The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1899-06-16
0tpent1tr Gernlu.
FRIDAY. JUNE 10. 1890.
OUR COUNTRY: First, Last and Forever
Rrvnn.cnnted D1 mncrats.


Bryau-coated Democrats.
Four hundred and thirty-tive rep
resentatives of the Democracy Of
Pennsylvania withstood the intense
lheat at Harrisburg for two days and
two nights, in scramble for the loeves
- and fishes. At least one nominee Of
that party, the candidate for Supreme
~ Court, is certain of election, under
the law granting minority representa-
tion. This alone was responsible for
the large crowd and the intense in
terest manifested in the result Of the
convention. 1t was a scramble for
office, pure and simple-for the high
est judicial position in the state, gen
orally supposed to be above and be-
4 yond the degrading influences or
partisan and machine manipulation.
4 1t would probably have been different
4 at Harrisburg had the conditions
i been reversed. There was but one
candidate for State Treasurer. He
hasn't a ghost of a show to be elected /;
n likewise the candidate for Superior
4 Court. For these positions there was
4 no contest.
The guiding hand Of BOSS" Guffey
4 is easily seen throughout the pro-
ceedings, especially in the platform.
He dictated the nomination for State
4 Treasurer it was his brain that
4 evolved the platform, which was sub
sequently put in correct English with
rounded periods by two Democratic
editors-neither, however, from the
ranks of the Schuylkill brand of
Bryanites. 1t is but just to say that
Il Guffey kept hands off the contest for
a Supreme Court. In that he showed
n political wisdom.
National questions are practically
ignored, while state issues are brought
forward in a garbled manner. Con-
q tradictory as it may seem, the Demo
s ,r~-ss- i.s--tirerr platform renew their
pledges of fidelity ''to the faith and
3 principles of the party as declared in
y the platforms of the several national
& conventional Isn't it about time
= that the Democrats of the state select
leaders who have the courage of their
convictions on matters of moment to
the people of the nation and state
The war of the rebellion is over, and
it was no failure, either. The green
back dogma is no longer an issue, ex-
cept as one of the Several national
platforms that our Democratic
friends felt in duty bound to endorse
4 in the absence of the 16 to craze.
Considerations of expediency alone
a Influenced the Democracy in ignoring
I. questions of national import.
Nowhere in the platform are the
4 peculiar political dogmas adopted at
j Chicago in 1896 referred to, and
81 whether or not the mere mention OF
Bryan as ''the matchless leader" will
be regarded by the gold standard
81 Democrats as embodying what the
81 Nebraskan stands for remains to be
seen. The rabid Silverites, at least
those who are looking for the party
pap" will accept it as such, anC
"a claim that as their leader was en-
Is dorsed there's nothing more to wisl
for. 1t is not the kind of platform
- that the loyal Bryanites fought for
81 and it will not please the defeated
3 presidential candidate. 1t is certainly
- a cowardly deliverance from thei
81 standpoint. Sentimentally it was I
Bryan gathering, but Col. Guffe!
I carefully concealed the Chicago plat
form vagaries from the public view
which seemed to satisfy the rabiC
free silver delegates. But now tina
the Bryan men are at home, and hav'
time to think, they have no doub
discovered that while they wer
cheering at every mention Of tn
name OF the "Boy Orator Of tn,
Platte, 4" the convention was ignoring
q the declarations of the Chicago con
vention. To state the truth plainly
the silverites were buneoed by order
issued by the National Committeeman
from this state.
The leaders who framed the plat
form will take shelter behind tn
argument that this is a state cam
paign, and national questions shoul'
be met by the national convention
But how will the rabid silyerites Il
this county, who have in public prin
and in private conversation declares
their opposition to the party nomi
nees in the event of a failure to en-
dorse specifically the Chicago plat
form, explain their ante-conventiol
declarations Surely, these gentle
men, who advocate the white meta
from principle, will not accept tn