Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-08-08
RAMPANT DEMOCRACY.
Democratic Press Burst All Bonds
in Their Indignation.

on free islver or cheap money platform
they have been overwhelmingly beaten.
What evidence have we that there is to
be a change in '96?-Montgomery (AlaD
Advertiser.
When great party has reached that
stage of moral deprnvity that such Great
ures as Tilman, Altgeld & Co. are per-
mittcd to speak to il, much less take an
important part in moulding its politics.
its course is, indeed, about run.-Wa-
bash Ond) Times.
Americans will never give this crowd
control of tie country until they shall
have fallen to the level of the old world
communists. That will not happen this
year, at least. The people must be de-
graded in their own esteem before they
will vote for war of class against
class.-Memphis Scimitar.
The financial plank in the platform
adopted by the Democratic national con
vention at Chicago is distinctly a declara-
tion for such Reputation of existing
secured by the enforcement upon the
country as legal tender money of de-
based silver coinage conformed to de-
graded standard of money.-New Or
leans Picayune.
Scratch silver man and you come to
a Populist. In the heart of each burns
the desire to get as much as possible and
give as little. If either of them hap
pen to be debtor. this desire takes the
form of reputation. As most of them
are debtors reputation is the thing they
are for, and in the Chicago platform
they go fer 1t straight.-New York
Times.
1t is but proLer to say in fairness and
Justice to the grand old Democratic
party of Hamilton, jefferson and Jack
son that we cannot depart from the
s.f tbn fnth hn
question, and therefore, cannot, much
to our regret follow the Democratic
banner as it trails into n foreign camp;
and must, as a matter of self-respect
refuse to support Mr.. Bryan upon the
financial platform upon which he has
been placed and stands.-Dayton COD
Times.
Till the contest is decided our voice
shall be raised and our influence given
for the election of Mr. Mckinley to the
presidency. The security of the cur
rency is the paramount question of the
hour. 1t cclipses issues. Believing that
this security can best be attained by
the success of the Republican party,
we promise it our sincere and hearty
support for its presidential ticket in the
impending campaign. We have never
believed that the Republican party made
the best selection possible to IL, but it
is difficult to see how any candid man
can deny that the selection of the Repub-
lican party was eminently more fitting
and appropriate; There is an absence
of dignity in the Democratic selection
which is seen both in the candidate
himself and in the circumstances that at
tended his nomination.-Boston Herald.
The true interests of the people ask
for the election of Mr.. Mckinley, not
for himself but for the absolute ne
cessity of the whole people of the Unit
ed States and of the greater world of
which they are after all but q, part. In
talk of ''sectionalism" or of ''anavchy''
or of revolution" Remember always
that compared with the unity of country
the gold standard is not worth fighting
for; one country, one hag.-Springfield
Republican Qnd.-Dem)
No reasonable man can ask the Times
to stultify and dshonor itself and long
timed Democratic principles. While sup
porting to the best of our ability thC
etaIe nominations for executive offices
nnd Legislative noniiuonx,=we feel assured
that all true Democrats will justify II,
in deciding that we cannot give the sup
port of the Times to the Chicago con
vention and its politically diseased cand
date. We shall do all we can to sustain
the good name and the organization OF
the Democratic party, but we cannot sup
port principles nor candidates of the
Bland, Teller and Altgeld stripe. We
cannot conscientiously ask honest men
to vote for them.-Hartford Times.
We repudate the 16 to / plank in
Bryan's Chicago platform and will moi
support any candidate on such n plat
form. Ii is too Populistic and Nihilistic
-Machias N1e.) Union.
Our worst fears have not only beer
realized but new and horrible doctrines
have been added to the Chicago platform
which cannot possibly bind Democrat
who is unwilling to abandon the funda
mental principles of his party.-Rich
mond (VaD Times.
What Harry Bingham feared only as .
bare possibility has come TO be a sterr
reality: The "madmen" of whom ht
spoke have controlled the national con
vention and declared for free silver a
16 to 1. The Democrats of New Hamp
shire cannot "o with them.-AIanchastcl
On. H.) Union.
Circumstances have made William Nc
kinley the man around whom all mus
rally who desire to defeat determined,
the candidate for the pseudo-Democracy
William j. Bryan, who stands for fla
money under the guise of bimetallsm
for nullificatiou of lawfully Ii
abilities; for communism and lawless
ness.
Mckinley and the party he repre-
sch'o nave uHtn HOW induced DemOcrati,
and indepndent voters TO iook for mean
by which they could avoid the necessit,
of supporting the Republican ticket. Thi
has been shown to be hopeless, and ther
is no other way but to offer our suppor
to our old opponcnts.-New York Staat
Zeitung, the leading Eastern German
Democratic daily.
We have no fear that the sound-money
Democracy will acquiesce in a free sive
platform, a ticket of reputation, of an
archy and the trampling out of tn,
rights of the sound money delegates il
the convention. A bolt is inevitable. 4
Democratic ticket for which Democrat
can vote is becoming necessity. |
will be supplied. The Anarchists, tn
Populists, the Communists and the Mill
lists who are controlling this convention
will never control this country; they vii
never control the Democratic party
Brooklyn Eagle.
The parting of the ways has beeI
reached, and for the sake of party hon
esty and electoral integrity ii is to b
hoped that the division will be cor.