utterly d~iscredited leader Of a forlorn
hope, to bulldoze the committee on
resolutions and the convention itself
into refusing a simple recognition of
the accomplished fact of the gold stain
dard. Yet the World firmly believes
hat there is a good chance to put
Judge Parker in the White House, not
for four years only, but for eight, if he
"a stand upon a platform that Will
command the confidence of the voters
who's fidelity to true Democratic pin
ciples led them to abandon their party
In the last two elections, and If he will
come out from judicial seclusion and
become a real leader and the mouth
piece of his party In a campaign OF re-
form.
1T is never too late to mend At Its
session today the convention can by
majority vote adopt the monetary
plank reported by the subcommittee
and direct thai it be made part of the
platform.
Ten words from Judge Parker to
the chairman of the New York dele
resolution that will make the platform
safe and sane.
"Will the majority rule? Will the
leader lead? Shall the Democratic
rarity have a hopeful lighting chance?
Or shall Roosevelt have a walkoverY
1t is for the convention in it's last hours
70 say"
The New York Tribune says editori-
ana sane Democracy was betrayed in
The house OF its friends when the
Denoc. attic national committee adopted
q platform which d dyed the money
question and failed to recant 'in a
lear voice." or in any other voice, the
financial heresies of 1896 n 1900. 1t
is. of course, no hardship to a can
stdate like Judge Parker to ask him TO
.ecant the free coinage ne esy. Parker
Is understood to have voted twice 70
William j. Bryan and to have given
aid and c~ountenance to the Democrat
ic party's effort to force this country
TO the silver standard. No ~inconsisr-
ency on his part is involved in accept
ing now the declaration which he ac-
cepted uncomplainingly In 1896 and
1907
The Times (Dem.) says: ION Bry-
ans plato. m Judge Parker will never
- A1<z1 - -.A,
and he must make it promptly if he
would stay the tide of detection. The
convention expressly refused to de-
clare for gold, thereby confessing that
Democracy Is not cured of the free
SILVER craze. If Parker should feel thal
custom and prescription 70. bid a can
didate to avow principles which his
party has explicitly repudiated then.
before the convention adjou- ms today.
he ought to peremptoiily decline the
nomination. Parker must understand
that in making his anvas on this
platform without public profession OF
his personal belief in the wisdom and
permanency of the existing moneta.y
standard he cannot expect to receive
the supper and votes of he sound
money Democrats of the east. They
will desert him by tens of thousands
The Sun (Dem.) of Saturday says ed
itosially: by a policy of continued
silence. 1t is true. he (Parker) has put
IL out of his own power to remedy the
fatal defect in the platform by a tardy
~. sonal declaration for the gold STAN
dard. But the attempt to remove the
question of sound money from partisan
disposition has failed. It's continued
existence is loudly proclaimed by the
difference between the two platforms.