Semi=weekly graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1895-1902, 1896-08-29

allowed to vote for Democrats who
are pledged to maintain the present
money standard under which our
country has attained its greatness
anG by which its credit is to be
main tanned.
We demand the nomination of a
candidate fot President who will at
all times and under all circumstan-
ces uphold thc public welfare and
National credit against the red
hand of Anarchy, and the bowling
clamor Of Populists ana Dema-
gogues,
We approve the administration Of
that matchlcss Democrat, Grover
Cleveland; and declare that in the
abolition of the Federal Election
laws and his courageous stand for
tariff reform we have seen the real
ization of all that was expected of
him as President, and believe that
the cause of Democracy he so ably
defended by his public expression,
and action, was betrayed by those
so-called Democrats who have now
become his traducers and the be-
traHers of Democratic principles.
We condemn a convention that
refuses to approve the course of
the President wherein he stood for
sound money and the National
credit and honor; and disapproved
his action in maintaining the law
when the Governor of the State of
Illinois dared not act.
We fail to find words to express
our disapproval of that part of the
Chicago platform which declares, in
effect that the judges of the highest
courts in the land should be APP
pointed because of their willingness
to decide Constitutional questions
in accordance with the demands of a
political party; and pledge ourselves
to use all honorable means 10 bring
back to the councils OF Democracy
as taught by Jefferson, Jackson and
Cleveland those of our fellow citi-
zens who now through fear, misrep-
resentation and ignorence, are
adopting the methods of the Dema
gogue and Populists, and thereby
inviting the contempt of the world
and insuring certain defeat to the
Democratic party.
If apology were necessary for the
position assumed by us, we would
call the attention of the public to
the letter of the Hon. w. ]: Bryan,
to Hon. George A. Carbon, of Dali
las, Texas, February %, in which
Mr.. Bryan said: 81 deny the right
of a convention to depart from the
principles as taught by the party in
the past, and then attempt to bind
those who shall participate in such
convention in the hope of holding
the party to its ancient position.
In other words, if Democrat at
tends a convention for the purpose
of obtaining re-aflirmation of DEM
ocratic faith and finds that the con-
vention repudiates the doctrines of
the party and announces an entirely
new policy, he is not, in my jnds.
ment, bound to support such new
policy"
We would adopt this Declaration
of Independence of the acts Of
political conventions that betray
their parties trust by declaring for
untried and dangerous departures
from the time honored aud time
tested principles of government;
and, therefore, announce our undis-
gulsed opposition to the revolution
airy policies adopted by the Chicago
convention in the name of Democ-
racy.
For fear that we may be misun-
derstood upon the money question,
we declare that We favor bimetal-
ism whenever practicable, but the
experience of our own and other
civilized nations, teaches that with
out the cooperation of the great
commercial nations of the world,
there is but small hope for such
consummation in the near future,
and until such time, in our iudg
ment, this government cannot main