People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1896-07-23
PRESS OPINIONS.
What The Newspapers and the
Prominent Men Have TO Say
Of The Democratic NOmi.
nee iOr President.
ST. LOUIS PosT-DIsPATCH DEN

nee lof k'FeslUent.
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH DEN
His nomination will leave no re
sentiments. No man in the country
will give him heavier support than
Richard P. Bland. For, great as is
the triumph of Mr.. Bryan, it is no
greater than that Of Mr.. Bland, who
sees, in both platform and candidate,
his own signal victory and his own ex-
aItation.n
CHICAGO INTER-OCEAN REP
The platform adopted Thursday,
especially when read in the light OF
speeches Of Tillman and Hi, Show
ed that the policy adopted is to COM
bine the extreme Of free trade and
Bourbon Democracy with all the ex-
tremes Of the PopulistS. As the stand
ard bearer in such d combination, no
other man could have been 50 appro-
pirate as William ]. Bryan."
MINNEAPOLIS DEMOCRAT DEM
"BTyan'S nomination was the wis
est choice the Chicago convention
cosld have made from the standpoint
Of free silver interest. He has always
been in sympathy with the economic
and social views held by the Populists.
His Endorsement by the POpulist con-
yenti0n will mean solid and enthuSl-
astiC union OF all the silver tOrceS-a
situation which the Republican gold
0crat party may well view with
alarm"
CHICAGO CHRONICLE (DEM.
AS whole, the money plank of
the Chicago contention is an assem-
biage of the historical falSehOOdS and
economic errors and hereSieS that have
been reiterated endlesSly for the last
twenty years in all the POpulistiC and
silver gulch platforms from Ocala to
Denver, and that have been made the
text Of furious diatribes by yengeful
rebels and Screeching POpulists. 1t
is an AnarchiStic assault upon the
sacred rights of private contract"
JAMES RUSSELL YOUNG.
James Russell Young in writing his !
paper, the New York World, says this /
revolution in the Democratic party, .
is due to a wave'Of discomfort which !
is sweeping over the West. This dis.
content, he says, is based upon the in I
difference at Washington to any in ,
terestS but those of mOnOpOlies. Cor /!
pOrate schemes are so multiplied and !
vast that they block the way in con-
gress. Neither party takes a proper !
interest 10 measures Of vital interest !
10 the people. The result is rebel |
lion, expressed in the nomination of ,
Mr.. Bryan-thiS, and nothing more.
LOUISVILLE COURIER JOURNAL DEM /,
The league Of free silver men who
vent to work several months ago to
capture the organization Of the Dem
Ocrat party, have accomplished their
purpose. They have put forth, in the
Democratic name, a platform which
violates almost every CardI nal Demo-
cratic tenet, and have nominated as
the Democratic leader a young hot
head, who but recently abandoned |
the Democratic for the POpuliSt party. |
Such fOOlhardy leadership and such a
radical revolution of the very life.
principles of Democracy will BE- down.
ed by those Democrats whose subser-
viency to form is not dictated by their
desire to share in the official SpOils of |
party success, and whose fealty to
party organization means fidelity to
the views for the advancement of |
which the party is only the instru-
ment.'
NEW YORK WORLD REP
"Lunacy having dictated the plat.
form, it was perhaps natural that
hystelia should evolve the candidate.
The nomination of boy orator fol-
the White House at this juncture of
the nations affairs, domestic and
foreign, when the ripest experience,
the best wisdom, the broadcast patrOit-
ism and the greatest executive ability
are required, comes perilOusly near
taking the one fatal step from the
sublime.
1T is to the future that the World
LOOKS in considering the effect of this
convention. There is no doubt as to
the result of the election except as to
The size of McKinley's popular and
ELECTORAL majOr:ties. To question
this is to doubt the intelligence, the
underlying honesty and the public
mOr2li2y Of the people.