The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-07-15

are to be politically destroyed. The
height of insolence and violence to
which wind and tongue have raised
them only measures the distance of
their o 0 and certain fall .-Brooklyn
Eagle.
The n and only question for all
the friends of honest money and honest
dealing, and of safe and conservative
government, is how shall Mr.. Bryan
and his party be Observation-Disclosures
Sun.
NOMINATED on such a platform, the
candidate of the Chicago convention
will not receive, and cannot expect to
receive, the support of the democratic
party of the country.-Charleston Is.
o. News & Courier.
OUR worst fears have not only been
realized, but new and horrible doctrines
have been added to the Chicago plat
form which cannot possibly bind a
democrat who is unwilling to abandon
the fundamental principles of his party.
Richmond (Va.) Times Democrat.
The Stats Zeitung will bolt this
ticket, but not until Saturday morning.
We intend to let them nominate their
candidates first, 80 that we car give the
better reason for leaving the party.
The candidates will surely be free
silver people and that will make our
position the stronger. The Germans
of the West, whom the Stats Zeitunq
represents, have no sympathy with
such a platform as was adopted to-day,
and the paper, speaking for them, can
not honestly endorse it.-Staats lei
tung, Chicago, leading German paper
in the West.
UNDER these conditions it is the
duty of patriotic citizens to sink polit-
ical differences on other points and
rally to the party which stands as a
bulwark of the currency against silver
lite and populist assaults. The Herald
recognizes this duty, and intends to
perform it. Till the contest is decided
our voice shall be raised and our in
huence given for the election of Mr..
Mckinley to the presidency. The Sc
curity of the currency is the paramount
question of the hour. 1t eclipses all
other issues. Believing that this Sc
curity can best be attained by the sue
cess of the republican party, we prom
Use it our sincere and hearty support for
its presidential ticket in the pending
campaign Boston Herald.
The preservation of the credit, the
good faith, the honor and prosperity of
the United States transcends all party
interests. The hope of the friends OF
honesty rests with the republican candi-
date. Either he or the anarchist can
didate will be the next president.
Whether there is to be a genuine demo
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good wishes and hopes of most demo
Gratis will go with Major Mckinley,
He is not fighting democrats and tariff
for revenue only men now; he is fight
ing populists and anarchists, silver
maniacs, men seeking, consciously OF
unconsciously, a financial and sociaI
revolution. What is the use of trying
to fight them with blank cartridges like
protection?-New York Sun (Dem.)
AND this motley crew, selling the
staunch old democratic ship, swarm
her decks and set her sails straight fol
the reefs. They will tear down the old
flag and nail to the mast an alien de.
vice, under which they will steer to dis
grace and disaster. For defeat as the
result of the convention is inevitable,
1t will come, rest assured, in November
inglorious and crushing. But if
through any unlooked-for development
the ticket to be put forth at Chicago
should be elected, it would mean ever
a greater disaster to the democratic
party than defeat at the ballot-box, fol
with the ruin which such a victory
would bring, the party responsible for il
would be consigned to an exile fal
longer and more odious than would fol
low its failure at the polls.-Henry
Watterson, in Courier Journal, Louis.
vile, Ky.
The Chicago platform cannot be ac.
cepted. The United States was made
democratic, and it must remain so.
Free-silver coinage would be national
dishonor and a monumental anachro.
nism. Silver has had its day as a money
standard. The commerce of civiliza.
ton, which has used as a medium OF
exchange pretty much everything from
shells to the higher metals, has pro.
crossed beyond silver. 1t has adapted
itself to gold, and to gold it will stick
until it finds something still more con-
venient. The silver campaign is based
on decisions which have no justifca.
ton, and on statements which are not
so. 1t cannot prevail, and every sim
cere believer in fair dealing and in
business honor as the foundation of
commercial prosperity, must put aside
all other purposes and unite for its de-
feat. In the different states the state
candidates for the mortified and dis
heartened members of the democracy
to follow are yet to be determined. In
them, and especially in New York, the
nucleus of democratic regeneration
must be found. But from now until
the night of election day in November,
1896, the presidential candidate of
every democrat who favors honest
money and who still hopes to crush the
enemies of the fundamental principles
he was bred in, should be, without hes
itation, evasion, or sop to prejudice,
William McKinley.-New York Sun
Dem).
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