The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-07-23
AND Is A PRODIGIOUS FORCE FOR
GOOD-A TERRIER TO
THE EVIL.
TERRIFIC DEMOCRATIC FIERY DARTS.
Puncture the Chicago Convention. Made
Up of Limitations of Democratic
Statesmen, Renegade Republicans.
Populists and Silver Cranks.

lows:
Dominated by men who are strangers
to democracy and by ideas even more
grotesquc in their novelty, the Chicago
convention has named a leader who is
not Democrat and adopted IA platform
which is not Democratic
BY its revolutionary and sectional fury.
by its shameful Endorsement of the Re
publican and Populistic heresies of cheap
silver and greenbacks, by its cowardly
abandonment of tariff reform and by its
Amazing demand for the restoration of
the barbarous spoils system, no less than
by the nomination of Il man wholly unfit
the Chicago convention absolves all Dem
ocrats from allegiance to its candidates
and its principles.
The Chicago convention has not spoken
for the Democrats of the United States
1t has voiced the ignorance and the i'm
morality the cOvetOuSnesS and the dis
honesty of the least enlightened ele-
ments of our population. No center of
Intelligence and progress and justice is
represented in its announcements.
Inc chicago convention, made uD for
the greater part of interlOpers from the
various Populistic organizations of the
south and west, and by few score of un-
consclonable scalawags from the north,
wearing the collars of bosses like Alt
geld, has not only spoken falsely for the
democracy; it has degraded and disgrace
ed the American name before the world
in manner that no similar gathering
ever equaled and which every patriot
may feryently hope no succeeding aggre-
CATION of moral and intellectual degener-
ates ever will initiate.
lmprudently and falsely assuming TO
represent the most intelligent, most ener-
getic, most self reliant people on the
globe, the Chicago convention humbly
asks for the American republic a place
in finance and commerce at the feet of
Costa Rico, China and Mexico.
With an impulse born of bigotry and
fanaticism. it flies in the face of the great
commercial nations, closes its eyes to all
the pages of history, and intent only up
on winning the approval of the Popu-
llstic silver protcctionists who are soon
to meet in st. Louis and who have d-
rected its acts in Chicago, it arrays itself
on the side of Il dcbased currency and the
reputation of public and private debts.
1t is not Democracy that has thus greed
lily SieZcd and donned the discarded rags
- ~ T.; ~, ~ mc, ioii' A..
TOGO ,,si,;,,in ,nI., ulttl suhcIliis
Nv tho hn,dtS gnu uil'itseINiHs uelenls
publicanS, now claims prc-Cminent mo-
nOpOly of all calamity.
1t is not Democracy that. having val
iantly resisted for generation the allied
trusts and tariff protected combines of
H., No,,n'i NV 'e.o up ol'S vi inc liosl
,,,. VI ''ivHt 'ne SILVER iliih-
~, faiti "S 'ie coriler S'ohc ol tile
pI IT, 4; an na,,,.,. A.. .-...,...
,, IL ii4 H. D ELY; tiint rrescrlpes alG
.ho ,mr .lru1 aiu .rue Denlocr"'S Oh
'' II o q, nat n nnu nlnue.e S.a.es. A.,
o,nn H. moi nrniocraca tili,t OCCUPIES Ille
" a;I,.nn cal,ps 9l tIe hepuDllcan 1ree
a., hao tlo IN Hnu m,c I anu TUGS 10
HEY ~ p1Soiln ,ne ulscn[aeg geWgaWs Oh po-
n,,'n, n,iai,,pet WHY ~ no" PosihS lar
ava! us pattern OF virtue.
us, ~ Is iiDt DJiociaCE ,lal lli'kes one us
momrS' nepupliTin iuea 'he soie test OF
P"t't iimrei,' ',i; ..,.
lis ~ - op"i'si''' 1t Is sociailsili' IL Is an
"rT r;ii, ,, ,,..,, ..e an.
Ihiiiian anu AltSclu typily ana Illus
t tE IN thelr own offensive personalities
.lt 1ioie.c anu Icch h vi .niS lal-
" uIpni e .u IL lroili DeliocIltiC Ialth.
DOH u theil aple ahg aurolt, poti re-
aouicci;n' noth pfuta, III ,ielnou' norm
U vo'., tn sPeegh' potn illaiishuil'' Dotn
t t;a u noth insane WIN evli anm-
llon, pom nlied win II sleeplesS zeal to
iIu ,! ''e Deiliocrallc l,ar'!, when thcy
INV INV ~ I've II CONSERVATIVE anu pa!rlotic
noieG ~ W W ealllsleu III support Oh their
f f enoim i tI! ireilzles-the one STANDS
loi an 'i'ai IL aplorrellt poiillcaiiy at tne
SoWtn uS 'ne otner stallus lor an that Is
Poi'!!l,call! dangerous at the norm.
NINA, ,,tiiaE gnu Ipel.lhs tnpse lnlsefapic
i VI besh9eratlc leuuers, tncse
, u"ne iil'a.'ols ol DeHlocrutlc StaIes-
WILL WILL; are Sr9al n1st OF renegade lie
IHpilcahs anu fopullsts. the Iellers and
nnl,es' lhe nianus ana organs, the ZEN
,u1 z ualu o,IWI l's, .ht Iaupehecks
snu oongsts, an natihg the democratic
ns uilu 1oPins that the instrumentation
Sa,, , ,,;1n Pr! may pr,ns 10 theh.
s sUn;I ui"e Ill 'he wa! OF pluhder or OF
'PT pI ....,
, ne sll''h't vi !, Is that such gathering
.u u,n l,'.., ny ,le unspeak'Dles OF eV-
nan, ,l""i cieeu, men supposeu 10 DE Dem
o,'n;n nay poseu lor ua!s rs ANXIOUS
r n,nnt lor 'he lshomlhy Oh prefer
hn,,;.- .
honI tho,n Ioh'ictiols, even man
ho9u' THESE men nave manifested a cow
,,i;i SO pase !Iat now when all their
,,'. i'p'c saGrlncss nave proven YAM. 1t
n nr"i ue wondered II ihey DO not despise
i,n n vAet ti themselves, as they may
pr sulc tnelr leiloW citiZehs desplse and
fNtCGule tHclll.