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NT TO THE Plaindealer. lY, AUGUST r». 1896. JCAN PLATFORM. eclaration of Princl- ill Insure Victory. ' ans of the United States, their representatives in ntion, appealing for the istorieal just if ication of o the ^matchless aeli ieve- y years of Republican rule, confidently address theni- a wakened intel l igence, ex- conscience of their eouutry- l lowing declaration of facts s t . t ime since the Civil War n people have witnessed the onsequerices of full and un? emocratic control of the I t has been a record of incapacity, dishonor and dis- flministfat iye management i t s ly sacrif iced indispensable tai led ' .an, , unceasing defici t , •dinary current expenses with oney, piled up the public debt ,000 in t ime of. peace, forced balance of trade, kept a per- nace hanging over the redemp- pawned American credit to dicates and reversed all the and results of successful I te- rnle. In the broad effect of i ts i t has precipitated panic, bl ighted stry and trade with prolonged de- sion, closed factories, reduced work wages, halted enterprise and crippled lerican production, while st imulating oreign production for the American, i i irket . Every consideration of public safety and individual interest demands hat the government shall be rescued rom the hands of those who have shown S' lnselves incapable to conduct i t with- diSaster at home and dishonor abroad, id shall be restored to the party which r thir ty years administered i t with Ini­ t ialed success and prosperi ty, and in is connection we heart i ly indorse the. sdom, patriotism and success of the inistrat ion of President Harrison. Protection Is Kealfinucd. renew and emphasize our allegi- to the policy of protection as the ark of American industrial inde- ence and the foundation of Ameri- development and prosperi ty. This American policy taxes foreign prob­ and encourages home industry; i t the burden of revenue on foreign s; i t secures the American market the American producer: i t upholds American standard of wages for the erican workiugman; i t puts the fac- y by the side of the.farm, and makes American farmer less dependent on •eign demand and price; i t diffuses neral thrif t and founds the strength of on the strength of each. In i ts reason­ de application i t is just , fair and ini- . . r t ial . equally opposed to foreign eon- ol and domestic monopoly, to sectional iscriminnjion and individual favorit ism. We denounce the present Democratic ariff as sectional , injurious to the pub­ lic credit and destructive to business en­ terprise. We demand such an equitable tariff on foreign imports which come into competi t ion with American products as will not only furnish adequate revenue for the necessary expenses of the gov­ ernment, but will protect American la­ bor from degradation to the wage level of other lands. We are not pledged to any part icular schedules. The question of rates is a practical question, to be governed byJ#he condit ions of the t ime and of prod|f<etion; the ruling and un­ compromising principle is the protection and development of American labor and industry. The country demands a right set t lement and then i t wants rest . Protection and Reciprocity. We believe the repeal of the reciproci­ ty arrangements negotiated by the last Republican administrat ion was a nation­ al calamity, and we demand their re­ newal and extension on such terms as will equalize our trade with other na­ t ions, remove the restr ict ions which now obstruct the sale of American products in the ports of other countries and secure enlarged markets for the products of our farms, forests and factories. Protection and reciprocity are twin measures of Republican policy and go hand in hand. Democratic rule has reck­ lessly struck down both, and both must bo re-established. Protection for what we produce; free admission for the nec­ essaries of l i fe which we do not produce: reciprocal agreemnts of mutual interests which gain open markets for us in re­ turn for our open market to others. Pro­ tection bnilds up domestic industry and trade, and secures our own market for ourselves: reciprocity builds up foreign trade and finds an outlet for our sur plus. Sugar Attitude Stated. We condemn the present administra­ t ion for not keeping fai th with the sugar producers of this country. The Repub­ lican pasty favors such protection as will lead to the production on Amierican soil of al l the sugar which the American peo­ ple use. and for which they pay other countries more than $100,000,000 annual­ ly. ^ American Products Favored. To all our products--to those of the mine and the field, as well as to those of the shop and the factory--to hemp, to wool, the product of the great industry of sheep husbandry, as well as to the finished woolens of the mill--we promise the most ample protection. Merchant Marine Restoration. We favor restoring the early American policy of discriminating duties for the upbuilding of our merchant marine and the protection of our shipping in the for­ eign carrying trade, so that American ships--the prodin-t of American labor employed in American shipyards, sai l ing under the Stars and Stripes and manned, officered and owned by Amer cans--may regain the carrying of our foreign commerce. For Sound Money. The Republican party is unreservedly for sound money. I t caused the enact ment of the law providing for the re sumption of specie payment in 187!) since then every dollar has been as good as gold. 1 ' are unalterably opposed to everv measure calculated to debase our cu ' rency or impair the credit of our conn try. We are, therefore, opposed to t i l t f ree coinage of si lver, except by interna t ional agreement with the leading com merieal nations of the world, which we pledge ourselves to promote, and unti l such agreement can be obtained the ex­ ist ing gold standard must be preserved All our si lver and paper currency must be maintained at pari ty with gold and we favor all measures designed to main tain invoilably the obligations of the Unit ed States, and all our money, whet he coin or paper, at the present standard the standard of the most enlightened na t ions of the earth. Matter of Pensions. The veterans of th£" Union army de serve and should receive fair treatment and generous recognit ion. Whenever practicable they should be given the pref erence in the matter of employment, and they are enti t led to the enactment of such laws as are best ealeulated-to secure the fulfi l lment of the pledges made to them in the dark days of the country 's peri l . W° denounce the practice in the Pension bureau, so recklessly and- un­ justly carried on by the present adminis­ trat ion, of reducing pensions and, arbi­ trari ly, dropping names from the rolls as deserving the severest condemnation of the American people. * Vigorous Foreign' Policy. Our foreign policy should be at al l t imes firm, vigorous and dignified and all our interests in the Western hemisphere carefully watched and guarded. The Hawaiian islands should be controlled by the United States, and no foreign power should be permitted to interfere with them; the Aiearaguan canal should be buil t , owned and operated by the United States, and by the purchase of the Dan­ ish islands we should secure a proper and' much-needed naval stat iou in the West Indies. To Stop Armenian Massacres. -• The massacres ' in Armenia have aroused the deep sympathy and just in ' , dignatipir of the American people, arid we believe that the United States should exercise -al l ' the influence i t can properly exert to bring these atrocit ies to an end. In Turkey American residents have been exposed to the gravest dangers and American property destroyed. . There and everywhere American cit izens and American property must be absolutely protected at al l hazard and at any cost . 4 Monroe Doctrine Reasserted. We reassert the Monroe doctrine in i ts full extent and we reaffirm the right of the 'United States to give the doctrine ef­ fect by responding to the appeals of any American state for fr iendly intervention in case of European encroachment. We have not interfered and shall not inter­ fere with the exist ing possessions of any European power in this- hemisphere, but those possessions must not, on any pre­ text , be extended. We hopefully look forward to the eventual withdrawal of the European powers from this l iemis- sphere and to the ult imate union of al l the English-speaking part of the con­ t inent by the free consent of i ts in­ habitants. Independence for Cuba. From the hour of achieving their own independence the people of the United States have regarded with sympathy the struggles of other American peoples to free themselves from European domina­ tion. We watch with deep and abiding interest the heroic batt le of the Cuban patriots against cruelty and oppression, and our best holies go out for the full success, of their determined contest for l iberty. PRINCIPLES, SOT PARTY. The German Democratic Press Bolt the Chicago Ticket. Chicago Staats-Zeitung: The Democ­ racy which declared ftself last week in Chicago is a new and degeuerated edit ion of the Democracy of 1 '861; in i t reigns the old Bourbon spiri t which never learns and never forgets. Who, therefore, de­ sires that the United States should fur­ ther - develop their national organism; that the national government should be further strengthened in the interest Qf al l ; that national honor be kept unde­ fined; that the national credit be kept in­ tact . turns away from a Democracy which has placed i tself at the disposal of destructive forces and joins that party which was called in .1861 to save the Union, -and which in this year again has the patriotic duty to purify tin?- na­ t ional organism from the poison of the Populist ic 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 an anassail- . able credit . • ' / ' Iowa Tribune (Dem.). Davenport--The recklessness and fanaticism of the si lver people at . the Chicago convention, who. trampled all oppositon under, foot, has made'a very bid impression even upon many of those who sympathize with the theory of the debasers of money. The majori ty of our voters is not ready by any means to deliver the nation to such crazy demagogues as Bryan, Waite, Til l­ man and others. Waechtcr und Anzeiger (Dem.), Cleve­ land--The currency plank, with i ts de­ cisive declaration against the gold stand­ ard, which, with total disregard of the entire other world of culture and cein- merce, is declared to be an English insti­ tution and is st igmatized as such, while the free coinage of si lver at the rat io of 16 to 1 is demanded as an immediate measure of government, cannot fai l to make an altogether revolutionary impres­ sion. We should not be at al l surprised if this news should cause in Europe a decline of American securit ies in i l l ex­ changes; anticipated this decline has long been. Louisvil le Anzeiger (Dem.)--Nonsense, f l iou prevailest! From (trover Cleveland to Will iam Jennings Bryan--this is a jump fof1 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 dechtra- The government of Spain, having lost ( t ioyfthat i t would not support the can mtrol of Cuba, and being unable to pra-l j i lfaa ind and con tect the property and lives of American cit izens, or to comply,witi i i ts . t reaty obligations, we believe that the government of the United States should actively use i ts influence and good offices to restore peace and give independence to the island. Enlargement of Navy. The peace and security of the republic and the maintenance of i ts r ightful in­ fluence among the nations of the earth demand a naval power commensurate with i ts-posit ion and responsibil i ty. We therefore favor the continued enlarge­ ment of the navy and a complete system of harbor and seacoast defenses. Limitation of Immigration. For the protection of the quali ty of our American cit izenship and of the wages of our workingmcn against the fatal com­ peti t ion of low-priced labor we denianit that the immigration laws be thoroughly enforced and so extended as to exclude from entrance to the United States those who can neither read nor write. Civil Service Enforcement. The civl service law was placed on the statute book by the Republican party. hieh has? always sustained i t , and we renew our repeated declarations that i t shall be thoroughly and honestly en­ forced and extended wherever practica­ ble. Fair Rallots for Citizens. We demand that every cit izen of the United States slwill be al lowed to cast one free and unrestricted ballot , that such ballot shall be counted eturned as cast . Lynching is Condemned. We proclaim.our unqualif ied condemna­ tion of the uncivil ized and barbarous practice well known as lynching, or kil l- . of human beings suspected or charged with crime, without process of law. National Arbitration Board. We favor the cr.eation of a National Board of Arbitrat ion to.sett le and adjust differences which may arise between em­ ployers and employed engaged in inter­ state commerce. Free Homesteads Favored. We believe in an immediate return to the free homestead policy of the Repub­ lican party and urge the passage by Con­ gress of the satisfactory free homestead measure which has already passed the House and is now pending in the Senate. To Admit Territories. We favor the admission of the remain- ng terri tories atff t l ie earl iest practicable date, having due regard to the interests of the people of the Terri tories and of the United States. All t l ie Federal of­ ficers appointed for the Terri tories should be elected from bona-fide residents there­ of. 'and the right of self-government should be accorded as far as practica­ ble. Representation for Alaska. We believe the ci tzens of Alaska should have representation in the ( 'on- ress of the United States, to the end that needful legislat ion may be intel l i­ gently enacted. Stand for Temperance. We sympathize with al l wise and legit- mate efforts to lessen and prevent the •vils of intemperance and promote moral­ i ty. Welcome to Women, The Republican party is mindful of the rights and interests of women. Pro­ tection of American industries includes equal opportunit ies, equal pay for equal work, and protection to tin.- home. We favor the admission of women t« wider spheres of usefulness, and welcome their co-operation in rescuing the country from Democratic and Populist mismanagement and niisruli Appeal to Voters. Such are the principles and policies of the Republican paiiy. By these principles we will abide and these policies we will put into execution. We ;fsk f„ r them the considerate judgment of the Ameri­ can people. Confident al ike in the his­ tory of our great party "and in the jus­ t ice of our < a use, we present our plat­ form and our candidates in the full as­ surance that the election will bring vic­ tory to the Republican party and pros­ peri ty to the people of the United States. Qtic ci t izens! and made them almost, for* get , as- the r shouldered their guns and fell into l ine for the Union, whether they had previously styled themselves Repub­ licans or Democrats. These men, in the absence of a" sat isfactory Democratic can­ didate on a sound platform, will not con­ sent to surrender one-half of the potency of their suffrages for the sake of over- refined ideas of poli t ical consistency. They will want to put their votes where their votes will do the most good as against , Populism, repudiation and na­ tional dishonor. They will f ire their bal­ lots straight at the common enemy, even though the ballots be labeled McKinley.- I t would be a piece of poli t ical folly amounting to crime to divert the at ten­ tion of this class of Democrats from the main question, and to jeopardize the re-: suit of the election, by sett ing up inop­ portune claims to a part isan allegiance which, in an emergency l ike this , is nom­ inal at the best . Mass every honest American vote on one candidate representing bone'st money, the nation's honor, and the inten­ t ion of this people to preserve the gov­ ernment and' the insti tut ions ' ' which their fathers handed down to them. Waste no ammunition when Populism is shriek­ ing i ts batt le cry, , and anarchy i* lurking close behind . in the rear with torch . in hand. ' 1 McKinley's personali ty is nothing in this contest . His previous poli t ical affi l i­ at ions are nothing. Accident has decreed that he shall s tand for t luj t ime for some­ thing a thousand t imes more precious tha,u any party badge: RAMPANT DEMOCRACY. AY ISSUE. te who would accept the nomination resident "fmpon this platform. The nomination of Bryan maker: this dutv easier and more agreeable. Bland and Boies would have been fought by the Anzeiger on account of the cause which they represent. In Bryan we do not only fight the cause but the person. Only a convention w.i ich placed Til lman above Cleveland and Blackburn above Carlisle would perpe­ trate the bad joke to present the young hero of phrases from the West for the highest office in i ts gif t . 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 herself loose from all old customs, *o- there has arisen in Chi­ cago, imbued with the same revolution­ ary spiri t , a "new Democratic par.y," which stands everything t ime-honored on the head, denies the tradit ions of the old .party, administers a kick to honesty and decency and conies before the people with a f inancial programme which is a mockery to al l reason. The "new wom­ an" and the "new. party" are genuine t in 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 l iberali ty of social views and on the other hand of the freedom of the poli t i­ cal thought that the Consti tution of the United States prevents nobody from mak­ ing a fool of himself as often as he l ikes to. Davenport Democrat (Dem): The t ime has arrived for the clean separation of the two irreconcilable wings of the Democratic party, to which the Demo­ crat has called at tention for two years. Those Democrats who remain true ' to the unalterable national principles, as they were proclaimed by Thomas Jefferson. James Madison and the other "fathers of the republic," can have nothing in com­ mon with the Populist ic new Democrats who stole the banner and the name of the glorious old party to betray under i ts shelter the sublime principles and to throw the country into unspeakable mis­ ery. Mexico's Burden of Free 8ilvor. Michigan Iron Ore: The Detroit Trib­ une l ias a staff correspondent in Mexico, l ie describes the population of that coun­ try as being half beggars, and the bal­ ance doing poorly. l ie says everything is impoverished, and that the tales being told of the success of that country are l ies, pure, cold and simple. And the cor­ respondent js r ight , and truly describes the condit ion. Tile reason that we re­ fer to this is that certain free si lver champions delight in call ing at tention to the wonderful strides being made by Mexico under the 16 to 1 plan. EDITOR DANA'S ADVICE. Democrats Should Vote for McKin- ley and Not Sacrifice Prin- • " , ciple to Party. New York Sun: The poli t ical reasons for not putt ing up an honest-money can­ didate this year on a genuinely Demo­ cratic platform are strong and obvious. The nomination of another Democratic candidate would contribute to the per­ sonal comfort of Democrats who are re­ luctant to vote for Mr. McKinley, but i t would accomplish nothing else. And this method of voting for a principle only 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 east for Wil­ l iam McKinley as the representative of honest money and the nation's honor and the preservation of democratic inst i tu­ t ions against the wild horde now pre­ paring to at tack them, will do just twice as much service for the common cause as can be done by a Democrati vote for 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 up as a protest against the inquity consum­ mated at Chicago. Is there any sincere Democrat who, understanding all that the election means for our beloved country, i« wil l ing to cut his voU' in two this year; to deprive his ballot of one-half i ts efficiencyV It will be said that there are sucli . Democrats. I t will be said that there, are Democrats who can persuade them­ selves under no circumstances to cast their votes for any Republican candidate for President. Perhaps that is so. Let them register their protest against Chi­ cago by refusing to vote for presidential electors. Let them concentrate their part isan enthusiasm upon the state and local t ickets. They will help in this way to defend. . the nation's honor and the continued "existence of the insti tut ions which the repudiators and the revolution­ ists are assail ing. They will help, i t is true, only half as much as if they voted for McKinley and Hobart , but they would help not one part icle more than that by bestowing their votes upon a sound-money Democrat nominated for the sake of their personal comfort and poli t ical consistency. On the other hand, there are hundreds of thousands of Democrats, if not , mil­ l ions of them, who see in the present crisis a call to duty only, less urgent and inspiring than that which summoned to the front thir ty-five years ago our patri- The Republican Party's Consistent Stand as Regards the Tariff. From 1878 to 1S92, the period of maxi­ mum national prosperi ty under Republic­ an economic policies--which the first Cleveland administrat ion, lacking con­ trol of Congress, was unable to disturb-- the foreign movement of our gold gave us practically no concern. I t is i l lustrated ! in the appended table: I 1878. .Imports .? 4,125,700 187D. . Imports 1,037,334 I 1880. . Imports 77,119,371 i 1881 .. Imports t»7,400!l27 1882. . Imports 1,789 174 I 1883. .Imports 6.133,201! 1884. .Exports 18,250,6-10 ! 1885. . Imports 18.213,804 1886. . Kxports 22.208,842 1887. . Imports 33,209,414 1888. .Imports 25,558,083 1889. . Kxports 49,667,427 1890. . Kxports 4.331,149 1891.. Kxports 08,130.087 1892. . Kxports 495.873 During nine of these fif teen years the trend of the gold movement was in our favor, and during only two of the remain­ ing six years--that is ty say. in IKS!) and 1891--was the outward movement large enough to at tract at tention. In 188!) there were large importations under the la riff of 1883 for the purpose of antici­ pating the increased duties of the Mc­ Kinley bil l , and this caused an outward flux of gold in payment. In 1801 the ex­ traordinary outflow arose largely because of the Bariig failure, which caught in i ts crash many foreign holders of Ameri­ can securit ies, who, being pinched for ready money, had to return some of those securit ies to this country fror redemption. These explanations are ample to account for the exceptional exports which char- act 0rized two of the years of the Harri- son administrat ion, when the revenues of the country were upon a highly protective basis. Adding imports together and com­ paring results for the fif teen vears in question we find that the aggregate im­ ports of gold exceeded the aggregate, ex­ ports to the amount of .f lOl.f i t iS.MlO. During this period the national debt was reduced from $2.. ' :4!) ,r><;7,L!. ' j2.(>4 in 1871* to $l,5(>,! .<>12,4;>i>.t»:{ jn US92, a toial reduc­ tion of $783,!) .">4.77<!.41. Now J o t t is turn to the years from 189.1 to 1890, when "tariff reform" held the boards: •£xr>or ,s •¥87.506.46.'! 1894. . Kxports 4 5'"8 94 > -Kxports 30.984!449 1896*. Kxports 74,511,252 •Eleven months ended .May' 31. Here we have a total loss of gold dur­ ing the short era of Democratic "tariff reform" of $197.. r>. '»l . l06. or a net loss in four years of $9.~>,9<>2.970 over the net gain accumulated during the preceding fif teen years. During these same disas­ trous four years of Wilson-Ooiman tar­ iff reform, the national debt has been in­ creased in principal $"(iU.4. r>4,: i . ' ;0. and in interest yet to be paid almost $2."»0,<HK) - 000, or over $f><)0,000.000 in al l . Had the voters of the United States not heed­ ed the false arguments of Democracy in 1892 the national debt, instead of being increased in principal and interest over half a bil l ion dollars in the intervening four years, would, at the same rate hif decrease which prevailed from 187!) to 1892, have been lowered to the extent of $224,558.507.."2. and instead of a loss of $197,531,10(5 through gold exports we should, at the rat io of the preceding fif­ teen Republican years, have had a net the la t- .. . - - - -- --r, --ytil ing of the tremendous personal losses infl ict­ ed by the "tariff reform" experiment upon all classes of American cit izens-- for these in the aggregate are obviously 1 M f ind that the "change of 1892" from McKinley protection to *,Vil- son-Corman free trade has cost the gov­ ernment of the United States directlv. in i ts f inances, not less than $949,174.- (>2o,.12. a conclusion readied as follows: I .oss of gold through actual export 5U 97.531,100.00 Loss ot frold through wbnt would have been Imported had the Itenubllenn ratio from 1878 to 1892 obtained from 1892 to 1S90 I.oss through increase in na­ tional debt Loss through what would have been the reduction of debt had the Republican ra­ tio of debt reduction which prevailed from 1879 to 1892 orevaiied also from 1892 to 1890 224.558,507.32 teen uepumican years, have had a 1 gain through imports amounting in t four years to $27,085,012. Recapitul ing these losses, and not saying anythi 27.0S5.012.00 500,000,000.00 Total loss $049,174,625:32 This loss has nothing to do with the question whether a gold or a si lver standard is the better , I t is a direct fruit of the Democracy's unwise agita­ t ion against protection: a palpable dem­ onstrat ion that the tariff is emphatically an issue in this campaign.--Serantoii (Pa.) Tribune. OPPOSE CHEAP MONEY. The Building Associations Pass Ilesolu- lioiid 011 tae Money Ouextioii. At the annual meeting of the United States League of Local huihling Associa­ t ions held in Philadelphia. July 23, the following resolution 011 the money ques­ tion was adopted: The United States League of Local Building and Loan Associations, iu con­ vention assembled, declares: 1. That i t is the sense of this meeting that the interest of al l shareholders of building and loan associations in the United States de­ mands that the present s tandard of value upon which our monetary system has been based since the resumption of specie payments in 1878 shall remain unchanged and inviolate. 2. That we believe that the interest of every class in the com­ munity, an.d 'especially those of the great wage-earning class, imperatively de­ mands that the present standard of value whether coin or paper, shall be equ-il in value to every other. 3. That patriotism Democratic Press Burst All Bonds in Their indignation. In every contest in Ohio, Iowa, I l l inois and 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 '9G'. '^Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser . When a great party has veached that Btnge of moral depravity that such creat­ ures as Til lman, Altgeld & Co. are per­ mitted to speak to i t , much less take an important part in pionlding i ts poli t ics, i ts course is . indeed, about run.--Wa­ bash (Ind.) Times. Americans will never give this crowd control , of the country unti l they shall have fallen to the level of the oil world communists . That will not happen this year, at least . The people must be de­ graded in their own esteem before they will vote for a war of class against clasg.--Memphis Scimitar . . The financial plank in the platform adopted by the-Democratic national con­ vention at Chicago is dist inctly, a declara- -t ion for . such repudiation j .ol exist ing debts, public and private, as can be secured by the enforcement upon the country as legal tender nibney of. a de­ based si lver, coinage conformed to a de­ graded standard of money!--New Or­ leans Picayune. Scratch a si lver man and you conje to a Populist . In the heart of each burns the desire to get as much as possible and give as l i t t le . If ei ther 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, and in the Chicago platform they go for i t s traight.--New York Times. I t is but 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 i t t rai ls 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 tO.) Times. Til l the contest is decided our voice shall be raised and our influence given for the election of Mr. McKinley to the presidency. The security of the cur- 1 rency is the paramount question of the hour. I t eclipses issues. Believing that this securi ty can best be at tained by the success of the Republican party, we promise i t our sincere and hearty support for i ts presidential t icket in the impending campaign. We have never believed that the.Republican party made the best selection possible to i t . but i t is diff icult to seii- jhow any candid man can deny thai the selection of the Repub­ lican parly was eminently more fi t t ing and appropriate. There is an absence of dignity in the Democratic selection which is seen both in Ihe candidate himself and in the circumstances that at­ tended his nomination.--Boston Herald. The true interests of the people ask for~tho cloetinn 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 a part. I11 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 worlh fighting for: one country, one Hag.-Springfield Republican (Ind.-Dem.) No reasonable man can ask the Times to stult ify and dishonor^ i tself and long- t imed Democratic principles. While sup­ porting to the best of our abil i ty the state nominations for executive offices and legislat ive nominees, we feel assured that al l t rue Democrats will just ify us in deciding that we cannot give the sup­ port of t l ie Times to the Chicago con­ vention and i ts poli t ically diseased candi­ date. We shall do all we can to sustain the good name and the organization of the Democratic party, but we cannot sup­ port principles nor candidates of the Bland. Teller and Altgeld str ipe. We cannot conscientiously ask honest men to vote for them.--Hartford Times. We repudiate the 1 <> to 1 plank in Bryan's Chicago platform and will not support any candidate on such a pint- form. I t is too Populist ic and Nihil ist ic. -- Maehias (Me.) Union. Our worst fears have not only b«en realized but new and horrible 'doctrines have been added to the Chicago platform, which cannot possibly bind a Democrat who is unwill ing to abandon the funda­ mental principles of his party.--Rich­ mond (Ya.) Times. What Harry Bingh am feared only as a bare possibil i ty has come to be a stern reali ty. Tim "madmen" of whom lie spoke have controlled the national '>011- vention and'declared for free si lver at 1(! to 1. The Democrats of New Hamp­ shire cannot , ro with them.--Manchester (N. H.) Union. Circumstances have made Will iam Mc­ Kinley the man around whom all must ral ly who desire to defeat determinedly the candidate for the pseudo-Democracy, Will iam J . Bryan, who stands for fiat money under the guise of bimetall ism: for null if ication of lawfully-contracted li­ abil i t ies; for communism and lawless­ ness. McKinley and the party l ie repre­ sents have unti l now induced Democratic and indepndent voters TO look for means by which they could avoid the necessity of supporting the Republican t icket . This has been shown to be hopeless, nnd there is 110 other way but to offer our support to our old opponents.--New York Staats Zeitung, the leading Eastern (Jerman Democratic daily. We have 110 fear that the sound-money Democracy will acquiesce in a free si lver platform, a t icket of repudiation, of an­ archy and the trampling out of the rights of the soqnd money delegates in the convention. A belt is inevitable. A Democratic t icket for which Democrats can vote is becoming a necessity. I t will be supplied. The Anarchists , the Populists , the Communists and the Nihil­ ists who are controll ing this convention will never control this country; they will never control the Democratic party. Brooklyn Eagle. The part ing of the ways has been reached, and for the sake of party i ion esty and electoral integri ty it is to be hoped that the division will be com­ plete. A paramount issue l ike that for the pending coinage question demands a speedy sett lement and a voter 's convic­ t ions upon i t have not been subordil iat ed to t i l* demands of party expediency. There can be 110 honorable compromise with or submission to the free si lver fac­ t ion.--Galveston News. Speaking for i tself , the Courier cannot so far forget i ts duty to i ts consti tuency as to advocate support of the Chicago pronouncement. ' The declarations con­ tained therein are abhorrent to Demo­ cratic ideas; they are not expressive of Democratic doctrine. Free coinage of mint mark of the United States shall be the equal of the dollar of the most ad­ vanced nations and enti t led to full fai th and credit al l over the world; and to that end it must be maintained free from all suspicion, debasement, or repudiation. .7 tendant consequence as an economic proposit ion, fes of minor importance in i ts influence for good or evil upon the peo­ ple of this country compared with the other declarations of party policy ex­ pressed in the platform.--Syracuse Cou­ rier . I t is al together probable that the Democrats who love Democracy and who decline to be counted among i ts betrayers will l faye a t icket in the near future that t t ' i l l sat isfy their desires and aims. This would be the most desirable result , but , come what may, the Chronicle absolves i tself . from all responslbil i ty -for the ut­ terances of the alleged Democratic con­ vention just closed at Chicago, and pledges i tself tp aid in the defeat of i ts nominees. To part icipate in a campaign for such a t icket on such a platform would be to be untrue to every patriotic Democratic principle.--La Crosse {Wis.) Chronicle. A bright young man with a s ' lvry, demagogic tongue is planted on the ant. i- •Democratic platform adopted at Chicago, and the excited victims of a singular and il logical craze vie with the sympathizers with Anarchy and Populism in the long acclaim to Will iam J. Bryan;" the elo-- qvieut and eccentric representative of the bolters of Nebraska. ••. . . Tbe platr l 'orm and the candidate threaten a par­ alysis of business unti l the day of elec­ t ion: for a longer period if success could- possibly at tend.; and they condemn the Democratic party to a fate that would be .death to any other party, but the Democratic party is i indyingi - Utiea Ob­ server. ; ' . Will l ose Hundreds ct Thousands. Savannah News:. All Democrats will not approve the declarations i i i respect to .coinage, bonds, the currency, income tax and railroads. These lat ter declara­ t ions ' are much.. ' .more " Populist ic. than. Democratic. I t 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 arc not mistaken, Senator Til lman said in his speech in the convention that the purpose of them is to influence, the Populists to come into the l ines of the Democracy and become a part of the Democratic party. l ie did not seem to take into consideration the fact that the adoption of Populist ic declarations might not break up the Populist party, but would pretty certainly drive hundreds, of thou­ sands of Democrats out of the Democrat­ ic party. l'oss Champions of Disorder. Trenton (X. .1.1 American CDem.): But. whatever may be the course of the poli t icians and the party leaders, there will be thousands of Democrats in New lersey who--not in resentment of the [ 'outumely with which the state and i ts interests have been treated, but from [personal and public motives--will refuse Jtn give their approval to a convention -and a candidate* which have publicly •ind va ingloriously threatened the de­ struction of the nation's credit , the dim­ inution of values, the retardment of busi­ ness. the at tack on property, and the tr i­ umph of disorder above the law and those called upon to administer i t . And they will so refuse in the belief that all other parly issues -fade into insignifi­ cance in comparison with the issue as i t has been formulated at Chicago. I):inger to I.iberty. Galveston News: The fact is that the programme formulated at Chicago mere- y marks the skirmish l ine of a great and final batt le for social revolution, indus­ tr ial reconstruction, and consti tutional subversion. Without eonsitutional sal 'e- nards there can be 110 assurance of ei th­ er free government or individual l iberty. A11 unchecked social Democracy means no law but the law of brute force, no rule and 110 order but the rule and Order of irresponsible lyraiiny. Intel l igent ci t izens grounded in wholesome appre­ ciat ion fit ' the consti tutional essentials f a s table republic, who supremely herish the priceless interests of consti­ tutional ' l iberty and security, who feel that there can be 110 t rue progress with­ out the conservation of these interests , wil l not fai l to see in present emergen­ cies where their common danger l ies. Realizing also that the problem of de­ fense is their common concern, l l iey 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 decided in t lx1 l ight of current events and modify­ ing circumstances. Soutli Dakota Views. Sioux Falls Argus-Leader: The Dem­ ocrats have declared for a policy which will inevitably establish the single si lver standard; will , in our opinion, wreck the national credit and reputation; will , for many years, make commercial confidence impossible; will spread ruin over the land; will destroy all hopes of bimetal­ l ism in the generation; and will indefi­ nitely postpone a revival of good t imes. 1 'nder these circumstances the Argus- Leader can see i ts duty only in one chan­ nel. Believing, as this paper does, that , the honor, safety and prosperi ty of the United States would be seriously jeop­ ardized by the success of the Democratic party on i ts preset 11 platform, the Argus- Leader, with sorrow for the broken asso­ ciat ions. with regret at part ing from a name it has revered and loved, but with a consciousness of unavoidable duty, withdraws" from the grand old Demo­ cratic party, which has, in our judgment. , left i ts t ime-honored principles in pursuit of s trange gods, and will throw what­ ever influence it_ may possess on the side of the Nation's prosperi ty and honor. To Attempt the Impossible. Staunton (Ya.) News: A law de­ claring that wheat, regardless of the surplus 011 the markets or the demand for i t . should sell the year round at Jj; 1 per bushel , and that corn and oats, 110 matetr what their intr insic value, should always sell a t the same figure as wheat, would be just as sensible, as a free coinage of si lver law and would be just as easy to carry into effect . The gist : of the whole matter is that to at­ tempt/to coin si lver in unlimited quan­ tif ies and to make i t even in value at a given fixed rat io with gold is to at tempt the impossible and to do what in the very nature of things cannot be done. Looking to the New York Convention. Syracuse News: The Chicago ji jat- form is a wide departure from the plat­ form adopted by the last Democrat it- s tate convention at Saratoga. I t was so wide a departure that the New York delegation fel t compelled to abstain from part icipation in the nomination of candidates 011 that platform. I t re­ mains for the coming Democratic state convention to formulate the policy of the New York Democracy. That con­ vention, in nominating presidential elec­ tors. will point the way to Democrats which shall lead to the preservation of the party--the preservation of i ts un­ sull ied honor and i ntcgri ty. The party which this year celebrates i ts 190th an­ niversary will not be permitted to go down to a dishonorable grave. No Excuse for the Insult. Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser: Thou­ sands and thousands of Democrats in Alabama will learn with mingled emo­ tions ol anger ' and shame that a Demo­ cratic national convention declined to de­ clare of Grover Cleveland the simple truth that his "honesty, economy, coin­ age, and fideli ty" deserved commenda­ tion at the ihands of Democrats. The in­ tense indignation which this action causes to over 00,000 sound, money Dem­ ocrats in 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 part isanship in favor of free si lver can­ not excuse i t . A few more such blows will render inevitable the outbreak of dissension which years will not quiet or cure. •>