Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-08-06
PRINCIPLES, NOT PARTY.
The German Democratic Press Bolt
the Chicago Ticket.

Chicago Staats-Zeitung: The Democ-
racy which declared itself last week in
Chicago is new and degenerated edition
of the Democracy of 1861: in it reigns
the old Bourbon spirit which never learns
and never forgets. Who, therefore, de-
sires that the United States should fur
Their 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 to purify the ma
tonal organism from the poison of the
Populistic 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
tramp,ed all opposition under foot, has
made a very bad impression even upon
many of those who sympathize with the
theory of the debasers of money. The
majority of our voters is not ready by
any means to deliver the nation to such
crazy demagogues as Bryan, Waite, Till
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
merce, is declared to be an English insti-
tuition and is stigmatized as such, while
the free coinage of silver at the ratio of
1G to 1 is demanded as an immediate
measure of government, cannot fail to
| make an altogether revolutionary impress
sion We should not be at all surprised
if this news should cause in Europe a
decline of American securities in all eX-
changes; anticipated this decline has long
been.
Louisville Anzeiger Dem.)-Nonsense,
| thou prevailest! From Grover Cleveland
| to William Jennings Bryan-this is a
| jump for which the real Democrat is not
so easily ready. The Anzeiger 'efers at
| any rate not to make it. After the adop-
| ton of the platform the Anzeiger had no
| need to pause a moment for the declara-
ton that it 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 Il convention which
| placed Tillman above Cleveland and
| Blackburn above Carlisle would perpe-
trate the bad joke to present the young
| hero of phrases from the West for the
| highest Office in it's gift.
Seebote DEM, Milwaukee: As the
| close of the century has brought forth
| the abominable new woman" who
rides Il 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, "new Democratic party"
which stands everything time-honored on
| the head, denies the traditions of the old
party, administers a kick to honesty and
| decency and comes before the people
with a financial programme which is a
mockery to all reason. The new wom-
| 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 excrescences of the
| liberality of social views and on the
| other hand of the freedom of the politi-
| cal thought that the Constitution of the
| United States prevents nobody from max
| ing fool of himself as often as he likes
to.
| Davenport Democrat DEM: The
| time has arrived for the clean separation
of the two irreconcilable wings of the
| Democratic party, to which the Demo-
crat has called attention for two years.
Those Democrats who remain true to the
unalterable national principles, as they
were proclaimed by Thomas Jefferson,
James Madison and the other fathers of
the republic" can have nothing in COM
who stole the banner and the name of
the glorious old party to betray under
| its shelter the sublime principles and to
throw the country into unspeakable mis-
| cry.