Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-12-24
IT BEGAN IN 1910.

When asked to point out the time and
place, when and where, the democratic
party abandoned its opposition to nation
al banks. the Advertiser, which has de-
veloped into champion of the national
bank SYSTEM since 1t has become 50 in
tensely democratic that it can't afford to
support the democratic nominees and
platform. makes the following unfound-
ed assertion:
There has never been any declaration
with respect to the present national bank
ing system in any national democratic
platform.
Being entirely satisfied with its own
unsupported and unfounded statement,
the Advertiser proceeds to pass Judgment
upon il, and says:
This is certainly an explicit answer
to the state Herald's question. for If
there has never been any declaration
OF opposition by the democratic party to
the present national banking system
there could be no abandonment of oppo-
stion to the system.
With the question propounded by the
State Herald thus brushed aside, the re-
publican organ and intense advocate of
the present national banking system asks
the state Herald the following questions:
"Now. will the state Herald tell us
ont national banking system became a
part Of the democratic creed? When and
where did the opposition begin|'
OF course, it is waste of time and
space to discuss any proposition with
any paper that shows so little regard for
its statements as the Advertiser does.
We cannot hope to make any impression
upon a newspaper that will assert as a
fact that the democratic party has never
in its national platforms made any de-
clarations with respect to the present ma
tional banking system. Therefore, with
out the hope of accomplishing anything
in the direction of bringing the Adver-
tiser to its senses, but purely for the
purpose of showing how little regard
that paper has for facts when it dis
cusses political questions, we will
accommodate it and answer the
questions propounded, not as the
Advertiser answered our question, with
an unfounded statement, but quoting
from the platform declarations of the
democratic party from and including that
of 1910 down to and including the plat
form declaration of 1890.
In 1S4O. the first democratic platform
that contained any declaration on the
subject of banks, said:
I'VE believe such an institution Ga ma
tional bank) one of deadly hostility to the
best interests of the country, dangerous
to our republican institutions and to the
liberties OF the people, and calculated to
place the business of the country within
the control of concentrated money
power and above the laws and the will of
the people.
The above declaration was expressly
readopted in the democratic platform of
1871.
BY the veto of President Jackson,
democratic President Qf the Advertiser
pleases) the national bank had been ex-
terminated before the party came to write
it's platform in 1S4S and not being an is
sue the party made no declaration on that
question in the year 1S4S.
In 1852 the question had come to the
front again and in the national platform
of the democratic party OF that year we
find the following declaration:
Congress has no power to charter a
national bank; we believe such an insti-