The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-08-29
THE VARIOUS PLATFORMS,
OF THE NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC
PARTY SINCE 1876 DO
NOT INCLUDE
THE SIXTEEN no ONE MEN AND
THEIR THEORIES.
The Omaha Platform of 1892 Suits Their
Plea Exactly and There You Can
Find all the 16 to 1 Demo-
Gratis at Home.

line SHyerltes have been Snorting
around ever since the Fort Worth silver
ghost dance and loudly proclaiming that
they are the true blue Democrats and
those of other faiths are without the
pale of the Democratic party. This
bowling after the ghost dance is really
amusing when you examine into the
matter and see where the IL to Demo-
cratic silverites really stand. 1t is dol
lars to doughnuts that half of the mis-
guided youths do not know where they
really stand. for if they did they would
certainly turn ere 1t Is too late.
In connection with the assertion so
often heard from the 10 to L silver men
tnaU they are the only Democrats Oh
earth, the following data VIII prove eX-
tremely interesting, inasmuch us it To-
Gates the LII to l men on their platform
and also shows that the Popullst plat
form is one and tine same.
Mr.. +. w. Blake, the chairman of the
liz to l silver mems executive committee,
in recently issued letter said: Il did
say that the Democratic and Repub-
lican parties have always represented
opposing policies and ideas ON the money
question: The free and unlimited coin
age of silver is one of the questions about
which these parties differed. Since 1873
the Republican party has opposed the free
coinage of silver; the Democratic party
has favored it. But if Messrs. Cleve-
land and Carlisle are to have their way,
then we shall have the anomaly of the
two great opposing parties entirely agreed
upon the leading issue of the age. This
can only be done by a complete reversal
of the policy of the Democratic party, to
which change 1 am positively and I'M
alterab.y opposed, and | protest against
any man or set of men leading the Demo-
cratic party into the Republican camp,
and propose to make it warm for those
who are attempting ito commit the party
to an Endorsement of John Sherman S
financial theory"
Now, as to THE National Democratic
platforms:
The platform of 1876 said: "Reform
is necessary to establish a sound curren-
cy, restore the public credit and main
tain the National honor. We denounce
reputation in every form and guise."
The platform of 1880 said: Honest
money, consisting of gold and silver and
paper, convertible into coin on demand,
the strict maintenance of the public faith,
State and National"
lieve in honest money"
The platform of 1888 said: "The
Democratic party welcomes an eXacting
| scrutiny of the administration of the
| eXective power, which four years ago was
| committed to its trust in the selection of
| Grover Cleveland president of the United
| States, but it challenges the most search
ing scrutiny concerning it's fidelity and
| devotion to the pledges which then in
| vited the suffrages of the people. During
most critical period of our financial
| affairs, reuslting from overtaxation, the
| anomalous condition of our currency
| and a public debt unmatured, it has, by
| the adoption of a wise and conservative
| course mot only averted disaster, bu
greatly promoted the prosperity of the
| people,"
The platform of 1892 said: eve de
nounce the Republican legislation known
| as the Sherman act of 1890 as a cowardly
makeshift fraught with possibilities Of
| danger in the future, which should make
all of its supporters, as well as its author
| anxious for its speedy repeal. We hole
! to the use of both gold and silver as the
standard money of the country, and t.
the coinage of both gold and silver with
out discriminating against either meta
| or charge for mintage, but the dollar uni
of coinage of both metals must be o.
| equal intrinsic and exchangeable value
or to be adjusted through internationa
agreement, or by such safeguards of leg
| iSlaton as shall insure the maintenance,
| of the parity of the two metals and thu
| equal power of every dollar at all time
| in the markets. and in payment of debt
and we demand that all paper currenc!
shall be kept at par with and redeemabl,
| in such coin. We insist upon this polio!
| as especially necessary for the protec
ton of the farmers and laboring classes
the first and most defenseless victims o
unstable money and fluctuating Cur
rency."
The National Peoples party platform
adopted at Omaha on July 4, 1892, said
! 1--WE demand a National currency, safe
sound and flexible. issued by the genera
government only, a full legal tender 70
AL debts, public and private, and tina
without the use of banking corporations
just, equitable and efficient means o
distribution direct to the people, at a ia,
not to exceed 2 per cent per annum, t
be provided as set forth in the subtreasur
plan of the Farmers Alliance, or bette
system; also by payments in discharge o
it's obligations for public Improvement
We demand free and unlimited coinag
! of silver and gold at the present rati
/, of 1G to T."
| The question now naturally arises
where are Mr.. Blake and his 1G to 70
!, lowers? 1t certainly looks to n man Il
the tree that they are taking their meal
on the POpulist platform adopted 6
Omaha in 1892. The Fort Worth gho'
dance certainly seems to be made up
5 the wayward children and it is they an
4 not the sound money men who are deser
, ing the Democratic party. IF that Fol
! Worth meeting does not smell to heave
? of rank Populism and Republican homOl
/ CATION. why the signs of the time al
/ very deceiving.
: at is the best patent medicine in IL
, world" is what Mr.. r. NJ. Hartma
! of Marquam, Ore, says of Chamberlain
e Colo, Cholera and DiarrhOea remed
"What leads me to make this assertic