The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1896-08-11

| WIZ, III my opiuioht OaueC Ouo VI llOTt
of the judges to be more thoughtful in
the future upon delivering their opin-
ions upon great public questions. We
must not expect, at all times, carefully
weighed and well measured words
from these public conventions; con-
ventious are at times like volcanoes
in action. At the most unexpected
moment hey become explosive.
1t won't do to desert political par
ty because there are hasty and incon-
siderate people in it. The personnel
of the Chicago convention was unob-
jectionable; many of them our person
al friends; many old gray-Eeaded
men, whose faith and hope are in the
preservation of the government and
the Democratic party. They be-
lieve in the virtue of silver at ratio
of 16 to l, and since they constituted
a majority they had right to con-
troll. That is Democratic and we
should stake our medicine like
good soldiers and partsans.
No one man, even If he is President
and commander-in-chief of the army
and navy, no one party, can overturn
the Supreme court of the United
States, or even do it violence, without
creating second rebellion in
this country greater than the first. /
am by nature very conservative man,
and may not see things hidden from
sight as clearly as you do. l think
there is much sheet lightning in the
hot words heard on every street cor
ner about the dangers contained in the
declaration of the convention against
the Supreme court, and ia Mr.. Bryan
as the representative or nominee Of
that convention. A foreigner to our
ways and country might conclude
from what he reads and hears that the
convention was composed of the worst
elements of the States, and that Mr..
Bryan was, and is, six-foot piece of
dynamite walking about to destroy
courts, government and mankind.
No, general ; he is an earnest man
he is a tried, true, patriotic, safe and
honest man. No partisan has uttered
one word against the mans moral and
private character. He is a Democrat,
as you and are, and if elected would
give the country safe, economical,
and old-fashioned administration, with
plain ways and plain customs, having
grace at every meal and fam
lily prayers at the beginning and close
of each day. There is no danger in
such man. His wife and children.
are the guardians of his conduct, and
the tenderest objects of his love.
Their home is our home; their coun-
try is our country their peace and
preservation is our peace and preser-
walton. He is gentle and kind, with
not flaw in his private or domestic
life /; reared in an old-fashioned home,
by an old-fasiohed Democratic father,
by a christian mother, in an old-fash-
toned Democratic community, where
law and order were the rule, and
"Where kind words were more than
coronets,
And simple faith than Norman Blood"
Bryan should correct the mistake
made by the Chicago convention, in
its abuse of the present administration
as soon as possible, and give praise to
whom praise is due, and render to
Ceasar those honorable things which
rightfully belong to him. He has the
nerve, the sense of justice, and the
manhood to do it unless / am greatly
mistaken in the man. For such con-
duct the Democratic convention was
more responsible than was the Repub-
lican party for the personal and Off
cial attacks made upon the President
by the st. Louis convention. Those
attacks were con ceived in malignity,
and were born in low politics and ha-
tired, because he had defeated the G. o.
p. twice; broken its hold upon the
Treasury and the Government, and
had arisen from humble manhood to a
sublime, historic character, and be-
cause he stands head and shoulders
above his accusers.
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