Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-07-17

preme court of the United States as to
make it populstic; voluntary bankruptcy
of the national government; involuntary
bankruptcy of all business men of the
United States who are not Nanderbits and
Astors."
The Boston Herald and Globe, the
Springfield Republican and the Manchester
Union, the four abest Democratic papers
in New England, are among the boilers.
The course of the leading papers of the
South is perhaps more significant than that
of Eastern papers. All the Democratic
daiies of Baltimore are boilers from the
Chicago platform and candidates. The
Louisville Courier journal, the most widely
known and influential paper of the whole
South, says: "The league of free silver
men who went to work few months ago
to capture the organization of the Demo
cratic party have accomplished their pur-
pose. They have put forth in the Demo-
cratic name a platform which violates al
most every cardinal Democratic tenet, and
have nominated as the Democratic leader
a young hot-head, who but recently aban-
doned the Democratic for the Populist
party. Such foolhardy and bastard leader
ship and such radical revolution of the
| very life principles of Democracy will be
serviency to party form is not dictated by
their desire to share in the official spoils of
party success, and whose fealty to party
organization means fidelity to the views for
the advancement of which the party is only
the instrument"
More surprising than the stand of the
Louisville Courier-Journal is that of the
Charleston, S. c., News and Courier, which
has heretofore supported with hot-headed
fervor everything that was associated with
| Democracy. The paper says: civilian
j. Bryan was by long odds the best and
strongest of the free silver candidates in
the field. He is far better and stronger
than the platform on which he stands.
Nominated on a straight Democratic plat
form he would be entitled to and would re-
ceive the solid support of the Democratic
voters of the country nominated on plat
form which is Democratic only in its de-
claration for civil and religious liberty,
| platform which seeks to appease the Re-
| publicans by opposing tariff legislation and
does not declare for tariff for revenue
only, which appeals to the socialistic ele-
ments of society by denying to the federal
authorities the right of interference with
the work Of the mob, which would over
turn the reform of the civil service by
making the spois of Office the incentive of
political activity, which declares for the
free, unlimited and Independent coinage of
silver at a dishonest ratio, and which
would plunge the country in overwhelming
| financial ruin-nominated on such plat
form the candidate of the Chicago conven-
tion will not receive and cannot expect to
receive the support Of the Democratic
party of the country
Bolts in the newspaper ranks are report
ed from many cities of the South, includ-
ing Richmond, Savannah, Atlanta, New
Orleans and Galveston.
Nine-tenths of all the German papers of
the country, including those of New York
and Chicago which have great influence,
are out for McHinley's election. The effect
of the German vote is shown when it is
known that the Germans comprise II per
cent of the total population of the United
States,