Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1896-07-15
A PARIS doct II claims that he has
discovered q cure for leprosy.
The democratic National States
Rights Silver Con-
Vention.

The so called Democratic National
Convention held five days meeting
in Chicago, tsgirr'ng on Tuesday,
July Z and cloe -ng Oh Saturday, July
ii, within which time they I'D any
amount of revolutionary speech max
ing, end pfssed states rights silver
platform aud norinat ID Wil';em j.
Bryan of Nebraska for Frc ident end
A, thur Scwall of Ma re for Vice Pos
dent. l. was Convention of dis
cord from the st2rt. The bone OF
contention at the Lssior ,ng was over
the coin que e1t!on. The silver men
were iu the majority end they want
ed the whole ors e1;zstion. The gold
men ventcd tho '2mpors, che i nao
The silver rnsr said no." TIE gold
men put ap Genaior H'lof New York
for temporary Caeirman Tue Gil
yer men put up Senator Darrell of
Virginia. Dariels vote. wa1 $50;
Hills vote was SAT. The so called
silver men then raid we must get two
thirds of the delegat2s of this Con
vention SO that We ca1 psss whatever
We plssse. and they rnseated the reg
ulerly elected Michigan delegates
aud few regularly elected delegates
IN Nebraska and seated state rights
delegates III their stead and in that
way secured two-thirds vote Of the
Convention go that they could pc S
their revolutionary Platform.
II IVES then no longer contest be.
tween gold end silver
rhe coin question sank to sec-
ondary question.
It ives revolution or ranti-revoIutiCn
on the adoption of a revolutionary
platform.
The revolutionistS carr led the DAY,
and adopted tLe;- platform hy vote
of SIC for the platform; 3G3 against
the platform.
The platform declares for the free
coirege of silver-:hat IS that miners
Of silver, aud others who have silver,
Sha'i have the same night that gold
sWhers have to 60 to the United
Sites mints, and have .their met i
oIued into Unit ID States coin-sold
or silver, just rs they have it l6 to 1.
1t dc c'red aga INST The issue Of
United States bonds in the time of
peace, and against United SIT; ;
banks.
1t declared e5a'ast the issue of pa.
Per money. except by the United
States Treasury Department. 1t de-
ciared for t..riff for revenue only.
1t declared in favor of an iucome tax.
1t declared against the railroad pools
and trusts, and passed other minor
resolutions, and climaxed it all by de-
ctaring against interference of FEEDER
a authorizes In local affairs or state
Affairs, aod against the injunction OF
Federal Judges il affairs in the re
spectiye states.
1t was these vicious end danger
Gus declarations that induced the
New York delegation and delegates
here and there in the Convention to
declare that they would not vote FOR
asy candidate on snch a platform.
That part ofthe platform that de
pounces the interference of the
United States in the effs'rs of the re
spective states, and derounces United
State. injuuc;iors, is the identic-,
doctrine that paralyz zed the James
buchanan administration thirty FIVE
yoars ego, when he gave way - the
demand Of states tights, and in that
way permitted rebellion to grow up
in his hands, four months before he
went out of office. To fight down
that doctrine, it cost the American
people sevsral hundred thousand
lives, and almost three billion OF Nat
ional debt, and brought about many
of the ills of which the cranks of Is
day complain
There is no soldier, Democrat or
Republican, who can vote for the
pIatforn, for it re states and fayors
inst what he fought against from
1861 TO 1865. No ono in the North
err states can consistently support
that platform unless ha is relic or
an off shoot of the Knights of the
Golden circle or belonged to the cop
perhead gang that were in sympathy
with the states rights men who or