The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-15
DEMOCRATIC EXPRESSIONS.

| In the Democratic party the conflict is
| between those who captured the party or
ganization at Chicago and those who
stand by what they call 1.-The time-honored
principles of the Democratic party Thus
| far the organization seems to have the
| largest following in numbers, while those
| who stand for the beliefs and traditions
| of the party constitute large majority of
| the best-known and ablest men in the
party. There is reason to believe that from
! this time on large number of Democrats
will be influenced by the telegram of Pres
| ident Cleveland to Chairman Bynum and
| the equally emphatic letter of Secretary
| Carlisle. The Presidents words so
emphatic that the Journal quotes them for
| the benefit of a large number of Demo-
Gratis who are forced to look elsewhere
| than in the Democratic or Bryan organs
for the utterances of lifelong and distin-
guished Democrats. Mr.. Cleveland said in
! his telegram:
| As a Democrat devoted to the principles
and integrity of my party, 1 should be
| delighted to be present on an occasion SO
significant, and to mingle with those who
| Democracy shall not be smothered, and
insist that it's glorious standard shall be
DOIne dlOlL DIS OIL Ola III IdllDIuI udlluS
| Equally emphatic are the words of Sec
rotary Carlisle, of whose ability Democ-
racy there can be question. The follow
| ing sentence is sample of the spirit of
| his letter:
I am proud to take my stand with the
| old-fashioned Democrats who have refused
| to abandon their honest convictions in or
| der to form unnatural alliances with
political and social organizations whose
| purposes are dangerous to the country
| and wholly inconsistent with the funda-
| mental principles of our party.
| When the Sentinel became the champion
| Of Organism and Tillmanism it ceased to
| place before it's readers the views of some
| of the best-known Democrats in the
| country. Sunday night the letter of ex-
Lieutenant Governor Sheehan. member of
| the Democratic national committee for
| New York, to a friend was given to the
Associated Press. 1t is scathing review
of the platform adopted at Chicago and
an even more scathing criticism of the
position which Mr.. Bryan has taken in
his speeches. This letter, which filled a
column of the Journal, is dismissed with
ten lines by the Sentinel. There are some
expressions in it which Democrats who
read real newspapers may like to consid-
err. Here is one paragraph of Mr.. Shee-
hans letter:
I believe most firmly that the success
of this ticket would mean paralysis OF
business. that the employer of labor would
be unable to secure the credit necessary
to transact his business, and that the ave-
nues of industry would be closed. PRODUCE
ton cannot find a profitable market in
the impoverishment of the people. Panic
disaster and ruin will follow, and after
the plaudits of the victorious multitude
have died away they will realize the pow
erty and degradation of the Nation and will
turn with the anger of a once-deluded
people upon the false prophets and Idols
whose advice they followed. The free coin
age of silver may be advocated from
gogism to array for selfish and undemo-
cratic purposes class against class the
poor against the rich. employer against
employees. For the first time within my
Democratic convention appealing, not to
the patriotism and Democracy OF our
people, not to their conscience and intel
iigence, but to their prejudices and dis
likes.
Mr. Sheehan belongs to that wing of the
Democracy in New York which has always
been opposed to Mr.. Cleveland. His action
has not been influenced by the admin
| istration. but by the conviction that Bry-
anism is Altgeldism, and that 1t is a men
ace TO the country, while it's heresy of the
free coinage of silver would involve the
| country in financial disaster He declared
| against the Chicago ticket because those
who made it pulled down the banner of
! Democracy and hoisted the banner of Pop
| ,1liSr1