The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-08-01
pressed in the platform.-syracuse COu-

rier.
1t is altogether probable that the
| Democrats who love Democracy and who
decline TO be counted among it's betrayers
will have ticket In the near future That
i will satisfy their desires and aims. ms
| would be the most desirable result, but,
come what may, the Chronicle absolves
| itself from all responsibility for the ut
terances of the alleged Democratic con-
yention Just closed at Chicago, and
pledges itself to aid in the defeat Of its
nominees. To participate in n campaign
| for such a ticket on such platform
would be to be untrue to every patriotic
Democratic principle.-La Crosse CWis.)
| Chronicle.
| A bright young man with slvery,
| demagogic tongue is planted on the anti
Democratic platform adopted at Chicago.
| and the excited victims of u singular and
| illogical craze vie with the sympntnizers
with Anarchy and Populism in the long
| acclaim to William j. Bryan, the elo-
quent and eccentric representative of the
boilers of Nebraska. The plat
form and the candidate threaten a par
alysis of business until the day If cleo
| ton: for longer period If success could
possibly attend; and they condemn the
Democratic party to fate that would
be death to any other party; put me
Democratic party Is undying.-Utica OBJ
| server.
Will Lose Hundreds OF Thousands.
Savannah News: All Democrats will
not approve the declarations in respect
| tax and railroads. These latter declara-
tons are much more Populistic than
| Democratic. 1t looks very much as II
they were put into the platform for the
| express purpose of currying favor with
the Populists. In fact, If we are not
tsta in
speech in the convention that the purpose
of them is to influence the Populists to
come into the lines of the Democracy
and become part of the Democratic
party. He did not seem to take into
consideration the fact that the adoption
break up the Populist party, but would
pretty certainly drive hundreds of thou
sands of Democrats out of the Democrat
ic party.
Boss Champions of Disorder.
Trenton IN. j. American Dem):
But, whatever may be the course of the
politicians and the party leaders, there
| will be thousands of Democrats in New
| Jersey who-not in resentment OF the
| contumely with which the state and its
interests have been treated, but from
personal and public mOtives-will refuse
to give their approval to convention
| and candidate which have publicly
and vaingloriously threatened the de-
struction of the nations credit, the dim
mutton of values, the retardment of busi-
ness. the attack on property. and the tri-
umph of disorder above the law and
those called upon to administer it. And
they will so refuse in the belief that
all other party issues fade into insignifi-
canoe in comparison with the issue as it
has been formulated ut Chicago.
Danger to Liberty.
Galveston News: The fact is that the
program formulated Mt Chicago mere
ly marks the skirmish line of a great and
final battle for social revolution. indus
trial reconstruction, and constitutional
subversion. Without constitutional safe
guards there can be no assurance of eth
or free government or individual liberty.
An unchecked social Democracy means
no law but the law of brute force. no
rule and no order but the rule and order
of irresponsible tyranny. Intelligent
citizens grounded in wholesome appre-
citation of the constitutional essentials
of a stable republic, who Supremacy
tutional liberty and security, who feel
that there can be no true progress with
| out the conservation of these interests,
will not fail to see in present emcrgen-
cies where their common danger lies
Realizing also that the problem of de-
well understand that how they may best
proceed to combat defeat and disarm
their common enemy is question of
momentary eXpediency to be decided in
| the light of current events and modify
ing circumstances.
South Dakota Views.
Sioux Falls Argus Leader: The. Dem
Ocrats have declared for n policy which
| will inevitably establish the single silver
standard: will in our opinion. wreck the
national credit and reputation: will, for
many years, make commercial confidence
| impossible: will spread ruin over the
| land; will destroy all hopes of bimetal.
lism in the generations; and will indefi-
nitely postpone a revival of good times.
Under these circumstances the Argus.
Leader can see its duty only in one chan
mel. Believing. as this paper does, that
the honor. safety and prosperity of the
United States would be seriously icon.
ardized by the success of the Democratic
party on it's presetn platform. the Argus
Leader. with sorrow for the broken asso
Citations. with regret at parting from q
name 1t has revered and loved, but with
consciousness of unavoidable duty
withdraws from the grand old Demo.
cratic party, which has. in our judgment
left its time-honOred principles In pursuit
of strange gods, and will throw what
ever influence il may possess on tn,
side of the Nations prosperity and honor
To Attempt the Impossible.
Staunton (Va.) News: A law de
claring that wheat, regardless of tn,
surplus on the markets or the demand
for it, should sell the year round Mt 81
per bushel, and that corn and oats
no matter what their intrinsic value
should always sell at the same fgur,
as wheat. would be just as sensible a,
free coinage of silver law and would
be just as easy to carry into effect. Tn,
gist of the whole matter il that to Mt
tempt to coin silver in unlimited auan
titles and to make it even in value Mt ,
given fixed ratio with gold is to attemp
the impossible and to do what in tn,
very nature of things cannot be done.
Looking to the New York Convention
Syracuse News: The Chicago plat
form is a wide departure from the plat
form adopted by the last Democratic
state convention Mt Saratoga. Ii wa,
80 wide departure that the New Yorl
delegation felt compelled to abstain
from participation in the nomination o
candidates on that platform. 1t re
mains for the coming Democratic stat
convention to formulate the policy o
| the New York Democracy That con