Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1896-07-22
DEMOCRATIC SECESSION.
4 Regular stsmPsde or Democratic Papers From the Support of Bryan.

NAL nlNEh III yOuE lsout OA q HA J b you say that twenty democratic papers have bolted the platform of the popocrats. With your usual modesty you are away inside of the actual truth. The list up to July I3. which spreads all over the coun- try from Maine to Texas and from New York to San Francisco figures up a total of l03.
 It is estimated that these papers represent 2500,0O0 readers and this may easily be true when the New York World, Sun, Herald, Times, Post and Staats Zeitung which are among the number must foot up l. OO0,OO0. We have to look back to 1860 to find a parallel to this re- volution in the democratic party. For the enlightenment of our demo cratic friends l present a few clip pings which doubtless they will enjoy:
 1t IS a blunder that would be in conceivable if it had not actually been made. It pushes democracy out and brings populism to the front. It will render support of the ticket impossible by hundreds of thousands of democrats. The demo- cratic party of the nation deserves better things of the southern men than the Brutus like blow they have dealt 1t at Chicago.-New York World.
 "lf men ever were reserved for de- struction-it from the days of Bel shazzar and Sennecharib to those of | George III. and Jefferson Davis a supreme power has at any time visited with madness and blindness the creatures of evil whose over throw was necessary to human pro gress, the gibbering malevolents, Tillman and Altgeld, and all who have followed them in their new crusade of sectionalism, disunion, re- pudiation, and ruin have been under the shadow of that awful will.
 "The Chicago convention has not spoken for the democrats of the l United States. It has voiced the | ignorance and the immortality, the covetousness and the dishonesty of the least enlightened elements of our population. No center of in telligence and progress and justice is represented in its pronounce ments.
 The Chicago convention has been controlled by and has spoken for the disappointed graybaeks of the Confederate armies and their kin dred, the moonshining lazzaroni of the mountain districts of the south. and for the whooping desperadoes, silver monopclists and debt shirkers of the Far West, who never voted democratic ticket and never intended to.
 "It is necessary that the democrats of the United States should call another convention" - Chicago Chronicle.
 The New Haven, Conn.,, Register, a paper that has been democratic since 1872, said editorially:
 "The register cannot accept for its guidance nor recommend to its readers the unsound platform and preJudices adopted at Chicago We'd nesday. We reaffirm our allegiance to the Hartford democracy. adopted June 10, which at least preserves ones self-respect and honor. We prefer this bridge to that which makes for distress first and anarchy after"
 The Richmond Times, (demo- cratic), Joseph H. Bryan, editor, says:
 "Our worst fears have not only been realized, but new and horrible doctrines have been added in the Chicago platform which cannot pos sibly bind democrat who is un- willing to abandon the fundamental principles of his party. The assault upon the supreme court is one of the deadliest attacks upon our in- stitutions which has ever been made and is rivaled only by the in- famous reconstruction acts passed by the republicans in 1S67."
 The Boston Globe (dem.) says:
 "The Globe is not prepared at this time to support Candidate Bryan, It does not approve of the platform and firmly believes that, in calm and thorough discussion of the financial question, all classes of peo- pie will see that the greatest good of the greatest number will best be promoted by the gold standard un- til such time as the status of silver may be changed by international agreement"
 The Anzelger Des Westens (dem.) strongly disapproves of the Chicago platform and will announce that if will not support the candidate nominated on it. The nomination of third ticket to represent the l gold democrats will be advocated.
 The Detroit Free Press, (dem) l says: "The free silver men cannot | complain should gold men in the l democratic party decline to support l theirplatform and candidates. They have done all they could to make | It impossible for such men to do so.
 The following was received at the office of the United | Press in New York: "Mana0er of the United Press-Dear Sir: The | Irish American, which has for near ly fifty years upheld the democratic party, repudiates, in the enclosed the Chicago Convention and itsnominees. Very truly, Lynch | & Mehan, PrOprietors Irish-Ameri- can. The editorial is as follows. After four days devoted to tramn. ling on the most cherished tradition of the democratic party. tba mob of free silver lunatics and nm ulist cranks who usurped the fnnc- tons or the convention at Chicago, have set up a platform and a candi, aate' The platform advocates the mad spirit of class and sectional hat red, and throws sops to anarchy and hA rankaaf an,t ,l,gr, !