The record-union., 1896-06-21
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. AND PRE-.
SERYATION OF AMERICAN INsTI-
TUTIONs.

1O14OASs
There has been 10 time within the
history of the republic since the dark
days when rebellion threatened the sta
bdlity of the Government, that Republi-
can success was so necessary to the
country as now.
The Nation Is passing through a
transition state or condition In which
there Is demand for the most devoted
Patriotism, presentation Of the most
courageous front by thinking and fair
dealing men. and the most unselash de-
Yotion to the interests Of free institu-
tons. that the assaults by the Debses.
and by the hundred and one fadists.
not to say Of the isms and fancies and
lnpTacticalble experiments of the Pop
uhsts may be turned aside.
There Is open, fmpudent and arrogant
assertion on the part Of the dangerous
classes Of intention TO gain control of
the Government, and with the isms.
fancies and fads OF some of these the
Democracy is already playing the har-
lot All manner of fanciful theories are
advanced concerning experimental
changes In the American system. and
the most open and pronounced enemy of
order, property and personal rights. and
of law, good Government and the ruIe
or the majority. the author of the most
monumental folly of the age, and of
the wickedest and most objectionable
crime Of the century, is put forward as
political saint, and a fit and proper
person to place in the seat of chief mag
tstracy, for there Is before us at this
writing the unblushing proposition of a
Populist organization to promote the
lawless Debs as Presidential candi-
date.
This, however, is but one Of the mani
festations of attempted misruIe and the
domination of impracticables and mon
grel politicians, financial tinkers and
social experimentalists, amateur polit-
ical economists and anarchistic and So
cialistic fadists. now concreting for
combined assault upon the institutions
of the country, tried through more than
8 century and tested in the bitterest and
most useful experiences OF mankind.
This conglomerate of revolutionists,
ismists, professional reformers and po-
liical harlots. propose changes and al
would produce condition of hard times
and woe for the poor, and Of trial, IL not
ruin for the provident, such as no other
people have experienced. They would
ruin the credit of the Nation and bank
rupt the monetary institutions Of the
country; they would remove the wise
restraints OF protection to American in
dustries and PROSTATE production and
labor before the idols OF their handi-
work; they would deny fun reward and
wage to honest labor, because their isms
and reforms" viii refuse employment
TO American artisans and laborers: they
would unsettle the social and politica
system that affords TO all equal eppor-
tunity, and would substitute the dead
level of commonest mediocrity, by Civ
ing to the sloweSt and least fit the set
ting of the pace for all.
The Democratic party, after fruit
less attempt to better conditions. IS
bidding for all these people. with their
fadisms, rebellious and revolutionary
ideas and experimental creations ano
cbimeras, to come to Chicago and aid
tt in retaining its seat Of power II
stands ready to promise all things to al
men. and anything to any man who viii
sbo,,t In its ranks. 1t denounces the
protective principle under which tht
nation prospered. grew to its greatest
~tranqth. and home industries were en-
.h,aa TO enter the field Of profitable
production and consumption; 1t pro-
noses to settle by political declaration
end the promise OF the mouth financia
ausstions which are the concern OF thu