Arizona weekly citizen. [volume] (Tucson, Ariz) 1880-1901, 1896-07-18
COMMENTS.
How Leading Journals Look
Upon the Platform
and Candidates.
DEFEAT PREDICTED.
Mckinley and Hobart, Protection
and Reciprocity, VIII Win
the November Race.
DEFEAT PREDICTED.
A BASTARD LEADERSHIP.

| A BASTARD I.EADERsRIP.
LOUISVILLE, July 11-In an editoria
today which concludes with an sppea
for the nomination Of another democrat
lc ticket, the Courier Journal will cay
"The league of free silver men VIII,
went to work several months ago (,
capture the nomination of the democrat
ic party have accomplished their pur
pose. They have put forth in the dem
ocratic name a platform which violates
almost every cardinal democratic tenet
and have nominated as the democratic
leader young hothead who but recent
| ly abandoned the democratic for the
populist party. Such foolhardy and
! bastard leadership, and such a radical
| revolution of every life principle of
democracy will be downed by the dem
ocrats whose subserviency to party form
is not dictated by their desire to share
in the official spoils of party success and
whose fealty to the party organization
means fidelity to the views for the ad-
vancement Of which the party is only an
! instrument"
BECAUSE OF HIS LOUD VOICE.
The Commercial (republican) says:
"The national democratic convention at
Chicago nominated Mr.. Bryan Of Ne
braska, because he had a loud voice, q
fine presence and had made speech
that could be heard and accorded with
the sentiments of the delegates. Mr..
Bryan got q seat in the convention by
virtue of vote reversing the action of
his state convention and of the national
committee of his party. He is the most
inexperienced and untried man ever
nominated for the presidency by one of
the great national parties"
LUNACY AND HYsTERIA.
New YORK, July 1.-THE World in
its editorial on the democratic nomina-
ton, will say:
"Lunacy having dictated the plat
form, it was perhaps natural that hyste-
ria should evolve the candidate. The
nomination of boy orator for the
white house at this juncture of the na-
tion's affairs, domestic and foreign,
when the ripest experience, the best
wisdom, the broadcast patriotism and
the greatest executive ability are re-
CURED, comes perilously near taking the
one fatal step from the sublime.
1T is to the future that the World
looks in considering the effect OF this
convention. There ia no doubt as to
the size of the Mckinley popular and
electoral majority. 10 question this is
to doubt the intelligence. the underly-
ing honesty and the public morality OF
the people.
"rhe question Of party, if not hope
lessly disr Cpted, will be the the natural
rallying point for the reaction against a
republican revel in spoils, a favoritism
toward trusts, which is sure to follow
the election of Mckinley"
MARYLANDERs "AGlN" HIM.
BALTIMORE, July 1.-THE Sun and
the Evening News, both heretofore
strongly democratic, will not support
Bryan in the coming campaign.
The Sun will say tomorrow: 1.-The
only question that now presents itself
to the sound-money men Is how to beat
Bryan He is the best man the free
coinage people could have nominated,
q brilliant speaker and an effective
be fits the platform and
the platform fits him. The chances,
however, are in favor of Mckinley aud
sound money. regardless of the evils of
protection"
THE ONLY DUTY.
The News in an editorial today says:
'There is no duty so urgent today as
the duty OF seeing that the Chicago idea
OF democracy is buried as deep as posi-
bic next November"
A WICKED PLATFORM.
BosToN, July 1.-THE Journal will
say editorislly tomorrow: ''The silver
party has candidate worthy OF it.
His strength ought to be the toll
strength OF the party, but nothing
more than that; and here in New Eng
land, we never can believe that any
thing else than disastrous defeat awaits
q man who stands on such false and
wicked platform"