People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1896 — A Model Democrat. [ARTICLE]

A Model Democrat.

A model democrat is a man with no manhood nor independence, but a man who is as putty in the hands of the glazier. One of these model democrats will probably be nominated on the democratic national ticket. A good average specimen of a modern putty democrat is ex-Governor Campbell, of Ohio. In a recent interview he said: “I prescribe no medicine I will not take. For myself I will say that, whatever the Chicago nlatfornj end

wnoever tne canaiaates, i win support both with heart and strength, and vote the ticket without a mark. I have my views on finance as full and clear as any man. Yet I say to you that if next summer’s democratic convention declares for gold monometallism and against silver in any form, for all time, and then names an utter gold bug as the candidate for the Presidency, I will give my full and faithful support to the ticket, and do my best to put it through. “If, on the other hand, the platform declares for independent free silver coinage—16 to 1 silver monometallism, if you please—and utter death of gold as a money metal and selects candidates to correspond, yet will I give my heartiest support to the ticket and work with a zeal and ardor to secure a victory. “Yet I believe both proposals of finance would bo wrong. I do not agree with either."