Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-08-08
RAMPANT DEMOCRACY.
Democratic Press Burst All Bonds
In Thor Indignation,

and Michigan when the Democrats were
ON n free isiver or cheap money platform
they have been overwhelmingly beaten.
What evidence have we that there Is to
be a change in '96?-Montgomcry (Ala.D
Advertiser.
When a great party has reached that
stage Of moral depravity that such Great
urcs as Tillman, Altgeld X Co. are per-
mittod ia speak 10 il, much less take an
important part in moulding its politics,
It's course is, indeed, about run.-Wa-
bash NndD Times.
Americans will never give this crowd
control of the country until they shall
nave fallen to the level of the old world
communists. That will not happen this
year, Mt least. The people must be de-
graded III their own esteem before they
VIII vote for n war of class against
class.-Memphis Scimitar,
The financial plank in thr platform
adopted by the Democratic national con-
vcntion at Chicago is distinctly n declara-
ton for such population of existing
debts, public and private, as can he
secured by the enforcement upon the
country as legal tender money of n de-
based silver coinage conformcd TO q tie
graded standard of money,-New Or
leans Picayune.
Scratch Il silver man and You come to
n Populist. In the heart of each burns
~ - w ~ - wv 10 I'NNlIi' hiiA
give as little. If either of them hap
pen TO hc n debtor, this desire takes the
form of reputation. AS most of them
are debtors reputation is the thing they
are for, and in the Chicago platform
they 30 for it straight,-Ncw York
Times.
II is but proper to say in fairness and
justice to the grand old Democratic
party Of Hamilton. Jefferson and Jack
son that we cannot depart from the
ways of the fathers upon the financial
question. and, therefore, cannot, much
10 our regret, follow the Democratic
banner rs IT trails into a foreign camp;
and must, rs u matter of Sclf-rCspcct,
refuse To support Mr.. Bryan upon the
financial platform upon which he has
been placed and stands,-Dayton COD
Times.
Till the contest is decided our voice
shall be raised and our influence given
for the election of Mr.. Mckinley to the
presidency. Tho security of the cur
rcncy is the paramount question of the
hour. Ii cclipscs issues. Believing that
this security can best be- attained by
the success of the Republican party.
we promise it our sincere and hearty
support for its presidential ticket in the
impending campaign. We have never
believed that the Republican party made
the best selection possible to il. but it
Is ulIlclH 10 see now any cHlulU man
can deny that the selection of the Rcpub-
lican party was cmincntly more fitting
and appropriate. There is an absence
of dignity i'm the Democratic selection
which is seen both in the candidate
himself and in the circumstance that at
tended his nomination.-BostOn Herald.
The true interests of the people ask
for the election of Mr.. Mckinley, not
for himself but for the absolute ne
ccssity of the whole people of the Unit
cd States and of the greater world of
which they are after all but n part. In
any event let MS he reasonable. Don't
talk of "scctionalism" or of anarchy"
or of "rcvOlutiOn." Remember always
that compared with the unity Of country
the gold standard is not worth fighting
for; one country, one lag.-Springiield
Republican Und.-Dem.)
No reasonable man can ask the Times
10 %stultify and dishonor itself aud long
timed Democratic principles. While sup
porting to the best of our ability the
state nominations for executive offices
und legislative nominees, we feel assured
that all true Democrats will justify us
in deciding that we cannot give the sup
port of the Times TO the Chicago con
Ncntion and its politically diseased Caudi-
date. We shall do all we can to sustain
the good name and the organization of
the Democratic party, but we cannot sup
port principles nor candidates Of the
Bland, Teller and Altgeld stripe. We
cannot conscicntiouSly ask honest men
10 vote for hcm.-lIartford Times.
We repudiatc the Ii TO | plank in
Bryan's Chicago platform and will not
support any candidate on such a plat
form. Ii is too Populistic and Nihiiistic.
-Machias CMc.) Union.
Dun worst fears have not only been
realized but new and horrible doctrines
have been added TO the Chicago platform,
which cannot possibly bind n Democrat
who is unwilling to abandon the funda-
mental principles of his party.-Rich-
mond Na.) Times.
What Harry Bingham feared only as a
bare possibility has come To be a stern
reality. The "madmen' of whom he
spoke have controlled the national con
%vention and declared for free silver at
10 to |. The Democrats of New Hump
shire cannot 90 with Observation-Disclosures
On. Id Union.
Circumstances have made William Nc
Klnley the man around whom all must
rally who desire 10 defeat detcrminedly
the candidate for the pseudo Democracy,
William j. Bryan, who stands for fiat
money under the guisc of bimetallism.
for publication of lawfully-contracted IL
abilities; for communism and lawless-
ness.
Mckinley and the party he rcpre.
sents have until now induced Democratic
and indcpndcnt voters 10 look for means
by which they could avoid the necessity
of supporting the Republican ticket. This
has been shown TO he hopeless, and there
is no other way but to offer our support
10 our old opponents.-New York Staots
Ieitung, the leading Eastern German
Democratic daily.
We have no fear that the sound-monev
Democracy will acquiesce in a free silver
platform, a ticket of reputation, of an
archy and the trampling out of the
rights of the sound money delegates in
the convention. a bolt is inevitable. A
Democratic ticket for which Democrats
can vote is becoming a necessity. II
will be supplied. The Anarchists. the
Populists, the Communists and the Mill
lists who are controlling this convention
will never control this country: they will
never control the Democratic PARTY
Brooklyn Eagle.
The parting of the ways has. been
reached, and for the sake of party hon
esty and electoral integrity il is 10 no
hoped that the division will be com
plcte. A paramount issue like that for
the pending coinage question demands
a speedy settlement and a voters conyic-
tions upon il have not been subordinat-