The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-07-09

municipal building.
The PopuEist Convention.
After the adoption Of the Populist plat
form at Chicago. about all that VIII re-
main Of the Democratic party viii be
the Cleveland administration and the three
hundred delegates who refuse TO give their
allegiance to the Altgeld programme.
From the materials which these afford.
from the principles which they conserve.
from the faithful who stand BY them
throughout the country, the new Democ-
racy must be formed.
Just when the regenerative process is to,
begin. II is too soon to say. Whether the
champions of the national credit win think
it safer to leave this fght to be fought
out. fairly and sqnareiy, between two
couabatant parties. representing gold or
silver. or whether it viii be thought best
to give the hundreds of thousands Of
Democrats. who can stomach neither the
Republican nor the silverite, a third
candidate to rally about, is a question of
the most desperate importance. 1t
should emily be deeided by long. cool. de-
lfberate and concentrated study by the
united wisdom of the party.
After the Chicago performance is over,
it will be time enough to take up the
question.
H platform as published. and as it
is sure to be adopted. is Objectionable
not for the silver plank alone. Almost
every feature of 1t is equally objection
able on grounds both of common sense
and public morality.
The clause in reference to the issue Of
bonds in time of peace is both absurd and
immoral Tn demand thar the power to
issue notes De taken from the National
banks is vicious In the last degree. The;
tariff talk is sound enough, but sound
tariff ak will not counterbalance the
RAM anarchy of the concluding sections
which practically amount to confscation
Of the railways and licensing of mob vio-
lence. The opposition 70 life tenure in
the public servioe-one of Grover Cleve-
lands great boons to the country-is a
step backward to the eorrupting and de-
basing spoils system which has so de-
PRAYED our politics.
Alleged is dictator. and from his plat
form the people ma learn what to ex-
pect if they support him at the polls.
THE New York Sun keeps on squall-
ing with raucous voice that is is all
Grover Cleveland's fault. So it is, If
you mean by that that he has given the
country an administration so clean, so
honest, so high toned, SO safe, so con-
sentative. so American that every ele-
rnent Of corruption, plumber, ehicane, riot.
anarchy, and other foreign importation
of Jaeobinism has been driven into revolt
against it.
Grover Cleveland has scourged out of
the Democratic party the secession shirt
Of the South and the State Socialism of the
West. He mas left no place for the
NG0 HAfru LIE sun represents.
He has made the Democratic party, the
party OF peace with honor and prosperity
without discrimination This sort of
party does not suit Anarchists like Ait
geld seeessionists like Tillman, rancorous
old pole cats Ike Vest or Dana. or cow
ards and traitors like Arthur Pugh Cor
man.
It win be found later on. thai it
suits millions of the American people.
Before another National Convention is
held. the Anti-cleveiand mob wiz have
disappeared from the face of the earth
as completely as Dennis Kearney, whom
they 50 greatly resemble, and the IDEALS
and traditions Of true Democracy as
represented In the White House today.
will again dominate the party.