The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1896-10-13
Ambassador Bayard Deserts
the Bryan Standard.
WILL WORK AND voTEFoR PALMER
Cautions True Democrats Against Voting
the Bryan Tioket--Gives Reasons
for His Course.

WILMINGTON, Del, Oct. 12.-In let
ter to Samuel Bancroft, ir., editor of the
Every Evening, Thomas F. Bayard, am
bassador to Great Britain, has repudi-
ated the platform and nominees of the
vises constitutional Democrats to vote
for Palmer and Buckner. The latter is
in part as follows:
''It seems scarcely possible that any
one could be in doubt in relation to my
personal opinion upon the serious issue
now placed before our countrymen by
the machinery of several political organ
izations. \ When a Citizen protesting
himself to be a Democrat is called upon
by many or by few to yield his convic-
tions and assent to doctrine that con-
gress has the power and can righttnlly
exercise it by its legislative fat. to create
values and regardless of their intrinsic
commercial value invest one or the other
of the earth's metals with arbitrary
power as money and override and alter
at legislative will or caprice the ratio of
exchange or ability of such metal, re-
gardless of the impairment of obligation
contracts, his answer should be that
such a claim of power is not consistent
with the government 8 limited powers as
defined by onr constitution, hut con-
tains the quintessence of tyranny, dis
honesty and absoluteism and is de-
structive of that morality which is es-
sential to the peace and stability of
civilized society. 1t is, in plain words,
a proposition to destroy the institution
of property and break down every legal
defense for its protection.
"This one question and its answer
sufficiently justifies the prompt and ab-
ocrat to support in any degree the nom
inees of the Chicago convention and the
preposterous claims of legislative power
contained in their platform, under
which the credit of the nation and the
peace and order of society would inevi-
tably perish.
son the other hand, we have Re-
publican organization whose measures
and whose leaders have steadily created
such ticket and such propositions as
were presented at Chicago. While COM
PEELED to recoil from policy favoring
the compulsory purchase and coinage of
silver as unlimited legal tender yet it is
insistently proposed to employ and in
tensify the profound powers of public
taxation, to prohibit commerce with
other countries and thereby prevent
revenue from coming into the public
treasury, and to levy taxes which shall
prevent the payment and collection OF
other taxes necessary for the support OF
the government, whose powers are di-
rected personally upon each individ-
ual citizen and over every part of land
or water within the national boundaries.
every constitutional Democrat can
truly reply to such propositions that
they are fraught with such gross illegal
ity between man and man as to be in
consistent with public safety because
they employ the most far-reaching and
sovereign power known to the govern
ment to impoverish the working and
poorer members of society, who form
the great American majority. and to ag-
grandize those already financially
stronger. Every man, faithful to the
principles of his party, can properly re-
fuse to aid in the election of candidates
avowing the principles and policies that
have SO plainly led to our present dan.
gers, and which are manifestly fatal tc