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:--k. KA 31 PA NT DEMOCRACY. Democratic Pr Burst AM Bonds In Their Indignation. Ia every contest 1a Ohio, loss, Illinois and Michigan when the lvaiu'rat were on a tree Ulfi-r or lirip money platform they have been oerw bcluiiugly beaten What evidence hate we tbat there i lo be a change ia 'IWf-.Montgomery (Ala.i Advertiser. When great party has reached tbat stage of mural depravity tbal such creat ure an Tillman, Altgeid & Co. arc per mitted to speak to it. much less take in important part in moulding it politic, ill con rut- is, huh-ed, about run. Wa bash (III J.) Time. American will never givp tbia crowd control of the country until they shall have falli-n to tin- level of I lie oltl World communist. That Mill n bap'n this year, at leant. The jieople must be de graded in tlieir own esteem before they will Tote for a war of class against rlass, Memphis Scimitar. The finnneial plunk in the platform adopted by the Iemoeratie national con vemiou at Chicago ia distinctly a declara tion for aiteb repudiation of existing debta, ptiblie and private, a can lie ecured by the enforcement upon the country legal tender money of a de 1. lined ailver coinage conformed to a de graded atandnrd of money. New Or leana Picayune. Scratch a ailver man mid yon come to a I'opulist. In the heart of each burn the denire to get a mueli as possible and give ai little. If either of them hap pen to l a debtor, tbia desire take the form of repudiation. A mint of them are debtors repudiation in the Ihing they are for, and in the Chicago platform they go fur it straight. --.New York Time. It is but proper to say In fairness and justice to the. grand old Democratic party of Hamilton, Jefferson and .Iflck tuiD that we cannot depart Iroin the way of the father upon the tiiianeiiil question, and. therefore, cannot, much to our regret, follow the I lemoerntic banner as it trail" into a foreign cunip: aud must, ii a mutter of self-respect, refuse to support Mr, Bryan upon the financial plat form tijion which he ha been placed and stand. -Diiytnn ((I.) Time. Till the mutest la decided our voice ahall be raised and our influence given for the election of Mr, McK inner to the presidency. The security of the cur rency ia the paramount question of the hour. It ecllnse issues. Believing that thia aecurity can bent be attained by the inw of the Id-publican party, 'p promise it our sincere and hearty supjmrt for ita preaidetitinl ticket in the impending eninpaign. We havp never Isdieved that the Republican party made the liest selection possible to it, but it ia difficult to nee how any candid man can deny that the selection of the Iteptib licini party a eminently more fitting ait' appropriate. There ia an absence of dignity in the Democratic selection which ia seen both in the candidate himself and in the circumstances Hint at tended hia nomination. Boston Herald. The true interest of the people nsk . for the election of Mr, McKinley, not r r himself but for the absolute ne cessity of the whole people of the t'nit ,,M States and of the greater world of ' which they are after all but part. In any event let us lie reasonable. Don't talk of "aectintialimu" or of "anarchy" , r of "revolution." Remember always ' hat compared with the unity of country j"he gold standard ia not worth fighting 'or; one country, one dug. Springfield id-publican (Ind.-Dem.) No reasonable man can nsk the Times to stultify and dishonor itself and long tiuied Democratic principles. While sup porting to the best of onr ability the state nominations for executive offices and legislative nominees, ne feel a km i red that all true Democrat will justify us in deciding that we ennnot give the sup port of the Times to the Chicago eon rent ion and Its politically diseased citwli date. Wo shall do nil we can to sustain the good name and the organization of the Democratic party, but we cannot sup- Krt principles nor candidates of the land, Teller and A It geld stripe. We cannot conscientiously ask honest men to rote for them. Hartford Times. We repudiate the 10 to 1 plank in Bryan's Chicago platform and will not support any candidate on such a plat form, It is too I'opulistic and Nihilistic. -Machia (Me.) Union. Our worst fears havp not only been realised but new and horrible doctrines have been added to the Chicago platform, which ennnot possibly bind a Democrat who is unwilling to abandon the funda mental principles of his party. Kich tnond ( a.) 'limes. What Harry Bingham feared only as 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 111 to 1. The Democrats of New Hamp shire cannot "o with them. Manchester N. H.) t'nioii. Circumstances have made William Mc Kinley the limn nronnd whom nil must rally who desire to defeat determinedly the candidate for the pm-mlo-Democracy, Williiim ,1. Bryan, who Mauds for fiat money under the guise of bimetallism; for nullification of lawfully-contracted li abilities; for communism nod lawless ness, McKinley and the party he repre sents have until now induced Democratic and indepndeiit voters to look for means by which they could avoid be necessity of supporting the Republican ticket. This has been shown to be hopeless, a ml there is no other way but to offer our support to our old opponents." New Vork Stoats Zeitung. the leading Kuslern German DeiniMTttlic daily. We have no fear that the sound-money Democracy will acquiesce in a free silver plulforui, n lieket of repudiation, of an archy mid the trampling out of the rights of (he sound mouev deb-gates In Ihe convention. A bolt Is inevitable. A Democratic ticket for which Democrats can vote ia becoming a necessity. j( will lie su.pli. The Anarchist's, the Populists, the Communists nu, n, ists who arc controlling this convention will never control this country; they will never control the Democratic party, Brooklyn lOagle. The parting of Ihe ways has been reached, and for the sake of parly hon esty mid electoral integrity it la to be hoped that the division will be com plete. A paramount issue like that for Ihe pending coinage question demands n K-edy settlement rind a voter's eon vie tlons niioii It have not been subordinat ed to the d (mils of party expediency, There etui lie no honorable compromise with or submission to the free slWer fac tion. Galveston News, Hpcnking for Itself, the Courier ctnaot so far forget its duty to it constituency is to advocate supisirt of the Chicago pronouncement. The declarations con tained therein are abhorrent to Demo cratic ideas; they are not expressive of Democratic doctrine. Kree coinage of silver itself alone, with or without its at tendant consequence is an economic proposition. Is of minor Importance In lit Influence for good or evil upon the peo ple of this country compared with the other declaration of party policy rg- presM-d in tue platform. Syracuse Cou rier. It is iltogether probable tint the Di tnocrats who love Democracy ami who decline to be counted among its betrsvers rtill Lave a ticket id the near futurs that iviil satisfy tneir desires and aim. Tb. uiUJ Us the must desirable result, but, cuuie ht may. the Chronicle bolVis itlf from all responsibility for he ut IeiaUis of tbe alleged Democratic lull ieiitu.0 just closed at Chicago, ami pledges itself to aid in tbe defeat of its nominees. To participate iu a ca np iigu for such a ticket on such a platform would be to lie untrue to every patriotic Democratic principle. I Jt Crosse tWU.f Chronicle. A bright young man with a t'lv-ry, demagogic tongue is planted on the snti Demoiralic platform adopted at Chiiigo, ami the excited victims of a singular and illogical craiee vie with tbe syuipatUixera with Anarchy and Populism in the long acclaim to William J. Bryan, ihe elo quent and eccentric representative of the Imlters of Nebraska. . . , Tbe plat form and fhe candidate threaten a par alysis of business until the day of elec tion: for a longer eriid if success could possibly attend; aud they condemn the Deuiocratic party to a fate tiiat would lie death to any other party, but the Democratic party is undying. Uticn Ob server. Will Ldm Hundreds f Thousands. Savannah News; All Democrats will not approve the declaration iu respect to coinage, bonds, die currency,, income tax and railroads. These iatter declara tions are iu in h more Poimlislic 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, Henator Tillman said in his speech in the contention that the purpose of them is to influence tbe Populists to come into the lines of the Democracy and become a part of the Democratic party. He did not seem to take into consideration the fact that tbe adoption of Popullstic 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. tloss Champion of Ilorilr. Trenton (N. .1.) American (Dem.1: Hut. whatever may be the course of the jsiliticians and the party leaders, there will lie thousands ,f Democrats in New Jersey who not in resentment of the contumely with which e state and its Interests have bis-n i a ted, but from personal and public motives will refuse to give their approval to a convention and a candidate which have publicly and vainglorionsly 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 the law and those called upon to administer it. And they will so refuse in the belief that all other party issues fade into insignifi cance iu comparison with the issue as it has been formula ted at Chicago. Danger to Llhorty. Galveston News: The fact is that 1 programme formulated at Chicago mere ly marks the skirmish line of a great and final battle for social revolution, indus trial reconstruction, and constitutional subversion. Without consitutional safe guards there can !o no assurance of pHh er free government or individual liberty. An unchecked social Democracy means no law but the law of brute force, no rule ami no order but the rule and order of irresponsible tyranny. Intelligent citizen grounded In wholesome appre ciation of the constitutional essentials of a stable republic, who supremely cherish the priceless interests of consti tutional lils-rty and security, who feel that there can lie no true progress with out the conservation of tfiese 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 ami disarm their common enemy is a question of momentary expediency to lie decided in the light of current events and modify ing circumstances. Son tli Dakota Views. Sioux Palls Argiis-Ieader: The Dem ocrats have declared for a policy which will inevitably establish the single silver standard; will, in our opinion, wreck the iintioiiul credit and reputation; will, for many years, make commercial confidence impossible; will spread ruin over the land; will destroy all bopea of bimetal lism in the generation; and will indefi nitely postisine a revival of good times. I'uder these circumstances the Argus Lender can see Its duty only in one chan nel. Believing, a this paper does, that the honor, safety and proMrity of the I'nited States would lie seriously jeop ardized by the success of the Democratic party on its presetn platform, the Argus Leader, with sorrow for the broken asso ciations, with regret at parting 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 Its time-honored principle In pursuit of strange gods, and will throw what ever influence It may possess on the side of the Notion's prosperity and honor. To Attempt tli Impossible. Staunton (Va.) News: A Jaw de claring that wheat, regardless of the surplus on the markets or the demand for it. should sell tbe year round at $1 fler bushel, and that corn and oats, no niatetr what their intrinsic value, should always sell at the samp figure as wheat, would be just as sensible as a free coinage of silver law and would Is- just a 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 in the very nature of things cannot be done. Looking to tbo Mo York Convention. Syracuse News: The Chicago plat form is a wide departure from the plat form adopted by the lust Democratic state convention at Saratoga. It wits so wide a departure that tbe New York delegation felt compelled to abstain from participation in the nomination of candidates on that platform. It re main for the coining Democratic state convention to formulate the policy of the New York Democracy. That con vention. In nominating .presidential elec tor, will point the way to Democrat which shall lead to tbe preservation of the party the preservation of its un sullied honor and integrity. The party which this year celebrates it 100th an niversary will not lie permitted to go down to a dishonorable grave. Mo Kxuoso for the Inanlt. Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser: Thou sand and thousand of Democrat in Alabama will learn with mingled emo tion of anger and shame that a Demo cratic national convention declined to de clare of Orover Cleveland the simple truth tbat hi "honeaty, economy, cour age, and Bdelity" deuvrved commenda tion at the hands of Democrats. The In tense Indignation which this action cause to over 00,000 avuud money Dem ocrat in Alabama I heightened wl the voice of the Ib moeracy of the state la recorded a In favor of this insult to" their leader. The intensest heat and partisanship in favor of free ilver cau not excuse it. A few more such blows will render luevlaMe the outbreak of dlaaension whlcfc ear will not quiet or cure. PRINCIPLES. -MOT PAHTV. Th German Democratic Press Bolt the Chicago Ticket. Chicago Stuiii Zc.lui g- The Oemoc Mi y wbiib di-clap-d ii-e.'f Ut week u Chicago is a ti.-w and Uegi-iulutrd edition of the D-mociacy of 101; iu it rcijns the old Bum bun spirit which uever learns aud never forgeis. Who. thetefoie, de sires that the I uiled States should fur ther develop their minimal omani'in; that the national government should Is further strengthened iu ihe interest of all; that national honor be kept umie filed; that the national credit le kept in tuit, turns away from a Denes-racy which has placed -itself nt tbe dis nisal of destructive forces and joins tbat party which was called in 1;1 to save the I'liion, and which iu ibis year again has the patriotic duty to purify the na tional organism from the poison of the I'opulistic DenuM racy. The Issue is not one of party, but of the highest achie einents of the nation, which can lie kept sisuie only by the authority of the Federal government, by an honest currency and by an iuassiiil able credit. Iowa Tribune (Dem ), Dnvensirt The recklessness U,i1 fanaticism of the silver Iople at the Chicago convent inn, who trampled all nppositnu under foul, has made a very bad impression even upon many of those who sympathize with the thi-ory of the ih basers of mouev. Tin majority of our voters is not ready bj any means to deliver the mil ion to such crazy deiiiiigogiH-j) as Bryan. Waite, Till man and others. Waechler und Anzeiger (Dem. I, den Ism! -The currency plank, with its dc cisive declaration against tbe gold tnnil ard, which, with total disregard of tie eutire other world of culture and om merce, is declared to be an Ktiglisb i.isli tution and is stigmutued as such, u nil. the free coinage ot silver at the ratio ut 10 to 1 is demanded as an immediate measure of government, cannot i'ail to make an altogether revolutionary imprcs sion. We should nol be at all surprised If this new should cause in Kuropc a decline of Aiticrican securities iu ill ox changes; anticipated this decline has long been. ' Ixiuisville Anr.eiger I Dem.) Nonsense, thou prevnilcst! l-'roin (Irover Cleveland to William Jennings lirynn- this is a jump for which the real Democrat i not so easily ready. The Anzeiger prefers at any rate not to make it. Alter the mhip lion of the platform the Anzeiger hud no need to pause a moment for I lie il-lnr i tion that it Would not support the can didate, who would accept the noniin ition upon this platform. The nomination of Bryan makes this dntv easier and more agreeable. Bland and Boies would have been fought by the Anzeiger on dec unit of the cause which they represent. In Bryan we do not only light the cause but the person. Only a convention wnich placed Tillman above Clevelnnd and Blackburn above Carlisle would perpe trate Ihe bad joke to present the .voting hero of phrases from the West for the highest ollice in its gift. Heeboto (Dem.), Milwaukee: As the close of the century has brought forth the abominable "new woman," who rides a bicycle, smokes, drinks, wears trousers ami tears herself loose from all old customs, so there has arisen in Chi cago, imbued with the same revolution ary spirit, a "new Democratic party." which stands everything tiuie-honored on the head, denies the tradition's of the old party, administer a kick to honesty and decency and comes before the people with a financial programme which is a mockery to all reason. The "new wom an" and the "new party" are genuine fin de siecle experiences, and one would consiileKneither of them seriously if they were Hut so serious in (heir 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 I'nited 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 tin,"t". 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, James Madison nnd the other "fathers of the republic," enn 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 ery. . EDITOR DANA'S ADVICE. Democrats Should Vote tor McKln lay and Not Sacrifice Prln , r clple to Party. New York Sun: The political reasons for not. putting up an honest-moiicy can didate this year on a genuinely Deuio 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 it would accomplish nothing else. And this method of voting for a principle only would surely imperil the result in many a close stale Better fHr to vote for principle in a way that will count. Kvcry Democratic vote cast for Wil liam AlcKiuJey as the representative of honest money and (he tuition's honor and the preservation of deuiocratic institu tions against the wild horde now pre paring to attack them, will do just twice as much service for the common cause as can be done by a Democratic 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 nund: His vote for McKinley and Unhurt is worth double his vote for the best Democrat that the sane part of the party could put up as n protest against the inqulty consuin tnafeu at Chicago. Is there any sincere Democrat -!n,, understanding nli that the election menus for our beloved country, is willing to cut bis vote in two this year; to deprive bis ballot of one-half lis clliciency' It will be said that there are such Democrats. It will lie said that there lire Democrats who cull persuade I hem 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 elii-lors. Let them concentrate their partisun enthusiasm upon the stnte and locul tickets. They will help in this way to defend the nation's honor and the continued existence of the institutions which the reptidiators and the revolution ists are assailing. They will help, it is true, only half as much as if they voted for McKinley nnd Unhurt, but they would help not one particle more than that by bestowing their votes upon a sound-money Democrat nominated for the soke of their persomil comfort and political consistency. On the other hand, there are hundreds of thousands of Democrats, If not mil lions of lliein, who see in the' present crlsi a call to duty only less urgent and Inspiring than that which summoned to the front thirty-five year ago our patri otic citizens, and made tbera almost for get, as li't,' shouldered their guns and fell into line for tbe L'uiou, whether they bad pieriotisly styled themselves Repub licans or Democrats. These men, iu tbe absence of a satisfactory Deuiocratic can didute on a sound plstiorm. will not ccn Scixt to surrender oiie-baif ot tbe pounty ot their suttragt-s tor iLi saki? of over jenued idea of political oilisiisteucy. 'ibey will ttltil to put their voles fthele their votes mil Ju the taost good as agaiust Populism, repudiation and na tional dishonor. They will tire their bal lots straight at tbe common enemy, even though the hallol be lals-led McKinley. It would be a piece of political folly amounting to crime to divert the atten tion of this class of Democrat from the maiu-qi on, and to jeopardize the re sult of . election, by setting up inop portune claims to a partisan allegiance w hich, iu an emergency like this, is nom inal at the best. Mass every honest American Tote on one candidate representing honest money, the nation' honor, and the inten tion of this iieople to preserve the gov ernment and the institutions which their fathers handed down to them. Waste no iiiiimiiuilioii w hen Populism is shriek ing its battle cry. and anarchy is lurking close behind i the rear with torch iu hand. McKinley' js-rsonality is nothing in this coniesr. 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 than any party budge. A VITAL ISSUE. Hie Republican Party's Consistent Stand as Regards the Tariff. Prom ISVs to lSHU, the period of maxi mum national prosperity under Republic an economic policies which the first Cleveland admiliiitrut ion, lacking euti trol of Congress, was unable to disturb I be foreign movement of our gold gave us practically no concern. It is illustrated in the appended table: IsJV Imports ,$ 4.1'..,,7iiO IsTU .liiiporls 1, 0.(7, .'"..'.t Ismi. .Iinijnris 77 11H,:s71 issi I,,,,,,,,, 7.-liiii.lL'7 tss-j .Iijiiii-is 1. 174 tss.-!. .Imports u i:.iil iss I. . Experts JS.-j-i.iiu tss.'p. .Imports IS '.'l.-f.sot iswi. . t-Apiiris , 'J-.'.l'os.M 17. . Iinitorts ;u;,J0i,-(H lsv .Imports L'.-..-"iS,o.s:i ls,-'.i. . Kvports -it) iiili.47 Iv.hi, , Kxporis 4.;',.'(1,1 III Is'U . .Kxporls lx.l;tip'tis,7 1M1L. . Kxpurts -4tCi.N7;t During nine of these fifteen years the trend of the gold movement was in onr favor, nnd during only two of the remain ing six years that is to say. iu IMS!) and l.Mil -was the outward movement large enough to infract attention. In IKS!) there were large importations under the tariff of 1 ss; I for the purpose of antici pating the increased duties of the Mc Kinley bill, and this caused an outward Mux of gold in payment. In 1K!)1 the ex-ti'Horilimn-y outflow arose largely because of the Burhg failure, which caught ill its crash many foreign holders of Ameri can securities, who. being pinched for ready money, hud to return some of those securities to this country fror redemption. These explanations are ouipie to account for the exceptional exports which char acterized two of the years of the Harri son administration, when the revenues of (he country were upon a highly protective basis. Adding imports together ,-iud com puting results tor the liftecti years in question we find that the aggregate im ports of gold exceeded the aggregate ex ports to the amount of .SUll.."i!i,S..'HO. During this period the national debt was reduced from W,3-I'.).r.i7.2.'t2.()4 in 1879 to ifl,rsi:i,til2.4ri.-.ii;i in lHr', n total reduc tion of $T.So,SC.4.77l'i.41. Now let us turn to flip years from 1803 to l.Hlsl, when "turiff reform" held the boards: . (Cxports 87,.VMn3 ':(""! 4..'i2K.(l.' Xli., I-.xporta Rit.StK4.4ltl 1SIK1 . Kxuort 71 nt ;Si'2 Rleveii months ended May ' Here we have a total loss of gold (Jur. ing the short era of Dciimcriitjc "tariff reform" of S I !)7. .".",!. I ir,. or a net loss in four years of S!t."i.!s;o iivii V(.,. t. M,f gain accumulated during the preceding fifteen years During these same disas trous four years of Wilsnu-( forma u tar iff reform, the national debt has been In creased in principal $L'ii(),4r4,.'!,'iO. nnd in interest, yet to be paid almost ,2."i() (KK) -(SHI, or over $500.I)00,IMIO j all. Had the voters of the Cnilod States not heed ed the false arguments of Democracy in 1S'.)2 the national debt, instead of being increased in principal aud interest over half a billion dollars in the intervening four years, would, at the sainc rate o decrease which prevailed from 187!) to IH'.rj, have been lowered to the extent of JlLM,"iri,S,fil)7.;i2, and instead of a loss of $l!(7.r:il,10(i through gold exports we should, nt the ratio of the preceding fif teen Republican years, have had a net gain through imports amounting in the four years to $27.HN.-,,0l:. Uecnpitulat ing these losses, and not saying anything of the tremendous personal losses 'inflict ed by the "(in-i(T reform" experiment upon all classes of American citizens tor these in the aggregate are obviously inciilciilalile we find that the "chumre o'f 1W.I2" from .McKinley protection to Wil son -( Jorum n free trade him cost the gov ernment of the 1'nited Slates directly, in its final s, not less thun S!W!.i74,- (!2.i,.'!2. a conclusion reached as follows: Loss of gold through actual export lfi7,.l:tl, 100.00 Loss of gold through what would have been Imported hid the lteniibllcau rutin from 187.S to lM'.u: obtained from 1H!C to lHPi! 27.08r.012.CH) Loss through Increase la na tional debt ."OO.OoO.utiO.tKI Loss through what would have been the reduction of debt hint the Republican ru tin of debt reduction which prevailed from 1X711 to 18U2 prevailed also from 18'.rj to tH!ii! 224,M8.!WI7..'!2 Total loss $!(P.174,(K.i..'!2 This loss has nothing to do wilh the question whether a gold or n silver standard is the better. It is a direct fruit of the Democracy's unwise agita tion against protection: a palpable dem onstration tlntt the tariff is emphatically an issue in this campaign. Scrniiton (Pu.) Tribune. OPPOSE CHEAP MONEY. The llulliltng Associations I'ahh Kenolu liuna on ta Money IJuestlon. At Ihe annual meeting of the United males League of Local liuililing Associa tions held in Philadelphia, July 2: 1, the following resolution on the money ques tiou was adopted : The United State League of Local Building and Loan Associations, iu con vention assembled, declares: 1. That it is the sense of (his meeting that the interest of oil shareholders of building and load associations in the United States de uiaiids that the present standard of value upon which our monetary system has been bused since the resuinptiou of specie payments in 1 878 shall remain unchanged and inviolate. 2. That wa believe that the interest of every cluss in the tom niunity, nud especially those of the greut wnge-eii ruing clas, imperatively J,,, mauds that the present standard of value whether coin or paper, shall be cqii-tl in value to every oilier. J. That patriotism demands that the "dollar" bearing (he mint mark of Ihe United States shall be Ihe cuuiil of the dollar of the most ad- i van ced nation and entitled to full faith and credit all over the world; and lo i that end it must be maintained free from , nil suspicion, debasement, or repudiation, j BOLTING NEWSPAPERS. Principle Above Party for Nearly 200 Democratic Editors. Cp to date 19V Deuiocratic oewspapeti have bolted. By locality tbe iuiio'iii tio(viti is made: Sw f Bgiand Connecticut-Hjrtfoiii limes, Bridgeport Taruier, Meriuvn Journal, New Hrt'iiln Herald. Hartford Telegram. New Havuu Hegisier. ,Ww Hateu News. Waierbury American. ludbaui County Reformer, Utcfiuetd Impilrer. Main Irfwision Sun. Muehlas Cnloa. New llstiipsiiiri W.-iiu-hesler t'nlou. ttiiode Island Providence Journal, Provi dence Telegram. Vermont lieuiilngtoB Reformer, Brattle boro Reformer. Massachusetts Boston Herald. Boston Globe, Boston Post. Fltchburg Mall, Hol yoke Free Press, Lowell Times. Nortb Adams Iiemocrat, Milford Times, Sprtng tlelii Republican. Lowell Star. Balem New 4. 1'iltsBeld Journal, Uordner News. Middle mutes. New York Harper's Weekly, New fork Handel's Keltung, New York Nun, New Vork Times, New York Herald, New York World, New York fctsais-Zetiuiig. New York Post, New York Irisli-Auierlciiu. Brooklyn Mtir.eu, Brooklyn hagle, Buffalo 'ourler. Buffalo Kuquirer. I ilea Observer. Troy l'ress, Albany Argus, Syracuse Herald. Syracuse Courier, Youkers Gazette. Buffalo Iiemokrat, Koine Ilally Sentinel, Hornells ville Times, f'ishklll News, Oohoea Dispatch, Peun Van Iieuiocrat, Puughkeepsie Knter- frise, Puughkeepsie News-Press. Rochester 'ost mid Beobacheter. Corning Democrat, Syracuse News. Ogdeusburg Advance, Fort Plains Standard. Binghamton Herald. PennsylvaniaPhiladelphia Record, Phil adelphia Times, Philadelphia ;ermuii Dem oeral, Kastou Kxpress, Kaslon Argus. Northampton Correspondent, Pottsvllle Chronicle, Krle Herald, VYilkesbarre VVaeeh ter, Doylestown Democrat, Lock Haven Democrat, Chaiiibersburg Valley huh-lt, Counellsvllle Courier, McKeesporf .News. Alleulowu Item. Philadelphia Neue Welt. Wllllauispurt Sun. New Jersey Jersey City News, Elizabeth Herald, Trenton True American, Treuioo rimes. Newark Sews, Newark Hunday Call, Newark Deutsche Zeltung, Hoboken Ob server, Harrison Record, Souiervlile Mea eager, bomeret Democrat Tbe West. Illinois Chicago Chronicle, Chicago Stauts Zeltung, Chb-ugo Abeudpost, Peoria Deuiukrat, Peoria Herald, Meuduta liepor ler, (HluHo Free-Trader. Indiana Lafayette Journal. Wabash Times, Indianapolis News, Seymour Demo crat. 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Volksblatt, Dayton (O.I Vnlkszeltittig. Sheboygan (Wis) National Democrat. Watertowii (Wis.) Weltbuerger. New England 30 Middle States... &i South ,r7 West SO Total bolters 1(W Included In above total, 53 German news- DEBT0R AND CREDITOR CLASSES. From a Pamphlet Kntftled "The Silver Sliuka." What has been said about the merits of the question in a philosophical sense is plain nnd seems Bound, but may there not be other reasons why silver should be coined at the ratio of Hi to IV What other reasons can there hp? Well, such reasons us those given with respect lo the debtor class as against the creditor class. Name some. It is said that the country for the post twenty years has been gradually getting into the hands of what is culled the cred itor class, which Is alleged to be a very small proportion of the population, while the greut 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" whnt is called the "life blood" out of the country. Who are these terrible creditors who are doing this'f Name a single class. Well, tbe bnnker and money lenders, for Instance; the "money power," as it is called. Then the country is gradually getting Into the hands of a class of which the banker are the representatives, and these "vampires" are sucking the "life blood" out of the country, crushing the energy out of the people and enslaving them. That is the argument then, is it? Well, you are from Kockford, 111. Ix-t us take the situation right in Kockford. Thnt city, as we understand it, is the second largest fnrnitnre manufacturing place in the world, being next to that of (Jnind Hupids. Now, if what is said about the terrible clas of creditors be true, and If what is said about the uvvl'ul condition of the debtor class be true, the trouble must be ns lippnrent in Kockford o Id any other place in the country, and there the people who have created the wealth, the worker, are gradually he coming the alare of those who simply handle tbe wealth after it is erea'ed, the baukers, for instance. Now. what is the real situation in Kockford? The' number of bankers in that city is. alto gether, thirteen, and the total amount of caDitaf which these thirteen bankers have is S375.1XSJ. The total amount of de posit m thsir backs is $ii,4U0.00u. So tbat these tLirteeci tankers. -ilh a total paying capaciry of but $375,000, ate entrusted with 3.44X,0O0 of other peo ple's money uitb. which to do business in any manner they choose. Upon its face, it would seem that any numlier of men who have a total paying capacity of but S.'175,(ssj must lie of great integrity, uprightness and reliability to lie entrust ed by the very people with whom they live and do business with whom thev tlieir paying capacity, or $3,400,0(10. Who are the people who have entrusted this thirteen with so large a sum of money, so much in excess of tlieir pay ing capacity? Xhey numlier 9,500 in that city of a total population of 30,000. In this case, therefore, who are the debtors? They are undoubtedly the bankers. These thirteen men owe these 9,rs0 depositor $3,400,000. Now, if all that has been said about the rapacity of the creditor class be true, think of the situation in which these de positors have these poor bankers. If all that has been said about: the povertv, the wretchedness and the enslaved con dition of the debtor class be true, think of the miserable plight of these poor bankers. What is true in Rockford must be true of the whole country. The real debtors of the country are bankers, and the real creditors of the country are the depositors, and it is to the credit of the bankers of the United States, as it is to the credit of the bankera of Kockford, that although thev could nei M per cent, on the dollar if the coinage of free silver ut 10 to 1 were made legal, by paying their depositors who have de posited gold at 32 to 1 with them in silver at but 10 to 1, none of the bank ers of the City of Kockford, and but very few of the bankers in the United Mates, who would have so much to gain by the adoption of this free silver lunacy, have advocated this policy, which would enable them at one stroke t0; clear so much money. This brief statement makes it plain that all the vilification which has been bestowed by 1'opulist orators and news papers upon the creditor class of the United States has been emitted because of totally false misapprehension as to who the creditors are, aud it is but u sample of the profound ignorance under lying the whole free silver agitation that they have undertaken to describe us vampires, blood suckers, Shylocks, etc., the great producing classes of this coun try who are its real creditors and who own all the money deposited in tlu banks and upon which bankers do busi ness and upon the borrowing of which ' most of the manufacturing and produc tion of this country is carried on. So that the I'opulists 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 hankers: whereas, the real truth is, the bankers are the debtors and the depositors are the creditors. According to that the I'opulists won't accomplish free silver? Well, there are in the United Slates 0,000.000 depositors in the savings institu tions ol the country, and thev own de posits amounting to about $5,000,000,000. If all the people in the United Slates who can vote, should vote, the total vote cast in a national election would be about 14,000,000; but the largest average national vote cast is about 11..0OO.0O0; hence, the total number of depositors iu savings institutions in this country large ly outnumbers any majority of votes which has ever been cast iu a national election. In the single state of New York there are 1,700,000 depositors in the savings banks of thnt state. They have on de posit $000,000,000. In the state of New Vork there are but about 1,200,000 vot ers; the number of depositors in the sav ings banks of that state exceeds the number of voters in that stale by 500, 000. These figures show the utter im possibility of any such movement as the free 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 question in this country, to the abso lute belief that it would pay them to set tle with the savings institutions- in which their money lies, at 50 cents on the dol lar for every 100 cents on the dollar they have on deposit. From a Manifesto by the Illinois Sound Money democrats. 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 in the rejection of a dis tinguished Democrat as its temporary presiding officer. It deprived a sovereign state of a voice in its deliberations by unseating without cause or legal justification delegates elected with all the regularity known to party organization. It refused to endorse the honesty and fidelity of the present Democratic uu lioii.il administration. It adopted a platform which favors the " free and unlimited coiuage of silver by this country alone at the ratio of 10 to 1, and thereby it repudiated a time-honored Deuiocratic principle which demands the strict maintenance of a sound and. stable national currency. Finally, to make it plainer that, al though in uuine, it was not in fuct a Democratic convention, it nominated for President one who is not in his political convictions, and has not ulways been even iu his professions, a Democrat. Senator I aimer Out. Springfield, 111., July 11. Senator .Tohu M. t'lilnier has come out openly against tht! Chicago platform and nominees Bryan and Sewall. He said today that he personally knows of 500 Democrats in this (Sangamon) county who will not support the ticket, nud he thinks there are twice Unit number who will not. He continued: "No Democrat, so far as I have been informed, will support the I'opulist ticket nominated at Chicago. My own plan is (hut 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 und iu all the counties, in order to preserve the Demo cratic organisation." Having llius stated his view as to the course Unit ought, to be pursued the senator vvuh asked if he thought there was ny danger to be expected from the silvn movement. He replied; "Not a particle. Sir. Bryan will re-, ceive the support of the seuii-l'opulisls, called Democrats, the real I'opulists who are soon to hold a convention in Si, Iouis, aud those fellows out West who have no conscience in hi thin;, but who own the silver uud want to sell it. We will whip tin-in out of their boots. We ought to have fought them a year ngo. and 1 wanted to do it, but the people seemed indisposed to move in tbe mut ter. We will fight them now, however, and give them enough of it. "There is nothing in the platform but 10 to 1, and there is nothing in tbe nomi nee but mouth. He i a good talker, he is a Hue talker, but wbeu that is said il is nil said. At the same time I think he is tbe right sort of man for a conven tion of that character to nominate. Liu suit a gathering of that kind."