The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-07-29
The Democratic Bolt.
SPECIMEN UTTERANCEs OF DEMO-
CRATIC PAPERS.

WHAT Harry Bingham feared only
as bare possibility has come to be
stern reality. The madmen" of
whom he spoke have controlled the ma
tional convention and declared for free
silver at 16 to l. The democrats of
New Hampshire cannot go with Them
Manchester IN. H. Union.
THERE are democrats who say that
they utterly reject the money plank of
the Chicago platform, but are willing
to accept the Chicago nominee for
president. Yet the nominee continues
to assert in his public addresses that
the issue embodied in the money plank
is the only real issue before the peoplel
Buffalo Courier.
MR.. BRYAN is, apparently at least,
as innocent of trade, the laws of trade,
business, commerce, finance-whateve
it may be called, taken as a whole-as
any young farmer might be whose only
experience in trade was with his
country store, and whose only lessons
in finance were derived there from bar
ter and sale.-Sioux City Qa.) Tri-
bune.
THE silverism and fiatism of the
Chicago platform would mean disaster,
dishonor and degradation to the coun-
try. But the anarchy of that platform
would strike, as with battering-ram,
at the very cornerstone of our national
fabric. 1t is now the first duty of every
American citizen to defeat Bryan and
Sewall, the men who stand on that plat
form.-Courier-J ournal, Kentucky.
IT means the tearing down of the
edifices of civilization which centuries
have been exhausted in upbuilding.
1t means the fouting of the flag of
communism in the face of conserva-
tism. 1t means that the sans culottes
have succeeded in securing the ascend
ancy, and with mad riot in the full ex-
ercise of unaccustomed power they are
willing to wanton with serious prob
lems.-Memphis Glenn Herald.
THE Chicago convention met under
the call of the democratic party. Its
power of the populistic element of that
party. Its platform and nominations
were 30 radical and revolutionary that
it is not fair to call them democratic.
They are populistic and anarchistic,
and are practically repudiated by the
truly democratic element of the old
national party.-Adams (Mass.) Jour-
nal.
WE regard the action at Chicago as
subversive of everything in the his
tory and traditions of the party. The
platform is not only populistic; it is full
of socialism. 1t is designed to arraign
the farming and laboring classes against
the we'll to do and the rich. 1t is the
old alliance doctrine of farmer against
merchant broadened and nationalized
to suit the whole country, to catch the
poor and disconnected of all classes
and acknowledgements (Ala.) Ad-
vertiser.
The republican party is not fighting
democracy in this canvass. There is
no democracy in the Chicago platform
except it's opening declarations that are
Immediately defined by the specific
measures that it pledges the party to.
The platform was made to suit the
populists and it is an expression of
populist opinions except where it is the
work of Altgeld, and at those points it
declares for that anarchy which he
loves so well.-Richmond (Va.) Times.
NINETY per cent of all the German
voters are for sound money, as well as
all the German newspapers of any con-
sequence in the whole country, with
few exceptions. Not one of the old,
reliable German democratic papers,
either North or South, does support the
populist ticket nominated at Chicago,
and neither will the Peoria Demokrat,
after an honorable course of thirty-six
years as democratic and conservative
organ, become the mouthpiece for popu-