The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1896-08-11
To The Front, Shelby +!
The United States Marshal is Cal
led to Account.
MESSAGE FROM CRITTENDEN.
Elk Governor Of Missouri the Auth
or Of an Open Letter.
is FOR BRYAN AND SEWALL.
Good Reasons Why the Democrats
Should Join Hands.
PARTY SHOULD Be SUPPORTED.
(Kansas City Times.)

Misguided Democrats who have
been deserving the party on account
of the Chicago platform, are being. cal
led sharply to task by men who have
fought for Jeffersonian principles for
a lifetime. The Times hA published
several letters of this nature recently.
Another is herewith given. 1t is an
open letter from Mr.. Il. L. Crittenden,
Ex-Governor of Missouri, and at pres
ent Consul General to Mexico, with
headquarters at the City of Mexico.
The letter is as follows:
Gen. j. o. Shelby, Kansas City, Mo.
Mexico, July %, 1S96.-Dear 10: 1
have read your published letter of the
18th inst. to Colonel Coffey OF Fayette-
vile, Ark. think can write freely
to you, as we have been friends for
forty years. am not in full sympa-
thy with the 16 to ratio; my life
here having somewhat modified my
views on that question, although there
are many countries in worse financial
condition than "free silver Mexico"
In some respects dislike the Chicago
platform as much as you do, yet there
isa way to correct il, and we should
await "the man and the hour" 1t
looks to me that Mr.. Bryan is slowly
and prudently moving in that d;rec-
tion,sand if left alone, will divest it,
by his personality and speeches, of
many OF its Objectionable features.
Rome was not built in day, and
it was slowly reformed after it was
built. l do not see the danger in
Bryan that you do. l think you are
unnecessarily alarmed on certain
planks in the platform. The abuse of
Mr.. Cleveland was certainly out of
place in Democratic convention by
men claiming to be Democrats, yet
leaders and reformers have been abus-
ed in all ages, in all nations, by men
who are more voluble than thought
full. Some of our own leaders in Mis-
souri have led on the dance with
marvellous alacrity and embittered
tongue. Would it not be we'll to en-
courage charity and fidelity at home
before boiling from the ranks of a
party in which you have served SO
long and which has honored you so
highly? If your course is logically
pursued, boiling will follow all along
the line, for there is not one man who
will be nominated for State Office by
the Democratic party of Missouri, who
has not poured his "vials of wrath"
on the Presidents head. Let us be
true to all or false to all, not making
curses of one and idols of the others.
Some, 1t may be many, are justifying
their right 10 bolt on the ground that
Bryan declared in Alabama in 1895
that he would not support "a gold |
standard candidate on gold standard |
platform" What if he did say this
1t was hasty speech, the cause of
which know not, how provoked or
under what frenzy it was uttered, and
if wrong then, how can it be made
right by repetition of that action by
another3 Two wrongs never made a
right. Who is there, who has not at
some time talked too much? Jeptha's
VOW made him a murderer, and an
eternal example against foolish re-
mark. Such vows are "more .honored
in the breach than observance"
Measure man by his quiet acts, his
quiet words, rather than by heated
actions and inilamed oratory.
The supreme court of the United
States is not in 80 much danger from
inconsiderate attacks of convention
as from the more insidious one of APP
pointing men to that eminent "wool
sack" for special purposes and covert
or from judges on that bench
strangely changing their opinions be-
tween the rising and the setting of the il