Evening journal., 1896-10-13
.BAYARD HEARD FROM.
Mr.. Bancroft Exploits the Am
bassador's Letter.
ISSUES OF THE DAY DISCUSSED


ALTON or THE LETTER BY The |
GOLD MEN. AND ITS PREDIc-
TION WAS VERIFIED.
Yesterday the Evening Journal stat
ed that Ambassador Bayard had writ
ten a letter to a Wilmington friend on
the issues of the campaign and denun-
ciatory Of Bryan and sewan and the
Chicago platform. IL made endeavors
to get a copy OF the letter, but the
friend who received It was Samuel
Bancroft. Jr., and he naturally kept il
for his own little paper, the Every
Evening. This Is, in part what Mr..
Bayard said In his letter TO Mr.. Ban
croft and it's style indicates that IL
was written to be exploited by its re-
cipient;
my Dear Mr.. Bancroft
1T seems scarcely possible that any
one could be in doubt in relation to my
personal opinion upon the very serious
issues now placed before our country
men by the machinery of the several
political organizations. The evils
which surround us, and the perils that
confront us, have not grown in n
night, nor have they come without
warning.
when. therefore, a citizen profess
ing himself to be n Democrat, is called
upon by many or by few, to yield his
convictions and assent to the doctrine
that Congress has the power or can
rightfully exercise it by its legislative
fiat. TO create values, and, regardless OF
their intrinsic or commercial value, to
invest one or other OF the earth metals
with an arbitrary power as money, and
override and alter, at legislative will or
caprice, the ratio of lhe exchange
ability of such metals, regardless OF
the impairment of the obligation of
contracts-his answer should be that
such a claim of power is not consistent
with n government of limited powers,
as defined by our Constitution, but con-
tains the quintessence of tyranny, dis
honesty and absolutism and is de-
structive of that morality which is es-
sential to the peace and stability OF
civilized society. II is, in plain words,
proposition to destroy the institution
OF property, and break down every
legal defence for its protection.
This one question, and its answer,
sufficiently Justify the prompt and alb
solute refusal to constitutional
Democrat to support, in any degree
the nominees of the Chicago conven-
tion tMessrs. Bryan and SewalD, and
the preposterous claims of legislative
power contained In their platform, un-
der which the credit of the nation and
the peace and order of society, would
inevitably perish.
while compelled to recoil from the
policy OF compulsory purchase and
coinage of silver as an unlimited legal
tender, yet IL is insistently proposed
to employ and intensity the profound
powers OF public taxation to prohibit
commerce with other countries, and
thereby prevent revenue from coming
into the public treasury--to lay taxes
which shall prevent the payment and
collection of other taxes necessary for
the support of the government, whose
powers are exerted, directly and per-
sonally, upon each individual citizen
and over every part OF land or water
within its national boundaries.
Every constitutional Democrat can
truly reply to such propositions that
they are fraught with such gross in
equity between man and man as is in
consistent with public safety, because
Il employs the most far-reaching and
sovereign power known to government
to impoverish the worker and poorer
members of society (who form the
great numerical majority and aggran-
die those already financially stronger;
that IL extends a system which has al
ready created inequality before the
law. and subjects the industrious citi-
zens TO competition with their own
government and their own money.
drawn from them by taxation and em-
plOyed for the private profit of allied
classes who have established them
selves as cO-partners with the govern
ment in the exercise of the inexorable
powers of taxation over the entire pop
ulation. Such a perversiOn of public
powers inevitably carries with it a
sense of its injustice, and spread
broadcast those seeds of distress and
just discomfort, and swells a current
which undermines respect for the law
and confidence in the justice and in
tegrity Of the government
But. happily. theIt remains a cita.
del and an asylum for the political con-
science of any man honestly convinced
that the path of duty leads him tC
keep steadily in view the great pur.
poses for which our fathers ordained
the Constitution of the United States
the formation of a more perfect union
the establishment of justice; the insur
ance of domestic tranquility; provision
for the common defence; promotion
of the general welfare, and the securit,
OF liberty to ourselves and our poster
ity. Such are the just ends of ever
political party in the United States, anS
parties have no right to exist except a
they are the means to such ends. Hap
PLY, candidates are presented upon
clear and unambiguous platform tina
assures safety to the financial honor o
our country; to the honest business
transactions Of all its citizens, withou
discrimination of race. age, sex, occu
patton OF fortune. The reputation o
the candidates of the National Consti
tutional Democracy, Messrs. Paine
and Buckner, is unsullied and guaran
tees their fidelity TO their pledges, ant
their election would go far to re-estab
lish the moral health Of our country.
Il hope and believe that in ever.
state Of the Union an electoral ant
congressional ticket will be placed be
fore the people, and that every citizel
havo tho nj Of I'm.