Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-07-15
WEDNESDAY, EVENING. JULY Is, 1896
A SAVAGE

The Chronicle, the only democratic
newspaper in Chicago, proceeds t
give its views of the democratic stand
ar d-bearer and the platform upol
which he is running, in strong, unmis.
taxable language, some of which THE
Optic reprints for the edification Of
those misguided democrats in this Ter
ritory who are consumed with the idea
that Bryar, free trade and free silver
will sweep the country. Excerpts from
the lengthy editorial are as follows:
Dominated by men who are strangers to
the democracy and by ideas even more
grotesque in their nov city, the Chicago
convention has named a leader who is not
a democrat and adopted a platform which
is not democratic.
By its revolutionary and sectional fury,
by its shameful endorsement of the repub.
llcan and populistic heres es of cheap sill
yer and greenbackism, ty it's cowardly
abandonment of tariff reform, and by its
amazing demand for the restoration of the
barbarous spoils system, no less than by
the nomination of a man wholly unfit, the
Chicago convention absolves all democrats
from allegiance to its candidates and its
principles.
That the affairs Of men and of nations
are guided and determined by an omnipo.
tent power, which in sublimely mysterious
ways makes for righteousness, is a solemn
belief of a great section of the American
people, which will find circumstantial con :
1rmation in the events of the past week In
Chicago.
If men ever were reserved for destruc-
tion-if, from the days Of Belshazzar and
Sennacherib to those of George III and
jefferson Davis, a supreme power has at
any time visited with madness and blind
ness the creatures of evil, whose overthrow
was necessary to human progress, the glib
bering malevolence Of Tillman and Alt
geld, aud all who have followed them In
their new crusade Of sectionalism, dis.
union, reputation and ruin, have been I'M
der the shadow of hat awful will.
The Chicago convention has not spoken
for the democrats of the United States. 1t
has voiced the ignorance and the immor-
%alities, the covetousness and the dishon.
esty of the least enlightened elements OF
our population. No enter of intelligence
and progress and justice Is represented in
its announcements.
The Chicago convention has been con-
trolled by and has spoken for the disap-
pointed graybacks of the confederats
armies and their kindred, the moonshipjpR
lazzaroni of the mountain districts OF the
south, and for the whooping desperadoes,
silver m~onopolists and debt shirkers Of the
far west, who never voted a democratic
ticket and never intend to.
The Chicago convention, made up for the
greater part OF interlopsrs from he'various
populistic organizations of the south and
west aud by a few score Of unconscionable
scalawags from the north, wearing the
collars of bosses like Altgeld, has not only
spoken falsely for the democracy; 1t has
degraded and disgraced the Am sricap
name before the world Ia a manner that
no similar gathering ever equalled, and
which every patriot may fervently hope
no succeeding aggregation Of moral and
intellectual degenerates will ever initiate.
I~mpudentiy and falsely assuming to
represent the most intelligent, most ensr-