Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-08-20
HOW LIE WROTE IT.

HOW HE w ltOlE II.
THE declaration of notions adopted in
the name of the Democracy by the Chica-
go convention is for the most part so hos
tile to the doctrines which have prevailed
i'm the Democratic party in the past, as to
demand its rejection by all those VINO
would not abandon the Democracys es-
sential ideas and best traditions.
DISHONESTY.
The Chicago platform invites us to es-
tablish a currency which will enable a
man to pay his debts with half as much
property as ne would have to use in order
10 pav them now This proposition is
dishonest. I do not say mat all the adj
vocates of the free coinage of silver are
dishonest. Thousands Of them. millions.
if there be so many, are doubtless honest
In intention. But 1 am unable to reconcile
with any ideal of integrity change in
the law which will permit man who has
borrowed a hundred dollars to pay his
debt with a hundred dollars each one Of
which is worth only half as much as each
dollar he received from the lender.
THE Chicago platform sanctions the
use of the appointing power of the Pres
ident i'm such a way as to control the
federal judiciary I'm deciding questions Of
constitutional law. It contempates n
change i'm the personnel of the Supreme
Court Of the United States to the end that
the recent decision declaring the income
tax unconstitutional may be reversed.
Strange times. i'm order 10 be a Democrat
he must favor the imposition of an income
tax. and the destruction of the independ-
ence of the judiciary
GOVERNMENT BY INJUNCTION.
Still more alarming is the clearly i'm
piled approval Of lawless violence con-
tanned in the denunciaton Of what is de-
nominated i'm the platform government
bv Injunction" Yelled in the language Of
moderation. the wild light of anarchy
shines through.
In my ouinion. without reviewing the
Chicago platform further, the declara-
tions i'm regard to the currency the SUI
preme Court and income tax and the
repression of forcible lawlessness by the
aid of Injunction. are enough to demand
its rejection by all good citizens and the
defeat of the candidates who stand upon
it,
"T regret exceedingly to find a DISPOSE
ton quite prevalent 10 array the WEST
against the East in. the discussion Of these
matters. I see no occasion for making
our differences sectional Here there IS
no political hostility toward the West.
such as expressed toward the East by
some Western newspapers and public
sneakers. Good citizens can perhaps best
aid the cause of honest money and law
and order by devotins more time to ra-
tional argument and less to inefficient
abuse.
IAN questions relating to the tariff have
become Insignificant for the time being. in
view of the possibility, however slight.
that the abhorrent principles OF the Chi
cago platform may prevail. The duty and
the necessity to compass the final over
throw of that platform by assisting in the
defeat of William J. Bryan are most inn
nerative and solemn This may most
certainly be accomplished by voting for
the electors pledged to the support OF
VIM. Mckinley; but l have no quarrel
with any Democrat who adopts any other
course which seems to him equally well
adapted or better adapted to the same
end"