Show INSANE FINANCIAL IDEAS A democratic subscriber takes alic salt lake herald to task dot JUNCTION in an editorial commenting upon the recent ohio election in the lake daily herald of this morning oct 28 I find the following significant remark ono good that it has done is the squelching for all time of in banfe financial ideas of western democrats the contest was not upon party principles if the democrats will now abandon their inflation theories and make their fight of 1880 an honest platform tho italics are mine thero is cutill hope that win as ohio properly be longs totham party biow ats ali herald is not pro a political paper and most tamly it is not democratic no surprise need be felt when it is discovered not to be well posted on political affairs that it ia not well up is evident from the statement that at tho late election the contest was not upon party principles if such is the fact perhaps the herald will tell ts readers aliat acro the issues in that contest and while thus its political acumen that paper will probably indicate wherein tho democratic platform upon which the late battle was fought was a platform inasmuch as the democrats as a party have no inflation theories thero would seem to be no such things to abandon by that party had the herald been better informed it would not have fallen into the republican error of charging western democrats with being when they in reality arc only carrying out tho principles of jeu erson jackson and other distinguished democratic Demi cratic leaders in opposing the national banks and seeking to sub greenbacks green backs dollar for dollar jil lieu of the paper of those leeches upon the public purse but it would bo unfair to charge even this upon the entire party seeing eliat a large and influential number of nominal democrats are a unit with the republican party as alio fast frienda of ih Os national banks and aliis is why that venerable patrio told bill akleh waa slaughtered in m wjk and why tom ewing waa beaten two wook ago general jackson squelched a united states bank with half a score of branches less than fifty years ago if the democratic party is true to the principles which leave heretofore been its guide it will within the nex squelch ahe two thousand thou nand beadi and a liun dred thousand tho national banking system this if I am correctly informed is the present mission of the damo cratic party rom which pompy do nat think it will aft driven b dpn enemies or secret fops under the guio of friendship AN ASTI BANK DEMOCRAT |