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The Democratic Bolters

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Parent Issue
Day
29
Month
July
Year
1896
Copyright
Public Domain
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The number of individual Demócrata and Democratie papers that hare bolted the Chicago convention and platform is constan tly on the increase. Early last week a list of 80 such papers was published and others have been added sinee then. A few of them support McKinley, but most of them advocate the ealling of another Democratie convention. The list includes 22 southern and 17 western papers, among the latter being the Chicago Chroniele, Abend Post and Staats Zeitung, the Davenport, Iowa, Demoerat, Detroit Free Press, Lansing Journal, LaCrosse, Wis., Chroniele, Milwaukee Journal, .Mirmeapolis Times, St. Paul Globe and St. Louis Anseiger. The list of individual Democrats in Detroit who repudíate the platform and ticket includes such prominent party men as G. V. N. Lothrop and his sons, John G. Hawley, T. P. Hall, Robt. T. Gray, S. L. Smith, Wm. B. Jackson, W. J. Gray, Sidney T. Miller, Postmaster John J. Enright, R. W. Gillett, and many others. Some of their utterancesare quite pointed, asfor instance: John G. Hawley: "I thinkvery badly of the Chicago convention. It violated all the historie traditions of the Democratie party, and went over, body and breeches to the Populists and anarchists." Cyrus G. Lothrop: "I think that I speak the sentimentsof the whole family when I say that we cannot vote the Democratie ticket on the platform adopted at Chicago. We want nothing to do with that crowd or their ruinous policy. I hope to see the Democrats defeated in every state in the union. With the Democrats on a free silver platform I shall be obliged to vote the Republican ticket entirely." Wm. J. Gray: "Neither the candidates nor the platform will do at all. I eannot support either one." Eobert T. Gray: "Get the strongest denuniciation of the platform and ticket that you can find and credit it to me." James D. May: "I don't blame the Free Press f or bolting. Every respectable Democratie paper in the country is doing the same thing." Wm. B. Jackon: "I cannot accept the fallacy of the free silver doctrine in the Democratie party. I cannot vote the Democratie ticket on that basis." S. L. Smith: "I do not think the Democratie platform is sound Democratie principie and I do not purpose to vote for it." Postmaster Enright: "I would not, on such a platform vote, for Th os. Jefferson if among us." T. P. Hall: "The tariff question is not the issue, neither is it the silver craze, for that is but a stone . to something worse, the utter destruction of free institutions. These revolutionists are striking at the very foundations of society. " These local utterances may very properly be supplemented by one f rom Jas. H. Eckles, controller of the currency: "The larger the contribution of Democratie votes to the defeat of the Chicago nominees the better in the end for the Democratie party."

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