Milford chronicle., 1896-09-25
New and Strange Politics.

For the first time in the history
of American politics a candidate for
President has personally sought to
find favor among the electorate by
unqualifedly endorsing a platform
which pledges him to a policy of cur
rency debasement-a policy which,
if carried out, would impair public
and private credit, stand as a barrier
against popular prosperity and re.
duce the earnings of capital and la
Dor one-half. That is but one of the
pernicious and forbidding policies of
the POpulist- Democratic platform, all
which, Mr.. Bryan declares, he en-
dOrses without reservation or quail
fication. If that platform were made
the policy of a National Administra-
ton, the right of private contract
would be denied every citizen, the
Supreme Court, instead of remaining,
as now, an independent, non-political
part of the government, would be-
come political machine, to be re-
constructed upon political lines as
often as partisan expectancy de-
handed its reconstruction, and some
of the most vital principles of con-
stitutional government would be sub
Verted.
Dangerous and ruinous as the free
and unlimited coinage of silver and /
the unrestricted issue of paper
money, the latter based upon silver
coinage, would be, it is reasonable
to expect and fear that the approval
by a National Administrator of the
unconstitutional parts of the Chi
cago platform would be even more
perilous to the country's welfare.
They aim to secure the recognition
and realization Of policies foreign to
the spirit of our Republican institu.
lions, inimical to public policy and
5he well-being of the people.
The platform of the Populist-D Dem
1cratic party is sufficiently mischiev-
1us, but the candidate who has been
selected to stand upon it has in some
If his public deliverances far outrun !
t. Throughout his extended speech =
making tour from West to East and |
Cast to West, and, most notably, in /
lis Labor Day address in Chicago, [
lr. Bryan has persistently sought
0 array section against section, the
'Oor against the rich, to divide tine '
eople into masses" and "classes," c
nd to set them tearing at each 9TH t
RS throats. He is the first, the only, 1
andidate for the great Office to t
-hich he aspires who has endeavored r.
} create class divisions and distiEc- A
ons among his countrymen, and by il
temperate, demagogic appeals to b
,norance, prejudice and passion, A
ought to set father against son,
rother against brother and neigh eli
Dr. against neighbor in angry con a.
ntion. This he has publicly stated ii
} has already done. While advO- I'll
ting a policy which, if successful, e,
ould lessen the wages of labor ia
Iarly or quite one-half, he assumes ce
be the Moses of lahor-the only gt
ampion and defender of the EN-. an
Dyed against the employers. It dc
mot be believed that the working ~
ople, the tillers of the soil, are fa
atified by Mr. Bryan's unceasing tn
orts to set them aside as an infe- ca
n class-as common people, err
10 need to be safe-guarded and pat wi
nlzed by him, or that any mater fal
part of the American people are I'll
spared TO adopt the revolutionary bu
l Socialistic policies which he thu
Dports and exploits. A conflict rea
,ween "masses"and GLASSES, "evsn wo
ugh it should be fought out to cor
lclusion at the polls, would have -
ults too serious to be anticipated :
bout fear and sorrow by every ~ y
1lic-spirited citizen. When, if the