Crawford avalanche., 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 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-
ther develop their national organism;
that the national government should be
further strengthened in the interest of
all; that national honor be kept unde-
| filed; 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
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 rot 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
recklessncss and fanaticism of the silver
people at the Chicago convention, who
trampled all opposition under foot, has
made a very bad impression even upon
| many of those who sympathze with the
| majority of our voters is not ready by
| any means to deliver the nation to such
| crazy demagogues as Bryan, Waite, I'LL
man and others.
Waechter und Anzeiger Dem), Cleve-
| land-The currency plank. with its de-
cisiye 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-
fut 10, pt;.r ,ch nh ln
| the free coinage of silver at the ratio of
IL to l is demanded as an immediate
measure of government. cannot iail 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 AnZeger Dem.)-Nonsense
| thou prevailestl From Grover Cleveland
| to William Jennings Bryan-this is a
| jump for which the real Democrat is not
| so easily ready. The Anzeiger prefers ut
any rate not to make it. After the adop-
| tion of the platform the AnZeiger had no
need to pause n moment for the declara-
| tion 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 a convention wnich
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 bicycle. smokes. drinks, wears
| old customs. so there has arisen in Chi
| cago, imbued with the same revolution
ary spirit. a new Democratic party"
| which stands everything time-honored on
| the head. denies the traditions of the old
party. administers 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 il 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 politi-
| cal thought that the Constitution of the
| United States prevents nobody from max
| ing a fool of himself as often as he likes
to.
Davenport Democrat DEM: The
| time has arrived for the clean separat ton
| of the two irreconcilablc 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 Of
the republic" can have nothing in com
mon with the Populistic new Democrats
| who stole the banner. and the name of
| it's shelter the sublime principles and to
throw the country into unspeakable mis-
| cry.