The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1896-07-18
Editorial from the New York Sun
of the 10th,
"The agony is over.

"The agony is over.
"The Democratic party, assembled
regularly in national convention
| pledges itself to revive the free coinage
| of silver at the old ratio of Is to l and
to accomplish the imposition of an in,
come tax. The democracy Of Jefferson,
from which have been drawn invariably
| the ideas which have given political
stability and Republican enthusiasm to
this country, has passed into the con-
! troll of Jefferson's dIametric opposite,
the Socialist, or Communist, or, as he is
known here, the Populist
"The process which eliminated yes
terday at Chicago has been going on for
much longer than the last ten years, in
which it has been manifest at all. Since
the war, while the democratic party
was being built up in the North, the
South. where lay the democratic man
new departure. 1t accepted willingly
| as its candidates that pure disciple of
democratic faith Samuel J. Tilden; Win
field Scott Hancock of PENNSYLVANIA.
pretending to nothing but party ortho-
| doXy, and Grover Cleveland, an I'M
known quantity, but, like Tilden, com
ing from the conservative State of New
York; but the seeds of socialistic revo-
luton were in the South all the time.
A RAP AT CLEVELAND.
"By singular fatality, the first man
to obtain possession of the presidents
office in the Democratic name both
weakened Democratic sentiment and
famed Populism destructive flame. A
political freak, of alien instinct, without
conception of party government and
aiming at personal government only.
he destroyed the idea of party coher-
enCy and allegiance to tradition. He
headed and inspired, in the mad cru
SADIE of 1892, against capitals iron
heel and against the rich as rob
bers of the poor, the greatest socialistic
demonstration yet recorded, and made.
by his financial laundering and falsifiv-
ing, the national monetary standard
hateful in the eyes of every waverer,
and actually proposed the Populistic
income tax, now openly made a plank
IN the Democratic platform. Southern
poverty, engendered by the war, and
the common discomfort, stirred up
to recklessness by the agitation of the
last twelve years, have at last blazed in
to demand for debased coinage and a
tax on wealth, and have carried the
national Democratic convention.
''The Chicago platform cannot be &C
cepted. The United States was made
Democratic and it must remain so.
Free silver coinage would be nation
al dishonor and monumental an
achronism. Silver has had its dav as
money standard. The commerce of
civilization, which has used as medium
of exchange pretty much everything
from shells to the higher metals, has
progressed beyond silver 1t has
adapted itself to gold, and to gold it will
stick until it finds something still more
convenient. The silver campaign is
based on decisions which have no justi-
tication and on statements which are
not so. 1t cannot prevail, and every
sincere believer in fair dealing and in
business honor as the foundation of the
commercial prosperity, must put aside
all other purposes and unite for It's
defeat.
''In the different states the candI-
dates for the mortified and disheart-
ened members of the Democracy to
follow are vet to be determined. In
them, and especially in New York,
where David Bennett Hill has strug-
gled for his party against overwhelming
odds, the nucleus of Democratic regen-
Grafton must be found.
MCKINLEY ITS CANDIDATE.
But even from now until the night
OF election day in November, 1896, the
presidential candidate of every Demo-
crat who faycrs honest money and who
still hopes to crush the enemies for the
fundamental principles be was bred in,
should be, without hesitation, evasion
or prejudice, William Mckinley.
WOnd rfIII are tho curpS hy Hoods