The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-08-12

can party was then criticising the Dem
ocratic administration of Mr.. Cleveland
for its effort to demOnetize silver.
In 1890 the Sherman act, providing
for the purchase of 100000 ounces of
silver monthly and the immediate in
| PRODUCTION of this large volume of sill
yer into our currency by coinage or by
silver certificates, passed Congress.
This was a Republican measure and
received the approval of a Republican
President. Silver dollars and silver
certificates in circulation in the United
States have been placed there through
these acts. The first the work of Dem
ocrats and Republicans, and the second
pre-eminently the work of Republic
cans.
THE situation was bad under the
Bland-Allson act; it was rendered
far worse under the Sherman act.
The Republican administration,
given power under a platform pledged
to silver, and critising Mr.. Cleveland
for opposing silver instead of protect
ing the gold standard, had by the pas
sage of the Sherman purchasing act.
almost brought the country to mono
metallism. The Democratic admins
tration under Mr.. Cleveland repealed
the Sherman purchasing act, put a
stop to the imitation of our currency
with deprecated silver dollars and
made possible the prosperity which
followed.
Had to He Gold Candidate.
mot to the Republican party but
to Mr.. Cleveland and his Secretary of
the Treasury, Mr.. Carlisle, more than
all others, is the country to-day in
debted for the stability and prosperity
which has come to pass under the gold
standard.
Both parties during past years have
advocated silver coinage, but against
the Republican party stands the charge
of the most dangerous silver legisla-
ton.
The world accepted the gold stand
ard. Our political leaders, Democrats
and Republicans, gradually learned
that bi-metallism is impossible; that
single standard is necessary.
THE nomination of Judge Parker
would have been impossible had not
the delegates recognized in him a gold
standard advocate.
THE wisdom, under present condi-
tions, of the gold standard having once
been recognized, will be adhered to. 1t
can form no issue in the present cam
paign. The telegram of our candi-
date to the National Convention only
confirmed the views of the overwhelm-
ing majority of the delegates and of
the voters they represented, that the
gold standard had been irrevocably
established. We should not allow the
Republicans to boast of what happen
ed under the conservative and gentle
spirit of President Mckinley and make
claims thereon for the election of the
present occupant of the White House.
Has not the man in Rough Rider
costume changed our treatment of
foreign countries?
HAS he not disregarded our repre-
sentative government?
Mckinley declared the day he was
murdered; The problem of more mar
6ets requires our urgent and imme-
diate attention #%% We cannot re-
pose in fancied security that we can
forever sell everything and buy little
or nothing. 49, The period of exclu-
siveness has passed.
Have not Roosevelt and his follow
ers adopted the motto as to the tariff
of stand patti
THE Senator from Massachusetts, in
! Difference, probably, to the petition be-
/ ing signed by Republicans as well as
Democrats all over his state has
claimed Republicans desire reciproc-
ity with Canada, but If so, why has
the Republican party done nothing to
accomplish it?
THE truth may be the declaration
in the Democratic platform We favor
liberal trade arrangements with Cam
ada and with the people of other coun-
tries, where they can be entered into
with benefit to American agriculture,
manufactures, mining or commerce. is
arousing the hopes of the people and
disturbing the Republican stand pat
ters.'
president Roosevelt has returned to
the days of 1868. He and his extreme
followers would renew sectional strife.
The hopes and the ties of the people
of all the states know no state borders
or sectional lines"