Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-08-06
PRINCIPLES, NOT PARTY.
The German Democratic Press Bolt
the Chicago Ticket.

Chicago Staats-Zeitung: The Democ-
racy which declared itself last week in
Chicago is a new and degenerated edition
OF the Democracy of 1861; in it reigns
the old Bourbon spirit which never learns
and never forgets. Who, therefore. de-
sires that the United States should fur
ther develop their national organism;
that the national government should be
further strengthened in the interest of
an; that national honor be kept unde-
hied; that the national credit be kept in
tact, turns away from a Democracy
which has placed itself at the disposal
OF destructive forces and joins that party
whlch was called in 1861 to save the
Union and which in this year again
mas the patriotic duty to purify the ma
tlonal 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
reckiessness and fanaticisn of the silver
people at the Chicago convention, who
trampled all opposition under foot, has
made a very bad impression ever upon
many of those who sympathize with the
theory of the debasers of money. The
majority of our voters is not ready by
any means to deliver the nation to such
crazy d~emagogues as Bryan, Waite, Till
man and others.
Waechter und Anzeiger Dem.), Cleve-
iand-The currency plank. with it's de-
cisive declaration against the gold stand
ara. 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
tne tree coinage of silver at the ratio Of
III 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
II this news should cause in Europe a
decline of American securities in all ex-
changes; anticipated this decline has long
been.
Louisville A~nzeiger Dem.)-Nonsense,
thou prevailest! From Grover Cleveland
jump for which the real Democrat is not
SO easily ready. The Anzeiger prefers at
any rate not to make it. After the adop-
ton of the platform the Anzeiger had no
need to pause a m for the declara-
ton that it would not support the cam
didate who would accept the nomination
upon this platform. The nomination of
az sluANS NAIS uutS cuSlcI anu IDOEC
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 a 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.
Soohofa (Tlor, Nf:l,o,v,oo. A.
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. a "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 a financial programme which is a
mockery to all reason. The ''new wom-
n n 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 n hand the regret
table and undeniable eXcrescences of the
liberality of social views and on the
other hand of the freedom of the politi-
cal thought that the Constitution Of the
ohitCu az utNtutS uoDUuy from max.
ing a fool of himself as often as he likes
to.
Davenport Democrat DEM: The
time has arrived for the clean separation
of the two i~rreconcilable wings Of the
Democratic party, to which the Demo-
crat has called attention for " years.
Those Democrats who remain true to the
unalterable national principles, as they
were proclaimed by Thomas Jefferson.
James Madison and the other fathers Of
the republic" can have nothing in COM
non with the Populistic new Democrats
who stole the banner and the name of
the glorious old party to betray under
its shelter the sublime principles and to
throw the country into unspeakable mis-
nrv