Chapter 28: closing period
- Opposes Bryan for president -- Democratic party must give up its heresies -- Supports McKinley -- Dana's substantial victory over public corruption -- loss of friends -- Dana's ample fortune -- travels beyond sea -- visits Mexico and Cuba -- Supports Cuban rebellion -- tribute to Jose Marti -- Dana's scholarship -- class in literature -- his inner life -- skill as horseman -- appreciation of art -- home at Sixtieth Street and Madison Avenue -- paintings, tapestry, and ceramics -- Dana's personality and home life -- love of children -- the art of newspaper making
The end of Cleveland's second administration marked the close of the Sun's co-operation with the Democratic party. It had pointed out with persistency the failure of that party in Congress to live up to the pledges contained in its platform, especially in reference to the tariff; and when it cast aside at Chicago its “essential ideas and best traditions,” and converted itself into a Socialistic-Populist party, with William J. Bryan as its candidate for president, on a platform containing doctrines “which were for the most part hostile” to those it had held in the past, Dana, in response to many letters calling for his individual opinions, gave them in the Sun of August 6, 1896. They are characterized by independence of judgment and lucidity of statement, and, although the crisis which called them forth is happily long since past, they are given in part as follows:
... The Chicago platform invites us to establish a currency which will enable a man to pay his debts with half as
