The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1896-08-08
PRINCIPLES, NOT PARTY.
The German Democratic Press Bolt
the Chicago Ticket.

thc (OfSabo tiScce-
Chicago Staats-Zeitung: The Democ-
racy which declared itself last week I'm
Chicago N a new and degenerated edition
of the Democracy of 1861: In II reigns
the old Bourbon spirit which never learns
and never forgets. Who, therefore, de-
sires that the United States should fur
ther develop their national organism;
that the national government should be
further strengthened In the interest OF
ALL that national honor be kept unde-
filed: that the national credit be kept in-
tact, turns away from Democracy
which has placed itself at the disposal
of destructive forces and joins that party
which was called In 1861 to save the
Union, and which In this year again
has the patriotic duty 10 purify the ma
tiOnal organism from the poison of the
Popnlistic Democracy.
The issue Is not one OF party, but of
the highest achievements of the nation,
which can be kept secure only by the
authority of the Federal government, by
an honest currency and by an inassail-
able credit.
Iowa Tribune Dem.), Davenport-The
recklessness and fanaticism of the silver
people at the Chicago convention, who
trainp.ed all opposition under foot, has
made very bad impression even upon
theory Of the debasers of money The
ma jOrty of our voters is not ready 10y
any means TO deliver the nation 10 such
| crazy demagogues as Bryan, Waite, I'LL
man and others.
Waechter und Anzeiger Dem.), Cleve
| land-The currency plank. with its de-
cisive declaration against the gold stand
| ard. which. with total disregard OF the
entire other world of culture and com
l..
| tuition and is stigmatized as such, While
| the free coinage of silver at the ratio OF
] 10 To / is demanded as an immediate
measure OF government, cannot TAIL 70
make an altogether revolutionary impress
sion. We should not be at all surprised
| il this news should cause in Europe n
decline of American securities in Ill ex-
changes; anticipated this decline has long
\ been.
Louisville Anzeiger Dem -Nonsense
thou prevaiest! From Grover Cleveland
20 William Jennings Bryan-this is a
| jump for which the real Democrat IL not
| so easily ready. The Anzciger prefers az
any rate not 10 make IL. After the adop-
| ton of the platform the AnZeiger had no
need 20 pause moment for the declara-
ton that il would not support the can
| didate who would accept the nomination
| upon this platform. The nomination of
| Bryan makes this duty easier and more
agreeable Bland and Boies would have
been fought by the Anzeiger on account
Of the cause which they represent. In
Bryan we do not only fight the cause but
the person. Only convention which
placed Iillman above Cleveland and
Blackburn above Carlisle would perpe-
| trate the bad joke 10 present the young
hero Of phrases from the West for the
highest Office in it's gift.
Seebote Dem.). Milwaukee: As the
III
the abominablc "new woman" who
rides n bicycle, smokes, drinks, wears
trousers and tears herself loose from all
old customs, so there has arisen in Chi
cago. imbued with the same revolution.
airy spirit, a ''new Democratic party,
which stands everything tme-honOred on
the head, denies the traditions of the old
party, administers a Kick TO honesty and
decency and comes before the people
with financial programme which is 2
mockery TO all reason. The new WON
an" and the new party" are genuine
| fin de steele experiences, and one would
consider neither of them seriously If they
were not so serious in their consequences
They are on the one hand the regret
table and undeniable excrcscences of tn,
libernlity Of social views and on tn,
other hand of the freedom Of the pOliti
cal thought that the Constitution of tn,
United States prevents nobody from max
ing a fool of himself as often ms he likes
TO.
Davenport Democrat DEM: TIL,
time has arrived for the clean separation
of the two irrcconclablc wings of tn,
: Democratic party. to which the Demo
crat has called attention for two years
Those Democrats who remain true 10 tn,
unalterable national principles, as the,
were proclaimed by Thomas Jefferson
James Madison and the other fathers q
the republic" can have nothing in CON
mon with the Populistic new Democrat
who stole the banner and the name o
the glorious old party TO betray unde
it's shelter the sublime principles and &
throw the country into unspeakable mis-
cry.