Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1875-09-13

LOUD NOTES OF ALARH-THE PENN
SYLVANIA DEMOCRACY FOR MORE
RAG CURRENCY-WHAT THE LEAD
ING PAPERS SAY or 1T.
The following Of the Pennsylvania DEM
ocratic State Convention in the path Of the
Ohio democracy, in favor of Initiation and
Reputation, is creating deep sensation
in the city Of New York, and indeed every
where that sound currency and the
credit Of the government are held to be
subjects of the greatest importance. There
appears now TO be almost a certainty that
the next national democratic convention
will split on the currency question. The
Inhationists and Repudiationists will have
a most decided majority in that conven-
ton, and unless the democrats of the East
ern States get down upon their knees and
go back upon the hard money principles
which they have professed to hold they
will be driven out 1t is plain to be seen
that the republican party is the. only hope
of the salvation of the country from the
woes of unlimited issues of irredeemable
currency. The Republican party is unit
for sound money. The democratic party
is hopelessly divided on the question. We
copy from the New York papers in rcla-
ton to the Pennsylvania democratic con.
vention. The World (democratic) says
1.-THE financial planks in PENNSYLVANIA ARE
AS BAD as those of THE OHIO PLATFORM.
The States which we have just named are the
States which have always Of late years been be-
deviled with false and foolish notions Of Esc.;
policy"
The New York Tribune Independently
says:
"In speaking of the Ohio campaign we have
said that the appeals for popular support made by
Allen and Cary are far more disgraceful than the
platform itself. We can already say that the man
ner in which the Pennsylvania DEMOCRATS
have manifested their devotion TO RAG MONEY
is more indecent than their formal proclamation.
The Herald (also independently says:
The political situation has become suddenly
grave. No Heightened citizen or true patriot can
be indifferent to the action Of the Pennsyl ana
State Convention. 1t is an ALARMING PROOF
that the imitation heresy is spreading, and that it
is likely to exert DOMINANT CONTROL over
ONE Of our great political parties. We record
with profound regret and sorrow that in an East
ern State, great and influential State. the State
which ranks next to New York in Importance,
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY HAS BEEN
| CONQUERED BY THE INFLA IONISTS,
and repeats and indorses the Ohio platform. This
democratic madness forebodes an lliad of woes.
The action Of the Pennsylvania democrats is a
greater shock to public feeling than the wild au-
dacity Of the party in Ohio 1.-THE democrats car
| ~ Ohio in October no section of the party can
| thereafter DENOUNCE INITIATION without
| subjecting itself to HUMlLIATING DEFEAT
| in tue National Convention next year.
The Times says:
The victory gained in the Pennsylvania Demo-
cratic Convention by the inhationists and repudi.
atOrs is one of the most significant events of the
day. So far as can now be judged, it renders al
most CERTAIN TIE ADOPTION OF AN INITIATION
PLATFORM BY THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL Con-
vENTIoN next year, and makas it extremely prob
able that the financial issue will be the principal
one in the Presidential canvass. 1t is hardly pos
sble that the Democratic Party can fail
| to come under the substantial control OF
the lNFLATIONISTS and REGULATORS,
now that these have carried the day in
the two great States of Ohio and Pennsyl-
vana The Democratic voters Of those States con-
sttuted one-tth Of the entire party in the Union.
Even If their representatives alone were to enter
the Democratic National Convention bent upon
committing the party to their views, they would
WELD great strength But when we remember
that they can command the cooperation of the
South almost without exception. and that of sew