The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1900-07-28
TWO CONVENTIONS.
The Gold Democrats and Anti Inn
perialists Divided in Sentiment.

A New York dispatch says everything
Democrats in reference to third ticket.
George Foster Peabody, chairman of
the Executive Committee of the National
Democratic party, the official name Of the
Indianapolis convention Democrats who
bolted the Bryan ticket four years ago
says:
sit is rather hard problem the Gold
Democrats have to solve, and nothing of a
positive character will be done until our
National Committee meets in Indianapolis
on July 25.''
The Gold Democrats in this city seem
to be at skies and sevens over the new
Democratic platform Many who viewed
the Bryan platform with little less than
apparent horror four years ago will support
it this year This division of opinion ex-
tends to the membership of the Anti
Imperialist League, which will meet at
indianapolis on August 10. Charlton I.
Lewis, vice president of the league, is as
stoutly opposed to Bryan and the Kansas
City platform as he was to the Chicago
platform four years ago. Z. NJ. Ordway,
secretary of the league, however, is going
to support Bryan.
Ex- Congressman John De Witt Warner,
delegate to the indianapolis convention
in 1896, is going to vote for Bryan this
year. He said in an interview:
Personally, am very much more con-
cerned as to what our country is to be per-
manently than as to what kind Of currency
it may have temporarily, especially when
| know that it is the Greenback party,
from which we are still in danger, that is
pretending to be so scared about free silver.
''Mr McKinley's virtue as a sound
money man is lately acquired, and is no
guarantee against his relapsing to the
financial heresies he used to have. The
difference between him and Mr.. Bryan is
that Mr. Bryan's convictions are so strong
that it is hard for him to let go of them,
and Mr. McKinleys so weak that it is
hard for him to keep them. The choice
between Mckinley and Bryan is therefore
between man and marionette, or really
between Bryan and Hanna, the manager
of the marionette show.
s'In 1896, though l never believed we
were in actual danger of going to a silver
basis, did believe that free silver at 16
to was the paramount issue. Between
that and protection l did not care which
whipped, SO 1 voted for Palmer and
Buckner in the hope that We might make
showing of consistent Democrats. So
many of US, however, went to Mckinley,
after having posed as third party men, that
as an organization the so-called Gold
Democrats have no claims upon their party
and no right to any courtesy.
81 consider the question of Imperialism
the paramount issue in this campaign.
Our whole country is now at the parting
of the ways. IF we indulge in subject
colonies, make satraples and pro consulships
the great prizes of political success, keep
increasing our army to supply imperial le-
gions for any part of the earth where we
wish TO interfere, exploit less advanced
nations for our commercial gain and allow
the Executive to assume whatever preroga-
tives this extra constitutional program in
wolves, we shall get Roman rott enness long
before we shall have achieved Roman
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