The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1896-07-16
ANDREW DIXON WHITES
APPEAL TO DEMOCRATS.
Asks All Those Loyal to the Doctrines Of
Jefferson and Jackson
70 Break Loose From a wild Mob"
and Vote for Mckinley.
Declares That the Chicago Platform is
But the First InstalIment of An
tarchist Doctrine, and That the
"Boy Orators" Only Qualifications
Are One or Two Speeches in Con-
xress Which Amused the House
and Pleased the Galleries.

ITHACA On. W, July 15.-The fol-
lowing is an abstract of an open letter
from Andrew Dixon White which has
just been made public:
ITO the Hon. J. Sterling Morton, Ne
braska: President julius D. Dreiher,
Virginia; Hon. William l.. Wilson, West
Virginia; Colonel William Preston
johnson, Louisiana; Hon. Josiah Pat
terson, Tennessee; Hon. Edwin f. Uhl
Michigan; Hon. William E. Quimby,
Michigan; Hon. George V. N. Lathrop,
Pennsylvania; Hon. Simon E. Baldwin,
Connecticut; Hon. Henry A. Richmond
Buffalo, N. Y; Hon. Theodore Bacon,
Rochester, n. Y; Hon. Samuel d. Hall
day, Ithaca, n. Y; Hon. st. Clair Nc
Kelway, Brooklyn; Hon. Frederick k
Coudert, New York; Hon. Charla6 S.
Fairchild, New York; Hon. Roswell T.
Flower, New York; Hon. Joseph c. Hen
bricks, New York; Hon. Abram S. HeW-
lit, New York; Hon. Oswald Often
dorfer, New York; Hon. Carl Schurz,
New York; Hon. Oscar A. Strauss, New
York; Hon. Henry A. Willard, New
York; Hon. John Dewitt Warner, New
York; Hon. Everett H. Wheeler, New
York
Gentlemen: AS one who feels hon
Ored by a personal acquaintance with
you, and who respects you for your
character, abilities and public services,
permit me to address you regarding the
present political crisis. l believe that
many of you know that, though a life
long Republican, I have always at
tempted to do justice to the motives,
theories and acts of all honest men IN
your party, sometimes even riSking in
consequence the good will of my own.
What / shall now say will not be at all
the utterance Of a Republican as such
to Democrats, but as a citizen to his
fellow citizens.
Il recognize the fact that from the
days of jefferson and Hamilton two
parties representing two great natural
classes of political thought have been
a necessity; that they are necessity
now, and viii long remain so, and that
the destruction, debasement or perver-
sion of either is an injury to the other
and to the whole country.
THE majority, masquerading under
the garb of Democracy at Chicago, has
done its worst. 1t has made plat
form which is Numerically opposed to
Democracy as developed by Jefferson,
Jackson, Benton, Seymour, Iilden and
all the great leaders of the party. More
than this, it is a platform leading log
ically and historically to a despotism
which is the very opposite of all De-
mocracy and by which Democracy and
Republicanism worthy of the name
would be extinguished. You know how
contemptuously all efforts to mitigate
dts most deadly features were repealed.
But bad as this is, it is not the worst,
fer you must know, too, that 1t is but
the first installment Of anarchist doc
trine. If not resisted and overwhelmed
now, it is absolutely certain to be fol-
lowed by other parts Of the programme,
especially the absorption of the bonds
and stocks of railroads. telegraphs and
various productive enterprises of the
country, with payment for them, if at
all, in a paper currency of nominal
value, and their management by the
central Government, under the cry that
all such things have been built up for
the people, belong to the people and
should be managed by the people.
Nor will confiscation stop even here.
Other extreme measures are already
vaguely foreshadowed, and will be
pushed, and some which even the bold
est have hardly dared hint at will yet
be put in platforms to attract new votes
of cranks and dupes, and in the hope
that perhaps some new folly may obvi-