Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-08-06
PRINCIPLES. NOT PARTY.
The German Democratic Press Bolt
the Chicago Ticket.

Chicago Staats-Zeitung: The Democ-
racy which declared itself last week in
Chicago is new and degenerated edition
of the Democracy of 1861; in it reigns
the old Bourbon spirit which never learns
and never forgets. Who, therefore, de-
sires that the United States should fur
Their develop their national organism;
that the national government should be
further strengthened in the interest of
all; that national honor be kept unde-
filed; that the national credit be kept in
tact, turns away from a Democracy
which has placed itself at the disposal
of destructive forces and joins that party
which was called in 1861 to save the
Union, and which in this year again
has the patriotic duty to purify the ma
tional organism from the poison of the
P0pulistic Democracy.
The issue is not one of party, but of
the highest achievements of the nation,
which can be kept secure only by the
authority of the Federal government, by
an honest currency and by an inassaii-
able credit.
Iowa Tribune Dem.), Davenport-The
recklessness and fanaticism of the silver
people at the Chicago convention, who
trampled all opposition under foot, has
made very bad impression even upon
many of those who sympathize with the
theory of the debasers of money. The
majority of our voters is not ready by
any means to deliver the nation to such
crazy demagogues as Bryan, Waite, Till
man and others.
Waechter und Anzeiger Dem.), Cleve-
land-The currency plank, with it's de-
cisive declaration against the gold stand
ard, which, with total disregard of the
entire other world of culture and COM
merce, is declared to be an English insti-
tuition and is stigmatized as such, while
the free coinage of silver at the ratio of
10 to / is demanded as an immediate
measure of government, cannot fail to
make an altogether revolutionary impress
sion. We should not be at all surprised
if this news should cause in Europe a
decline of American securities in all ex-
changes; anticipated this decline has long
been.
Louisville Anzeiger Dem. )-Nonsense,
thou prevailest! From Grover Cleveland
to William Jennings Bryan-this is
jump for which the real Democrat is not
SO easily ready. The Anzeiger prefers at
any rate not to make it. After the adop-
ton of the platform the Anzeiger had no
need to pause moment for the declara-
ton that it would not support the can
didate who would accept the nomination
upon this platform. The nomination of
Bryan makes this duty easier and more
agreeable. Bland and Boies would have
been fought by the Anzeiger on account
of the cause which they represent. In
Bryan we do not only fight the cause but
the person. Only convention which
placed Tillman above Cleveland and
Blackburn above Carlisle would perpe-
trate the bad joke to present the young
hero of phrases from the West for the
highest office in it's gift.
Seebote Dem.) Milwaukee: AS the
close of the century has brought forth
the abominable ''new woman" who
rides bicycle, smokes, drinks, wears
trousers and tears herself loose from all
old customs, SO there has arisen in Chi
cago, imbued with the same revolution
airy spirit, a "new Democratic party"
which stands everything time-honored on
the head, denies the traditions of the old
party, administers kick to honesty and
with financial programme which is a
mockery to all reason. The new wom-
an" and the "new party" are genuine
fin de steele experiences, and one would
consider neither of them seriously if they
were not so serious in their consequences.
They are on the one hand the regret
table and undeniable excrescences of the
liberality of social views and on the
other hand of the freedom of the politi-
cal thought that the Constitution of the
United States prevents nobody from max
ing a fool of himself as often as he likes
to.
Davenport Democrat DEM: The
time has arrived for the clean separation
of the two irreconcilable wings of the
Democratic party, to which the Demo
crat has called attention for two years.
Those Democrats who remain true to the
unalterable national principles, as they
were proclaimed by Thomas Jefferson,
James Madison and the other fathers of
the republic" can have nothing in COM
mon with the Populistic new Democrats
who stole the banner and the name of
the glorious old party to betray under
throw the country into unspeakable mis-
cry.