Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-07-23
SOME PRESS OPINIONS.
Varying Views Of Democratic Journals Of
the Free silver Ticket.

other respects it challenges law, order,
decencY, honesty, good government
Utica Observer.
Bryan has been unanimously chosen
champion of the silver hosts and viii
lead them on to victory. Around him
the entire army of bimetallists will
rally, for in him they all have conf
dence. Columbia Is. CO. Register.
In nominating William J. Bryan. Of
Nebraska, for the presidency the dem
ocratic national convention at Chicago
has decided wisely and well. A better
man for the position could not have
been selected. His name will be a
tower of strength in the west and south
Roanoke (Va.) Times.
Altgeld. Tillman and the other sages
of the sixteen TO one philosophy have
solemnly resolved that the very fact
that gold and silver have certain mar
ket values relatively to each other in
other countries is a good reason in it.
self why this is "anti-American," and,
therefore, to be ignored and resisted
for the sake of our ''indomitable spirit
and love of liberty" This is not dem
ocracy, but midsummer madness.-Bal-
timore Sun.
1t will take more than the dictum of q
convention, chosen and managed as this
has been, to make free silver, leading to
immediate silver recommendation. n prin-
ciple of the democratic faith. The DEM
ocratic party is greater than any man
within it, and has survived more than
one mistake. 1t will outlive this one
and triumph in spite of it, because 1t
ministers to the eternal needs of the re-
public and stands as the only representa-
tive and bulwarl1 of the rights of free
people.-St Paul Globe.
BY declaring for debasement of our
currency and the semirepudiation of
public and private debts the convention
made this the only real issue of the CAM
paign. Nothing else will be seriously
considered. 1t will dominate the can
vass. It will decide the election. 1t is
a blunder that would be inconceivablc
if it had not actually been made. 1t
pushes democracy out and brings popu-
lism to the front. 1t will render support
of the ticket impossible by hundreds OF
thousands of democrats.-N. Y. World.
In its menaces of bankruptcy, repudi'
the worst that was conceived of the
brazen and reckless demagogues who
have temporarily usurped control OF
the democratic party. No sound-money
democrat can stand upon the platform.
No patriotic citizen can consult his SELF
respect and vote for a man willing to
commit himself to such a destructive
and dishoporable purpose by accepting
nomination for the presidency at the
hands of the silver-populist gathering
in Chicago.-Philadelph Record.
The Chicago platform should be open
ly and formally repudiated. and indie
pendent democratic candidates, repre-
senting honest money, the maintenance
of the gold standard and of the public
credit, should be nominated and sup
ported by an electoral ticket. Thereby
not only the state democratic organiza-
ton, but also the future of the national
organization will be protected. When
the cause of silver recommendation shall
have collapsed, the honest-money or
ganization will become the nucleus of a
rejuvenated national democracy.-Buf-
falo Courier.
Heretofore democracy has declared
universally against paternalism and
Capitalization; heretofore democracy
has stood for the people, the rights of
the people to attend to their own affairs,
has opposed making the treasury de-
partment under acts of congress the
general and only bank OF issue and thu
supervisor and the dictator of the af-
fairs of the people. But in this demo-
cratic platform the new democracy has
most certainly departed from the old
paths and has taken to the worship of
strange gods, those of paternalism and
ralization.-Nashville American.
Dominated by men who are strangers
to the democracy and by ideas even
more grotesque in their novelty, the
Chicago convention has named leader
who is not a democrat and adopted
platform which is not democratic. BY
it's revolutionary and sectional fury.
by it's shameful Endorsement of the re-
publican and populistic heresies of
cheap silver and grecnbackism, by It's
cowardly abandonment of tariff reform
and by its amazing demand for tho
reservation of the barbarous spoils sys-
tenn, no less than by the nomination of
man wholly unfit, the Chicago con-
vention absolves all democrats from al
le9iance to its candidates and its prin-
ciples.-Chicago Chronicle.
Nh. Bryan is respected as an indi-
vidual and is admired for his oratory,
but that he is a democrat or stands for
democratic principles cannot be seri-
ously contended by anybody. If the
candidate is not democratic, much less
so is the platform. II is not alone be-
cruise it is for free silver; it is because
it is populistic as well. The situation
is grave in the extreme, If not as critical
as it was in 1860, and we counsel pa
thence and wisdom on the part of think.
ing men in this emergency. Those who
feel that the very life of the nation is
at stake should act with kindly mod
Grafton until a united course of action
Is decided upon, when all the earnest
ness and zeal of patriots to country
and party will be Observation-Disclosures
Journal.
The triumph OF silverism and populisn
won by the politicians at Chicago is
but the beginning of the battle. The
campaign for national honesty, honor
and safety has yet to be taken up by
the people and waged to finish in
November. The people are both honest
and patriotic. They have only to be
awakened to the new danger that
menaces the country TO arise in its de-
Tense as they did in '61.-N. Y. Herald.
A bad platform has been adopted in
r. Il