The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-07-16
PARTIES AND PRINCIPLES
Andrew D. Whites Patriotic
Letter on the Democratic
Calamity.

Ex-President Andrew Dixon White of
Cornell University. who has served as
United States Minister to Germany and
Russia, and who is at present a member
of the Venezuela Boundary Commission,
has written an open letter denouncfng,
from non-partisan standpoint the Bryan
ticket and the Repudiatfonist, Anarchist
platform.
Mr.. Whites letter is addressed to Hon.
j. Sterling Morton, of Nebraska; Prest-
dent julius D. Drecher. of Virginia; Will
liam L. Wilson, Of West Virginia; Col
William Preston Johnson, of Louisiana
Josiah Patterson, of Tennessee; Edwin F.
U'hl, of Michigan; William f. Quimby,
of Michigan; George V. N. Lothrop, of
Michigan; Wayne Macveagh, of Penn
sylvania; Simeon F. Baldwin, of Connec-
ticut; Henry Archnlend, of Buffalo, N
Y; Theodore Bacon, Of Rochester, N Y;
Samuel D. Halliday, of Ithaca, N Y;
St Clair McKelway, of Brooklyn, N Y;
Frederic R. Coudert, Charles s. Fairchiid,
Roswell P. Flower. Joseph c. Hendrix,
Hon. Abram S. Hewitt, Oswald often
dorfer, Carl Schurz Oscar S. Straus,
i A4~iAt maj ~ JOA.iI LIE w III w df4l6T
and Everett P. Wheeler of New York
city.
The text of the letter is as follows:-
"Gentlemen-As one who feels honored
by a personal acquaintance with you. and
who respects you for your character. abili-
ties and public services, permit me to adj
dress you regarding the present political
crisis. / believe that many of you know
that though ffe-long Republican, have
always attempted TO do justice to the
motives, theories and acts of all honest
men IN your party, sometimes even risk
ing in consequence the good will Of my
own.
What 1 shall now say will not be at
an the utterance of a Republican as such
low citizens, whom he knows to be ex-
perienced, thoughtful and patriotic / rec
ognize the fact that from the days OF
Jefferson and Hamilton two parties, and
presenting two great natural classes Of
political thought. have been a necessity; /;
that they are a necessity now, and will
long remain so, and that the destruction
debasement or perversion OF either is an
INJURY to the other and to the whole
country.
The majority, masquerading under the
garo of Democracy at Chicago has done
its worst. 1t has made a platform which
racy as developed by Jefferson, Jackson,
Benjton, Seymour, Tilden and all the
great leaders of the party.
More than this, it is platform lead
ing logically and historically, as I shall
presently show, to a despotism which is
the very opposite of all Democracy. and
in which all Democracy and Republican,
ism worthy of the name would be ex-
tinguished.
"On the details of this platform need
hardly dwell. You know, as well as |,
that it is the negation Of modern civili-
cation to say nothing of Justice honesty
and honor. You know how contemptu-
ously all efforts to mitigate its most
deadly FEATURES were repelled. But, bad
For you must know, too, that it is but
the first installment of Anarchist doc
trine. If not resisted and overwhelmed
lowed by other. parts of the programme,
especially, the absorption of the bonds and
stocks OF railroads, telegraphs and var
with payment for them. if at all, in a
paper currency of nominal value and
their management by the Central Govern
have been built up for the people. belong
to the people and should be managed by
the people,
nunciation Of any adjustment. no matter
how equitable, of the Pacific Railroad
question. que by It's proposed treatment of
and by its demand, practically. for free
riots in every State
The candidate himself gives no un-
u
yyeloped policy of spoliation. You will
have noticed that he declares that the
right r q to coin money and issue money. is
this in connection with his associates
and antecedents We must lock for a fur
ther step in this development Of spoliation
issue Of unredeemable paper. not only to
cover existing obligations Of the Govern
msh msIab bst TO Psy for na al grxa properly
think it best for. the central Government
to absorb and administer
Nor Will confiscation stop even here
Other extreme measures are already
vaguely foreshadowed, and will be pushed
ana some, which even the boldest have
hardly dared hsnt ct, will yet be put in
and dupes, and in the hope that perhaps
some new folly may obviate modify or
obscure the consequences of the old.
cago platform lead with rernorseless logic
to this extension of Governmental pow
ers, involving widespread eonfiscation ana
demagosues who have pushed their doc
farmers Of the West. declare that : havz ave-
ducts at q far lower rate than is known
IN any other country in the world-tne
lowest 10 rate consistent with any return
yet sufficient: that the people must have
the service Of railways telegraphs ard
ing; and that this can only be done when
tne people shall resume the ownership
and asaurne the management Of these
the maragers at the centre Of bower e
be- Of course. the sort Of men Who took
cosrrol Of your recent convention.
The coal and other mires can. bv ar
guments equally logical. be absorbed nav
ment being made at first In debas no5n
and finally In unlimited paper. conf1sraa
ton having thus taken place. under the