Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-07-23
THE GOOD WESTERN MAN" FOR
THE PRESIDENCY so LONG
TALKED OF.
THE Mexico Ledger Will Be Found
Doing All in Its Power to Help
Elect the Ticket"-So
Says Its Editor.

Democratic ticket. W. ]. Bryan is a
Western man on a Western platform
and will be elected if Democrats do
their duty. We will lose votes from
the party in some places, but we
ought to gain largely from the Re-
publicans in the West and the Popu-
lists everywhere ought to vote the
ticket solid. I don't know why
Sewall, of Maine, was nominated, but
suppose the delegates had good rea-
sons and that is sufficient. I should
have preferred a different platform
in one or two particulars. I would
never have gone to Maine for Vice
President. / think Bland should have
been nominated by acclamation on
the platform as adopted, but / am a
Democrat and the delegates at Chi
cago, fresh from the rank and file of
the party, made the platform and
named the ticket. The Mexico LED
GER will be found doing all in its
power to help elect the ticket. 1 no.
tice quite a number of Democratic
papers are bolting the nominees, and
think the following from the New
York Journal, a sound money Demo-
cratic paper, much in point at this
time:
"The manner in which the oppon-
ents of the ticket nominated at Chi
cago have begun their campaign must
rouse the profoundest resentment of
every American regardful of the in
terests and jealous of the honor of his
country. The representatives of half
of the American people have been
denounced in delirious language as
Anarchists, cutthroats and swindlers.
Their chosen candidate for the high
est Office in the Republic has been
pictured as crazy Jacobin or a de-
signing demagogue. Commerce and
industry have been treated with the
very panic these alarmists have pro-
fessed to fear.
| "This crusade has been one of reck-
less Misrepresentation from the start.
The libellers of the late convention
know that the Chicago platform is not
anarchical. In most respects it is in
spired by enlightened progressive
ness. The anarchical elements in the
nvention-TilIman and Altgeld-
were distinctly frowned upon. Till
man was Kissed whenever he rose to
speak. The mild implied criticism of
the majority of the Supreme Court,
or, rather, of the one Justice who
changed his mind, was thoroughly
well deserved, and might have been
much stronger without impropriety.
Since when have we been endowed
with infallible Judges, whose acts are
above criticism. If the advocacy of
the just and scientific principle of the
taxation of large incomes was anarch-
istic, then every statesman in Eng
land is an Anarchist, and, instead Of
searching the cellars of the House of
Parliament for barrels of guHpowder,
the authorities ought to search the
pockets of every member for bombs.
The income tax is the backbone of the
British financial system; it is about to
be introduced, in a graduated form at
that, into France, and it already ex-
lists in its most extreme degree in
Germany.
"The condemnation of the practice
of substituting government by in
junction for the old, orderly processes
of courts and juries, so far from be-
ing revolutionary, is vindication of
the ancient rights of the English
speaking race against a novel and
dangerous innovation which deserves
the name of anarchy much better than
anything done at Chicago.
s'The platform reaffirms the princi-
pie indorsed by a vast majority
of the people of the United
States, of a tariff for revenue only,
and protests against the disturbance
to business that would be caused by a
return to McKinleyism. There is
nothing incendiary in that. In this
point it is the Chicago platform that
is conservative and the one adopted
at st. Louis that is revolutionary.
"'We hold,' adds the Democratic
profession of faith, that the most
efficient way of protecting American
labor is to prevent the importation OF
foreign pauper labor to compete with
it in the home market This is honest,
straightforward protection-the only
kind that does what 1t pretends to do.
'The Chicago platform demands
simplicity and economy in govern
ment, and protests against the prof
ligate waste of money that has char
aeterized Republican legislation. That
is not the reckless spirit OF a mob. 1t
is rather the sober utterance of pru-
dent property owners and taxpayers,
of whom the Chicago Convention was
principally composed.
"The protest against arbitrary Fed
eral interference in local affairs is one
which Jefferson would have COM
mended as the very foundation stone
of his political faith.
SIN denouncing the attempt to
swindle the Government out of more
than s20o, ,O00, 900 by extending the
Pacific Railroad debts the convention
was fighting anarchy, for there can be
no more dangerous Anarchists than
those who are powerful enough to
Eoverride the laws and amass wealth
from the property Of the people.
Moreover, the silver plank In the
Chicago platform does not deserve
the vituperation ievelled against it
II its authors were mistaken in then
methods, their aim was to INTRODUCES
bimetallism, and bimetallism la 8
scientific theory with too much ex.
pert authority on its side to brand It.
advocates as lunatlcs and incendiaries
} "Nor is 1t possible with any more
sincerity to call Mr.. Bryan a dema'
lgogue. He is the very reverse OF I
ldemagogue. He follows the truth q,