The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-09-03
TRUE DEM0CRACY'S CREED

the laws cannot be enforced In state to protect property which is In the Jur- isdiction of federal courts or to pro- tect the United States malls or that the supreme court ought to be recognized or that the national honor should De stained or the national faith violated or that the freedom of private contract ought to be limited or that the tunc- tion of issuing paper money ought to be exclusively exercised by the federal government We hold that the theory of free coinage of silver with gold at the ratio of 16 to 1 admits of argu- ment, but we hold that the weight of authority, the strength of reasoning and the facts of history all point to its fallacy and the ruinous conse- quences of it's adoption, We hold that it will rob the poor man of his wage and the rich man of his wealth, the widow of her savings, the child of his patrimony, the soldier of his pension, the industrious of his toil and the in- ventor of the reward of his genius. We hold that it will demoralize and serious ly disturb the immense trade and com- merce of the republic and drive the country to a discredited, depreciated and depreciating standard: smite our | finances as with a palsy and trade with blight We hold that the nations credit will fall prostrate, it's obligations will be dishonored and it's unsullied character will be stained with fraud and deceit We claim that these aver- ments are true, established by histori- cal fact, by unanswerable reason, the l .sx,,. IL. s,tf. ,oI litical economists and the common sense and common honesty of the larg- est portion of our fellow citizens. "The credulity and cupidity of some | of our good citizens have been played ! upon and aroused by artful fanatics and cunning demagogues There are, however, many honest, patriotic and in- | telligent who cling with the strength | of conviction to the spacious theory of bimetallism at 16 to 1. If their theory is denounced as salse and pernicious | no imputation is cast upon their char | acter, nor any slur upon their intelli- gence.
 The free coinage of silver is and has | been since MT. Clevelands inaugura- tion the supreme, overshadowing issue l before the country. Upon that issue | the president and a majority of his l party took opposite sides. In conse- quence he has been powerless to effect reforms and secure immunity from gold-raiding on the treasury. Since the inception of the struggle for free silver no compromise has been possible. Our brethren knew that the battle was one to the death The nominee of the so- called democratic party has on several | occasions proclaimed the irresoncilable nature of the conflict. 1t Is a fitting | culmination of such a contest for our brethren to obtain allies from populism at the price of incorporating it's nefari- l ous doctrines in their platform and at | tempting to pass them off as genuine democracy It was fitting that to de- graded and appreciated currency should l be added an assassinated judiciary and | powerless executive.
 I HFellow citizens, we are not traitors to our party. We are in the hands of our fathers. We cannot be driven from it. We will defend the honor of our ] country and the integrity of our prin- ciples as long as life endures. We can neither be busted of our political herit- age nor forced into the ranks of our old time adversary We intend to pre- serve intact, unimpaired and unsullied by and through the organization which we perfect to-day the democracy of Jefferson, Jackson, Benton and Cleve- land.
 We propose to furnish a refuge and an abiding place for such of our breth- ren as, shocked and grieved at the be- troyoJ of o,,y, y,riprt,lac al Chioor oro inclined to go to the republican camp
 '"The principles of democracy are i'm perishable They are antagonistic tc the paternalsm of the republican and the socialist, the destructiveness of the anarchist and the vagaries of the infla. tionist and repudiator. Bryon wrote
 While the Coliseum stands Rome shal stand, and while Rome stands, tho
 world
 We say: While democracy stands
 the republic shall stand, and whil,
 the republic standshuman liberty
 For a season our party may stra,
 after false doctrines and founder annie
 quagmires, until the beacon light 0
 truth breaks upon it. It will rise iron
 every fall, like Anteos of old and e'el itS dSileo Sudb IFES US Woultu lII6s
 If in the decree of fate our party mus perish let no historian write such epi
 taph on it's tomb as this:
 |. Game to an untimely end from swal
 lowing political and financial poison,
 but rather let this epitaph be writtei
 over it's honored grave, dug amid tn
 ruins of the capitol:
 Tt did not survive the loss of liberty
 the destructive of public and the deca
 of private morals"
 We are the propagandists of no ney
 creed. We are the upholders of the ole
 We appeal from democracy drunk wit
 delusion to democracy sobered by req
 son. With an abiding faith in the in
 telligence and honesty of our people W
 lay before them and the world tn
 reasons that prompt us to unfurl tn
 old flag that has fioated over many
 triumph and many a defeat and neve
 yet soiled by repudiation or stained
 dishonor.
 "We deem it wise to pursue an az
 gressive rather than negative policy
 to be Achilles dragging Hector aroun
 the walls of Troy rather than Achille
 sulking in his tent. We propose {
 make a funeral pyre of the cadavel
 of populism and anarchy. We propos = to drag behind our triumphant chariot
 wheels in defeat and disgrace, aroun l 4Lo oa YifpJ tbn load fra nj l.