The Gold Democrats

The so-called sound money Democratie ticket is but a stool-pigeon foi the Republican cause. It is bolstered up by Republican tnoney, and ia meant only to divert Democratie support from Bryan. The gold leaders who have desserted the nominees of the Chicago convention are not honest. They will not vote for Palmer and Buckner. Ballots cast for that ticket will be given by privates seduced and iooled into an allegiance to supposed íriends. The generáis, one and all, from Grover Cleveland down to the voluble Sheehan, of Ann Arbor, will vote directly for McKinley and Hobart, and the cost of their campaign 1b the price paid for their votes. To show this, it is only necessary to state that, TO SECURE THE AUDITORIUM AT DETROIT FOR BRYAN'S SPEECH IN THAT CITY, THE DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEEWAS OBLIGED TO NEGOTIATE WITH THE BEPUBLICAN COMMITTEE, WHO HAD ENGAGED THE HALL FOR BOURKE COCKRAN'S ANTI-BRYAN SPEECH. MARK HANNA IS "PAYING THE FREIGHT," and the depth of the conspiraey against the Chicago ticket may be judged by that fact. Democrats must be eareful of every trap thus laid, not only to defeat them in the present campaign, but to so demoralize their organization that future süccess must be improbable. Republican silver men may also see the danger of their blind allegiance to a party now only Republican in. name. It is a duty they owe themselves and the country to join the thousands of good, earnest believers in the principies that until now have been professed by their party organizations, and array themselves upon the side of right and justice, dropping for the time, as all supporters of Bryan and Sewall have dropped, the pushing of minor considerations, for the purpose of righting the great ■wrong that has been more destructive to prosperity than war, pestilence, or famine. Kó man can be true to himself who, telieving in true bimetallism, yet votes for monometallism by supporting McKinley. He gives the lie to his prof essions, however honest he may imagine his purpose to be. If a Republican, he but fastens the fetters of gold the more firmly; if a Democrat he but aids in the destruction of his party. The battle of the ballots is only a short time away. The issue is plain. Bimetallism is only possible at the present time by the election of Bryan and Sewall. Monometallism will be more firmly entrenched as a result of the election of McKinley and Hobart.