The Irish standard., 1896-10-17
Review Of the Bolting Democrats
Who Met in Convention
at indianapolis.
Some Who Were There Announced
Their Intention of Voting
for rlcKinIey.
The Gold Bug Platform Compared
With That Adopted at
Chicago.

Brann's Iconoclast discusses the boltins
Democrats and the Indianapolis convention
in the following vigorous way:
Il. Perhaps the most remarkable exhibition
OF political Pecksnifiianism the world has
yet witnessed was furnished by the "Sounl
Money Democrats" VINO recently enacted
at Indianapolis the pitiable farce of plac
ing a presidential ticket in the field.
1. have no words Of criticism for those eide
want Democrats because of their dec.inatio.
to support the Chicago nominees. | recog-
nize their :nalienable right to transfer their
4 allegiance 10 other parties, or to create a
new one, as they please. They are free
3 moral agents, entitled to their opinions in
matters monetary, and would be derelict
Z in their duty as American citizens did they
fail to champion that financial policy they
believe will best promote the general well
fare; but no man is privileged to be polite
ally dishonest-to borrow the linen Of the
Lord in which to do the dirty work of the
= devil, The raison d detre Of the Indianapo-
lis convention was not the conservation OF
time -hopored Democratic principles; but
rather to aid, by arrant hypocrisy and con-
temptible skuilduggery, in elevating the
Republican party to power. do not crit
convention because they are in revolt
against the national Democracy; for hold
In supreme contempt such men as Mckinley
who depend on others to supply their
political principles-who place the badge
Of party slavery above the crown of Ameri
can sovereignty. The man who. at the
command of any convention, however au-
gust, helps fasten upon his country POI
icy he believes hurtful to its people, should
have ring put In his nose and be led about
by Niger When q man declares that he
dissents from the Chicago platform, "but
feels it his duty, as a good Democrat, to
bow to the viii Of his party you may set
It down that he should have been born a
goose to patiently plod in the wake Of
some f1at-headed old gander-that he's
white-.iYered and lacks gall. I believe
that BRYAN would have bolted the Chicago
convention had 1t, declared for gold mono
metallisnl-- -and would have kept him
company. I critic.aet the indianapolis COW
erantersS because they are, not toting fair
'sWsi Wsitn the people because they are eng-
neering deliberate bunco-game that
would disgrace the vilest beat that ever lay
in wait for conhding countryman.
This is a serious charge, and should not
be preferred unless it can be substantiated
BY indubitab!e evidence. Did not the con-
yent.on, it may be asked, dencunce in I'M
measured terms the general policy of Re-
publicanism? 1t undoubtedly did. D-d
1t not formulate platform, nominate can
didates and loudly call attention to its own
se.f-righteousness? Sure-that's what 1t
was there for. Did you expect it to nom
inate Mckinley and put member OF the
Morgan-Belmont syndicate on the tail-end
ho arlH q
there is very considerable contingent of
Cleveland Democrats power will ever
have both intellectual poems and profess
tonal parasites. These people-who have
made Of Cleveland political Dal:a Lama,
and vigorously swallow the pastil,es made
Of his economic evacuations-regard with
considerable disfavor the Chicago platform
and candidates. Still, comparatively few Of
them can be persuaded to turn for consola-
tion to McKinleyism. Compelled to- choose
between the party Of high-tariH and impu-
dent trusts, federal force bills and coon rule
reconstruction, and their old party with Its
one Objectionable plank, vast majority OF
them would rally round the banner OF the
Nebraskian, considering it wiser to attempt
tae reformation than to assist in the de-
struction of an organization with which
they have been long identified. The sole
object Of the Indianapolis convention was to
e:detrack this vote, to prevent it going to
Bryan, and thereby assure the success of
the party which represents the very antith-
esis of Democratic principles. How do we
know? BY the very frank confession Of
the promoters of that enterprise Seven
r ort Of ten delegates to that convention have
been bearing aloft the Mckinley banner
ever since Bryanis nonination-are doing
so today They have informed us in pubic
Addresses and interviews, both before and
since the indianapolis convention, that the
object OF this second ticket was not the
capture Of the presidency. but the defeat o.
the regular Democracy. Men who sat in
that convention had already announced
their intention Of voting for Mckinley.
Seven out OF ten of the Stuffed Prophet
newspapers began pulling for Mckinley go
soon as the result of the Chicago convention
was known, and they are still giving aid to
/. the enemy. While they are slobbering Over
the senile ticket put forth by the Sound
Money Democracy, they are doing 50 sim
ply because it is expected to defect votes
from BRYAN. While loudly commencing
tie renaissance of 'sthe faith of the Demo
cratic fathers they are particularly tender
to those who. as one Of them expresses It,
CONSIDER it their duty to vote for McKin-
ley direct, and thereby preserve the credit
az the country They are engaged IN Itlg-
uring out, not possible chance of victory
for the new ticket, but how many states It
Will add to the Mckinley column.
Scratch a leader of the Indianapolis move
Ssnaent and you'll fand a McKinleyite every
time. They are sailing under fa.se co.o-s
sprose:i,ing an almost pathetic attach.
sSment To Jeffersonian principles Waile, at
the same time, striving to eEtEsp their
bathren into rendering aid, direct or nd
4 sEect. To the cd time enemy OF DeDlccracy.
n That Isl carrying practical politics to the
srgsiod Niminality. It IS on an iexa act par
y y with. obtaining money unde fa1se pre-
s1ensesa Had these fellows been politically
wcs,.,d have either sabiided by.
the act ion soff the regular Democracy or
i Eone over open.y to the .Repu bl-- San camp;
did nest er.- hey became cappers ssors
Kin.ey's pol ticai aell cams. aseoys
d nocra.a into M I, annA,'s
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