Owingsville outlook., 1896-09-03

ituGli SO tt2sr.
Inry at, uudemucrUtic; because
they would cmhrld,'n iaWicSS rioters
"a seize and a'Siuny tE" property of
others, and 10 Dhs.ruct the transport
tatiun uf commerce and the mails;
while denying the right of the GOV
ernmcut. or it, officers or the law,
Ia stop them 10y tie only practicable
ic--:.! restraint.
They are undcmoCra;ic: because
they drnOuuca aS a ''crimr" the ar-
tiou Of the cNUcutiV" and judicial de-
paTtmcniS nf the government in pro
tecting private property. and the
transportation of cummrTce and the
mails from riot and destruction by
iay.l,-S m0l>; although that action
had been approved 10y The unanimous
Vuts of tko Democratic representa-
tivc- of the House and Senate, and
hy lhr unani;HouS iUG.w-Ut of the
supreme Court nf the United states.
They are mdcmocratic; because
tEey ucnuuuc, thr Supreme CoUIt-
the gI,.;t judicial aghltvr of the no
Notwithstanding to destroy it, indC-
pqndrHt life tenure, and To so ccHSti-
tUtr IL hereafter that lis Judgments
may Weld 10 the passions of politics.
y
they seek To obtain votes and Office
by stirring up jealousics, discomfort
and hatred between the West and
the East, the South ana the North,
the country and the town, the en-
ploys and the employer, the debtor
and the creditor. the poorer and the
richer, the farmer and the merchant,
the idle and the industrious. the sue
I hon ri
To make the people forget that, in
this free country and government by
! the people, all men are born free and
equal, with an equal right To rise in
! the world; that the employe of one
ycar is the employer Of another; the
poor man of one year is the rich man
I of another: the debtor Of today Is the
creditor of tomorrow; the creditor of
today is the debtor of tomorrow; and
that the prosperity of the emplcye
I and employer, the farmer and the
merchant, the South and the North
I the West and the East, are depend
ent, the one upon the other.
They are uGdemOCTatic; because
their doctrines, If carried into effect,
would abandon theindustrious work
| ing-men of the country to the danger
OF being driven from their work by
| lawless rioters; would abandon the
farmers to the evils of high taxation,
unjust revenue laws and n vitiated
crdTeney; and would threaten the
right of nI9nkind to own property,
and to the fruits of labor.
1 We, theref, re, disclaim fellowship
with, or fealty to, that convention,
and its proceedings; .9arked as they
We're by the disfranchiseilent 0i
Democratic representatives; by the
abandonment of Democratic princi-
pies; and tfor the first time in the
! history of conventions purporting IN
be Democratic), by the denunciation
of the party itself, through its ad-
MinistratiOn.
/ The candidates of that convention
are as undemocratic as ITS platform
which, their leader has declared.
he "will enforce to the letter" Its
candidate for President has been,
and is, a Populist; who sought to be
and is, the official nominee of the St
Louis Populist convention. A vote
for him is a vote for the POpulist cam
didate, nominated on the platform
of the Populist party. He has re-
lpeatedly refused to support the rep
resentatives of the Democratic party
and has announced that he would
die before he would support n plat.
form or candidate upon the funda-
mental Democratic principle of sound
money. The other candidate is q
subsidized ship-builder, and a higl
prOtectionist.
A platform so revolutionary and
destructive of every Democratic prin.
ciple, and such candidates, can not
be accepted as the platform, or the
candidates, of the Democratic party
: and we call on all true Democrats tc
disclaim them; as we have done.
We hold that the Democratic dele.
gates appointed by the State conven.
tions 10 represent the party i'm Ma.
tiOnal conventions are the mere
agents of the Democratic party of the
; United States, with powers delegated
to them to apply the fundamental
principles OF the Democratic party
to the solution of existing political
problems; and limited i'm the selec.
ticn Of candidates for office. to those
. who are members of the party anC
are true apostles of its teachings
that the Chicago convention, by de.
claring the principles of Populism t.
be Democratic principles, and by
nominating as its candidate for Pres.
ident a confessed Populist, exceeded
the authority delegated to il by the
Democratic party, and that its un.
authorized and revolutionary action
in thus betraying the party, is no,
binding upon the Democratic voters
of the country.
We believe that when a convention
; willfully repudiates the Fundamental
principles of the party, no Democrat
remains under any moral obligation
to support it, nor is there any tradi.
tion of the party that requires hin
to do so. On the contrary it is evi-
dence of moral weakness for any free
man to vote TO enforce policies which
his Judgment tells him are inimical
to the welfare of the people or Tho
integrity Of the nation.
We submit to the people that the
cessation of our prosperity of few
years ago, the recent panic, and the
present depression and hard times
are traceable mainly 10 the extrava-
CANT and imprOvident legislation OF
the Republican party, and to that
growing distrust of our financial in
tegrity as "A nation and people
which was induced by the fear of the
world that the larger portion of ouI
voters were in danger of adopting a
course of Populism, and of a curren-
cy debasement and reputation. We
believe that the restoration of pros
perity and the revival of business
will come to us when, by the eXter-
mination Of these dangerous political
heresies, confidence in our national
integrity shall be so restored as to
induce the world to again trust us.
and to again pour into our lap that
great stream of its surplus wealth
that has been, for over three years,
| in a process of constant withdrawal,