The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-07-13
HERE THEY COME.


The Philadelphia Record, Democratic
has repudiated the Bryan and Steven
son ticket and platform.
The Jersey City News, Democratic,
has repudiated the Bryan and Steven
son ticket aud platform.
The Mt Holly Herald. the oldest and
most widely circulated Democratic
newspaper published in Burlington
county, did not support Bryan in
1896. 1t says the conservatives know
that If free silver coinage is made a
prominent feature in the campaign this
year the Democrats may as we'll haul
down their flag and not give battle
to the Republicans.
The Burlington, Iowa, Gazette, one
of the Oldest Democratic papers of
that state repudiates the action of the
Kansas City convention and predicts
defeat for the ticket Several leading
Democrats of the same city are out
against Bryan and Stevenson
The St. Paul (Minn Globe leading
Democratic paper of the northwest
denounces The Kansas City ticket and
platform. It characterizes the whole
as coercion into the pursuit of a
policy which has already proven
fatal and which is openly repudiated
by the intelligence and enlighten-
ment of the country. =
The Charlotte IN. o. Observer, a
leading paper in that state, says :
"The Observer cannot support the
candidates nominated on the plat
form promulgated at Kansas City. We
are opposed to the free coinage of sill
yer and gold at the ratio of 16 to 1.
But it is not so much the platform
that is to be feared as the man upon
it. Mr.. Bryan is essentially a dan
gerous citizen. His way is not the
wise way; he is not fit man for
president; he may be elected, but we
shall have no completely in the act. "
The Worcester MASS. Evening
Post, Democratic, condemns the silver
plank and predics Mr.. Bryan's certain
defeat
The Boston (Mass.) Herald. indie
pendent Democrat, will support
Mex inley and Roosevelt. Itabandoned
the Republican party and vent over
to the Democrats ten years ago. 1t
now a ounces free silver as a delu-
sion and a swindle.
The New York Evening Post,
Mugwump, says 1t docs not intend
to support William J. Bryan for
president under any circumstances.
The New Haven Conn Register,
Dem, says that the old. weather.
beaten, waterlogged issue'of free silver
and that "to insist
that Imperialism is the paramount
issue is to play the American people
for cabbage heads"
The Baltimore Sun, which has
been a power exerted in the interests
of the Democratic party of Maryland
for many years, declares that Mary
land cannot be carried for any Demo
cratic candidats ON the free silver
Issue.
Former Congressman Jerry Simp-
son, who has been touring western
Kansas, says regarding the political
outlook; II doubt if Kansas will go
for Bryan this year. /"
J. Sterling Morton, who was Presi-
dent Cleveland's secretary of agricul-
ture, has come out against Bryan.
James H. Eckels, President Cleve-
lands comptroller of the currency
will not support Mr.. Bryan.
Former Governor Waller, of Con-
necticut, ene of the most influential
Democrats of that state, bolts the tic
ket and platform, and says The i'm
perialism, militarism and the other
ingredients of the Kansas CITY plat
form may be well enough in them
selves but they are only used to lessen
the foul taste of the 16 TO dose of
poison the composition contains.