Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1900 — WOLCOTT'S VARIEGATED VIEWS. [ARTICLE]

WOLCOTT'S VARIEGATED VIEWS.

“We have made advances enough (to other nations). TJiis country can better afford than any other to enter upon the contest for commercial supremacy with gold as its standard, and for us the time has come to give fair notice to the world that we, too, make gold our standard and redeem our obligations in that metal. For twelve yeats the platforms of the party have declared In favor of the use of gold and silver as money. The logic of recent efents, together with the attempt of the Democracy to drag down the question from its international character, to associate it with every vagary of Populism and socialism, aud to drive this country to an alliance with Mexico and China, as an exclusively silver-using country. Ims Impelled our people to this settlement of this problem, and the recent action of Congress has eliminated the danger which its further agitation menaced. “May I. a Western man. add another word? The passage of thk* bill, which received the vote of every Western Republican in Congress, marked the termination, forever final, of any sort of difference between Republicans of the East and of the West growing out of currency problems. Even if the stern logic of events had not convinced us, our deep nnd abiding loyalty to the principles of the party, our belief that the judgment of its majority should govern, would lead us to abandon further contention."—Senator Wolcott at the Republican national convention, June 19. 1900, “No sectional horizon obscures our view. If rhe content for the people is to !>e won. It must be because against the selfish demands of the East are arrayed the united votes of the South and West. The fertile acres of your section wait for the plow of bandman; so do. ours. You need cA|4tal for the devekqvmont of your great resources; so do we. Both sections alike need fair prices for the products of the farm and a stable aud sufficient currency. “It Is for us, standing together on this great question, to save our common country from greater suffering and Impoverishment than even the horrors of war could inflict; and by our united votes to maintain, not alone the standard of both gold and silver contemplated by the constitution and consecrated by centuries of usage, but to maintain, as well, the standard of American manliood.”—From Wolcott's speech In the Senate, Aug. 31, 1893. “The administration assured us that, it looked forward with ardent and hopeful anticipation to the time when fold and silver would go hand in hand, "tne sure jof national credit. This was for Western consumption. One little qualification was added—that it would be necessary to secure the consent of other nations. England included; a consent we are as apt to secure under existing conditions and with the methods employed as we are to catch larks when the heavens fall. As if Great Britain, which demonetized silver seventy-five years ago, and has thrived on it at the excuse of her own colonies and other nations ever since, would be apt to change her policy until we had demonstrated our Intention to adopt the double standard. “It makes but little difference who has strangled silver coinage. It has been apparently effectually garroted, and each party as to this measure hat become what Disraeli once charged the Tory party with having become, ‘an organized hypocrisy.’ But, before long, unless all signs fail, each side will Imj anxious enough to unload the responsibility upon the other, for some day the people will have an inning.”—Wolcott’s speech In the Senate, April 6, 18it2.

East Ih n Factor* Owing to the issues which have sprung up during the last‘four years under the Republican administration the East Is going to be an important factor in the Presidential campaign. It is evident that the Democrats have gained greatly in strength at the East, says the Chicago Democrat, and that New York and New Jersey may be considered as reasonably certain to go Democratic next November. In 1806 New York gave McKinley 268,000 votes over Bryan, and that was such a tremendous republican majority that'Democrats were fully Justified In calling the Empire Stale “the enemy’s country.” But In 1898 there was a marvelous slump in the Republican majority which sank to the slender total of 18,000 majority for Roosevelt. Since then Democracy has been gaining steadily, and it will be surprising If the small Republican majority is not wiped out this year. New York has 36 electoral votes, and these, added to the 20 expected from Kentucky and Maryland, would make 56 and put the Democrats In a position of exceeding opulence as to votes. As for New Jersey, that State gave McKinley 88,000 the advantage of Bryan In 1896, but in 1898 the slump from Republican majorities showed that the grand old party’s majority had fallen to less than 6,000. Now, with New York, New Jersey, Maryland and Kentucky properly swung over, the McKinley electoral majority of 95 would be converted into a Bryan lend of 37. Democrats can no longer sny that the East Is “the enemy’s country.” The Difference. Bryan la the man of the people, of the constitution and of popular Divertv. McKinley is the man of the great corporations, of classes that would l>e greater than the constitution and of special privileges to the wealthy few, which are gradually destroying popular liberties and open opportunities for all. —Danville (Ill.) Tresa. < -