The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1900-10-11
HENRY N,ATTERsON
DESERTS BRYANIsM
THE DEMOCRATIC EDITOR OF lou
: IsyILLE CALLS The CHICAGO
CONVENTION A WILD ORGY.

(From the Louisville courier-J Journal
June a. 1917
The history of the conspiracy which
took place at the Chicago convention
of 1896, and by which the temporary
expedient, known as the Chicago plat
form, was concocted, is gradually
coming to light. and is startling the
country.
Within the last few days, in debate
in the senate, where a number of sill
verites were voting for high protection,
it was developed that, in that conyen-
ton, as the Courier Journal has fire.
quently shown, there was an inten-
tional Reputation of the old-time DEM
ocratic idea of tariff taxation. Six or
eight senator's followers of Bryan, who
assisted in framing the platform
openly avowed that it justified them,
and was intended to justify them, in
voting to tax for protection lumber,
cotton, WOOL iron ore, coal and every
thing else that may be considered raw
material.
The charge made by the sound money
Democrats during the last canvass land
sometimes denied by the silverites for
campaign reasons) is now confessed by
their champion Tillman, who, when
pressed by Senator Lindsay as to why
the good old Democratic word only"
was omitted after the words tariff for
revenue said: IT can throw some
light on that subject. 1t was omitted
purposely, after discussion
It stands confessed, therefore, that in
order to capture the votes of that ele-
ment of the Republican party who
were for free silver, but at the same
time were for high protection, the DEM
ocratic principle of tariff was surren-
dered at Chicago, and the platform
made capable of construction into
protection document.
= So, likewise, in order to capture the
votes of the Populists, the Chicago
platform advocated doctrines that
would lead to the ownership of rail-
roads, and other species of paternalism
run mad.
In order to curry favor with and OBJ
tain the votes of Debs, Altgeld and the
socialists and anarchists who had benn
raiding the railroads, the old Demo-
cratic doctrine of law and order" was
thrown aside and the principles of dis
order and attacks upon the courts OF
justice were inserted
And in order to obtain the floating
vote of Coxey's army and the other dis
contented and volatile elements of the
country (who are opposed to all govern
r1ent and all property in the hands OF
any one else), those provisions were in.
serted which led during the campaign
to a general attack upon the rights of
property all along the line, which led
to the arraying of masses against
classes the poor against the rich
and section against section.
1t transpires that the making of that
platform was turned over by the DEM
ocrats to those unholy allies, to be
shaped to suit themselves, as the price
of their votes 1t was not made for
Democrats, not intended for Demo-
Gratis: but was made for allies, who
were not Democratic.
And yet, it is this monstrous docu-
ment. thus intended to abandon Demo-
cratic principles for fear of soaring
away the undenaocratic allies. which
reckless and irrespo~ sible men seek to
perpetuate upon Democracy ana upon
the country as the only declaration of
Democratic principles, and IS the basis
of great party.
The history of the concoction of that
platform, now coming to light, presents
a picture unexampled even in the diver
sified corruption of modern politics. we
shah have to go back into the dark
ages to find its parallel.
The picture of the frenzied and un-
"a INV Tillnnan. the wild and revolution
airy Gltgeld, the windy and scatter
Drained Bryan. and the other figures
that supplied the ingre 7ients would re-
uuire the pen of Shakespeare-the
pen that with seemingly prophetic Wis
ion described a scene in Macbeth
where a somewhat similar concoctlon
was brewed.
It would almost seem as If the great
dramatist intended to symbolic the
wild and unholy orgy at Chicago, ana
TO paint. in an allegory. the "aeed
,,,itbout a name there done, to make
"the office deftly show