People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1894 — CHANGING ABOUT. [ARTICLE]

CHANGING ABOUT.

The Two Great Parties In the Country Appear to Be Swapping Ground. There seems to have been a curious transposition of parties on the money question. Taking the attitude of the two parties in Pennsylvania, for example, we find that the republicans have moved up to the ground occupied by the democrats in the last presidential election, while the democrats have retrograded to the position occupied by the republicans in 1873. While there is this reversal of positions in the eastern states, it is curious to note how close the two parties are getting together on the money issue in the western states. For illustration, take the platform of the Missouri democrats and the platform of the California republicans. put them side by side, and for the life of you one could not tell which is which without reading the label. The significance is that the people of the west are practically united on this one proposition, while there is sharp division in the east. The action of the Ohio and Pennsylvania republicans would indicate that the eastern republican policy is to make the party the special champion of bimetallism. The action of the Pennsylvania democrats would indicate that the power of the administration is to be exerted in behalf of the single gold standard. In states like Missouri, Arkansas and Mississippi the administration is powerless to shape democratic sentiment favorable to monometallism. Hence we have the peculiar condition of the democratic party being divided against itself. Yet one can readily see that out of all this chaos and changing of position will come a reformation and re-alignment of parties on new issues in the near future. —Portland (Ore.) Telegram.