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-
racy which declared itself last week in
Chicago is a new and degenerated edition
of the Democracy of 1861: in il reigns
the old Bourbon spirit which never learns
and never forgets. Who, therefore, de-
sircs hat the United States should fur
thcr 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 I've kept in
tact, turns away from a Democracy
which has placed itself at the disposal
of destructive forces and joins that party
which was called In 1861 TO save the
has the patriotic duty 10 purify the ma
tional 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 inassall-
able credit.
Iowa Tribune Dom.), Davcnport-The
recklessnesS and fanaticism of the silver
people at the Chicago convention, who
trampled all opposition under foot, has
made a 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 dcmagogues as Bryan, Waite, Till
man and others.
Waechtcr und Anzcigcr Dem.), Cleve-
land-The currency plank. with its de-
clslve declaration against the gold stand
ard, which, with total disregard of the
| on ne haa .,.Aul1 e 1 so 40 lAa
merce, is declared TO be an English insti-
tuition and is stigmatized as such, white
the free coinage of silver at the ratio of
IL TO l is demanded ms an immediate
measure of government, cannot fail to
make an altogether revolutionary impress
sion. We should not be at all surprised
If this news should cause in Europe a
decline of American securities in all eX-
changes; anticipated this decline has long
been.
Louisville AnzeiCcr (Dem.)-Nonsense,
thou preyaileSt! From Grover Cleveland
TO William Jennings Bryan-this is a
jump for which the real Democrat is not
so easily ready. The AnZciger prefers AT
any rate not TO make il. After the aGop-
ton of the platform the Anzciger had no
need To pause a moment for the deClara-
ton that it would not support the can
didate who would accept the nomination
| upon lHlS plullbTH. Inc NOMINATION. Ol
Bryan makes this duty easier and more
agreeable. Bland and Boies would have
been fought by the AnZcigcr on account
of the cause which they represent. In
Bryan we do not only fight the cause but
the person. Only a 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 its gift.
Sccbote Dem0. Milwaukee,: As the
close of the century has brought forth
the abominable ''ncw woman who
rides a bicycle, smokes, drinks, wears
trousers and tears herself loose from all
old customs. SO there has arisen in Chi
Cago, imbued with the same revolutions
airy spirit, n new Democratic party
which stands everything time-honorcd on
the head, denies the traditions of the old
party, administers a kick to honesty and
dccency and comes before the people
with a financial programme which is a
mockery to all reason. The new won
an" II the new party" ere genuine
fin dc steele experiences, and 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 undeniable cxcresccnces of tho
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 Il fool of himself as often as he likes
to.
Davenport Democrat CDcm): Tho
time has arrived for the clean separation
of the two irrcconcilable wings of the
Democratic party. To which the Demo
crat has called attention for two years
Those Democrats who remain true to tn,
unalterable national principles, as they
were proclaimed by Thomas jefferson
James Madison and the other fathers oil
the republic can have nothing in com
mon with the Populistic new Democrat,
who stole the banner and the name OF
the glorious old party to betray under
its shelter the sublime principles and t.
throw the country into u~nspeakable mis-
cry.