Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1896 — Page 9

SUPPLEMENT TO THE Rensselaer Republican

THURSDAY. AUGUST*;, JKOt;.

REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.

% A Masterly Declaration of Principles that Will Insure Victory. The Republicans of the United States, assembled by their representatives in national convention. appealing for the popular and historical justification of th.eir .claims to th.e matchless achievements of thirty years of Republican rule, earnestly and confidently address themselves to the awakened intelligence, experience and conscience of their countrymen in the following declaration of facts and principles: For the first time since the Civil War the American people have witnessed the calamitous consequences of full and undestriefed Democratic control of the government. It has been a record of unparalleled incapacity, dishonor and disaster. In administrative management it has ruthlessly sacrificed indispensable revenue, entailed an unceasing deficit, eked out ordinary current expenses with borrowed money, piled up the public debt by;$203,000,000 in time of peace, forced an adverse balance of trade, kept a perpetual menata’ lmmging over-the red emption fund, pawned American credit to alien syndicates and reversed all the measures aiid result's of successful Republican rule. In the broad effect of its policy it has precipitated panic, blighted industry and trade with prolonged depression,* closed factories, reduced work and wages, halted enterprise and crippled American production, while stimulating foreign production for the American market. TEvery consideration of public safety and individual interest demands that the' government shall be rescued from the hands of those who have shown themselves incapable to conduct it without disaster at home and dishonor abroad, and shall be restored to the party which for thirty years administered it with unequaled success and prosperity, and in this connection we heartily indorse the. wisdom, patriotism and success of the administration of _l’resident Harrison. Protection Is Reaffirmed. We renew and emphasize our allegiance to the policy of protection as the bulwark of American industrial independence and-the foundation of Ameri-

can developuieiit and prosperity. This true American policy' taxes foreign products and encourages pome'•industry; it puts the burden of revenue on foreign goods; it secures, the American market -for~the American producer; it upholds the American standard of wages for the American workingman; it puts the factory by the side of the farm, and makes the American farmer less dependent on foreign demand and price; it diffuses general thrift and founds the strength of all on the strength of each. In its reasonable application it is just, fair and impartial, equally opposed to foreign control aud domestic monopoly, to sect iomil discrimination and individual favoritism. We denounce the present Democratic tariff as sectional, injurious to the public credit and destructive to business enterprise. We demand such an equitable tariff on foreign imports which <ebme into competition with American products as will not only furnish adequate revenue for the necessary expenses of the government, but will protect American labor from degradation to the wage level of other lands. We are not pledged to any particular schedules. The question of, rates is a practical question, to be governed by the conditions of she time and of production; the riding ami uncompromising principle is protection and development of American labor and industry. The country demands a right settlement and then it wants rest. Protection and Reciprocity. We believe the repeal of the reciprocity arrangements negotiated by the last Republican administration was a national calamity, and we demand their renewal and extension on such terms as will equalize our trade with other nations, remove the restrictions which now obstruct the sale of American products in the ports of other countries and secure enlarged markets for the products of our farms, forests and factories. Protection and reciprocity are twin measures of Republican policy and go hand in hand. Democratic rule lias recklessly struck down both, and both must bo re-established. Protection for what we produce: free admission for the necessaries of life which we do not produce: reciprocal agreemflts of mutual interests which gain open markets for us in return for our open market to others. Protection builds up domestic industry and trade, and secures our own market for ourselves; reciprocity builds up foreign trade and finds an outlet for our surplus. Sugar Attitude Stated. We condemn the present administration for not keeping faith with the sugar producers of this country. The Republican party favors such protection as will lead to the production on American soil of all the sugar which the American people use. and for which they pav other countries more than $100,000,000 annually. American Product* Favored. To all our products—to those bFUic mine and the field, as well as to those of the shop and the factory—to hemp to wool, the product of the great industry of sheep husbandry, as well as to the finished woolens of the mill—we promise the most ample protection. Merchant Marine Restoration. We favor restoring the early American policy Of dlscnmmuttng duties for the upbuilding of our merchant marine mid the protection of our shipping in the foreign carrying trade, so that American ships—the product of American labor employed iir American shipyards, sailing under the Stars and Stripes and manned, officered and owned by Americans—may regain the carrying o f O ur foreign commerce. For Sound Money. The Republican party is unreservedly for sound money. It caused the enactment of the law providing- for the resumption of specie 's payment in 18711 since then every dollar has been as good ns gold. We are unalterably opposed toTverv measure calculated to debase our currency or impair the credit of our country. We are. therefore, opposed to the free coinage of silver, except by international agreement with the leading eommerical nations of the world, which we pledge ourselves to promote, and until such agreement can be obtained the existing gold -standard must be preserved All our silver mid paper rtirjrency must be maintained nt parity with gold, mid we fnvor all measures designed to maintain invoilably the obligations of the United States, and all our money, whether coin* or paper, at the present standard the standard of the most enlightened nations of the earth. - -i Matter of Pensions. Tire- veterans of the Union army deserve and slibuld receive fair treatment and generous recognition. Whenever practicable they should lie given the preference in the matter of employment, and

they are entitled to .‘the enactment -.f such laws as are best calculated to secure’ the- fulfillment of the pledges made to them in the dark days of the country’s peril. We denounce the practice in the Pension bureau, so recklessly and unjustly carried on by the present administration, of reducing pensions and arbitrarily dropping names from the rolls as deserving the severest condemnation of the American people. A Vigorous Foreign Policy. Our foreign policy should beat all times firm, vigorous and dignified and all our interests in the Western hemisphere carefully watched and guarded. The Hawaiian islands should be controlled by the United States, and no foreign power should be permitted to interfere with them; the Nicaraguan canal should be built, owned and operated by the United States, and by the purchase of the Danish islands we should secure a proper and much-needed naval station in the West Indies. To Stop Armenian Massacres. The massacres in Armenia have aroused the deep sympathy and just indigjUition of the American people, and we believe that the United States should exercise all the influence it*can properly i Xe ‘n to bring these atrocities to an end. In Turkey- American residents have been exposed to the gravest dangers and American property -destroyed. There and everywhere American citizens and American property must be absolutely protected at all hazard, and at any cost; Monroe Doctrine Reasserted. We reassert the Monroe doctrine in its ful! extenLJuul we—reaffirm—the-righ tof the I nited States to give the doctrine effect by responding to the appeals of any American state for friendly intervention in case of European encroachment. We have not interfered and shall not inter sere with the existing possessions of anj European power in this hemisphere, but those possessions must not, on any pretext. be extended. We hopefully look forward to the eventual withdrawal of the European powers from this hemissphere and to the ultimate union of all the English-speaking part of the - continent by the free consent of its inhabitants. Independence for Cuba. . From the hour of achieving their own independence the people of the United States have regarded with sympathy- the struggles of other American peoples to free themselves from European domination. Wejwatch with deep and abiding interest the heroic battle of the Cuban patriots against cruelty and oppression, and ,our best hopes go out for the full success of their determined contest for liberty. - The govermnent=of -Spain, having lost control of Ciihn, ”and being unable to protect the property and lives of resident American citizens, or to comply with its treaty obligations, we believe that the government of the United States should actively use its influence and good offices to restore peace and gwte independence to the island. Enlargement of Navy. The peace and security of the republic and the maintenance of its rightful ’»■ fluence among the nations' of the earth demand a naval'power commensurate with its position and responsibility. We therefore favor the continued enlargement of the navy and a.complete system of harbor and seacoast defenses. limitation of Immigration. For the protection of the quality of our American citizenship and of the wages of our workingmen against the fatal competition of low-priced labor we demand that the immigration laws be thoroughlyenforced and so extended as to exclude from entrance to the United States those who can neither read nor write. Civil Service Enforcement. Th'e civl service law was placed on th« statute book by the Republican party, which has always sustained it, and we renew pur repeated deelaratiq^— shall be thoroughly and honestly enforced and extended wherever practicable. Fair Ballot* for Citizens. We demand that every citizen of the United States shall be allowed to cast one free and unrestricted ballot, and that such ballot shall be counted and returned as cast. Lynching is Condemned. IVe proclaim our unqualified condemnation of the uncivilized and barbarous practice well known as lynching, or killing of human beings suspected or charged with crime, without process of law. National Arbitration Board, Wo favor the creation of a National Board of Arbitration to settle and adjust differences which may arise between employers and employed engaged in interstate commerce. •• »• Free Homesteads Favored. We believe in an immediate return to the free homestead policy of the Republican party and urge the passage by Congress of the satisfactory free homestead measure which has already passed the House and is now pending in the Senate. To Admit Territories. We favor the admission of tire remaining territories at the earliest practicable date, having due regard to the interests of the people of the Territories and of the United States. All tin* Federal officers appointed for the Territories should be elected from bona-fide residents thereof. and the right of self-government should be accorded as Tar as practicable. Representation for Alaska. We believe the citzeus of Alaska should have representation in the Congress of the United States. to the end that needful legislation nifiy be iutelligently enacted. Stand for Temperance. We sympathize with all wise and legitimate efforts to lessen and prevent the evils of intemperance and promote morality. ‘ Welcome to Women. The Republican party is mindful of the rights and interests of Women. Protection of American industries includes equal-.,x>pportunities. equal pay for equal work, and protection to the home. We favor the admission of women Jo wider spheres of usefulness, and welcome their co-operation itr rescuing the country from Democratic and Populist mismanage meat and misrule. Appeal to Voters. Such aretbe principles and i>oliciesbf the Republican party. By these principles we will abide and these policies we will put into execution. We ask for them the considerate judgment of the American people. Confident .alike in the history of our great party and in the justice of our <ause. we present our platform and our candidates in the full assurance that the election will bring victory to the Republican party and prosperity to the people of the United States.

Mexico's Burden of Free Silver.

Michigan Iron Ore: The Detroit Tribune has a staff correspondent in Mexico. He describes the population of that country as being half beggars, and the balance doing poorly. He says everything is impoverished, and that thg tales being told of the success,of that country are lies. pure, cold and simple. Aud the correspondent is right, and truly describes the condition. The reason that we refer to this is that certain free silver champions delight in calling attention to the wonderful strides being made by Mexico under the 16 to 1 plan. ,

PRINCIPLES, NOT PARTY.

The German Democratic Press Bolt t the Chicago Ticket. Chicago Staats-Zeitung: The Democracy ■which declared itself last week in Chicago is a new aud degenerated edition of the Democracy of 1861; in it reigns the old Bourbon spirit which never learns aud never forgets. Who, therefore, desires that-the United States shofild ftirther develop their national organism; that the National government should be further strengthened in the interest of all; that national honor be kept undefiled; that the national credit be kept intact. turns away from a Democracy which has placed itself at the disposal of destructive forces and joins that party which was called in 1861 to save the Union, 1 and which in this year again has the patriotic duty to purify the national organism from the poison of the Populistic Democracy. The issue is not one of party, but of the highest achievements of the nation, which can be kept secure only by the authority of the Federal government’, by an honest currency and by an inassailable credit. * lowa Tribune (Dem.), Davenport—The recklessness and fanaticism of the silver people at the Chicago convention, who trampled all oppositon under foot, has made a very bad impression even upon many of those who sympathize with the theory of the debasers of money. The majority of our voters is not ready-by any means to deliver the nation to such crazy demagogues as Bryan, Waite, Tillman and others. -» Wapchter und Anzeiger (Dem.), Cleve-land—-The currency plank, with its decisive declaration against the gold standard. which, with total disregard of the entire other world of culture and commerce, is declared to be an English institution and is stigmatized as such, while the free coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 is demanded as ah immediate measure of government, cannot, fail to make an altogether revolutionary impression. We should not be at all surprised if this news should cause in Europe a decline of American securities in all exchanges; anticipated this decline has long been.

Louisville Anzeiger (Dem.) —Nonsense, thou prevailest! From Grover Cleveland to William Jennings Bryan—this is a jump for which the real Democrat is not so easily ready. The Anzeiger prefers at any rate not’to make it. After the adoption of the platform the Anzeiger had no need to pause a mo ment for the. declaration that-it would not suppoi^— the candidate who would accept the nomination upon this platform. The nomination of Bryan makes this duty easier and more agreeable. Bland and Boies would have been fought by the Anzeiger on account of the cause which they represent. In Bryan we do not only fight the cause but the person. Only a convention wnich placed Tillman above Cleveland and Blackburn above Carlisle would perpetrate the bad joke to present the young hero of phrases from the West for the highest office in its gift. Seebote (Dem.). Milwaukee: As the close of the century has brought forth the abominable “new woman.” who rides a bicycle, smokes, drinks, wears trousers and tears herself loose from all old customs, so there has arisen in Chicago, imbued with the same revolution* ary spirit, a “new Democratic party,” which stands everything time-honored on the head, denies the traditions of the old party, administers a kick to honesty and decency and comes before the people with a financial programme which is a mockery to all reason. The “new woman” and the “new party” are genuine fin de sieele experiences, and One would consider neither of them seriously if they were not so serious in their consequences. They are on the, one hand tlie regrettable and undeniable excrescences of the liberality of social views and on the other hand of the freedom of .the political thought that the Constitution of the United States prevents nobody from making a fool of himself as often as he likes to. Davenport Democrat (Dem): The time has arrived for the clean separation of the two irreconcilable wings of the Democratic party, to which the Democrat has called-attention for two years. Those Democrats who remain true to the unalterable national principles, ns they were proclaimed by Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and the other>“fathers of the republic.” can have nothing in common with the Populistic new Democrats who stole’the banner and the name of the glorious old party to betray under its shelter the sublime principles and to throw the country iuto unspeakable misery.

EDITOR DANA’S ADVICE.

Democrats Should Vote for McKinley and Not Sacrifice Principle to Party. New York Sun; The political reasons for not putting up an honest-money candidate this year on a genuinely Democratic platform are strong and obvious. The nomination of another Democratic candidate would contribdte to the personal comfort of Democrats who are reluctant to. vote for Mr. McKinley, but it would accomplish nothing else. ’ And this method of voting for a principle only would surely imperil the result in many a dose' state. Better far to vote for principle in a way that will count. Every Democratic vote cast for William McKinley as the representative of honest money and the nation’s honor and the preservation of democratic institutions against the wild horde now preparing to attack them, will do just twice as much service for the common cause as can be done by a Democratic vote for a third candidate standing no chance of ' election. ■ Let every Democrat who appreciates the magnitude of the present crisis keep this fact steadily in mind: His vote for McKinley and Hobart is worth double his vote for t)ie best Democrat that the sane part of the party could put up as a protest against the inquiry consummated at Chicago. Is there any sincere' Democrat who, understanding all that the election means for our beloved country, is willing to cut his vote in two this year: to deprive his ballot of one-half its efficiency? It will be said that there are such Democrats. It . will be said that there are Democrats who can persuade themselves under no circumstances to east their votes for any Republican candidate for President. Perhaps that is so. Let them register their protest against Chicago by refusing to vote for presidential ejectors. Let them concentrate their partisan enthusiasm upon the state and local tickets. They will help in this way to defend the nation’s honor and the continued existence of the institutions which-the repudiators and the revolutionists are assailing. They-will help, it’is true, only half as much as if they voted for McKinley and. Hobart, but" they would help not one particle more than that by bestowing their votes upon a solind-money Democrat nominated for the sake of their personal comfort and political consistency. On the other hand, there are hundreds of thousands of Democrats, if not mil’lions of them, who see in the present crisis a call to duty only less urgent and inspiring than that which summoned to the front’thirty-five years ago our patri-

otic citizens, and made them almost for. get. as’thev shouldered their guns and fell into line for the Union, whether they had previously styled themselves Republicans or Democrats. These men, in the absence of a satisfactory Democratic candidate on a sound platform, will not consent to-surrender one-half of the potency fit their suffrages for the sake of fiverrefined ideas of political consistency. They will want to put their votes where their votes will dp the most good as against Populism, repudiation and national dishonor. They will fire their ballots straight at the common enemy, even though the ballots be labeled McKinley. It would be a piece of political foil/ amounting to crime to divert the attention of this class,of Democrats from the main question, and to jeopardize the result of the election, by setting up inopportune claims to a partisan allegiance which, in an emergency.like this, is nominal at the best. Mass every honest American vote on one candidate representing honest money, the nation’s honor, and the intention of this people to preserve, the government and the institutions which their fathers handed down to them. Waste no ammunition when Populism is shrieking its battle cry. and anarchy is lurking close behind in the rear with torch in hand. McKinley’s ’ personality is nothing in this contest. His previous political affiliations are nothing. Accident has decreed that he shall stand for the time for something a thousand times more precious than any party badge.

A VITAL ISSUE.

The Republican Party’s Consistent Stand as Regards tlie Tariff. From 1878 to 1892, the period of maximum national prosperity under Republican economic policies—which the first Cleveland administration, lacking control of Congress. was unable to disturb—the foreign movement ’of our gold gave ns practically no concern. It is illustrated in the appended table: 1878.. Imports $ 4,125,760 •J n ‘ 1 ‘ Or . ts 1,037.334 JBBO- Irafiorts 77410,371 1881. .Imports 07.466,127 1882. . Imports 1 759 174 1883. .Imports 6.133,261 1884-.- 18,250,640 188 a. . Imports i 5,213,804 1886. . Exports .' 22,208,842 1887 • - Imports .. I. 33,209,414 1888. .Imports 25,558,083 1889. .Exports 49.t»>7.427 1890. .Exports ... 4,331,149 1891. .Exports . 68,130,087 1892. During nine of these fifteen years the trend of the gold movement was in our favor, and during only two of the remaining six years—thaUis to say, in 1889 and” 1891 —-was the outward movement large enough to attract attention. In 1889 there were large importations under the tariff of 1883 for the purpose of anticipating the increased duties of the McKinley bill, and this caused an outward flux of gold in payment. In 1891 the extraordinary outflow arose largely because of the Baring failure, which caught in its crash mauy foreign holders of American securities, who, being pinched for ready money, had to return some of those securities to this country fror redemption, fhese explanations are ample to account for the exceptional exports which characterized two of the years of the Harrison administration, when the revenues of the country were upon a highly protective basis. Adding imports together aud comparing results for the fifteen years in question we find that the aggregate imports of gold exceeded the aggregate exports to the amount of $101,568,310. During this period the national debt was », d r^Mlrj > i l ll 2 - 349 ’ 5<5 "- 2a2 (M in 1879 to «51,ch53,61_,400.63 .in 1892, a total reduction of $785,954,776.41. . N ,°X. let u , s t,lra t 0 the - ve ” rs from 1893 to 1896, when "tariff reform” held the boards:*

Iwu ’S port " $87,506,463 ' --- 9 — • 4.528V942 iuSJI ’ SXPOI5 XPOI ! S 30.984.449 1896*. Exports 74,511,252 •Eleven months ended May 31. , Here we have a total loss of gold during the short era of Democratic “tariff reform” of $197,531,106, or a net loss in four years of $95,962,976 over the ne4 gain accumulated during the preceding fifteen years. During these same disastrous four years of Wilsbn-Gorman tariff reform, the national debt has been increased in principal $260,454,330. and in interest yet to be paid almost $250,000.000. or over $500,000,000 in all. Had the voters of the United States not heedfalse al 'R ,lmen ts of Democracv in 1892 the national debt, instead of being increased in principal and interest over half a billion dollars in the intervening four years, would, at the same rate of decrease which prevailed from 1879 to 1892. have been lowered to the extent of f*7ni’l?:,’? ?QI' 32, an<l instead of a loss of $197.531406 through gold exports we should, at the ratio of the preceding fifteen Republican years, have had a net gain through imports amounting in the four years to $21,085.012. Recapitulating these losses, aud not saying anything of the tremendous personal losses inflicted by the “tariff reform” experiment upon all classes of American citizens—for these in the aggregate are obviouslv incalculable—we find that the “-change oF 1892” from McKinley protection to Wil-son-Gorman free trade has cost the government of the United Staffs directiv. in •t* finances, not less than $949,174,6—5,32, a conclusion reached as follows: Loss of gold through actual export $197,531,106.00 Loss nt gold through what would have been Imported had the Kcoiibllcan ratio from IX7B to 1892 obtained from 1892 to 1896.„. 27.085.012 00 Loss through Increase in national debt 500,000,000.00 Loss through what would have been the reduction of debt bad the Republican ratio of debt reduction which prevailed from 1879 to 1892 orevalled also from 1892 to 1896 :... 224.558.507.32 Total 10555949,174,625.32 This loss has itothing to do with the question whether a gold or a silver standard is the bettor. It is a direct fruit of the Democracy's unwise agitation against protection: a palpable demonstration that the tariff is emphatically an issue in this campaign.—Scriruton (Fa.) Tribune.

OPPOSE CHEAP MONEY.

Tile Building Association* Pas* Resolutions ou tae Money Ouestion. At the annual meeting of the United States League of Local Building Associations held in Philadelphia. July 23, the following resolution ou the money question was adopted: .The United States League of Local Building and Loan Associations, in convention assembled, declares: 1. That it is the sense of this meeting that the interest of all shareholders of building and loan associations in the United States demands that the present standard of value upon which our monetary system has been based since the resumption of specie payments in 1878 shall remain unchanged and inviolate. 2. That we believe that the interest of every class in the community. and especially those of the great wage-earning class, imperatively demands that the present standatdof .value whether coin or paper, shall be eqii-il in value to every other. 3. That patriotism demands that the "‘dollar” bearing the m\nt mark of the United States shall be the equal of the dollar of the most advanced nations and entitled to full faith and credit all over the world: and to that end it must.be maintained free frofii all suspicion, debasement, or repudiation.

RAMPANT DEMOCRACY.

Democratic Press Burst All Bonds in Their Indignation. In every contest in Ohio* lowa, Illinois and Michigan'when the Democrats were on a free islver or cheap money platform they have been overwhelmingly beaten. What evidence have we that there is to be a change iu ’96’.'—Montgomery' JAla.) Advertiser. When a! great party has reached that stage of moral depravity that such creatures as Tillman, Altgeld & Co. are perniitted to speak to it. much less take an important part in moulding its politics, its course is. indeed, about run;—Wabash jlnd.) Times. a Americans will never give this crowd control of the country until they shall have fallen to the level of the old world communists. That will not happen this year, at least. The people must be degraded in their own esteem' before they will vote for a war of class against class.—Memphis Scimitar. The financial plank in the. platform adopted by the Democratic national convention at Chicago is distinctly a declaration for such repudiation of existing debts, public and private, as can be secured by the enforcement upon the country as legal tender money of a debased silver coinage conformed to a degraded standard of money.—New Orleans Picayune. Scratch a silver man and you come to n Popnlist; In the heart of each burns Hie desire to get as much as possible and give as little. .If either of them happen to be a debtor, this desire takes the fqpn of repudiation. As most of them are debtors repudiation is the thing they are for. and in tiie Chicago platform they go for it straight.—New York Times.

It is but proper to say in fairness and justice to the grand old Democratic party of Hamilton, Jefferson and Jackson that we cannot depart from the ways of the fathers upon the financial question, and. therefore, esnnot. much to our regret, follow, the Democratic banner as it trails into a foreign camp; and must, as a matter of self-respect, refuse to support Mr. Bryan upon the financial platform upon which he has been placed aud stands.—Dayton (O.) Times. Till the contest is decided our voice shall be raised and our influence given for the election of Mr. McKinley to the presidency. The security of the currency is the paramount question of the hour. Ft eclipses issues. Bel ieving that this security —cn n best —be attained ~by the success of the Republican party, we promise it our sincere and hearty support for Its presidential ticket in’the impending campaign. We have never believed that the Republican* l party made the best selection possible to it. but it Is difficult to see how any candid man can deny that the selection of the Republican party was eminently more fitting and appropriate. .There is an absence of dignity in the Democratic selection which is seen both in the candidate himself and in the circumstances that attended his nomination.—Boston Herald.

The tjue interests of the people ask for the election of Mr. McKinley, not for himself but for the absolute necessity of the whole people of the United States and of the greater world of which they are after all but a part. In -any event let us be reasonable. Don’t talk of’ “sectionalism” or of “anarchy” or of “revolution.” Remember always that compared with the unity of country the gold standard is not worth fighting for; one country, one flag.—Springfield Republican (Ind.-Dem.) No reasonable man can ask the Times to stultify and dishonor itself and longtimed Democratic principles. While supporting to The best of our ability the State nominations for executive offices and legislative nominees, we feel assured that all true Democrats will justify us in deciding that we cannot give the support., of tlie Times to the Chicago convention and its politically diseased candidate. We shall do all we can to sustain the good name and the organization of the Democratic party, but we cannot support principles nor candidates of tlie Bland. Teller and Altgeld stripe. We cannot conscientiously ask honest men to vote for them. —Hartford Times. We repudiate the 16 to 1 plank in Bryan’s Chicago platform and will not support any candidate on such a platform. It is too Populistic and Nihilistic. —Machias (Me.) Union. Our worst fears have not only been realized but new' and horrible doctrines have been added to the Chicago platform, which cannot possibly bind a Democrat who is unwilling to abandon the fundamental principles of his party.—Richmond (Va.) Times. What Harry Bingham, feared only as a bare possibility has come to be a’stern reality. The “madmen” of whom be spoke have controlled the national convention and declared for free silver at J. 6to 1. The .Democrats of New Hampshire cannot.-'o with them.—Manchester (N. H.) Union. Circumstances have made William McKinley the mnn around whom ail must rally who desire to defeat determinedly the candidate for (he pseudo-Democracy. William J. Bryan, who stands for fiat money under the guise of bimetallism; for nullification of lawfully-contracted liabilities; for -communism and lawlessness. McKinley and the party he represents have until now induced Democratic and indepndent voters ro look for means by which they could avoid the necessity of supporting the Republican ticket. This has been shown to be hopeless, and thef.e is ho other way but to offer our supitort to our old opi>onetits.—Now York Staats Zeitttng, the leading Eastern German Democratic daily. We have no fear that tlie sound-money Democracy will acquiesce in a free silver platform, a ticket of repudiation, of anarchy and the trampling <nit of tire rights of the sound money delegates in the convention, A bait is Inevitable. A Democratic ticket for which Democrats can vote is a' necessity. It will be supplied. The Anarchist’s, the Populists, the C’oiuniiuiists aud the Nihilists who are controlling this convention will never control tbU country; they will never control the Democratic pa'rty.-r-Brooklyn Eagle.

‘The parting of the ways bns been reached, ami for the sake of pnrty honesty and electoral Integrity it is to be hoped that the division will lie complete. A paramount issue like that for the pending ebinage question demands a speedy settlement ami a voter’s convictions upon it have not been subordinated to the demands of party expediency. There cun be no honorable compromise with or submission to the free silver faction.—Galveston News.

Speaking for itself, the Courier cannot so far forget its duty to its constituency as to advocate support of the Chicago pronouncement. The declarations contained therein are abhorrent to Democratic ideas: they are not expressive of Democratic doctrine, Free coinage of silver itself alone, with or without its attendant consequence as an economic proposition, is of minor importance in its Influence forfftood or eviUupon the people bf this Country compared with the other declaration* of party policy ex,e ■’ . " ». >

pressed in the platform.— Syracuse Courier. _lt is altogether probable th# the Democrats who love Democracy and who decline to be counted among its betrfivers will have a ticket in the near future that will satisfy their desires and aims. This would be Ihe most desirable result, but, come what .may,’ the Chronicle absolves itself from all responsibility for the utterances of (he alleged Democratic convention just closed at Chicago, and pledges itself to aid in the defeat of its nominees. To participate in a campaign ‘ fcr such a ticket on such a platform would be to be untrue to every patriotic Democratic principle.—La Crosse (Wis.) Chronicle. A bright young mnn with a silvery, demagogic tongue is planted on the antiDeipocratic platform adopted at Chicago, and the excited victims of a singular and illogical craze vie with the sympathizers virith Anarchy and Populism in the long acclaim to William J. r ßryan. the eloquent and eccentric representative of the bolters of Nebraska. . . . The platform and the candidate threaten a paralysis of business until the day of election; for a longer period if success could possibly attend; and they condemn the Democratic party to a fate that would be death to any other party, but the Democratic party is undying.—Utica Observer. ‘ Will Lose Hundreds of Thousands. Savannah Neiys: AU Democrats wi.ll not approve the declarations in respect to coinage, bonds, the currency, income tax and railroads. These latter declarations are much more Populistic than DemocTOtie. they were put into the platform for the express purpose of ctlrrying favor with the Populists. In fact, if we are not mistaken, Senator Tillman said in his speech in the convention that the purpose of them is to influence the Populists to come into the lines of the Democracy and become a part of the Democratic party. He did not seem to take into 'consideration the fact that the adoption of Populistic declarations might not break up the Populist party, but would pretty certainly drive hundreds of thousands, of Democrats out of the Democratic party. Bosz Champions of Disorder. Trenton (N. J.) American (Demi): But, whatever may be the course of the politicians and the party leaders, there will be thousands of Democrats in New Jersey who—not in resentment of the contumely with which the state and its interests have been treated, but from persona] and publie motives—will refuse to give their approval to a convention and a candidate which, have’publicly and vaingloriously threatened the destfuctlbn of the nation's credit, the dim- ” inution of values, th«M retardment of bust- 1 ness. the attack on property, and the triumph of disorder above "the law and those called upon to administer it. And they will so refuse in the belief that all other party issues fade into insignificance in comparison with the issue as it has been formulated at Chicago. Danger to Liberty. Galveston News: The fact is that the firogramme formulated at Chicago merey marks the skirmish line of a great and final battle-for social revolution, industrial reconstruction, and constitutional subversion. Without consitutional safeguards there can be no assurance of either free government or individual liberty. An unchecked social Democracy means no law but the law of brute force, no mle and no order but the rule and order of irresponsible tyranny. Intelligent citizens grounded in wholesome appreciation of the constitutional essentials of a stable republic, who supremely cherish the priceless interests or constitutional liberty and security, who feel that there can be no true progress without the conservation of these interests/ will not fail to see in present emergencies where their common danger lies. Realizing also that the problem of deG'nse is .their common concern, they can well understand that how they may best proceed to combat, defeat and disarm their common enemy is a question of momentary expediency to be decided in the light of current events and modifying circumstances.

South Dakota Views. Sioux Falls Argus-Leader: The Democrats have declared for a policy which will inevitably establish the single silver standard; will, in our opinion, wreck the national credit and reputation; will, for many years, make commercial confidence impossible; will spread ruin over the land; will destroy all hopes of bimetallism in the generation: nnd will indefinitely postpone a revival of good times. Under these circumstances the ArgusLeader can see its duty only in one channel. Believing. as this paper does, that Uiejmnor. safety and prosperity of the rmted States would be seriously jeopardized by the success of the Democratic party on its presetn plqtform. the ArgusLeader, with sorrow for the broken associations. with regret at parting from a name it bas-revered and loved, hut with a consciousness of unavoidable dutv withdraws from the grand old Democratic party, which has. in our judgment, left its time-honored principles in pursuit ■’* strange gods, and will throw whatever influence it may possess on the side of the Nation's prosperity and honor. To Attempt the Impossible. Stjiunfon (Va.) News: A law declaring that wheat, regardless of the surplus ou the markets or the demand for it, should sell the year round at $1 per bushel, and that corn and oats, no.matetr their intrinsic value." should always sell at the same figure as wheat, would be just as sensible as a free coinage of silver law and would be just as easy to carry into effect. The gist of the whole matter is that to attempt to coin silver in unlimited quantities and to make it even in value at a given fixed ratio with gold is to attempt the impossible and to do what in the very nature of things cannot be done. Looking to the New York Convention. Syracuse News: The Chicago plat- ” form is a wide departure from the platform adopted by the last Democratic state convention at Saratoga. It was so wide a departure that the delegation felt compelled to abstain from participation in the nomination candidates on that platform. It remains for the coming Democratic state convention to formulate the policy of the New York Democracy. That convention. in nominating presidential electors. will point the way to Democrats which shall lead to the preservation of the jiarty—the preservation of its unsullied honor and integrity. The party which this year celebrates its 100th anniversary will not be permitted to go down to a dishonorable grave. No Excuse for the Insult. Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser: Thousands and thousands of Democrats in Alabama will learn with mingled emotions of anger and "shame that a Democratic national convention declined to declare of Grover Cleveland the simple truth that his •"honesty, economy, courage, and fidelity” deserved commendation at the hands of Democrats. The intense indignation which this action causes to over 60,000 sound money Democrats in Alabama is heightened when the voice of the Democracy of the state is recorded as in favor of this insult to their leader. The intensest heat and partisanship in favor of free silver cianot excuse it. A few more such blows will reuder inevitable the outbreak of dissension which year* will not quiet -oi cure. ’ *"'■