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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1896
Page
2
The honest money Democrats of Illinois plan to nominate an independent Democratic presidential ticket and an independent Democratic candidate to oppose Altgeld and Tanner. They boast about 70,000 bolting Democrats and vow energetic campaign work as revolts grow in Wisconsin and Indiana.
The Philadelphia Times comments on the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, denouncing it as repudiationist and anarchist. It says William Jennings Bryan is the candidate of this platform and urges patriotic voters to oppose the Chicago repudiators with an overwhelming vote. It warns that national policy questions pale beside this issue.
A rowdy assembly of free silver Senators stormed the Republican convention in Chicago seeking Teller as their idol and a front seat. Teller drew eight votes on two ballots, while Quay mocks the convention as a joke and predicts McKinley’s victory and western gains in a wild west campaign.
The week saw a surge of letters from disgusted Democrats backing McKinley. Daily, delegations visit his office as his “busy day” routine continues with cordial welcomes.
The Chicago convention refused to endorse President Cleveland and his administration. Leaders condemned him in strong terms, underscoring a striking reversal as a Democratic gathering withholds praise for a Democratic president.
Judge W A Galbraith of Erie denounces the Populistic ticket and platform as trash and too old to be involved with it in a marked partisan statement.
The Chicago platform cannot be accepted and the United States must remain democratic. Free silver would be national dishonor and an anachronism as civilization moves toward gold. The call is to unite for defeat of silver and to support William McKinley as the honest money candidate in 1896 with New York as a focal point.
The Cleveland Leader denounces William Jennings Bryan as an ignorant demagogue and a political ash heap, praising McKinley and predicting Bryan’s defeat. The piece contrasts Bryan with Jefferson and Jackson, condemns his rhetoric and Democratic peers, and frames McKinley as inevitable.
The piece argues against free silver coinage at 16 to 1, claiming it would misvalue silver, flood the currency, and drive out gold. It notes the market ratio now runs about 31 to 1, and warns that government mints at the old rate would harm creditors and workers.
The piece explains that a silver dollar is worth about 53 cents in metal, but remains worth a full dollar in commerce when minted. It argues free coinage would flood the market with silver, exhaust the Treasury, and push silver to become the currency, while the gold standard keeps all forms of money at parity.
The Bradford Star declares the election between McKinley and Bryan a clash of protection, prosperity, and patriotism against free trade and industrial or financial collapse.
A collection of editorial quotes from newspapers including Bradford Star Louisville Courier Journal Syracuse Standard Harrisburg Telegraph and St Paul Dispatch criticizing Chicago Democratic platform and leaders. The lines contrast terms like free silver and democracy with alleged corruption and dishonor in party actions.
The Republican party pledges to maintain the gold standard following a St. Louis convention. The gold platform signals a shift against silver and reflects public sentiment pressuring lawmakers. The piece credits sound money with intelligence and honesty, deeming free coinage of silver a dead policy.
In Chicago a populist mob quarrel centers on the gold standard, Democratic policies, debt payments, and the protection of life and property. The piece argues resistance to revolutionary thinking and calls out constitutional trust and lawful order as essential.
Public favorsPennsylvania Railroad conducted tours with experienced chaperones and lowest rates. The northern trip July 21 and August 18 costs 100 dollars round trip from major cities, covering two weeks. Yellowstone Park tour departs August 27 for seventeen days at 200 dollars. Two autumn trips to Gettysburg, Luray Caverns, Natural Bridge, and Richmond are planned.
A new remedy claims to relieve distress from kidney and bladder diseases within six hours. It targets pain in the bladder kidneys and back for both men and women and allegedly cures water retention and urinary pain almost immediately. Sold by Noyes drug store.
Senator Quay resigns as State Chairman. Deputy Attorney Elkins is expected to succeed him.
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