Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1896-09-17
THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER II, 1896.
Az the meeting of the National

Milwaukee last week, 1t was wisely
decided not to place another state
ticket In the field, but to make the
fight wholly upon national issues.
Sound money Democrats are, there
fore free, to act as they may see fit, SC
far as party loyalty Is concerned.
Members of the state central com
mittee were present from every con-
pressional district in the state, and
some of them bore testimony to the
personal popularity Of Mr.. Silverthorn
where he Is best known. 1t was gen
orally conceded that his colleagues On
the silver Democratic ticket are men OF
good personal character; but 1t was
rightly, and almost unanimously, held
that the platform to which they nave
given their assent and which some OF
them helped to adopt, absolves sound
money Democrats from allegiance to
them.
The last Republican state admins
tration violated It's pledges to the
people, and the doings of the last ke-
publican legislature were, in the main,
a travesty upon law and justice.
With sound money national plat
form and a good, straight state ticket,
Democrats could easily have carried
Wisconsin. AS it Is, the people must
choose for themselves. The Democrat
will frankly confess that 1t has very
little time to devote to setting forth
the merits of candidates who have
dragged national issues into the state
campaign and who stand, ut this
time, for what it holds to be immoral
and dangerous in government.
We write not IN bitterness, but
in sorrow, that any of our party
friends should join In censurinB those
who have fearlessly and steadfastly
upheld the principles Of true Dem
ocracy; and we regret that Mr.. Silver
verthorn, In the state convention in
June, led the attack upon sound money
Democrats and continued it in the
convention which placed him In nom
inatlon for governor.
1t Is not alone on the financial ques-
ton that we regard these party friends
In error.
When President Cleveland, during
the great labor strike in Chicago,
promptly sent troops to protect the
United States mails, and to guard the
rights of Interstate commerce, every
patriotic heart in the nation throbbed
in approval Of his action.
The national convention held In
July last, under the dictation of Gov.
Altgeld adopted plank In Its plat
form which virtually censured Presi-
dent Cleveland for the course which he
pursued In regard to this matter, and
revived the dangerous doctrine which
was blotted ont In blood and tears
more than thirty years ago.
la N Spv ypnnJn, TINT a -,
of Wisconsins delegates protested
against the action and undemocratic
platform Of that convention?
Would not the wonder have been IL
they had given their approval and
support to convention and platform :
Is 1t any wonder that the press of
the country almost unanimously con
demncd the platform
Is 1t any wonder that the people
throughout the land are passing votes
OF censure upon 1t, and that In states
which have already spoken there is
everywhere u falling of in the Demo
cratic vote?
The silver Democrats of Wisconsin
may treat the matter lightly; and the
chairman of their state central com
mtttee may play the part of u bufroon
and Jest about fusion, while business
stands still, and awaits the outcome Of
the issues presented; but, The Iowa
County Democrats word for IT, I'm,
people are in dead earnest md nre IN
no hnmor for comedy, much less for
farce, They stand for obedience 10
constituted authority; for Il govern.
ment of the people, for the people and
py the people; and against anarchy in
All OF Its forms. They stand for honest
money, and against reputation of
pubic and private contracts. In n
word, they stand against the Chicago
platform and its candidates. and win