The record-union., 1896-07-31
Kentucky, Iowa, Ohio and Indiana,
and these are enough to elect.

and these are enough to elect.
WHAT IS WANTED.
Peoples Cause: The Government
vaults and the banks are over1owlng
with money which is being stored
through lack of confidence in the DEM
ocratic Administration. What is neces-
sary to restore confidence is to elect
Mckinley and restore the protective
tariff. and thereby open up the facto-
ries and revive our industries, and, as
a natural consequence, money will cir
culate freely. Furnish employment to
labor and the financial question will
be easily solved.
THE OUTCOME.
Los Angeles Herald: But whether
Mr.. Bryan formally accepts the Popu-
list nomination or not, one thing Is
apparent, and that is that he Will get
the bulk of the Populist vote; the seal
of the conventions approval OF his
candidacy was not needed to assure
that In Mr.. Bryan the Populist rank
and file recognize fearless and intel
lectuaI exponent of their more rational
demands, and especially of the de-
mand upon which they are best united,
the demand for the free and unlimited
coinage of silver at the ratio OF lO
ounces of silver to / ounce or gold.
The effect of separate nomination Tor
Vice President will be either the plac-
ing of an electoral ticket in behalf OF
Bryan and Watson in every State IN
the Union or an apportlonment, IN
States where the Populists have a con-
siderable vote, of electors between
Democrats and Populists. The latter
plan, though entailing more trouble
than the other, is the one best calcu-
lated to assure the success of the nomi-
nee of the two parties for President.
FOUR KINDS.
San Bernardino Times-IndeX: The Re
publican party is pledged to the use of
not only two but four metals as money
gold, silver, nickel and copper-and
they favor the use of them all to the full
amount necessary to the safety and con-
venience of a great and prosperous
country.
BOWED TO THE GOLDEN CALF.
Pasadena Star: That the Populist
party has virtually surrendered to the
free coinage wing of the Democracy, in
consideration of the concessions made
to Populism at Chicago, is not only evil
dent from the Endorsement of Bryan,
but from the terms of the platform
adopted. This instrument is an emas-
culated expression of genuine POpu-
liSm and mild extract of the true doc
trine as administered at the last Ma
tional Convention of the party in 1S92.
We look in vain in the present platform
for the fierce arraignment of the Gov
ernment and of the two old parties for
allowing the country to be pauperized
that characterized the Des Moines plat
form of '92. We look in vain, too, for
that peculiarly Populistic feature of the
platform of '92, the per cent. treas
ury plan of loaning money to the peo-
pie. Nothing is said on that subject in
the platform adopted yesterday. Neither
is there a repetition of the old and ia
miliar demand of circulation of money
equal to $50 per capita. This years
platform simply demands a circulation
equal to business emergencies. The fixed
per capita idea was laughed out of
court. Much was made in the platform
Of ~ of the fallacy Of protection" but
not word is breathed in the present
platform on the subject of protection;
neither is anything said against con-
tract labor. Civil service is given the
go-by also. The platform of 1892 was
at least a courageous declaration of
principles. The platform of 1896 bears
upon its face throughout nearly every
line the evidence of an attempt to put
| out molasses for Democratic flies It
| is a surrender to the party so roundly
| denounced four years ago-a surrender
| ON vital points Of public policy. 1t
| shows the marks of an effort to make a
| deal for spoils. A minority report en-
| bodying some essentially Peoples
| party principles was howled down in the
| convention, and the founders of the
party were fioulted and insulted by q
crowd of hooting, bowling delegates
only anxious to get share of the offices.
The Populist party has lowered it's
standard and bowed down to the golden
| calf, even if its name isn't Sewall with
| his S6,000,000.
| THE LIE IN THEIR TEETH.
| Los Angeles Herald: 'The Democratic
party is not a believer in anarchy. Any
| scoundrel'' With these vigorous
words, Senator White on Saturday
| night cast the lie in the teeth of those
l
| the integrity of Democracy by foul
| slander. 1t is high time, indeed. that
the sneering and vituperatlve tongue of
| the Eastern press, which even finds
some servile imitators in this vicinity,
should be slit, if only for the sake of its
own political prudence. Such sneers
| and such vile ISLANDERS as have already
been INDUCED in at the commen cement
| n mar on nplN +a
tagonize the very voters that their ut
terers yearn to win. Such folly as re-
fusing TO recognize the intelligence OF
an opponent, and storming his strength
by mere mud-slinging, is a confession
of weakness and the surest sign OF i'm
potence. The impudence fostered by the
Times" a few days since in its vain
imagination of the personnel of Min
istry for Mr.. Bryan, stating Herr Most
! in his Cabinet, when that very day the
| anarchist had published a most pro-
! nounced editorial in the "Freiheit" in
| favor of the gold standard. is but a
sample Of shortsighted and absurd at
| tack.
| A POLITICAL SHE'LL GAME.
Stockton Independents: What labor
ingman will abandon steady employ
| LVtIl DIT 4<t4t wages " lcNG odh JUS dt
| lew wages? No sensible man would
think of doing so voluntarily, but that
was what thousands were forced to do
by the passage of the Democratic low
| tariff bill Those who want to return
! to steady employment and fair wages
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