Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-07-13

papers, together WIN the views OF those
who approve. of those who disapprove but
swallow the result. and of the so-called in
dependent press, are appended.
BOLTING DEMOCRATIC PAPERS.
Louisville Post DEM.
The populists at Chicago. masquerading
as democrats, have capped the climax of
their foolhardy proceedings with the selec-
ton OF William ]. Bryan Of Nebraska as the
candidate for the presidency.
They have chosen a bolter from the party
councils. deserter from the party camp.
and an avowed populist. who has cast his
fortunes with long-haired and long-eared
donkeys OF the west. and placed him upon a
populistic platform. and now ask Simon-pure
democrats to swing into line and support
him for the highest Office within the gift of
the voters of the United States.
Galveston, Tex, News (Dem).
The democrat who understands the full
meaning of the platform, who realizes the
desperate plunge which the nation is invited
to take, will protest against debauchinR the
national credit and embarking upon a wild,
shoreless sea of financial chaos and degra-
dalton, will rise up from the dwarfdom of
the partisan to the full statue of the patriot
and align himself with those citizens who
are determined to maintain the honor and
integrity Of the government and to oppose
morals in the administration Of national
affairs.
Brooklyn Eagle Dem).
Nothing but an honest democratic ticket
and platform can arrest the march of the
party toward republcanism. Some of its
best men have already gone over to repub-
licanism. not as republicans. but as honest
money democrats. We think they have
MADE a mistake. The preservation of the
democratic party to honesty as an oreani-
eaton is OF more importance to the people
OF the United States than the result of any
presidential election. We think that can
best be done by providing an honest plat
form and honest men on 1t for honest demo-
cratic voters who are still sane and who can
labor on those lines, to bring back to rea-
son its still honest voters, who are out of
the way.
Louisville COurier-JOurnal DEM.
The league OF free silver men who went
to work several months ago to capture the
organization of the democratic party have
accomplished their purpose. They have
put FORTH in the democratic name, a plat
form which violates almost every cardinal
democratic tenet. and have nominated as
the democratic leader a young hot-head
who but recently abandoned the democratic
for the populst party. Such foolhardy and
bastard leadership, and such radical
revolution of the very life-principles of
democl acy, will be disowned by those DEM
oofats whose subserviency to party form
Is not dictated by their desire to share In
the official spoils of party success and
whose fealty to party organization means
fidelity to the views for the advancement
OF which party is only the instrument
Speaking for these democrats, the Courier
journal. whose whole existence has been
spent In battle for democracy, rejects the
new faith of hausm, reputation and an
afchy winch the Chicago convention has
flo
The Baltimore sun Demn.
: The only question that now presents it.
self to the sound money men is How to
beat Bryan" He Is the best man tho
free coinage people could have nominated:
brilliant speaker and an effective cam
paigner. he fits the platform and the plat
form fits him. The chances OF success
however, are in favor Of Mckinley. as
sound money men regard the evils of pro
lection as OF less Importance than the evils
OF free silver coinage.
The Baltimore News Deml.
There Is no duty half so urgent today as
the duty Of seeing that the Chicago con-
vention idea Of democracy is buried as deep
as possible next November.
Manchester, N. H., Union Dem,
For the first time in it's history the Union
refuses to place at the head of its editorial
column tho name of the candidate selected
by national convention of its party Re-
gardless Of what may be the personal mer-
Its or dement's Of the young man who has
been selected, regardless Of his brief public
career, which has sufflced to show him op-
posing the repeal Of the Sherman silver
purchase act, an opponent of the present
democratic administration and an extreme
free silver advocate. the fact remains that
that candidate has been placed upon q
platform which no true democrat can INTEL
hgently and sincerely support.
Springfield, Mass, Union (Dem).
The Springfield Union raises the republ-
to straddle. It Is not the hour to fool
around. to denounce republicanism and to
harp on corporate greed and the evils Of
protection. The democracy has gone over
soldly to reputation and to revolution.
The party that stands for the financial
honesty of the country must be supported
by all patriotic people unless they can con-
scientiousiy indorse the democratic plat
form"
The New York World CDem).
Lunacy having dictated the platform, it
was perhaps nat, raj that hysteria should
evolve the candidate. AS the party is
doomed to defeat by Its platform, the tick
ct is Of minor consequence, except as 1t
bears upon the future of the party. The
nomination of hoy orator. for the White
House at this juncture of the nations af-
fairs, domestic and foreign, when the ripest
experience, the best tested wisdom, the
hroadest patriotism and the greatest exec
utive ability are required, comes perilouSly