People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1894 — Two Democrat Platform. [ARTICLE]

Two Democrat Platforms.

The platform adopted by the the New York state democrats at Saratoga Wednesday contains tne expected iudoi semeuts of lariff i eform and the traditional expression* of dernocrulic prinipie. Apart from these, however, its chief features ar'* a d muuumtioi) of free-silver coi.iage and of income tax. Al the same time ;h :> Nebraska democrats an I “fusion populists" at Omaha were adopting a platform equally explicit in demanding immediate free aud unlimited silver coinage at. a ratio of 16 to 1. “without waiting for aid or consent from any othor nation on earth.” The platform also contains a vigorous commendation of the income tax.

The issues thus sharply detined between the two conventions are, of course, merely representative of the different attitudes preserved by the eastern ana western wings of both the older parties. Whai tie public will watch with curious interest is the approach o i' the inevitable day when these fa t ; 's • uu.g be reconciled for the sak • of - party harmony.” If there is little prospect that the "astern politicians will give up their positions respecting coinage ano the income tax there is still less prospect of such a comproti, se among the politics’ lea ers of the west, where convictions on these points arc warn! and firmly fixe 1 and th' populism stand® ready to Wellcome with open hands members t of either party. j Whatever happens. it is sufficiently plain that in the next national convention there must either be a compromise of

principles ur: avv:i iliums for “the good o f ie ( ».>rt v‘’OJ there will be Ail .a;--, accessions to the ranks. <>l’ r.. oopu lists in the west And the tend-ts. o i e res'ern political leader .< torn fusions with the n.»a . ■ give a very strong Itu i i for man of them the iran.<Hiou o populism would n t t ev or than tlie forsaking > radio I opinions.— Chicago Times.