Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-07-18
new YORK JOURNAL SPEAKS
Hearst's Great Newspaper Defies Wall
Street and Declares UnequiyO-
cally for Bryan.
STRONGLY SUSTAINS CHICAGO PLATFORM
Bryan Neither Anarchist Nor Dema.
gogue-His Spirit Rather That of
Sledge- Hammer Blows
at Hanna Syndicate.


The appended ringing leader, printed
under the title, "The Journal for Bryan
is reproduced entire from the New Yorl
Journal of Monday, W. r. Hearst't
great newspaper:
The manner in which the opponents oi
the ticket nominated at Chicago have be-
gun their campaign must rouse the pro
foundest resentment of every Ameri-
can regardful of the interests and
jealous of the honor of his country.
The representatives of half of
the American people have been de-
nounced in delirious language as anarch-
lists, cut-throats and swindlers. Their
chosen candidate for the highest Office in
the republic has been pictured as a crazy
Jacobin or designing demagogue. Com
merce and industry has been threatened
with the very panic these alarmsts have
professed to fear.
This crusade has been one of reckless
Misrepresentation from the start. The
libelers of the late convention know that
the Chicago platform is not anarchical.
In most respects it is inspired by en-
lightened progressiveness. The anarchi.
cal elements in the oonvention-Tillman
and Altgeld-were distinctly frowned
upon. Tillman was Kissed whenever he
rose to speak. The mild implied criti-
cism OF the majority of the supreme
court, or, rather, of the one justice who
changed his mind, was thoroughly we'll
deserved, and might have been made
much stronger without impropriety.
Since when have we been endowed with
infallble Judges, whose acts are above
scientific principle of the taxation of
large incomes was anarchistic, then every
statesman in England is an anarchist, and,
instead of searching the cellars OF the
houses of parliament for barrels of gun
powder, the authorities ought to search
the pockets of every member for bombs.
The income tax is the backbone Of the
British financial system; it is about to be
introduced, in a graduated form at that,
into France, and it already exists in it's
most extreme degree in Germany.
The condemnation of the practice of
substituting government by injunction
for the old, orderly processes of courts
and juries, 80 far from being revolution
ary, is vindication of the ancient rights
of the English speaking race against a
novel and dangerous innovation which
deserves the name of anarchy much bet
ter than anything done at Chicago.
The platform reafirms the principle
Endorsed by vast majority of the peo-
pie of the United States, of tariff for
revenue only, and protests against the
disturbance to business that would be
caused by return to Mckinley ism.
There is nothing inoendiary in that. In
this point it is the Chicago platform that
is conservative and the one adopted at
st. Louis that is revolutionary.
eve hold" adds the Dem ocratic profes-
sion of faith, "that the most efficient way
of protecting American labor is to
prevent the importation of foreign
pauper labor to compete with it in the
home market" That is honest, straight
forward projections only kind that
does what it pretends to do.
The Chicago platform demands simple
ity and economy in government, and
protests against the prohigate waste of
money that has characterized Republican
legislation. That is not the reckless
spirit of mob. 1t is rather the sober
utterance of prudent property owners
and taxpayers, of whom the Chicago
convention was principally composed.
The protest against arbitrary federal
interference in local affairs is one which
Jefferson would have commended as the
very foundation stone of his political
faith.
In denouncing the attempt to swindle
the government out of more that $780,
100000 by extending the Pacific railroad
debts the convention was fighting an
archy, for there can be no more danger
ous anarchists than those who are power
full enough to override the laws and
amass wealth from the property of the
people.
Moreover, the silver plank in the Chi
cago platform does not deserve the
frantic vituperation leveled against it.
If it's authors we're mistaken in their
methods, their aim was to introduce BIZ
metallism, and bimetallism is a scientific
theory with too much expert authority
on it's sides to brand its advocates as
lunatcs or incendiaries.
Nor is it possible with any more sim
cerity to call Mr.. Bryan a demagogue.
He is the very reverse Of demagogue.
He follows the truth as he sees it, though
1t load him to political destruction. Last
year he could muster only 10000 votes
for his faction in Nebraska out of 180,-
600, but he had no thought of compro-
mise. He fought on, regardless of vic
tory or defeat, thinking only of what he
believed to be right. II he had not been
nominated nobody would have dreamed
of calling him demagogue: His spirit
is rather that of prophet.
On the other side We have William Nc
Kinlsy, bound hand, foot and tongue to
the most corrupt combination that ever
exhibited itself openly in an American
presidential campaign. His election
would put the resources of the govern
ment at the disposal of the Hanna syndi.
cate. II would mean return to Chinese
protection, and the exploitation of the
people by rapacious ring of mandasins.
II would moan in the end a popular re-
volt before which affrighted conservatism
might pray for leader with the moder-
ate instincts Of Bryan.
In most respects the superiority of the
Democratic candidate is so palpable as
to make oomparisons needessly cruel to
his opponent. What, then, is the duty of
American citizens who desire to secure
the best possible government for the re-
public during the next four yearsf
Plainly it is to vote for that presidential
candidate who is manifestly best fitted to
administer the government, and to settle
the financial question through their rep
rsssntativss in congress. Gold men may