The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-30
The Party Adopted Populism, and
Not Accept the Ticket.
GOOD REPUBLICANS LIBELED
ELECTED TO FREE-SILVER CLUBS
AND REPORTED AS BOILERS.
james E. Watson Has the Biggest PO-
liticaI Meeting Ever Held i'm His
Old Home nt Winchester.
pecial to the Indianapolis Journal.

Special TO the indianapolis Journal.
SEYMOUR, Ind, Aug. 29.-The National
Democratic party is gaining new recruits In
this section of the State daily. DR.. V. n.
Monroe, editor and proprietor of the Sey-
mour Journal, the only German Democratic
paper published in this section, is opposed
to the ticket nominated at Chicago, and
is an alternate delegate from this district
TO the indianapolis convention. He eX-
planned to-day why he cannot support
Bryan and the Chicago platform.
Mr.. Bryan and his platform" said edi-
tor Monroe, "are at variance with every
thing Democratic. He and it are Populis-
tic, pure and simple. The convention was
dominated by the irresponsible, debt-re-
pudiating South and the inexperienced. ir-
repressible West. There are sections of
our country where national development is
at a low ebb. Some 254 delegates at Chi
cago refused to participate in the proceed
ings Of the convention. Those delegates
represented all that was Democratic in the
convention, except its name. The Chicago
platform pronounced for policies which the
Democratic party has opposed from its
foundation. Opposition TO certain of these
heresies has for a hundred years been the
rallying cry of the Democratic party
founded by Jefferson. Jefferson opposed
extension Of federal power over the con-
Germs of the State and of the individual.
The cardinal principles of Jeffersonian
Democracy are:
Opposition to legai-tender paper money.
Opposition to a tariff for protection.
Opposition to wasteful expenditure for
internal improvement.
"All of the central principles are departed
from and new and foreign ones to Democ-
racy declared for by the Chicago platform.
For instance, the tariff plank declares.
We hold that tariff duties should be levied
for purpose Of revenue. That may mean
anything that future emergency should re-
quire 1t to mean. What has become of the
word only: which has Inquired in Demo-
cratic tariff declarations so long that it had
become a jest and a by-word of Republic
ans? What has become Of the great ques-
ton of tariff reform? In 1892 the label on
the medicine which was to cure our nation
al distress read tariff reform In 1886. with
out explanation or apology, 1t is proposed
substituting a remedy which has been tried
Inc abandoned by every civilized nation in
the world; AS these men gave the wrong
that their new cure-all is not even worse
than their boosted panacea of 1892?
The Democratic party has an unbroken
issues and flatism. jefferson denied the
power of the federal government to make
paper money a legal tender. Jackson op-
1862 1s72. 1876, 1850. 1854, ISIS and 1882. 1t.
constitutional money. Mr.. Bryan's record
in Congress, If we had no other evidence.
(which we have. and plenty of it,. proves
AhAlt " w IL OPoiSb dlo " a tIIlOC AT.
In his speech at Chicago Mr.. Bryan
said: We believe the right to issue money
cago platform 1t is declared tina Congress
alone has power TO issue money. that a
bank note issue is in derogation of the Con-
stitution. and that all legai-tender money
should be issued by the government This
is not Democracy; IL is Populism, as twen-
~ years ago it was a doctrine of the
Greenbackers. But this is also Organism.
In a speech printed in the Congressional
Record of June 5, 1894, Mr.. Bryan said:
ho,LmI q is saiG !, on nd we must inStltute
circulation. / answer hat there is a better
way. The issue OF money by the govern
ment directly to the people, gives us a
safer money, and saves to the people as
a whole the profit arising from its issue.
When a bank issues money you must pay
the market rate of interest in order TO get
IT. but when the government issues money
the people save the interest, if the money
Is afterward called in, and they save the
principal also if the money is kept in cir
culation.'
This is sufficient to brand Mr.. Bryan
Continuing. he said: We might. by the
issue of a few millions a year. connect the
thereby increase the between
the Northwest and the South. Money could
be issued in another way. We can use any
available coin on hand to take up matured
bonds. and replace the coin SO used with
paper money / have introduced a bill
during this Congress to provide in this
bonds now outstanding. payable at the
option of the government and amounting
to about So. 0G0. 900. These methods are
suggested as legitimate means of distribute
ing government issues without resorting tC
money loaning or to the use of banks
Government paper should be issued in the
place of national bank notes as they are
retired
'These two propositions: unlimited issue
of legal-tender paper and unlimited inter
nal improvements are contrary. to al
Democratic doctrine. although they are
the purest Of Coxey Populism: and no mai
who utte-s Them is entitled to the votes Of