The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-07-14
RAMPANT IN IT'S REVOLT
Chicago Chronicle Red Hon Against the
Chicago Convention.


Chicago. July 13IThe Chronicle yes
terday morning, in addition to the edi-
tor:ai calling for another convention,
printed another, a column and "a half
long in, which the present convention
and the participants therein are 1nerct-
aessly scored
Among other things It says:
by its revolutionary and sectional
fury. by fits shameful endorsement OF
HE Republican and Popuiistic heresies
of cheap silver and greeCtbackism, by
Ms cowardly abandonment of tariff re-
form. and by fts amazing demand for
the restoration OF the iaESbarpus spoils
system, no less than by the nomination
of a man wholly unfit, the Chicago con-
vention arbsolves all Democrats from
allegiance to its candidates and its prin-
ciples.
'"The Chicago convention has been
controlled by and has spoken for the
disappointed gray backs of the Confed-
crate armies of the mountain districts
Of the south, end for the whooping des-
peradoes, silver monopolists, and debt
Binkers of the far west, who never voted
q Democratic ticket and never intend 10.
''Tillnan and AItgeld typify and IL
lusJtrate In their own offensive person
aljties tfle violence and recklessness of
this latest departure fro Democratic
faith Aiding and ebetting these miser-
able counterfeits of Democratic states
men are a great host of renegade Re-
publioans and Populsts. The Tellers
and Waites, the Blands and Bryans,
the Pennoyers and Stewards, the Tau
benecks and Joneses all hating the
Democratic name and all hoping that
the disintergration OF a splendid party
hfsn to frif On IA
way of plumber or Of spoils
IF men ever were Of BelshaEzar and
Sennacher1b to those of George III. and
Jefferson Davis a supreme power has
at any time visited with madness and
blindness the creatures of evil, whose
overthrow WAS necessary to human
progress. the gibbering malevolentS,
IiIlman and Altgeld. and all who have
followed them in their new crusade of
eectfonaEsnl disunfon, reputation. and
ruin have been under the shadow or
thai. awful VIII.
Democracy has been Inundated. but
1t has not been destroyed. 1t suin lives.
a prodLgious force for good, a terror for
evil. Rising again in all the majesty
OF the power of the ever living truth X
will srrite with a mailed hand the trait
ols and mercanaries who in its honored
name have raised the Somber flag OF
financial shame and a blacker flag OF
GiSunion ana hate
But Tlle Chronicle is not the only
Democratic newspaper in the northwest
10 bolt. Two OF them in Davenport, Ia.
the center of the only Democratic
stronghold in that state. have jumped
the track One OF them. Der Demo
KRAFT, the leading German paper west OF
the Mississippi niver is out this morn
ing with a strong editorial denouncin:
both ticket and platform.
Fred A. fischer, the editor, said last
night
II telegraphed my paper this after
noon. as soon as the nomination for
president was made. that l repudiated
the action Of csh1s convent ton not deem
Ing tt Democratic, but Populistic. II
r.he sound money Democrats 90 not
nominate a ticket my paper viii advo-
cate the selection OF a man who repre-
sen1s more nearly the views OF the seun,?
money Democrats. That man viii BE
s-,l.