Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-08-08
PRINCIPLES, NOT PARTY.
The German Democratic Press Bolt
the Chicago Ticket.

Chicago Staats-Zeitung: The Democ-
rncy which declared itself last week in
Chicago is q new and ~dcgenerated edition
of the Democracy of 1861; in ii reigns
the old Bourbon spirit which never learns
and never forgets. Who, therefore, de-
sires that the United States should fur
ther develop their national organism:
that the national government should be
further strengthened in the interest of
all; that national honor be kept unde-
filed; that the national credit he kept in
tact. turns away from a Democracy
which has placed itself nj the disposal
Of destructive forces and Joins that party
which was called In 1861 10 save the
Union, and which In this year again
has the patriotic duty 70 purify the ma
tlonal organism from the poison of the
POpulistic Democracy.
The issue Is not one Of party, but Of
the highest achievements Of the nation,
which can be kept secure only by the
authority of the Federal government, by
an honest currency and by an inassail-
able credit.
Iowa Tribune Dem.), Davenport-The
recklessness and fanaticism Of the silver
people az the Chicago convention, who
trampled all opposition under foot, has
made n very bad impression even upon
many of those who sympathizc with the
theory of the debasers of money. The
majority Of our voters Is not ready by
any means TO deliver the nation to such
crazy ~demagogues as Bryan, Waite, Till
nan and others.
Waechter und Anzciger Dem), Cleve-
land-Ihe currency plank. with its de-
clsiYe declaration against the gold stand
ard, which, with total disregard of the
entire other world of culture and com
merce, is declared to be nm English insti-
tuition and is stigmatiZed as such, while
the free coinage of silver at the ratio Of
IL to l is demanded as an immediate
measure of government. cannot fail TO
make an altogether revolutionary impress
sion; We should not be at all surprised
II this news should cause in Europe a
decline OF American securities in Ill ex-
changes; anticipated this decline has long
been.
Louisville Anzeiger Dem.)-Nonsense,
thou prevailest! From Grover Cleveland
10 William Jennings Bryan-this is n
jump for which the real Democrat il not
SO easily ready. The Anzeiger prefers Mt
any rate not TO make il. After the adop-
ton of the platform the Anzeicer had no
need To pause a moment for the declara-
ton that ii would not support the can
didate who would accept the nomination
upon this platform. The nomination of
Bryan makes this duty easier and more
agreeable. Bland and Boies would have
been fought by the AnZeiger on account
Of the cause which they represent. In
Bryan we do not only fight the cause but
the person. Only Il convention which
placed Tillman above Cleveland and
Blackburn above Carlisle would perpe.
trate the bad joke to present the young
hero of phrases from the West for the
highest Office in it's gift.
Seebote DEM, Milwaukee: As the
close of the century has brought forth
the abOminable new woman" who
rides Il bicycle, smokes, drinks, wears
trousers and tears herself loose from all
old customs, So there has arisen i'm Chi
cago, imbued with the same revolution
airy spirit, a new Democratic party
which stands everything time-honOred on
the head. denies the traditions of the old
party, administers a kick 10 honesty and
decency and comes before the people
with a financial programme which is a
mockery TO all reason. The "new wom-
an" and the new party" are genuine
Tin de steele experiences, md one would
consider neither of them seriously if they
were not SO serious in their consequences.
They are on the one hand the regret
table and undeniahle eXcrescences of the
liberality of social views and on the
other hand of the freedom of the politi-
cal thought that the Constitution of the
United States prevents nobody from max
ing a fool of himself as often as he likes
TO.
Davenport Democrat DEM: The
time has arrived for the clean separation
of the two irreconcilablc wings of the
Democratic party. To which the Demo
crat has called attention for two years.
Those Democrats who remain true 10 the
unalterable national principles, as they
were proclaimed by Thomas jefferson,
James Madison and the other fathers of
the republic can have nothing in COM
mon with the Populistic new Democrats
who stole the banner and the name of
the glorious old party to betray under
its shelter the sublime principles and to
cry.