Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-08-08
RAMPANT DEMOCRACY.
Democratic Press Burst All Bonds
In Their Indignation.

What evidence have we that there Is 10
be a change in '9G?-Montgomcry (Ala)
Advertiser.
When a great party has reached that
stage of moral depravity that such Great
ures as Tillman, Altgeld x Co. arc per-
united TO speak TO IL, much less take an
important part in moulding its politics,
It's course is, indeed, about run.-Wa-
bash Und.D Times.
Americans will never give this crowd
control Of the country until they shall
have fallen 10 the level of the old world
communists. That will not happen this
year, at least. The people must be de
graded in their own esteem before they
VIII vote for a war of class against
class.-Memphis Scimitar,
The financial plank in the platform
adopted by the Democratic national con-
vention at Chicago Is distinctly n DECLARE
ton for such Reputation of existing
debts, public and private, as can be
secured by the enforcement upon the
country as legal tender money of a de-
based silver coinage conformed TO a de.
graded standard of money,-New Or
leans Picayune.
Scratch n silver man and you rome to
n Populist. In the heart of each burns
the desire TO get as much as possible and
give as little. If either of them hap.
pen 10 bo n debtor, this desire takes tho
form Of reputation. As most Of them
are debtors population is the thing they
are for, and in the Chicago platform
they go for IL straight,-New York
Times.
II is but proper TO say in fairness and
justice 10 the grand old Democratic
party OF Hamilton, Jefferson aud Jack
son that we cannot depart from the
ways Of the fathers upon the financial
question, and, therefore, cannot, much
20 our regret, follow the Democratic
banner as u trails into a foreign camp;
and must, as u matter of self-respcct.
refuse 10 support Mr.. Bryan upon the
financial platform upon which he has
been placed aud stands.-DnytOn CO)
Times.
Till the contest is decided our voice
shall be raised and our influence given
for the election of Mr.. Mckinley to the
presidency. The security of the cur
rency is the paramount question of the
hour. 1t cClipscs issues. Believing that
this security can best be attained by
the success of the Republican party,
we promise il our sincere and hearty
support for its presidential ticket in the
impending campaign. We have never
believed that the Republican party made
the best selection possible TO il, but il
Is diiicult 10 see how any candid man
can deny that the selection of the Repub.
iican party was cmincntly more fitting
and appropriate. There is an absence
OF dignity in the Democratic selection
which is seen both in the candidate
himself and in the circumstances that at
tended his nominatiOn.-Boston Herald.
The true interests of the pcople ask
for the election of Mr.. Mckinley, not
for himself but for the absolute ne
cesslty of the whole people of the Unit
ed States and of the greater world of
which they are after all but a part. In
any event let us be reasonable. Don't
talk OF "scCtionalism" or of anarchy"
or of revolution" Remember always
that compared with the unity Of country
the gold standard is not worth fighting
Tor; one country. one fag.-Springfield
Republican lind. Dem
No reasonable man can ask the Times
10 stultify n dishonor itself and long
timed Democratic principles. While sup
porting To the best of our ability the
state nominations for executive offices
und legislative nominees, we feel assured
that all true Democrats will Justify us
III deciding that we cannot give the sup
port of the Times TO the Chicago con
vention and it's politically diseased Caudi-
date. We shall do all we can TO sustain
the good name and the organization of
the Democratic party, but we cannot sup
port principles nor candidates of the
Bland, Teller and Altgeld stripe. We
cannot conscientiously ask honest men
TO vote for them.-Hartford Times.
We repudiatc the IL TO / plank i'm
Bryan's Chicago platform and will not
support. any candidate on such a plat
form. Ii is too PopuIistic and Nihilistic.
-Machias (Mc) Union.
Our worst fears have not only been
realized httt nnNs and h,r,,ll, l--...
have been added TO the Chicago platform,
which cannot possibly bind a Democrat
who is unwilling 10 abandon the funda-
mental principles of his party.-Rich-
mond CNa.) Times.
What Harry Bingham feared only rs n
bare possibility has come TO be a stern
reality. The ''madmen' of whom he
spoke have controlled the national con
vention and declared for free silver at
IL TO 1. The Democrats of New Hamp-
shire cannot 90 with Observation-Disclosures
IN. H.) Union.
Circumstances have made William Nc
kinley the man around whom all must
rally who desire To defeat determinedIy
the candidate for the pseudo-D Democrat
William j. Bryan, who stands for fat
money under the guise of bimetallism:
for publication of lawfully-contracted IL
Abilities; Tor communism and lawless-
ness.
Mckinley and the party he renre.
sents have until now induced Democratic
and ~indepndent voters 10 took for means
by which they could avoid the necessity
OF supporting the Republican ticket. This
has been show TO be hopeless, and there
Is no other way but TO offer our support
10 our old opponents.-New York Stats
Zeitung, the leading Eastern German |
Democratic daily.
We have no fear that the soupd-moro,
Democracy will acquiesce in a free silver
platform, a ticket of population. OF an |
archy and the trampling out of the
rights of the sound money delegates in
the convention. A bolt is inevitable
Democratic ticket for which Democrats
can vote is becoming a necessity. IN
will be supplied. The Anarchists tho
Populists, the Communists and the Mill
lists who are controlling this convention
Will never control this country: they will
never control the Democratic Marty
Brooklyn Eagle. ~
The parting of the WAYS has. beon
reached, and for the sake of marty hon,
esty and electoral integrity il il IN no
hoped that the division will he com
piete. A paramount issue like that for
the pending coinage question demands
a speedy settlement and a voters conyic- |
tons upon IL have not been subordinat-
ed TO the demands of party expediencv
There can be no honorable compromise
with or submission TO the free silver fac |
tion.-Galveston News.
Speaking for itself, the Courier cannot |
so far forget its duty 10 its constituency
m n IN