Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1904-07-28
CHANGES PARTISAN FAITH.
Chicago Chronicle, Prominent Demo-
cratic Organ, Will Hereafter Ad-
vocate Republicanism.

The Chicago Chronicle. since its
founding a democratic newspaper. con-
tinually friendly to sound money. an
nounces in its issue of July 10 that here
after it will advocate the principles and
candidates OF the republican party. The
editorial in which it makes this declara-
tion follows:
THE CHRONICLE REPUBLICAN,
When l,oW men. representing the demo-
Gratis Of the United States. most of them
chosen with much difficulty as representa-
tiVeS of what is called conservative dcmoc-
racy, permit mere domagoguc to bu!l'5
them into wrongdoing it must be that {! :
GemagOgue is greater than the party
Two-thirds of the delegates to the ma
tional democratic convention voted for
Judge Parker on the first balOt--the man
whom Mr.. Bryan had traduccd for three
months, the man whose friends Mr.. Bryan
had viiihed, the man who Mr.. Bryan lad
SAID should not be nominated and could not
be elected
When cowardiy committee representing
these delegates brought in a platform
which was silent on the money question not
a voice was raised in cXpostuiation or pro-
test While hundreds We're ready TO shout
| for Parker. not one appeared in defense Of
| elementary democracy.
Mr.. Eryan not only graCiouSly permits
| the democratic party 10 name candidate
! whom he has done his hest to defeat in
| advance, but he places him ON a platform
| with hole In il big enough to drop the
attire party through.
1t Is bad enough to have Mr.. Bryan DOM
| mating radical democratic conventions
| When Mr.. Bryan is able 20 silence a "con-
| servatiVe' democratic convention the sit
| uation becomes intOlerablc. a mixture Of
! William j. Organism and David B. Hillism
| is insuppOrtablc
The Chronicle is not in sympathy with
| Mr.. Bryan's IDEAS. For eight years it has
! refused to believe that Mr. Bryan's IDEAS
! were acceptable to the real democrats of
| tie country. The result at St. Louis ap-
! pears to end the discussion. He and Hill
are in control He and Hill have named the
! ticket and made the platform.
a timid eastern democrat who fonIly
! imagined that he could be nominated as
| an unknown, has been placed on the ticket
| with an octogenarian free silverite from
! West Virginia and supplied with a plat
! form which amounts to an Endorsement
| of the platforms of Chicago and Kansas
! city. The pOpuliStic west and the reaction
| AIRY south are again in alliance, with a new
! leader. 1t is true. but with no change in
! principle and purpose. The ticket bears the
| stamp Of pupuIism. There is not plank in
| the platform which was not modified by
| pOpulism.
| Inc democratic party IS altaCNCQ 10 BFN-
| ansm. 1T is subserVient TO Bryan. 1T has
! been persuaded against its natural inciiEa-
| uOns 10 nominate an unknown candidate,
| whom Bryan has antagoniZed but it has
| permitted Bryan to do the rest. The dem
! ocratic party is Bryan, and there is no
reason to suppose that its triumph under
| the leadership Of a man who voted twice
! for Bryan and free silver, and bOasted of it,
| would be anything else than triumph for
| Bryan.
| Disagrceing fundamentally with this
| leader and his party in most things, and
| agreeing with the republican party in the
! essentials Of It's creed, the Chronicle to-day
takes leave of the democratic party and
! allies Itself with the republicans.
! As at present constituted and led, the
| democratic party is Il menace to the peace,
! the prosperity and the integrity of lthe
| United states and its people. 1t has dis
/ carGed democratic principles and taken up
| with the radiCa.ism Of popu!!sts and social
/ lists and The obStructiOniSm and the cow
/ ardicc of wreckcrs ana demagOgucs. No
! good can come out of it. With bank for Il
/ candidate and Il blank for platform, ii
| vii! become more and more q contemplate
| iHstrumcntality for the exploitation of
! William j. Bryan and the school Of oema-
! Eugues following in his train.
! The Chronicle believes that the repub-
! lican party, while not free of fault by any
/ means, offers the American people at this
| time the only prospect of efficient, inteili-
/ gent and honest government that is any
. where to be seen. and, so believing, ii VIII
I 90 wha, it can TO advance its principles
tEG 10 strengthen its candidates.