The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1896-08-22
NATIONAL DEMOCRATS.
The Sound Money Men Of Illinois Issue
1 Call.
THE CHICAGO PLATFORM ROASTED.
The Document Written by Senator
Palmer and A. C. Ewing-The Most
SCathlng DenunclatlOn Of the POpO.
crats.-Cuts to the Bone.

The sound money Democrats of Iii
nois issued call for a state conven.
tion which convened last Tuesday.
Following is what the sound money
Democrats haYe to say of the Bryan
platform:
"The platform adopted is the pros.
pectus of a body of men who, regard
less of every other consideration, pro-
pose to secure certain specific none
tary Federal legislation. That is their
one objective point. To its attainment
they would commit all the resources
and energies of the Democratic party.
That great organization, with its broad
theories of practical political economy
adapted to the various needs of free
people, is made to have no other mis-
sion or occupation than to secure tho
passage of futile law intended to
make silver worth more than its value,
and metals intrinsically Yarient legally
uniform. They say: Recognizing
that the money question is paramount
to all others at this time, we demand
free and unlimited coinage of both sill
yer and gold at the present legal ratio
of l6 to l, without waiting for the aid
or consent of any other nation, and de
mand that the standard silver dollar
shall be full legal tender equally with
gold for all debts, public and private
Furthermore, they do not, with the
dignity due their position as the repre-
sentative of a great party and to the
occasion, invite the people to calm
and dispassionate consideration of the
paramount question presented; but
they incite them to impulsiYe action
upon it by a bit a cheap rhetoric, for
which no man of intelligence would
like to be held responsible by his equals
and which in grave state paper is
gross. They say: Gold monometal-
ism is a British policy, and its adop-
ton has brought other nations into fl
nancial servitude to London. 1t is not
only un-American but anti-American
and it can be fastened upon the United
States only by the sitting of that love
of liberty which proclaimed our politi'
cal independence in 1916 and won it in
the war of the revolution.
mo single expression can accurately
characterize that paragraph. Bun
combe' is too innocent, 'iingOiSm' is toe
refined. 1t is not only unworthy, but
it is vicious. 1t is there for bad pur
pose, viz: To be shouted aloud by suct
public speakers as are not above it, ant
to arouse the public passions so tina
the gravest issue of the campaign,
complex question of finance, may b.
decided in the heat and fumes of preju
dice.
"They were not taking care OF thu
honor of the Democratic party and re
garding the welfare of the country, bu
we're strangely eager for the accom-
plishment of but one purpose-the dec
laration by law that sixteen ounces o
silver should be equal to one of gold
They 90 further. The other pregnan
propositions of the platform are su0or
dinate to and are intended to aid tina
which is designed as the paramount
one and are such as, if carried into Ell
feet would remove existing legal ant
constitutional barriers to popular I'm
pulses.
"They attack the Supreme court 0
the United States, hold it responslOl
for the deficit in the revenue Decaos
Of its decision of the income tax cas'
make an invidious comparison betwee
the action of the court and the holding
Of other unnamed 'ablest judges WI
had ever sat on that BENCH and sut
oest in way not far removed from
threat of the reconstruction of tina
conrt hereafter for the purpose OF a II
versal of that decision.
r "Again, in language so lntemPel"'
AZ to Justify the suspicion OF persons
feeling, they attack the federal juug?
and designate the issuance by them
nublic or semi-public affairs OF Il
writ of injunction as "a new ana hlgn
dangerous form of oppression by VINE
fed federal Judges, in contempt of IL
states and rights of citizens, b
come at once legislators, judges al
executioners.' ,s.,
OoonJe contempt of the judicial depaI
posnt of the government, and final
= they plant a battery, scarcely mas sHe
o Sirscted against the stability and ind
n evidence of the courts in this DIT
& pbrase. we are, opposed to life tenu