The Penn's Grove record., 1900-08-10
No More Gold DemocEate.

NO N4OE6 90tu
When the Chicago platfor@ We pro.
mulgated ID 1896. 3 number of iDfluen-
tial Democratic leaders who gore more
interested in trusts, cofpora4lo Ions and
banks formed an organizations and polk
ed l33, 600 votes for Palmer and Buck.
Fer. Many thought that tho adoption
Of the silver plank. and other progress
sive principles were q temporary, hys-
terical movement promulgated byafew
fanatics under the leadership and In
~spiration Of MI. Bryan's famousspeech;
and that after q sober second thought
the new ideas in the Chicago platform
would die and be swept away In four
years.
The campaign four years ago was
such a great educator in political prin'
ciples that they have become deep root
ed in the minds of most Of the6, 100000
who voted for Mr.. Bryan. who has BE-
come their hero, because he is the per-
soual embodiment of those principles.
The so-called gold democrats. which
is an inconsistent name 40 Wellks ttin-
ciple, have given up hope OF eyer turn-
ing the party back in its Cause OF 70
form. With unlimited money at their
command they are hopeless. The Re
publican party has abandoned its time
honored professed principle OF sbimet-
allism from tradition and clinched in
to law, and dopted as q principle the
geld standard, consequently a few gold
democrats whose personal and political
interest and sincerity of principle ID
with the gold standard have gone over
to the Republicans. You hear OF no
prominent men who voted for Nj.
Bryan four years ago announcing their
regret that they voted for him, or ex-
pect to change to Mckinley this year.
At the meeting of the State Demo-
cratic Committee last Saturday it was
announced that only about / per cent.
Of the gold democrats OF 1895. would
vote for Mr.. Mckinley this year. The
turning of the gold democrat to the
regular organization is marked even
among the newspapers Of New Jersey.
The Trenton True american which
supported Palmer and Buckner four
years ago, is doing the valiant service
of a new convert for Bryan and Stew
enson this year. The Bergen County
Democrat, whose editor, Henry D.
Winton, was chairman of the gold
democratic state committee. is support.
ing Bryan and Stevenson. also the Nesc
Bruns,oick Times and the Manm0tah
Democrat. This will make q marked
change in the vote in New Jersey. The
Mt. Holly Herald and Jersey City Necs
are not supporting Bryan and Steven.
son.
Editor Winton says: MANY gold
Democrats will support Bryan. Nearly
four years of McKinleyism has done
more to disturb our institutions than
years of Organism could have done"
He also speaks well of S~tevenson's
nomination.
At the meeting of the National Gold
Standard Democracy at indianapolis
on the 25th ult.. it was voted unanim-
ously to disband, because their cause
was hopeless, yet they had $1,000 in
the treasury.
Colonel w. B. Haldeman, proprietor
of the Louisville Courier Journal lot
which paper Henry Waterson is editor)
and member OF National Nxecdefve
Committee, created a sensation by de-
claring his intention Of supporting
Bryan and Stevenson. Mr.. Haldeman
in 1896 contributed much aid in active.
ly raising funds Of the organization and
the maintenance of the work Of the
Gold Democracy and was q member Of
the Auditing Committee of that party.
Mr.. Haldeman said in part:
Sin 1896 I took upon myself album
dant abuse from Kentucky Democrats
and l did it because 1 believed. with
my friend and commander. Henry Wat
terson. in the righteousness Of refusal
to compromise with dishonor on tie
question of asUund and stable currency.
/ believed then that the national honor
in the stability Of its money wasinvolv-
ed, and if I believed that in this respect
there is any danger now, I would STAND
this day against the regular Democratic
organization. No sane man believes
this danger exists. The free and I'M
limited coinage Of silver at the ratio Of
16 to l without the consent Of any 9th.
er nation has been relegated to another
generation by this nation. 1t is a past
issue.
my heart goes out to those who
struggle for liberty in every nation and
| applaud and approve the expression
in the Democratic platform, sympath-
Izing with the Beers. Only In the in
tereet of her own selfish purposes does
England desire the amity of the United
States of America. This Republican
Administration seems to love England
more than it loves its own country
The great republic-which to-day Is first
in power, honor and place amongst the
nations of the world. We cannot, we
must not, encourage a weak and cor
rupt administration to barter free in
situations and civil liberty In q conn.
bination with the most autocratic, ar
rogant and selfish power in all Europe.
am compelled, with a sense Of what
Is due to the free America that I love.
to actively support an American whom
l believe loves his country and whom /