Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1896 — PRINCIPLES, NOT PARTY. [ARTICLE]

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.