The Sun

Notable Expression by German Democratic Newspaper.

From the New Yorker Staats Zeitung.

The Democratic candidate has forced the silver question into the foreground again and thus has reawakened the fear that his election would carry with it terrible consequences for the nation. No man yet has been elected President because he possessed striking, brilliant qualities. The people demand rightly that the candidate shall have certain sterling traits of character and a solid element of conservatism in him, so that one can look to his administration with confidence and, above all, with security. The prospect that he might win faith has been considerably diminished by Bryan by his revival of the silver question.

We have declared from the first that this year the silver swindle and imperialism cannot be beaten simultaneously and that the voter must make up his mind clearly which of the two evils must be done for first and which might wait. We had hoped that the silver question would play no role; we still stick to our belief that it is disposed of and requires no further consideration; and we feel sure that it is less this question than doubt of Bryan's trustworthiness which has brought it forward again and shortened the Democratic candidate; but the fact remains that the old alarm is aroused again.

The Republicans have no right, nevertheless, to accept it as the votes coming around to McKinley on such grounds as votes of confidence in the expansion policy, and when they do that they run the risk of bringing about at the last moment a reaction that can be very dangerous.