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BAMPAST DEMOCRACY.
Democratic Press Burst All Bonds
v In Their Indignation.
r . .
. - In every contest in Ohio, Iown. Illinois
ind Michigan when the Democrats Were
. on a free islver or cheap money platform
they have been overwhelmingly beaten.
What evidence have we that there is to
be a change in '00? Montgomery Ala.)
Advertiser.
When a great party has renched that
itage of moral depravity that sucn crenr
ares as Tillman, Altgeld & Co. are per
mitted to speak to it,-much less take an
imporinnt part in mounting un punni-.-,
its course is, indeed, about run. Wa
bash (Ind.) Times.
Americans will never eive'thls crowd
control of the country until they shall
have fallen to the level of the old world
communists. That will not happen this
vp.ir. at least. The neonle must be de-
graded in their own esteem before they
will vote ' for a war of class against
class. Memphis Scimitar.
The financial plank in the platform
mlnntpil hv the Democratic national con
vention at Chicago is distinctly a declara
tion for such repudiation or existing
debts, public and private, as can be
secured by the enforcement upon the
country as legal tender money of a eje-
based silver coinage conformed to a up
graded standard of money. New Or
leans Picayune.
Scratch a silver man and you come to
a Populist. In the heart of each burns
I the desire to .get as much as possible and
give as little. If either of them hap
pen to be a debtor, this desire takes the
form of repudiation. As most of them
are debtors repudiation is the thing they
are for, n"id in the Chicago platform
they go for it straight. New York
Times.
It is bnt proper to say in fairness and
justice to the grand old Democratic
party of Hamilton, Jefferson and Jack
son that we cannot depart from the
ways of the fathers upon the financial
question, and, therefore, cannot, much
to our regret, follow the Democratic
banner as it trails into' a foreign camp;
and must, as a matter of self-respect,
refuse to support "Mr. Bryan upon the
financial platform upon which he has
been placed and stands. Dayton (O.)
Times.
Till the contest is decided onr voice
shall be raised and our influence given
for the election of Mr. McKinley to the
presidency. The security of the cur
rency is the paramount question of the
hour. It eclipses issues. Believing that
this security can best be attained by
the success of the Republican party,
we promise it .our sincere and hearty
support for its presidential ticket in the
impending campaign. We have never
believed that the Republican party made
the best selection possible to it. but it
is difficult to see how any candid man
can deny that the selection of the Repub
lican party was eminently more fitting
and appropriate. There is an absence
of dignity in the Democratic selection
which is seen both in the candidate
himself and in the circumstances that at
tended his nomination. Boston Herald.
The true interests of the people nst
for the election of Mr. McKinley, not
for himself but for the absolute ne
cessity of the whole people of the Unit
, ed States and of the greater world of
which they are after all but n part. In
any event let us be reasonable. Don't
talk of "sectionalism" or of "anarchy"
or of "revolution." Remember always
that compared with the unity of country
the gold standard is not worth fighting
for; one country, one flag. Springfield
Republican (Ind.-Dem.)
No reasonable man can nsk the Times
to stultify and dishonor itself and long
tiined Democratic principles. While sup
porting to the best of our ability the
state nominations for executive offices
and legislative nominees, we feel assured
that all true Democrats will- justify ns
in deciding that we cannot give the sup
port or the "times to the Chicago con
vention and its politically diseased candi
date. i e shall do all we can to sustain
the good name ami the organization of
the Democratic party, but we cannot sup
port principles . nor candidates of the
Bland. Teller and Altgeld stripe. We
cannot conscientiously ask honest men
to vote.for them. Hartford Times.
We repudiate the 1G to 1 nlnnk in
Bryan's Chicago platform and will not
support any candidate on such a plat
form. It is too Populistic and Nihilistic.
.Vlacbias (Ale.) Liuon.
Our worst fears have not only been
realized but new and horrible doctrines
have been added to the Chicago platform,
which cannot possibly bind a Democrat
who is nnwilliiig to abandon the fnnda
mental principles of his party. Rich
mond (Va.) Times.
What Harry Bingham feared only ps a
bare, possibility has come to be a stern
reality. The "madmen" of whom he
spoke have controlled the national con
vention and declared for free silver at
10 to 1. 'The Democrats of New Hamp
shire cannot "O with them. Manchester
(N. H.) Union. ---
Circumstances have made William Mc
Kinley the man around whom all must
- rally who desire to defeat determinedly
the candidate for the jiseudo-Demoerncy,
William J. Bryan, who stands for fiat
' money under the' guise of bimetallism:
for nullification of lawfully-contracted li
abilities; for communism and lawless
ness. McKinley and the party he repre
sents have until now induced Democratic
and indepndcut voters to look for means
by i. which they could avoid the necessity
of supporting the Republican ticket. This
has been shown to be hopeless, and there
is no other way but to offer our support
to our old opponents. New York Staats
Zeitung, the leading Eastern German
Democratic daily.
We have no fear that the sound-money
Democracy will acquiesce in a free silver
platform, a ticket, of' repudiation, of an
archy and the trampling out of the
rights of the sound money delegates in
the convention. A bolt is inevitable.- A
Democratic ticket for which Democrats
can vote is becoming a necessity. It
will be supplied. The Anarchists, the
Populists, the Communists and the Nihil
ists who are controlling this convention
will never control this country; they will
never control the Democratic party.
Brooklyn E.le.
The parting of the ways has been
reached, and for the sake of party hon
; esty and electoral integrity it is to be
hoped that the division will be com
plete. A paramount issue .like that for
the ,pendiiig coinage question demands
a speedy settlement and a voter's convic
tions upon it have not been subordinat
ed to the demands of party expediency.
There can be no honorable compromise
with or submission to the free silver fac
tion. Galveston News.,
Speaking for itself, the Courier cannot
so tar target its duty to its constitn.mcv
as to advocate support of the Chicago
pronouncement. j.ne declarations con-
iu:ueu lueieiu ure uuuurnfui 10 demo
cratic ideas; they are not expressive of
Democratic- doctrine. Free coiuage of
silver itself alone, with or without it at
tendant consequence as an economic
reposition, is of minor importance in its
iitiuenee for good or evil nnon the reo- I
pie of this country compared with the
other declarations of party policy ex-'
pressed in the platform. Syracuse Cou
rier. It is "fltogether probable th.it the
Democrats who iove Democracy ant who
decline to be counted among its lie;r-ivr
will iiuve a ticket in I he near future ll.at
will satisfy their desires ami aims. T'lis
would be the most desirable result. but-,
come what may. the Chronicle absolves
itself from all responsibility for lie ut
terances of the alleged Democratic con
vention just closed at Chicago, -and
pledges itself to aid in the defeat f its
nominees. To participate in a cmnp-iign
for such a ticket on such n- plarfortn
would be to be untrue to every patriotic
Democratic principle. La Crosse (Wk)
Chronicle.
A bright young man with a f'lvery,
demagogic tongue is planted on the nti
Dcmocratic platform adopted at Cliicigo.
and the excited victims of a singular and
illogical craze vie with the sympathizers
with Anarchy and Populism in the Ling
acclaim to William J. Bryan, .'he elo
quent and eccentric representative of the
bolters of Nebraska. . . . The plat
form and the candidate threaten a par
alysis of business until the day -f t lec
tion: for a longer period if success could
possibly attend; and they condemn the
Democratic party to a fate that would
be death to any other party, but the
Democratic party is undying. Utica Ob
server. ,
Will Lose Hundreds of Thousands.
Savannah News: All Democrats will .
not approve the declarations in respect
to coinage, bonds, the currency, income
tax and railroads. ' These latter declara
tions are much more Populistic than
Democratic. It looks very much as if
they were put into the- platform for the
express purpose of currying favor with
the Populists. In fact, if we are not
mistaken. Senator Tillmnn said in his
speech in the convention that the purpose
of them is to influence the Populists to
come into the lines of the Democracy
and become a part of the Democratic
nar'tv. He did not seem to take into
consideration the factthat the adoption
of Populistic declarations might not
break up the Populist party, but would
nrettv certainlv drive hundreds of thou
sands of Democrats out of the Democrat
ic party.
Boss piiaiupiona of Disorder.
Trenton (N. J.) American (Dem.):
But. whatever may be the course of the
politicians and the party leaders, there
will be thousands of Democrats in New
Jersey who not in resentment of the
contumely with which the state and its
interests nave been treated, out rrom
personal and public motives will refuse
to give their approval to a convention
and a candidate which have publicly
and vaingloriously threatened the de
struction of the nation's credit, the dim
inution of values, the retardment of busi
ness, the attack on property, and the tri
umph of disorder above tne law anci
those called unon to administer it. And
they will so refuse in the belief that
all other oarty issues fade into insignifi
cance in comparison with the issue as it
has been formulated at Chicago.
Danger to Liberty.
Galveston News: The fact is that the
programme fonmulated at. Chicago mere
ly marks the spirmish line of a great and
final battle for social revolution, indus
trial reconstruction, and constitutional
subversion. Without consitutional safe
guards there can be no assurance of eith
er iree government or inuiviuuui iiuenj..
An unchecked social Democracy means
no law but the law of brute force, no
rule and no, order but the rule and order
of irresponsible tyranny. Intelligent
citizens grounded in wholesome appre
ciation of the constitutional essentials
of a stable republic, who . supremely
cherish the priceless interests of consti
tutional liberty and security, who feel
that there can tie no true progress with
out the conservation of these interests,
will not fail to see in present emergen
cies where their common danger lies.
Realizing also that the problem of de
fense is their common concern, they can
well understand that how, they may best
proceed to combat, defeat and disarm
their common enemy is a question of
momentary expediency to be decifed in
the light of current events and modify
ing circumstances.
Fouth Dakota7 View.
Sioux Falls Argus-Leader: The Dem
ocrats have declared for a policy which
will inevitably establish the single silver
staudard; will, in our opinion, wreck the
rational credit and reputation; will, for
many years, make commercial confidence
impossible; will spread ruin over the
land; will destroy all hopes of bimetal
lism in the generation; and will indefi
nitely postpone a revival of good times.
Under these circumstances the Argus
I.ender can see its duty only in one chan
nel. Believing, as this paper does, that
the honor, safety and prosperity of the
United States would be seriously jeop
ardized by the success of the Democratic
party on its presetu platform, the Argus
Leader, with sorrow for the broken asso
ciations, with regret at parting from a
uuuie ii iihs revered ana loved, but with
a consciousness of unavoidable duty,
withdraws from the grand old Demo
cratic party, which has, in our judgment,
left its time-honored principles in pursuit
of strange gods, and will throw trhnt.
strange gods, and will throw what
ever influence it may possess on the
side of the Nation's prosperity and honor.
To Attempt the Impossible.
-Stauntone (Va.) News: ' A law de
claring that wheat, regardless of the
surplus on the markets or the demand
for it, should sell the year round at SI
per bushel, and that corn and oats,
ner" matetr what their intrinsic value,
should, always sell at the same figure
as wheat, would be just as sensible as
a free coinage of silver law and would
be just as easy .to carry into effect. The
gist of the whole matter is that to at
tempt to coin silver in unlimited quan
tities, and to make it even in value at a
given fixed ratio with gold is to attempt
the impossible and to do what iq the
very nature of things cannot be done.
Looking to the New York Convention. J
Syracuse News: The Chicago plat
form is a wide departure from the plat
form adopted by the last Democratic
state convention at Saratoga. It was
so wide a departure that the New York
delegation felt compelled to abstain
from participation iii the nomination of
candidates on that platform. It re
mains for the coming Democratic state
couvention to formulate the policy of
the New York Democracy. That con
ventfcn," in nominating presidential elec
tors will point the way to Democrats
which shall lead to the preservation of
the party the preservation of its un
sullied honor and integrity. The party
which this year celebrates its 100th an
niversary will not be permitted to en
down to a dishonorable grave. '
Ko Excuse for the, Insult
Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser: Thou.
sands and thousands of Democrats in
Alabama will learn with mingled emo
tions of anger and shame that a Demo
cratic national convention declined to de
clare of Grover Cleveland the simple
truth that nis "honesty, economy, cour-
tinn at the hands of Democrats. Thu in.
tense indignation which this action
causes to over uu,uuu sound money Dem-
ocrats iu Alabama is heightened when
the voice of the Democracy of the state
is recorded as in favor of this insult to
their leader. The intensest heat and
partisanship in favor of free silver can
not excuse it. A few more such blows
will render inevitable the outbreak nf
dissension which years will not quiet or
cure. , . .. '
PRINCIPLES,v'OT PARTY.
The German Democratic Press Bolt
; ' the Chicago Ticket.
Chicago Etnats-Zeitung: The t Democ
racy which declared iiself. last week in
Chicago is a new and degenerated edition
of the Democracy - of 1SG1: in -it reigns
the old Bourbon spirit which never learns
ami never forgets. Who, therefore, de
sires that the United States should fur-S
ther develop- their natipnnl organism;
that the national government shoiild.be
further strengthened in the interest, of
all: that national honor be kept unde
nted: that the national credit be kept in
tact, turns away . from n Democracy
which has placed itself ;nt the disposal
of destructive forces and joins that party
which was called -In 1801 to save the
Union, and which in this year 'again
lias the patriotic duty to purify the na
tional organism; from the poison of the
Populistic Democracy.' . , ,
The issue is not one of party, but of
the highest achievements of the nation,
which can be kept secure only by the
authority of the Federal government, by
an honest currency and by.au inassail
able credit. -,
Iowa Tribune (Dem.). Davenport The
recklessness and fanaticism of the silver
people at the Chicago convention, who
trampled all oppositun under foot, has
made a very bad impression even upon
many of those who sympathize with the
theory of the debasers of money. The
majority of our voters is not ready by
any- means to deliver the nation to such
crazy demagogues as Bryan, Waite, Till
man and others. . :
Waechter und Anzeicrer (Dem.). Cleve
land The currency plank, with its de-
cisive declaration against the gold stand-
an!, nuiuu; mm oiai uisreguiu ui me
entire other world of'enlture and com -
merce, is declared to be an English insti-
tution and is stigmatized as such, while
the free coinage of .silver at the ratio of
10 to 1 is demanded as an immediate
measure of government, cannot fail to
make- an altogether revolutionary "iiripres-
sion We should not be at all surprised
if this news should cause in Lnrope a
decline of American securities in all ex-
changes; anticipated this decline has long
oeen. ' . .
Louisville Anzeiger (Dem.) Nonsense,
thou prevailest! From Grover Cleveland
to William Jennings Bryan this is a
jump for which the real Democrat is not
so easily ready. The Anzeiger prefers at
any rate not to make it. After the adop
tion of the platform the Anzeiger had no
need to pause a moment .for the declara
tion that it would not support the can
didate who would accept the nomination
nnon this nhitfnrm. Th& nomination of
Bryan makes this dutv easier and more
agreeable. Bland and Boies would have
been fought bj the Anzeiger on aconnt ravin or low ior xne purpose or nntici
of the cause which they represent. In ' rating the increased duties of the- Mo
Bryan we do not only fight the cause but I Kinley bill, and this caused an outward
tUn nornnn finl- a nrpnHnn iviiinh . flux of gold in payment. In 1891 the ex-
placed Tiliman above Cleveland and
Blackburn above Carlisle would perpe-
trate the bad joke, to present the young " uiaujr lureigu noiuers or amen
hero of phrases from the West for the " securities, who, being pinched for
highest office in its gift.
Seebote (Dem.). Milwaukee: As the
close of the century has brought forth
the abominable "new woman," who
rides a bicycle, smokes, drinks, wears
trousers and tears, nerseir loose rrom ail
old customs, so there has arisen in Chi-
cago, imbued with the same revolution
ary spirit, a "new Democratic party;"
which stands everything time-honored on
the head, denies the traditions of the old
party, administers a kick to honesty and
decency and comes before the people
with a financial programme which is a
mockery to all reason. Ine "new worn
" and the "new party" are genuine
de siecle exneriences. and one would
fin de siecle experiences, and one would
consider neither of them seriously if they
were not so serious in their consequences.
They are on the one hand the regret
table and undeniable excrescences of the
liberality of social views and on the
other hand of the freedom of the politi
cal thought that the Constitution of the
United States prevents nobody from mak
ing a fool of himself as often as he likes
to. . ,
Davenport Democrat (Dem): The
time has arrived for the clean separation
of the two irreconcilable wings of the
Democratic party, to which the Demo-'
crat has called attention' for two years.
Those Democrats who remain true to the
unalterable national principles, as they
were proclaimed by Thomas Jefferson. '
Tiimpa Mnmsnn nmi the nthor fnthers nf
James Madison and the other "fathers of
the republic," can have nothing in com
mon with the Populistic new Democrats'
who stole the banner and the name of
the glorious old party to betray under
its shelter the sublime principles and to
throw the country into unspeakable mis-
EDITOR DANA'S ADVICE.
Democrats Should Vote for McKin
ley and Not Sacrifice Prin
ciple to Party.
New York Snn: The nolitical reasons
for not putting up an honest-money can- son-Gorman free trade has cost the gov
didate this year on a genuinely Demo- ' eminent of the United States directly, in
cratic platform are strong and obvious. '. its finances, not less than $949,i74,
The nomination of another Democratic - 025,32, a conclusion reached as follows:
candidate would contribute to the per-' Loss of gold through actual
souul comfort of Democrats who are re-' export 1107,531 106 00
luctant to vote for Mr. McKinley, but Loss ' S01 through what
it would accomplish nothing else. And' would have been Imported
this method of votinrr for nrinninlo nl I
would surely imperil the result in many
a close state.
Better far to vote for ' principle in
a way that will count.
- Every Democratic vote cast for William-McKinley
as the representative of'
honest money and the nation's honor and
the "preservation of democratic institu
tions against the wild horde now pre
paring to uttack them, will do just twice
as much service for the common cause
as can be done bv a Democratic vnt. fnr
a third candidate standing no chance of
election.
Let every Democrat who appreciates
the magnitude of the present crisis keep
this fact steadily in mind: His vote for
McKinley and Hobart is worth double
his vote for - the best Democrat that
the sane part of the party could put np
as a protest against the inqnity consum
mated at Chicago. .
Is there any sincere Democrat who,
understanding all that the election means
for our beloved country, is willing to
cut his vote in two this year; to deprive
his ballot of one-half its efficiency?
It will be said that there are such
Democrats. It will be said that there
are Democrats who can persuade them
selves under no circumstances to cast
their votes ior any nepnoncan candidate
for President, remaps tnat Ib so.
I -flfr
iucui c6.v.. ojoiuni v;ni- vention assemoiea, aeciares: l. That it is
cago by refusing to vote for presidential the sense of this meeting that the int jrest
electors. Let them concentrate their of all shareholders of building and loan
partisan enthusiasm upon-the state and associations in the United States de
local tickets. 1 hey will help in this way mands that the present standard of value
to defend the nations honor and the upon which our monetary system has
continued existence of the institutions been based since the resumption of specie
which the repudiators and the revolution-, payments in 1S7S shall remain unchanged
ists are assailing. . They will help, it is and inviolate. 2. That we believe that
true, only half as much as if thev th interest nf every class in th n.,m.
for McKinley and Hobart, but " they, munity, and especially those of the great
would help not one particle more wage-earning class, imperatively de
than that by bestowing their votes nnn mands thnt the Dresent standard of valna
sound-money Democrat nominatoH f
the sake of their personal comfort and
nolitical consistency,
On the other hand, there are hundreds
of thousands of Democrats, if not mil
lions of thwm, who see in the present
crisis a can to duty only less urgent and
inspiring than that which summoned to
the front thirty-five years ago our patrt-
'otic citizens, and made them almost for
get, as tne shouldered their guns and
fell into line for the Union, whether they
had previously styled themselves Repub
licans or Democrats, these men, in tne
tilssence of a satisfactory Democratic can
didate on a sound platform, will not con
sent to surrender one-half of the potency
of their suffrage's for the sake of over
refined ideas . of noiiticnl consistency.
They will want to put their votes where
their votes will do kbc most good as
against Populism.' renndiation and na
rioual dishonor. They will fire their bal
lots straight at the common enemy, even
though the ballots be labeled McKinley
It would be a niece of political? folly
amounting to crime to divert the atten
tion of this class of Democrats from the
main; question, and to jeopardize the re
sult of the election, by setting no inop
portune cjaims to a partisan allegiance
which, in an emergency like this, is nom
inal at the best.
Mass every honest American rote on
one candidate representing honest
money, the nation's honor, and the inten
tion of this neonle to oreserve the gov
ernment and the institutions which their
fathers handed. downto them. Waste
no ammunition when Populism is shriek
ing its battle cr, and anarchy is lurking
-ivac ucuiuu 111 iue rear wim lurcu m
band:
McKinley's nersonalitv is nothing in
this contest. His previous political affili
ations are nothing. Accident has decreed
that he shall stand for the time for some
thing a thousand times more precious
uian any party badge.
A VITAL ISSUE.
The Republican Party's Consistent
Stand as Regards the Tariff.
From 1878 to 1892. the neriod of maxi
mura national prosperity under Republic
, on. cvuuuujiL- jAjin-ieB which me ursi
J. Cleveland administration, lackine con-
trbl of Congress, was unable to disturb
. ine roreign movement of our gold gave us
practically no concern. It is illustrated
in the appended table:
J!" -mnorts
' ' ' f"1J'"I" ""
j "gj; :taa
, i&S2. .imports
8S3. .IinnortH
. 4,125,760
. l.U.3.4
. 77,119,371
. 7.4ti6.127
. 1,789,174
. U.133.2U1
1884. .Exports
. I8,2r0.640
18S5. .Imoorts
. 18.213,804
. 22.20S.842
. 33,209,414
. 2"). 558,083
. 49.ti67.427
J88fl. .Exports
1887. .Imports
1888. .imports
1889. .Exports
1S90. .Exports
1891. .Exports
1892. .Exports
. 4.331,149
. 68.130 0S7
405.873
During nine of these fifteen years the
trend of the gold movement was in our
favor, and during only two of the remain
ing six years that is to say, in 1885) and
i 1891 was the outward movement large
enough to attract attention. In 1889
there were laigre importations under the
traordiiiary outflow arose largely because
? the Barng failure, which caught in
ready money, had to return some of those
securities to this country fror redemption.
These explanations are ample to account
ror tne exceptional exports which char
acterized two of the years of the Harri
son administration, when the revenues of
the country were upon a highly protective
i hns; Vjj;.. fi,. ,.ZT
Adding imnorts together and com
paring results tor tne ntteeu years in
question we find that the aggregate im
ports or gold exceeded the aggregate ex
ports to the amount nf Sim flCSHm
During this period the national elebt was-
reauced rrom ?-i,349,507,232.04 in 1879 to
i,ood.tji.4io.t)3 in 1S9"J, a total reduc-
i v" i7';'r.t ; ,00
' .ASjet H8 tur.n. to.ine years, from 1893
uon or oo,uo4,i iu41
io oo, wnen "tana reform ' held the
boards: .
1893. .Exports
'18S4. .Exports '
1895. .Exports . . .....
1896. Exports
Eleven months ended Slav ai.
$87,506,463
4..128,fl42
30,984,449
74,511.252
Here we have a total loss of 'gold dur
ing the short era of Democratic "tariff
reform" of ,$197,531,106. or a net loss in
four years of $95,902,976 over the net
gain accumulated during the preceding
fifteen years. During these same disa
trons four years of Wilson-Gorman tar
iff reform, the- national debt has been in
creased in principal $200,454,330. 'and in
interest yet to be paid almost $250,000 -new
nr if sr.nn mm rum : n it. ,
the voters of the United States not heed-
.1 . 1. .. t.. 1, . e t .
iuc laioc m u iiit-m 3 u i democracy in
1892 the national debt, instead of being
increased in principal and interest over
half a billion dollars in' the intervening
lour years, weTuld, at the same rate of
decrease which prevailed from 1879 to
1892. have been lowered to th .Tt.n nf
$224,558,507.-32, and Instead of a loss of
$197,531,100 through gold exports we
should, at the ratio of the preceding fif
teen Republican years, have had a net
gain through imports amounting in the
four years to $27,085,012. Recapitulat
ing these losses, and not sayiug anything
of .the treme ndous personal losses inflict
ed by the "tariff reform" experiment
Upon all classes of American, citizens,
for these in the aggregate are obviously
incalculable we find that the "change of
, -' lULUimcj I'lUiei'LIUU IU 11-
?aa tnS. KeDiib lean ratio
from 1878 to 1892 obtained
from 18!)2 to 1896 27,085,012.00
Loss through Increase in na
tional aeut 500,000,000.00
Loss through . what would
have been the reduction of
debt had the Republican ra- - '
tk of. debt reduction which
prevailed from 1879 to 1892
Drevalled also from 1892 to
1898 224,558,507.32
total loss. ... .-. $949,174,625.32
This loss has nothing to do with the
question whether a gold or a , silver
standard is the better. It is a direct
fruit of the Democracy's urnvise agita
tion against protection: a palpable dem
onstration that the tariff is emphatically
an issue ' in this campaign. Scranton
(Pa.) Tribune.
OPPOSE CHEAP MONEY.
The Building Associations Pass Resolu
' lions on tae Money Question.
At the annual meeting of the' United
States League of Local Building Associa
tions held in Philadelphia, July 23, the
following resolution ou the money ques
tion was adopted: '
The United States Ueasne nf T.nenl
T .. : I .1 : n hnil Tv.an A auni.i.i:,.. "
whether coin or naner. shall be en nil in
value to every other. 3. That patriotism
demands that the "dollar" bearinz the
mint mark of the United States shall be
the equal of the dollar of the most ad
vanced nations and entitled to full faith
and credit all over the world; and to
that end it must be maintained free from
all suspicion, debasement, or repudiation.
BOLTING NEWSPAPERS.
Principle -Above Party for Nearly
' ' 200 Democratic Editors. '
"Up K date 199 Democratic newspapers
have bolted. By locality the following
showing is made:
, -New England
Connecticut Hartford Times. Bridgeport
Farmer, Meriden Journal. . .New Britain
Herald, Hartford Telegram, New Hsven
Hegister, New -Haven News. Waterbury
American. Windham County Reformer,
I.ttohnekl Inquirer.
Malu Lewiston Snn, Machlas Union.
New Hampshire Manchester Cnlon.
Rhode Island Providence Journal, Provl
deuce Telecram. - .
. Vermont Bennington Reformer," Brattle-
boro Kefornier. "
Massachusetts Boston Herald.- Boston
Olohe. Boston Post. Kltchburs .Mall. Hoi
yoke Free Press. Lowell Times. North
Adams Democrat. Mil ford Times, Spring
field Republican. Lowell Star. Salem News,
I'lustield Journal. Gardner News.,
Middle States.
New York Harper's -Weekly. Sew Tork
Handel's Zeitung, New York Suu. New
York Times, New York Herald, New York
World, New York Staats-Zeltung, New York
Post, New York Irish-American, Brooklyn
Citizen, Brooklyn Eagie. Buffalo Courier.
Buffalo Enquirer, Utica Observer, Troy
Press, Albany Argus, Syracuse Hernld,
Syracuse Courier, Yonkers Gazette. Buffalo
Uemokrat, Rome Dally Sentinel. Hornells
yille Times, Flshklll News, Cohoes Dispatch.
Penn Yan Democrat. Poughkeepsle Enter
prise, Poughkeepsle News-Press, Rochester
Post und Beobacheter, Corning. Democrat,
Syracuse News, Ogdensburg Advance, Fort
Plains Standard, Biughamton Herald.
Pennsylvania Philadelphia Record. Phil
adelphia Times, Philadelphia German Dem
ocrat, Easton Express, Easton Argus,
Northampton Correspondent. Pottsvllle
Chronicle, Erie Herald, WilkcSharre Waech
ter, Doylestown Democrat, Lock Haven
Democrat, Chambersburg Valley Spirit.
Connellsvllle Courier, McKeesport News,
Alleutown Item, Philadelphia Nene Welt.
Wllllanisport Sun.
New Jersey Jersey City News. Elizabeth
Herald, Trenton True American, Trenton
Times, Newark News, Newark Sunday Call.
Newark Deutsche Zeltnnz. Hoboken Ob
server, Harrison Record. Soniervllle Mes
senger, Somerset Democrat - . " t
The West.
Illinois Chicago Chronicle. Chicago
Stu.its-Zeltnng, Chicago Abendpost. Peoria
Demokrat. Peoria Herald, Mendota Repor
ter, Ottawa Free-Trader.
Indiana Lafavette Journal. Wabash
rimes, Indianapolis News. Seymour Demo
crat. Iowa Davenport Der Demokrat. Daven
port Democrat, Sioux City Tribune. Bur
lington Volksfreund. Des Moines Anzeiger.
pes '.Moines Reform. Davenport Tribune.
Waterloo Tribune. Dubiupie Herald. Mar
8hlltewn Statesman, SIgourney Review.
Michigan Detroit Free Press, Lansing
Journal. Detroit Abendpost, Detroit Volks
blatt. Lake Linden Times.
Minnesota -St.-Paul Globe. '
Nebraska Butte Gazette.
Ohio Dayton Times. Dayton Volks Zeit
ung, Columbus Dispatch, Zanesville Ger
man Post, Cincinnati Volksfreund. Cleve
land Waechter and Anzeiger. Cincinnati
VolL-sl.latt.
South Dakota Slonx Falls Argus-Leader,
Sioux City Tribune. '
Wisconsin Miln-milt J
CbroDlcle. Milwaukee Seebote. Manitowoc
Pilot, Watertown. Weltburger. Milwaukee
Germanla, Milwaukee Fricdenker. Ithint
lander Herald, Eau C'alre Leader. Sheboy
gan National Democrat (German), Prairie
du Chien ur.or.
The Sooth.
Alabama Mobile Register, Montgomery
Advertiser; Birmingham News. Huntsvllle
Tribcne.
Delaware? W mlngton Every Evening.
Wilmington State.
Florida Key West Equator Democrat,
Jacksonville Citizen. Huntsvllle Tribune.
Georgia Atlanta Journal, Savannah News
Mncon Telegraph.
Kentucky Louisville Courier-Jonrnnl.
Louisville Post. Louisville Times, Louisvil'e
Anzeiger, Lexington Herald. Shelbyvllle
Sentinel. Frankfort Call, Frankfort Capital.
Russellvllle Helm d (week y I, Maytield Moni
tor (weekly). Slielbvville Sentinel (weeklvl.
Owlngsvllle Outlook (weekly). Mount Ver
non Eagle (weekiy). Sbeperdsvil e Pioneer
(weekly). .
Louisiana New Orleans Slates. New Or
leans I'icnyune. Louisiana, Democrat.
Maryland Baltimore - Sun.
Baltimore
News.
Mlssisslool Jackson News. Vlcksburc
Post. Canton Times, Greenville Times. iiigs banks of thnt state exce-eds the
. Missourl-Kiinsas City Star St.- Louis j mber of voters in that state by 500.
Arbelter des Westens. St. Louis Anzeiirer. t-k c i .i. .
St. Louis Amerika.
South Carolina Charleston News and
Courier.
Courier.
Tennessee Chattanooga Times. Memphis
Sclmeter. Nashville Banner, Nashville
American.
Texas Austin Statesman, Dal'as News.
Galveston News. Galveston Tribune, Snn
Antonio Express. Deiiulson Gazette. Den
nison Herald.
Virginia Richmond Times. Richmond
State. Petersburg Index-Appeal, Alexan
dria Times. Staunton News.
West Virginia Charleston News. Charles
ton Patriot. i
German papers Chicago stnats-Zeitung,
Chicago Abendposr. Louisville Anzeiger,
St. Louis Arbelter des Westens. New York
Smnts-Zeltiiiiir. . IlKeshnrre (I'n.) waechter.
Davenport (la.) 'Demokrat. Milwaukee Mee
bote, . Buffalo Demokrat. Rochester Post
und Beobachter'. Watertewn Weltbnrger.
Milwaukee German's. Milwaukee Freiden
ker. St. Louis Anzeiger.. St." Louis Ameri
ka. NewaTk Deutsche Zeitung. - Peoria
Di'innkrat. Bur: ngton , v o Ksrrennu. Des
Moines Anezelger. Detroit Abendpost.
Zunesvllle German Post. Cincinnati Volks
freund. Cleveland vvaecnter and Anzeiger.
e'ineinnatl Volkshlatt. New York Hnudels
Zeitung. Philadelphia German Democrat.
Easton 11 n.J eorrenponuene. - ,noine4
(la.) Reform. Detroit (Mich.) Vnlkshlntt.
Davton (O,) Volkszeitune. Sheboygan (Wis)
N'.i'tlonar Democrat, ' Watertown (Wis.)
Weltbnerrer. '
New England.. .' 3n
Middle States...;
South i. i f7
West 50
Total bolters 100
Included Iu above total. 33 German news
papers
DEBTOR AND CREDITOR CLASSES.
From a Pamphlet Entitled "The Silver
Muaka.".
What has been said about the. merits
of the question iu a philosophical sense
is plain and seems sound, but may there
not be other reasons why silver should
be co'ned at the ratio of 10 to 1?
What other reasons can there be?
Well, such reasons as those given with
respect to the debtor class as against the
creditor class. f , - .
it is said that the country for tie past
twenty years has been gradually getting
Name some.
into tiie hands of what is called the cred
itor class, which is alleged to be a very
small proportion oP the population, while
the great majority have fallen into the
debtor class and into the absolute con-,
trol of the others. Now it is alleged that
these creditors, as a rule, are harsh and,
practically owning the majority of the
people and able to dictate to them,- are
"sucking" what is called the "life blood"
out of the country. -
Who' are these terrible creditors who
are doing this' Name a single class.
Well, the bankers and money lenders,
for instance; the."mouey power," as it is
called.
Then the country is gradually getting
into the bands of a class of which the
bankers are the representatives, and
these "vampires" are sticking the "life
blood" out, of the country, crushing the
energy out of the people and enslaving
thorn. That is the argument then, is it?
Well, you are from Kockford, 111. Let
us take the situation right in Rockford.
That city, as we understand it, is the
second largest' furniture manufacturing
place in the world, being next to that of
Grand Rapids. Now, 'if w,hat is said
about the terrible 'class of creditors be
true, and if what is said about the awful
condition of the debtor class be true; the
trouble must be as apparent in Rockford
as in any other place in the country, and
there the people who have created the
wealth; the workers, nre gradually be
coming the slaves, of those who simply
handle the wealth after it- is created,
the bankers,, for instance- .'ow, what
Is the real situation la Kockford? The
number of bankers in thnt city" is. alto
gether, thirteen, and the total amount of
canital which these thirteen bankers have
is S'375,000. T!ie total amount of de
posits in their banks is $3,400,000. So
that these thirteen, bankers, with n total
paying capacity of but $3io.0t)J. nre
entrusted with $3,400,000 of other peo
ple h money with which to do lamines
in acy manner they choose. Upon its
face; it would seem that any number of
raen have a total paying capacity of
but $3 10,000 must be of great integrity,
uprightness and reliability to be entrust
ed by the very eople with whom they
nye and .do business with whom they
their paying capacity, nr $.'5,400,000.
U ho are the people who have entrusted
this thirteen with so large a snm of
money, so much in excess of their pay
ing capacity? They number 9.500 in
that city of a totnl population of 30.00a
inu. case- therefore, who nre the
debtors? They -are undoubtedly the
r.er? T1,ese thirteen men owe these
9,500 depositors $3,400,000.
Now, if all that has been said" abont
the rapacity of the creditor class be true,
think of the situation in which these de
P?is'tir .nave these Poor bankers. If
all that has been said about the poverty,
the wretchedness and the enslaveel con
dition of the debtor class be true, think
of the .miserable plight of these poor
bankers.
What is true in Rock ford must be
true of tht whole country. The real
debtors of the country are bankers.
S. uhe., rcaI. "editors of the country
are the dpnnmtnra nnA I. ; .I i:.
of the bankers - of the United States,
as it is to the credit of the bankers of
Kockford, that although they could net
00 per cent, on the dollar if the coinage
of free silver at 16 to 1 were made legal.
)y paying their depositors who have de
posited gold at 3 to 1 with them iu
silver at but 16 to 1, none of the bank
ers of the City of Rockford. and but
very few pf the bankers in the United
states, who would have so much to
gain by the adoption of this free silver
lunacy, have advocated this policy,
wnicn would enable them at one stroke
to clear so much money.
.uT.his,.br.ief "atement makes It plain
that all the vilification which ban been
bestowed by Populist orators and irews
papers upon the creditor class of the
united States has been emitted because
or totally false misapprehension ns to
wno the creditors are, and it is but a
sample of the profound ignornnce under
lying the whole free silver agitation that
they have undertaken to describe as
vampires, blood suckers, Shylocks, etc..
the great producing classes of this coun
try who are its real creditors and who
own ail the money deposited in the
banks and upon which bankers do busi
ness and upon the borrowing of "which
most of the manufacturing and nrodnc- .
tion of this country is carried on. So
that the Populists of this country who
have been claiming to be the friends of
the people, have been denouncing them
upon the supposition that the denuncia
tion has been describing the bankers:'
whereas, the real truth is, toe bankers
are the debtors and the depositors are
the creditors.
According to thnt 'the Topulists won't
accompusn tree silver?
Well, there are in ll TTnitixl Sit arc.
9.000,000 depositors in thesarings institu
tions or the country, and they own de-
posirs amounting to about Sii.OOO.OOO.OOO.
ii an ine people in the United States
who can vote, should vote, the total vote
cast in a national election would he
abont 14,000,000; bat the largest average
national vote cast is about 11.000.000:
hence, the total number of depositors in
savings institutions in this country large
ly onrnuiuoers any majority or votes
which has ever been cast iu a national
election. ,
In the single slate of Xew York ther
nre .1,700,000 depositors in the savings
banks of that state. Thev have on de-
l'Psit $000,000,000. In the state of New
I iors mere are out a do ill l.ifln'.uw vot-
ers: the number of depositors in the .
1 rTTk-f-,. . r . " u"w " T
. i"'""mj ' ". ucu iiiovei nciii na ine
I silver movement succeeding in this
country, because its success would in
volve the conversion of more people than
have ever voted on one side upon any
ijiiestiou in this country, to (he abso
lute belief that it would pay them to set
tle with the savings institutions iu which
their money lies, at 00 cents on the iol
lar for e.very 100 cents on tile dollar '.licy
have on deposit.
From a Manifesto by the Illinois Sound
Money Ueinorruts.
A national convention convened under
the constituted authority of our party
has just closed its sessions in the city of
Chicago.
It entered upon its work by violating
nil precedents iu the rejection of u dis
tinguished Democrat as its temporary
presiding .officer. .
It dvprived a sovereign state of n voice
in its deliberations by unseating without
cause or Icgul justification delegates
,.;4l,t.ill !,,. .u.r,,l.i..it.. L-... ...
' in u u Him ,.i.- iuiuiii,i nuu ,1 U IU
party organization.
It refused to endorse the honesty and
fielelity t of the present Democratic na
tional administration. --
It adopted a platform which favors the
fiee and unlimited coinage of silver by
this country alone at the ratio of IU to 1,
and thereby it repudiated a time-honored
Democratic principle which demands the
strict maintenance of a sound und stable
national currency.
Finally, to uiuke it plainer that, al
though iu unme, it was not iu fact a
Democratic couvention, it nominated for
President one who is not in his political
convictions, and bns not always been
even in his professions, a Democrat.
Senator I aimer Out.
Springfield, 111., July 11. Senator John
M. calmer has come out openly against
the Chicago platform and nominees
Bryan and Sewall. He said today that
he. personally knows of 500 Democrats
iu mis csnuganion) county who iviil not
L support the ticket, and be thinks tn-re
Jure twice that uuuiber who will uot. He
i-iin tinned '
"No Democrat, so far as I have been
informed, will support the Populist ticket
nominated at Chicago. My owu plan is
that the Democrats of Illinois, iu 'co
operation with Democrats of other states,
cull a convention and nominate candi
dates. 1 favor local tickets iu all the
congressional districts and iu all the
counties, in order to preserve the Demo
cratic organization."
Having thus stated his views ns to the
course that ought to be pursued the
se-nutor was usKed if hethouglit tbi-re
was any danger to be expected trom the
silver movement. He replied:
"Not a particle., Mr. Bryan will4 re
ceive the support of the seuii-l'opu lists,
called Democrats, the real Populists who
nre soon to hold a convention in St.
Louis, and those fellows out Weal who
have no conscience in this thing, but who
owu the silver and want to sell it. We .
will whip them out ot their boots. We
ought to have fought them a year sgo,
end I wanted .to do it, but the people
seemed' indisposed to move in the mat
ter. - We will tight them now, however,
and give them enough of it.
"There is nothing iu the platform but
1C to 1, nnd there is nothing in the nomi
nee but mouth. He is a good talker, he
is a hue talker, bnt when that is said it
is all said. At the same time I think he
is the right sort of a man for a '-oiiveTi-tion
of that character to nominate. Ha
suits a gathering of thnt kind."
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