The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1899-08-03
Their Policy,


few of the sayings of Campbell and
the reiterations of Green prior and
up to the Chicago Convention of
1895, since which time neither have
said anything for the cause of silver,
but to the contrary have been secret
ly working for the overthrow of
Bryan and free silver in 1900:
The Hooking Sentinel of April 20,
1895 says, 1.-THE attempt of class of
agitators to organize silver party
within the Democratic party and
lead the party into ertydCiDdl,t ear
reHes ciU prOce u fdiJuTe. The
Democratic party is not cOntrOied
by incjdent0t tancy".
The Sentinel of July A, 1896 under
the caption of "Brice for Sound Cur
rency" publishes Brice's speech for
the gold standard of which one para
er service was rendered to the people
of our common country by the re-
peal of the law authorizing the pur-
chase of silver and the issue of GER
tiflcates there fore and establishing
to stand for many a long year the
present spIendid ana almost per-
feet monetary system." 1t will be
remembered by our readers that this
language of Brice was embodied in
the Republican platform the follow
ing year, and the Democratic plat
form at Chicago denounced it as un.
Democratic and un-American. OF
Brice's words Green said editorially,
1--WE give space this week to the
views of Senator Brice on the finan-
cial question now being discussed by
the people. Senator Brice has been
maligned and misrepresented by
kichers dltd crOdhers in his O,cn
party. He speaks out in no uncer-
tain tones, and defines his position
like man before the people of Ohio.
He will preside at the State Conven-
ton, and his views will be the plat
form of Ohio Democracy, nnd the
principles of the chicago PUT
fOrn.'
Mr., Green predicted right as to Mr..
Brice presiding at the State Conven-
ton in 1896, for he was there and so
was Mr.. Green, and those gold bugs
over road the silver forces and called
them 'populist idiots" But Green's S
prediction as to Brice's views being
the platform at Chicago in 1896 mis-
carried somehow, and Green was up
on tip toe for Brice's policy tc win
until Bryan and the common people
turned down Briceism and then
Green fell gracefully into quietude.
But as to Brice and Campbell and
Sorg and Johnson, they never fell
into the fold and are 'gold democrats
yet, those who are living, and word
in their support is a word to turn
down Bryan. These are facts that
are undenyable and every reading
and thinking Democrat in Hooking
County knows them to be so.
Other evidence of Green's financial
policy during '95 and '96 was his
standing in his paper continually
the financial plank of the Demo-
cratic Platform of 1892 which read as
follows like the republican platform
of 1896: 1.-The dollar unit of coinage
must be adjusted by international
agreement, etc."
Mr.. Green in his paper of Septem-
Der b, 1896, in speaking of the State
Gold-Democratic platform upon
which Campbell run, tintern ational
agreement) said: "The declaration
on the Financial Question is the
platform of the national convention
adopted at Chicago in 1892, and
tChich the Sentinel ddUOc0ted, and
for the past three months kept
st0'tdinO iM oar paper as the
ptdtfOfm of our choice, and upon
which the great victory of 1892 was
fought and the victory so gloriously
won."
At the Springfield convention in
1895 when the silver forces fought
with untiring zeal for the adoption
of the silver platform, but Brice and
Campbell and following We're there
and the cause of silver was defeated
and gold platform adopted, and
Campbell placed upon it as candi-
date for GOyarnor AT StraitGvilla a
in speech during that campaign at
which the writer was present, Camp
bell denounced the silverites in Bit
ter terms and called them cranks
and republican allies, at which de-
nunciation hundreds of people left
the hall until but handful remain
ed to hear his speech; after the
speech he was Kissed and hooted at
in the street. That fall he lost Perry
county by 653 votes and Hooking by
1874. This is tile truth as to the policy
of these men and it is the duty of
Bryan Democrats to guard against
them assuming any control what
ever.
Even as late as March 10, 1896 when
the silver sentiment was sweeping
toward victory at Chicago, and
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