The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1900-07-24

Major General Joseph W. Plume. of
Newark, lifelong Democrat. has an
nounced that, for the first time in his lite,
he will vote the Republican ticket this
Fall. He has been a lifelong Democrat,
but feels he must support the Admins
tration.
The best Hill could say at Kansas City
for the platform was: If there are some
issues Democrats do not desire to present
as strong as some others. they can at least
talk about something in this platform that
is worthy of their approval" If the feast
is failure the mustard and toothpicks
are recommended as not half bad.
In 1895 the Times believed Mr.. Bryan to
be wrong; that to force fictitious value
on silver, metal thoroughly discredited
as money standard by every civilized
nation on the globe, was not only bad in
theory, but morally dishonest. Since 1896
we have had no reason for changing our
opinion. What we believed to be dishon-
est then is not whit more honest now,
and, as Mr.. Bryan refused to surrender his
convictions and declined to eliminate this
false and dangerous doctrine, the Times
refuses to surrender its ideas of right and
it's notions of fair dealing between man
and man. We believe we were right in
1895, and we shall continue to be right in
1900 by contributing nothing to the cleo
ton of Mr. Bryan Chattanooga Times,
Dem.
There was party once known as the
party of Jefferson, Jackson and Cleveland.
jefferson and Jackson believed in ex-
pansion and Cleveland was opposed to a
dishonest monetary standard.
The old party has disappeared and in its
place is the party of Bryan, Tillman and
Altgeld.
All three fare opposed to expansion and
are in favor of dollars worth fifty cents.
Nothing is left of the Democratic party
except the name. The business has been
sold out to the Populists.
Are thinking Democrats going to permit
themselves to be sold along with the con-
Germ ?-Phil0. Inquirer
The Hon. Frank Jones of New Hamp-
shire, formerly member of the Demo
cratic National Committee, will support
Mckinley and the gold standard, on the
ground that the only real issue of the
campaign is national honesty or national
dishonesty
To that declaration Mr.. Jones adds this
sensible remark:
''The attempt to make the issue of i'm
| perialism seems to me to be an effort to
force to the front political quarrel as to
what this country ought to do three, four
or five years from now, when everybody
agrees as to what it ought to do now
| Porto Rico is our territory Cuba is to be
delivered over to the Cubans shortly and
as to the Philippines, Mr.. Bryan does not
propose to bring. our army and navy away
from those islands Immediately any more
than Mr.. Mckinley does
| Hon. J. Sterling Morton, Cleveland's
Secretary of Agriculture, who is one of
the most robustly Democratic of all the
Democrats of the country, says Bryan will
be beaten worse in 1900 than he was in
1896, and that he deserves to be beaten
worse. This looks like safe prophecy.
Reputation this year certainly is as OBJ
jectionable to the country as it was four
years ago, but reputation is only one
phase of Organism now. Flag furling,
| the abandonment of American citizens in
China, and policy of general imbecility
and cowardice are involved in the Bryan
ism of 1900. Thus Bryan is much more
hostile to true Americanism in 1900 than
he was in 1896, and stands an exceedingly
good chance to get hit harder by the
American people Globe Democrat.
| Mr.. Bryan is in dilemma. The East
will have none of his 16 to / talk, although
| it permitted him to save his personal pride
by putting the silver plank into the plat
form, and the West will have none of him
without 16 to starred on the bills and
howled over the footlights. In the west
he is the silver champion or nothing In
the East he cannot enter the lists with the
device ''16 to 1 argent" displayed upon
his shield. And it is not feasible for him
to initiate the knight of the old story, who
bore shield golden on one side and silver
on the other.
When Mr.. Bryan forced silver upon his
party by his theatrical declaration that he
would rather be consistent than be Pres
ident, he was given credit for splendid
courage and honesty, and he compelled
the admiration of his political foes. What
has become of that indomitable courage !?
Has it oozed out and given place to mere
lust of officer Was it all the gallery play
of vain actor, seeking applause and for
the moment absorbed in his part and
imagining himself to be the character he
was personating NORTH american.
The Chinese situation is another exam
pie of Republican luck. 1t is not open to
any doubt that we are at war in if not
with China and the war is one in which
the national honor is at stake. Unques-
tionably this condition will cause many
persons to vote for Mr.. Mckinley who,
otherwise, might not do so.
Over and above the general objection to
swapping horses while crossing stream,
the public are likely to feel that man of
Mr.. Bryan's eccentricities is not exactly
the one to whom the conduct of foreign
war for honor would be safe. He is quite
capable of patching up peace at any
moment on any sort of terms, for the sake
of a rapid disarmament, and we might be
placed in the position of leaving our
murdered brethren unavenged and desert
ing our allies, just in order to crafty some
of Mr.. Bryan's faddist notions about
republicanism or economics.
Our own notion of the gentleman is that
he is far too full of mental crotchets to
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