Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1896 — CLEVELAND'S BELIEF. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CLEVELAND'S BELIEF.

Moaetary Mlx-V&. It ia given out on the authority of & cabinet officer that President Cleveland thinks the democratic party can win this year by declaring- unequivocally far sound money and nominating a candidate to match. He believes, in other words, that the currency question is going to be the controlling one in the campaign, and that the democrats have only to put themselves on the, jAfht side of it in order to sweep the country. The proposition is well im-! sgined, but there is not so much to ■he said of Its practicability. There ere ' certain obstacles in the case which j cannot be removed by simply wishing ' that they were out of the way. Mr. Cleveland himself has helped to create them, and he ought to know that they represent a condition and not a theory. His devotion to sound money has mode him many enemies for whom he engirt to be loved, which is to he has generated a kind of antagonism In his party that forbids the idea of such a surrender as hia plan of success contemplates. He has acted courageously, but in so doing he has consolidated and intensified thefreesilversentiment that he expected to suppress. .It is a potent and implacable force, and the suggestion that it ought to discredit and humiliate itself by a betrayal of ‘the cause for which it stands wilt only aerve to render it more aggressive and vindictive, instead of tending to make it amiable. . ' .1 * Mr. Cleveland knows, of course, that over two-thirdm of the democrats in the present congress have voted for ’free silver, notwithstanding oil that Me has said and done in ,the opposite direction. These men do not speak for themselves merely, but for large constituencies that are very much in earnest about the matter. He has surely, not failed to observe that in every democratic state hia party is divided upon, thie question in nn uncompromising sad -acrimonious way. The two factions are more bitter toward each other than they are towards the republican

party. It la all very well to aay that tbey Ibught to get together, but by what miraculous process is such a result to be effected? The contest grows fiercer every day, and to talk of harmony 1 on the basis of a surrender by either aide is foolish. That is what Mr. Cleveland has done for the democratic party by thrusting the currency issue upon it, and trying to bulldoze it into an acceptance of his views. The free silverites have burned their bridges behind them, and it is useless to think pt reconciling them to a sound money platform or candidate. They are well organized, and firmly resolved to fight the thing out. There is not the remotest probability that they will consent, after all the abuse they have endured, to fling away their convictions and make an abject capitulation. Mr. Cleveland may cry peace at the top of his voice, but it will not come. The time ■ has gone by for that sort of thing, and he might as well keep still about it.— St. Louis Globe-Democrat..

THE OLD DEMOCRATIC DAMSEL AWAITING AN ANSWER TO HER LEAP-YEAR WOOING.-N. Y. Advertiser.