The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-10-20
COUNTRY AND FLAG FIRST
ASSISTANT-SECRETARY M'ADOO DE-
 NOUNCES MOB RULE.

 Unable Because of His Love of Our Free Institutions to Vote for Their Destruc-
 tion-Has Been His Pleasure in the Past to Vote Against Free Silver and Hopes Again to Have the Pleasure on Nov. 3.
 New York, Oct. 19.-W. J. Curtis of the law firm of Sullivan & Crowell, this city, and a member of the national democratic committee for New Jersey, has received a letter from Assistant Secretary McAdoo dealing with the questions involved in the election. In part MT. McAdoo says:
 T am opposed to the platform and unable to support the ticket nominated at Chicago, because I am so convinced that the doctrines therein set forth are Insound and dangerous, and would work incalculable injury to the whole people of the republic, being, from a political and economic point of view, radical, if not revolutionary-fierce with the heat of renewed sectionalism and savage with the bitterness of class distinctions hitherto unknown to this new and happier hemisphere.
 AS a representative in congress I mad the privilege of speaking and vot- ing on several occasions against the free coinage of silver, and have heard no new argument in it's favor since then. Indeed, a careful reading of the best that can be said for it strengthens my conviction as to it's folly and dan ger The untenable character of this proposition and it's especially injurious effects on the wage-workers have been so clearly demonstrated that l do not deem it necessary to review the objec- tions to a scheme which seems to me both visionary and vicious. Bas as I believe this measure to be, when in ad- dition it is coupled with drastic and violent remedies for evils in govern ment, imaginary or existent, and which would prove worse than the evils them selves, it must give the most violent
 
 pause before giving such a platform support, either active or passive.
 "The most painful reflection in con- nection with this subject is that those necessary and progressive reforms, either in the principle or practice Of government, and which should con- stantly. under normal conditions, be i'll active operation, are likely to become cowed and silent from alarm at the serious proposition to apply reckless, unusual and violent remedies to exist ing conditions. It is an acknowledged fact that those great reforms which so advanced democracy in England were driven back and delayed for many years by the excesses of the French revolution.
 ssThe fear of violent and unnatural remedies is the best shield of abuses; the best way to make reform odious IS to tinge 1t with the red hues of the menace of reckless raoicalism. To pre- vent hereafter the undue reaction against wholesome and legitimate crit icism of government it is necessary to reject with an emphasis approaching unanimity the extreme and sweeping innovations proposed at Chicago. l yield to no one in my belief in the ma jesty and independence of this coun- try; it's imperial place among the pow erful nations; it's duty to assert it's rights and maintain it's honor in all lands and on all seas, but cannot be convinced that the best way to make it omnipotent against the world, if not as proposed against nature itself, is to weaken it's prestige and clip it's author ity at home, discredit Its institutions and impair it's business integrity.
 Tn 8 contest such as this party as- sociations, personal friendships and in- terests. and even family ties, cannot be allowed to interpose between us and primary duty to stand by the republic. the best hope of humanity, to keep un-, impaired, sacred and honored its tnsti- tutions and it's flag"