Germans Against Free Silver

The Anzeiger des Westens of St. Louis, leading Germán Democratie paper of the southwest, is disgusted with the free silver plank adopted by the Democratie state convention. It says: "lts authors identify themselves prominently with this 16 to 1 platform as adherents of the 'time honored principies' fornmlated and practiced by Jefferson, Madison, Jackson, Benton and other'great and distinguished Democrats. ' However, he who is in the least acquainted with Democratie history knows that these time honored Democratie principies have nothing in common with the modern Populistic advocates of free silver, and that the 'great and distinguished' Democrats, from Jefferson down to Tilden, were one and all 'sound money men, ' adherents and champions of honest, full value specie, who wonld have fought every attempt at depreciation and at fraudnlent shifting of responsibility as being rascally and criminal. One might as well try to imagine George Washington in the role of the traitor Benedict Arnold as those distingnished Democrats advocates of the proposition for the coinage of 50 cent dollars or compelling the creditors of the nation to take them as payment for 100 cents. 'Old Hickory' Jackson and 'Old Bullion' Benton would have driven from nis threshold with a curse, if not with a lash or horsewhip, any one who wonld have dared to approach him with such a proposition. "