The Portland daily press., 1896-07-18
ALL FIGHT ANARCHISM.
Hon. Andrew d. White Appeals to
Leading Democrats.

Leading Democrats
The Chicago PLATFORM Step Toward the
Confsoation of All Private Property to
Public Control-Characterizes the Con-
ventfon as "seetlling Mass of FolIyY
Should Not stand Out the Tariff
The Farmers and Laborers Warmed of
the Cost OF Imitation.
ithaca, N. Y, July 15-The following
open letter from Hon. Andrew Dickson
White has been made public:
To the Hon. j. Sterling Morton of Ne
braska. President Julius Dreiheir Of Vir-
ginia, Eon. William l.. Wilson oil West
Virginia, Col. William Preston johnson
of Louisiana, Hon. Josiah Patterson of
tennessee, Hon. Edwin 3. Uhl of Michi-
gan, Hon. ". E. Quimby of Michigan,
Hon. George V. N. Lothrop Of Michigan,
Hon. Wayne MaoVeagh of Pennsylvania,
Hon. Simon E. Baldwin of Connecticut,
Henry A. Richmond Of Bufs.lo, N. Y. :;
Hon. Theodore Bacon of Rochester, n. Y;
Hon. Samuel D. Halliday Of Ithaca, N.
lyn, Hon. Frederick R. Coudert. Hon.
Charles s. Fairchi1ld, Hon. Roswell P.
Flower, Hon. Joseph G.. Hendrix, Hon.
AbraIn S. Hewitt, Hon. Oswald Often
dorfer, Hon. Carl Schulz, hon. Oscar S.
Stratus, Hon. Henry Willard. Hon. John
Dewitt Warner and Hon Everett p.
Wheeler all of New York city:
Gentlemen-As ono who feels honored
by personal Acquaintance with you and
who respects you fer your character, abil-
tiles and public services, permit me to
address you regarding the present politi-
oll crisis. I beaieve that many of you
know that though lifelong Republican,
/ have always attempted to do justice to
the motives, theories and acts of all hon
est men in yaur party, sometimes even
risking in consequence the good will of
my own.
What shall now say win not be at
all the utteFanoe of a Republican as such
to Democrats, but OF a citizen to his fell
low citizens. whom he knows as expert
enced, thoughtful and patriotic. 1 recog-
nize the fact that from the days Of Jeffer-
son AID Hamilton two parties represent
ing two great natural Glasses of political
thought, have been necessity, they are
q necessity now, and will long remain SO,
and that the destruction. debasemenb or
pea version of seither is an injury to
tho other ana to the whole country.
The majority nasq uerading under the
garb of Democracy at Chicago has donG
Its worst. 1t has made q platform which
La diametrioally opposed to Democracy,
as developed aby Jefferson, jackson, Sep
mouF, Tilden and all the leaders OF the
party.
Mere than this it is a platform lead ing
logically aud historically as shall pres
entity show, to despotism which is the
very opposite of all Democracy and In
which all Democracy and Republica1isru
worthy Of the name would be e4.tin4
gUished.
On the details of this platform need
hardly dwell.
For you must know, that it is but the
first installment OF anarchist doctrine.
If not resisted and overwhe lined how il
is absolutely certain to be followed BY
other parts of the programme, especially
the absorption of the bonds and STOCKS Of
railroads, telegraphs and various produc-
tive enterprises of the country, with pay
ment for them. if at all. in payer cur
reDcy of nominal value, and their man
agement by the central government, IN
der 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 oonflscaeion stop even
here Other extreme measures are al
ready vaguely foreshadowed and will be
pushed. and some which even the boldest
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 obviate,
modify or obscure the consequences of
the old.
The. platform indicates this by its de-
nunoiation of any adjustment, no matter
how equitable, of the Pacific railroad
question. by its proposed treatment of the
Supreme Court of the United STATES and
by It's demand. practically. for free riots
in every State. -
The candidate himself gives no uncer-
tain warning of this more highly devel-
oped policy of spoliation. You will have
noticed that he declares that "The right
to coin money and issue money is a
function of the government. "5Taking this
in connection with his associates and an
tecedents we must look for q further step
in this development of spoilatlon under
his guidance that is, the unlimited
issue of irredseemable paper. not only to
cover exisinf. obligations of the govern
nent but To pay for all pri property
which
ANARCHISTS AND SOCIALISTS
may think 1t best for the central govern
menu to absorb and administer.