The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-10-14
'srErNa sPoorks.

The Hartford Courant is seeing spooks. That Is nothing new for New England, for ghosts and witches used to enter into their daily biu of fare. We thought they had all been exor- cised. but The Courant discovers nest of them in contemplating the possible success of Democracy. / It admits that Secretary of the Treasury appointed by President Parker would be sound money man, and that such appointee would do nothing to disturb or imperil the gold standard. In this The Cou- rant only does Judge Parker simple justice. He is as sound on the finan- ciaI issue as Mir. Cleveland himself. and if he is elected President we nave no shadow Of reason for doubting that his cabinet will be of men who are in thorough accord with him on that is- sue. The danger is to come from an- other direction, as The courant sees 1t. and in order that we do 1t no injustice we copy at some length as follows:
 The capture of the House is a much less hopeless enterprise for the Demo than the capture of the Presidency. If 1t gets the one and fails to get the other, Theodore Roosevelt and the veto pen win still be % on guard a, dgsy ssy p.no. no. cratic party were to get both House and Presidency in next months cleo tion. The Democratic representatives party caucus. They come from dis in isss and 1900. Many of them. sharp Williams for one=are prqfessso bly, they would not bring. forward 3 bill to disestablish the gold standard outright: that would not be polite, suppose they were to bring forward and pass and send to the Senate bill assailing the gold standard by indirec- ton. For instance. a bill making 1t ury, at time when there are small mountains of idle and unwanted silver dollars in the governments vaults. to ppSrehaser pS haU sre of silver sailio on the gov ernments account. Most of the Demo cratic Senators and some Of the Repub- lican Senators are veteran silver men: undependabie. Free coinage bills have passed the Senate again and again. With Roosevelt and his influence out reason son for feeling any assurance that such silver-purchase bill Cor any bill with the unsound money taint in t) would fall in the Senate7
 That is a sure enough spook con- jured up by our Yankee contemporary. That paper probably is ignorant of the fact that the South is cured of it's free silver mania, and q House of Represen- tatives dominated by Southern mem bers would be as little likely to pass any kind of free coinage measure as g Republican House would. In fact. we believe the Southern Democrats can more safely be trusted with the pres ervation of safe monetary standard than the Republicans can. The Cou- rant evidently thinks the same way. for 1t hints very strongly that a Re- unless Roosevelt should be there to brace its spinal column. That is not saying much for The Courant's polit- teal brethren, by the way.
 But that isn't all the ghostly vision The Courant sees in the near future. 1t sees a Democratic House enact bill in the interests of the free silver cranks, and a weak Republican Senate concur in it. Then the bill goes to President Parker. and what will he do with it7 He would be sorry to see it. The Courant does him the justice to ad- init, but there it would be. the work of his party friends in the House. con- cured in by the Senate" and what will he do with 1t? The Courant seems to think he would scoot under the bed. make a break for the woods or sign the bill to avoid offending his party.
 We can assure our ghost-seeing con- temporary that 1t may go to sleep In peace. No Democratic House is going to disturb the gold standard, and if 1t should do so President Parker would not approve the bill. If The Courant can conjure up nothing more real to disturb its slumbers than that 1t may put out the lights and go to sleep.