Crawford avalanche., 1896-08-06
ressed in the platform. m.-syracuse Con.

Democrats who love Democracy and who
decline to be counted among its betrayers
| will have a ticket in the near future that
will satisfy their desires and aims. This
would be the most desirable result. but,
come what may. the Chronicle absolves
| itself from all responsibility for the ut
terances of the alleged Democratic con,
| vention just closed at Chicago, and
| pledges itself TO aid in the defeat Of its
nominees. To participate in campaign
fer such ticket on such platform
/ would be to be untrue to every patriotic
Democratic principle.-La Crosse (Wis)
Chronicle.
A bright young man with a s.lvery.
demagogic tongue is planted OH the anti
| Democratic platform adopted at Chicago:
and the excited victims of q singular and
| Illogical craze vie with the sympntiizers
| with Anarchy and POpulism in the long
acclaim to William j. Bryan, the elo-
Gnent bo,r and eccentric representative i've OF at tine
form and the candidate threaten par
| alysis of business until the day IF cleo
ton: for longer period If success could
possibly attend: and they condemn the
Democratic party to fate that would
be death to any other party. but the
Democratic party is undying.-Utica OBJ
| server.
Will Lose Hundreds OF Thousands.
Savannah News: All Democrats will
not approve the declarations in respect
to coinage. bonds, the currency, income
| tax and railroads. These latter declara-
| tions are much more Populistic than
Democratic. 1t looks very. much as II
they were put into the platform for the
express purpose of currying 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 Popuistic declarations might not
break up the Populist party. but would
pretty certainly drive hundreds of thou
sands of Democrats out of the Democrat
ic party.
Boss Champions of Disorder.
Trenton On. j. American Dem.):
| 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
| personal and public motives-will refuse
to give their approval to convention
and a candidate which have publicly
and vaingloriously threatened the de-
struction of the nations credit, the dim
mutton of values. the retardment of busi-
ness. the attack on property, and the tri-
umph of disorder above the law and
those called upon to administer 1t. And
| they will so refuse in the belief that
| all other party issues fade into insignif-
canoe in comparison with the issue as il
has been formulated at Chicago.
Danger to Liberty.
Galveston News: The fact is that the
| programme formulated at Chicago mere
ly marks the skirmish line of n great and
final battle for social revolution, indus
| trial reconstruction. and constitutional
| t,,t;a ,,at 60
guards there can be no assurance of eth
| or free government or individual liberty.
| An unchecked social Democracy means
no law but the law of brute force, no
rule and no order but the rule and order
of irresponsible tyranny. Intelligent
citizens grounded in wholesome appre-
citation Of the constitutional essentials
of a stable republic. who supremely
cherish the priceless interests of consti-
| tutional liberty and security, who feel
that there can be no true progress with
out the conservation of these interests,
will not fail to see in present emergen-
| cles where their common danger lies.
| Realizing also that the problem of de-
fcnse is their common concern. they can
well understand that how they may best
proceed to combat. defeat and disarm
their common enemy is question of
momentary expediency to be decided in
| the light of current events and modify
| ing circumstances.
South Dakota Views.
Sioux Falls us-Leader: The Dem
ocrats have declared for u policy which
will inevitably establish the single silver
standard; will. in our opinion, wreck the
national credit and rcputation: will for
many years, make commercial confidence
impossible: will spread ruin over the
land: will destroy all hopes of bimetal-
lism in the generations; and will indef-
nitely postpone a revival of good times.
| n ctnt. he
Leader can see its duty only in one cham
mel. Believing. as this paper does, that
the honor, safety and prosperity of the
United States would be seriously jeop-
ardized by the success of the Democratic
party on its prcsetn platform, the Argus
Leader, with sorrow for the broken asso-
cations. with regret at parting from a
name it has revered and loved but with
consciousness of unavoidable duty,
withdraws from the grand old Demo-
cratic party. which has. in our judgment.
left its time-honored principles in pursuit
of strange gods. and will throw what
ever influence it may possess on the
side OF the Nations prosperity and honor.
To Attempt the Impossible.
Staunton Va.) News: A law de-
caring that wheat. regardless of the
surplus on the markets or the demand
for it. should sell the year round at SI
per bushel, and that corn and oats.
| Ho uiutetr Wuat tDelr 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 at
tempt to coin silver in unlimited ouan-
titles and to make it even in value at n
given fixed ratio with gold is to attempt
the impossible and to do what in the
very nature of things cannot be done.
Looking tosthe New York Convention.
Syracuse News: The Chicago plat
form is a wide departure from the plat
form adopted by the last Democratic
state convention at Saratoga 1t was
so wide departure that the New York
delegation felt compelled to abstain
from participation in the nomination af
candidates on that platform. 1t re-
mains for the coming Democratic state
convention to formulate the policy of
the New York Democracy. That con-
vention. in nominating presidential elec-
tors, will point the way to Democrats
which shall lead to the preservation of
the party-the preservation of its un-
| ..xA- ft.s