The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1896-07-18
OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.


Nh' tnhuNahco WHO Will DC nominated
will be the chief mourners at its grave.
Albany Express.
As n choice between sound money and
protection and free silver and free
trade. can there. in this great country,
peopled by intelligent beings, be any
question as TO the outcome bling
hamton Herald.
No democrat who cares for the fame
or the future of the democratic party
can cast vote for any candidate for
president or congress who can for one
moment stand upon such n platform
and call IL mocracy.-Louisville Post.
Sound money democrats who believe
In good government, and who are OPP
posed to politics that appeals 10 the
lowest instincts of people. should get
together in patriotic effort TO save
their country from the raiders.-Gal-
weston News.
Mr.. Bryan is dangerous demagogue,
fifty representing the party of repudia-
ton, socialism and anarchy, which
under the name OF the democratic
party, has placed him in nomination
for the presidency. No true democrat
can afford TO give him the support of his
vote.-Philadelphia Ledger.
The revolutionary course OF the ma
jority at Chicago is hostile TO the DEM
ocratic party, Which the silverites in
tend to destroy, building populistic
party on it's ruins. Unless the people
rise up and put down this newly organ
lied freebooting party, the destruction
OF the republic must follow.-Hartford
Times.
The Chicago platform Is an Impu-
dent challenge 10 civilization;" and
the reception which IL has met with nj
the hands of the newspaper press and
country has recognized the issue and
will call forth it's reserve force OF pa
triotism to do battle with anarchy
Philadelphia Record (Dem.)
1t will he impossible TO bolt the DEM
ocratic national ticket next November.
for there is no democratic national
ticket To bolt. There are populist-an-
archist candidates nominated on the
populistlc-anarchist platform. Such n
ticket and such a platform bind no
democrat who does not confuse names
with principles.-N. Y. Sun (Dem.)
The platform adopted, especially when
read in the light OF the speeches Of Till
man and Hill, showed that the policy
adopted Is TO combine the extremes OF
the free trade and bourbon democracy
with all the extremes of the populists,
As the standard-bearer in such n combl-
nation no other man could have been
as appropriate as William j. Bryan
Chicago Inter Ocean (Rep.)
1t is a blunder that would he incon-
ceivable IL IL Ind not actually been
made. IL pushes democracy out and
brings populism to the front. II will
render support 70 the ticket impos-
sible by hundreds of thousands OF
democrats. The democratic party OF
the nation has deserved better things
of the southern men than the Brutus-
like blow they have dealt IL at Chi
cago.-N. Y. World (Dem.)
For ourselves and for the body OF
the faithful believers in bimetallism.
we say that IL will take more than the
dictum OF a convention, chosen and
managed "a this has been, TO make
free silver, leading TO immediate sill
yer recommendation, principle OF the
democratic faith. The democratic
party Is greater than any man within
II, and has survived more than one
mistake. IL will outlivc this one and
triumph in spite OF IL, because II min
listers to the eternal needs OF the rcpub-
lie and stands az the only representa-
tive and bulwark of the rights OF free
people.-St. Paul Globe. (Bem.)
The Chicago platform is without n
redeeming feature TO commend IL to
patriotic citizens of ony political faith.
There is not single vital attribute OF
democracy presented in il, with tie
single exception OF the perfunctory
paragraph on equality OF tariff taxes.
II Is a proclamation OF organized re-
pudiation, agrarianism and anarchy.
and IL must summon every intelligent
and patriotic citizen, regardless of POI
iitical affiliations, To most heroic bat
tie against the triumph OF n madness
that is as deadly In its aim AZ was the
madness OF secession In 1860, and with
out even the poor excuse that secession
had for its suicide. - Philadelphia
Times (Dem)
The nomination of William jennings
Bryan as the democratic candidate, on
n populistic platform, for president OF
the United States, means that there IL
n scattered, not numerous, but resolutc
party in this country In favor Of: Ex-
tinction of the right of private con-
tract Compulsion of the people OF
the United States TO take sixteen
pounds Of silver as the equivalent 10
one pound OF gold, when in the markets
OF the world one pound OF gold Is worth
thirty pounds of silver. Revival OF the
income tax. Legislation so TO alter
the supreme court OF the United States
as TO make Il populistic. Voluntary
bankruptcy OF the national govern
ment. Involuntary bankruptcy of all
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