New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-07-09
1TT4CkS PLATFORM.
World" Says Rejection of Gold
Plank Inlates AnOther OUerthr0zg.

The World to-day publishes an editorial in
which, under the caption of Shall Roosevelt
Have a Walkover." it says in part:
Have the managers of the St. Louis conven-
ton lost their senses? Do they want 10 give
Mr. Roosevelt a walkover in the election?
= With two thirds majority to nominate Judge
Parker it is incredible that they cannot control
a simple majority TO give TO him safe and sane
platform
Yet they present to the country the extraordi-
nary spectacle of permitting Mr.. Bryan, the
twice-defeated candidate and utterly discredited
leader of forlOrn nope, to bulldOze the COM
mittee on resolutions and the convention itself
into refusing a simple recognition of the &C
complished fact of gold Standard
If the question had not been raised silence
would have been bad enough. But after the
chairman of the convention had acknowledged
in his speech that the gold standard is here to
stay, and after Subcommittee plas form
had agreed UPON plank declaring that the
discoveries of gold have contributed to the
maintenance OF money standard of value no
longer open to question. removing that issue
from the field of political COntentiOn"-then to
reject this resolution and refuse 10 make any
utterance upon the question that has twice de-
feated the party is to invite another overthrow
THE World" repeats to Mr. HILL who weak
surrendered on This y-itaI issna when he oI1@b+
to have taken it to the floor of the convention
and reversed the unrepresentative vote, his own
admOnltiOn OF three days ago: Remember Elec-
ton Day. Remember it not in the rotten-bOr-
Ough territories with electoral vote, not in
the scattered mining camps and sure Republi-
can states, not In the securely Democratic
States of the South. Remember 1t rather in
New York. New-Jersey, Connecticut and the
other doubtful States whose electoral votes are
essential to Democratic success.
The World" firmly believes that there Is a
good chance to put Judge Parker in the White
House, not for four years only, but for eight IL
he can stand upon platform that will command
the confidence of the voters whose fidelity to
true Democratic principles led them to abandon
their party in the last two elections and II he
will come out from judicial secIusiOn and be-
come the real leader and mouthpiece of his
party in a campaign for reform 1t believes this
in spite OF the fact that Judge Parker voted for
Mr.. Bryan as q matter of regularity and did
not hesitate to proclaim the fact when he was
a candidate for Judge in 1897. But if TO this
fact or record is to be added the crushing handi-
cap OF a Bryanized platform on the money ques-
ton The World" sees no hope of his election.
We should deeply regret mis- defeat. sin
cereIy desire his election, not simply because Il
would mean the reha biltation of a great historic
party, but because It would put an end to poll
cies and tendencies that threaten the integrity
Of constitutional government in this country.
1t IS never too late to mend.
At its session to-day the convention can by a
majority vote adopt the monetary plank report
ed by the subcommittee and direct that IL be
made part of the platform.
Ten words from Judge Parker to the chairman
of the New-York delegation will insure the
adoption of a resolution that win make the plat
form safe and sane.