Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-08-08
PRINCIPLES, NOT PARTY.
The German Democratic Press Bolt
the Chicago Ticket.

the Chicago Ticket.
Chicago Staats-zeitung: The Democ-
racy which declared itself last week in
Chicago is new and dcgcnerated edition
of the Democracy of 1861 in IL rcigns
the old Bourbon spirit which never learns
and never forgets. Who, therefore, de-
sircs that the United States should fur
thcr develop their national organism;
that the national government should be
further strengthened in the interest of
all; that national honor he kept unde-
filed; that the national credit be kept i'm
tact, turns away from Democracy
which has placed itself at the disposal
of destructive forces and joins that party
which was called in 1861 to save the
Union, and which in this year again
has the patriotic duty to purify the ma
tional organism from the poison of the
Populistic Democracy.
The issue is not one of party, but of
the highest achievements of the nation,
which can be kept secure only by the
authority of the Federal government, by
an honest currency and by an inassail-
able credit.
Iowa Tribune Dem.), Davenport-The
| recklessness and fanaticism of the silver
people at the Chicago convention, who
trampled all opposition under foot, has
made II very bad impression even upon
many of those who sympathize with the
theory of the debnsers of money. The
majority of our voters is not ready by
any means to deliver the nation to such
crazy demagogues as Bryan, Waite, Till
man and others.
Waechter und Anzeiger Dem.), Cleve-
land-The currency plank with its de-
cislve declaration against the gold stand
ard which, with total disregard of the
entire other world of culture and com
| merce, is declared to be an English insti-
! tuition and is stigmatized as such, while
| the free coinage of silver at the ratio of
| l6 to l is demanded as an immediate
| measure of government, cannot fail to
make an altogether revolutionary impress
| sion. We should not be at all surprised
| if this news should cause in Europe a
decline of American securities in al eN-
| changes; anticipated this decline has long
! been.
Louisville Anzeiger Dem.)-Nonsense,
| thou prevailest! From Grover Cleveland
| to William Jennings Bryan-tbis is a
jump for which the real Democrat is not
| so easily ready. The Anzeiger prefers at
any rate not to make it. After the ndop-
tion of the platform the Anzeger had no
| need to pause Il moment for the declara-
ton that it would not support the cam
| didate who would accept the nomination
upon this platform. The nomination of
| Bryan makes this duty easier and more
agreeable. Bland and Boies would have
been fought by the Anzeiger on account
| of the cause which they represent. In
Bryan we do not only fight the cause but
the person. Only convention which
placed Tillman above Cleveland and
| Blackburn above Carlisle would perpe-
trate the bad joke to present the young
hero of phrases from the West for the
| highest Office in its gift.
Seebote .Dem), Milwaukee: AS the
| close of the century has brought forth
the abOminable new woman" who
rides a bicycle. smokes, drinks, wears
trousers and tears herself loose from all
old customs, so there has arisen in Chi
cago, imbued with the same revolution
airy spirit, ''new Democratic party
which stands everything time-honored on
the head, denies the traditions of the old
party, administers a kick to honesty and
decency and comes before the people
with financial programme which is a
mockery to all reason. The new wom-
an and the new party" are genuine
fin de steele experiences, and one would
consider neither of them seriously if they
were not so serious in their consequences
They are on the one hand the regret.
table and undeniable eXcrescences of the
liberality of social views and on the
other hand of the freedom of the polti
cal thought that the Constitution of the
United States prevents nobody from max.
ing fool of himself often as he likes
to.
| Davenport Democrat Dem): The
time has arrived for the clean separa tor
of the two irreconcihble wings of the
Democratic party, to which the Demo
crat has called attention for two years
Those Democrats who remain true to the
unalterable national principles, as they
were proclaimed by Thomas Jefferson
James Madison and the other fathers oi
the republic" can have nothing in com
mon with the Populistic new Democrat:
the glorious old party to betray under
its shelter the sublime principles and tC
throw the country into unspeakable mis-
cry.