Crawford avalanche., 1896-08-06
RAMPANT DEMOCRACY.


anu Mlcnlgdn Wnen the DemOcruts were
on free islver or cheap money platform
they have been overwhelmingly beaten.
What evidence have we that there is to
be a change in '06?-Montgomery (Ala.)
Advertiser.
When great party has reached that
stage of moral depravity that such Great
ures as Tillman, Altgeld & Co. are per-
mitted to speak TO it, much less take an
important part in moulding its politics,
its course is, indeed, about run.-Wa-
bash Und) Times.
Americans will never give this crowd
control of the country until they shall
have fallen TO the level of the old world
communists. That will not happen this
year, at least. The people must be de-
graded in their own esteem before they
Will vote for q war of class against
class.-Memphis Scimitar.
The financial plank in the platform
adopted by the Democratic national con-
vention at Chicago is distinctly declara-
tion for such reputation of existing
debts. public and private. as can be
secured by the enforcement upon the
country as legal tender money of de-
based silver coinage conformed to a de-
graded standard of money.-New Or
leans Picayune.
Scratch silver man and you come to
Populist. In the heart of each burns
the desire TO get as much as possible and
give as little. If either of them hap
pen to be debtor. this desire takes the
form of reputation. As most of them
are debtors repudiation is the thing they
are for, and in the Chicago platform
they 90 for it straight.-New York
Times.
1t is but proper to say in fairness and
justice to the grand old Democratic
party of Hamilton. jefferson and Jack
son that we cannot depart from the
ways of the fathers upon the financial
question. and. therefore. cannot, much
to our regret. follow the Democratic
banner as il trails into foreign camp;
and must, as a matter of self-respect,
refuse to support Mr.. Bryan upon the
financial platform upon which he has
been placed and stands.-Dayton (OD
Times.
Till the contest is decided our voice
shall be raised and our influence given
for the election of Mr.. Mckinley to the
presidency. The security of the cur
rency is the paramount question of the
hour. 1t eclipses issues. Believing that
this security can best be attained by
the success of the Republican party,
we promise il our sincere and hearty
support for its presidential ticket in the
impending campaign. We have never
believed that the Republican party made
the best selection possible to it. but it
Is difficult TO see how any candid man
can deny that the selection of the Repub-
lican party was eminently more fitting
and appropriate. There is an absence
of dignity i'm the Democratic selection
which is seen both in the candidate
himself and in the circumstances that at
tended his nomination.-Boston Herald.
The true interests Of the people ask
hn nln.tinp Of Mp OK
for himself but for the absolute ne
cessity of the whole people of the Unit
ed States and Of the greater world of
which they are after all but part. In
any event let us be reasonable. Don't
talk of 'sectionalism" or of anarchy"
or of revolution" Remember always
that compared with the unity of country
the gold standard is not worth fighting
for: one country. one fag.-Springfeld
Republican Qnd.-Dem.)
No reasonable man can ask the Times
to stultify and dshonor itself and long
timed Democratic principles. While sup
porting 10 the best of our ability the
| state nominations for executive Offices
| and legislative nominees, we feel assured
| that all true Democrats will Justify us
| in deciding that we cannot give the sup
port of the Times to the Chicago con
vention and it's politically diseased caudi-
date. We shall do all we can to sustain
| the good name and the organization OF
| the Democratic party, but we cannot sup
| port principles nor candidates of the
| Bland. Teller and Altgeld stripe. We
| cannot conscientiously ask honest men
to vote for them.-Hartford Times.
We repudate the 1G to / plank in
Bryan's Chicago platform and will not
| support any candidate on such a plat
| form. 1t is too Popnlistic and Nihlistc
-Machias (Me) Union.
Our worst fears have not only heen
| realized but new and horrible doctrines
have been added to the Chicago platform
| which cannot possibly bind Democrat
| who is unwilling to abandon the funda
mental principles of his party.-lsich
mond NaD Times.
| What Harry Bingham feared only as a
bare possibility has come to be stern
reality. The ''madmen" of whom he
spoke have controlled the national con,
vention and declared for free silver al
| 16 TO 1. The Democrats of New Hamp
shire cannot no with Observation-Disclosures
| On. H. Union.
Circumstances have made William Nc
| Kinley the man around whom all must
| rally who desire to defeat detcrminedly
| the candidate for the pseudo Democracy
| William j. Bryan. who stands for fiat
money under the guise of bimetalism
for notification of lawfully-contrac cted H.
abilities; for communism and lawless
| ness.
Mckinley and the party he repro
scnts have until now induced Democratic
/ and indepndent voters TO fook for means
by which they could avoid the necessity
of supporting the Republican ticket. This
has been shown 10 he hopeless. and there
is no other way but TO offer our support
to our old opponcnts.-New York Staats
Zeitung. the leading Eastern German
Democratic daily.
We have no fear that the sound money
Democracy will acquicsce in free silver
| platform, II ticket of reputation. of an
archy and the trampling ont of the
| rights of the sound money delegates in
the convention. A bolt is inevitable. A
Democratic ticket for which Democrats
can vote is becoming n necessity. II
will be supplied. The Anarchists. tn,
Populsts, the Communists and the Mill
lists who are controlling this convention
will never control this country: they will
never control the Democratic party
Brooklyn Eagle.
The parting Of the ways has bees
reached. and for the sake of party hon
esty and electoral integrity il is to b,
hoped that the division will he com
plete A paramount issue like that fol
the pending coinage question demands