Show CONFESS SION the democratic platform adopted in kansas city yesterday and the history of ita making make up a strange con the committee on platform took a vote on the sliver question and decided that silver la dead anen tae the vote and just to fool the people concluded to announce that silver la not dead but simply la a comatose state and then incorporated in the platform a 16 to 1 plank just to please bryan that la playing poll bics tics without regard to principles and yet the democracy has claimed for four years past to have a monopoly of honest purposes in public life when a majority of the members of the committee declared against silver they confessed that they recognized silver to be an impractical scheme and whatever they might do to please bryan cannot change the force of that confession i how must all this appeal to the men of the east four yeara after a campaign in which it was declared that the republican party was wrecking the country by turning the government over to plutocrats the leaders of the democratic party admit that the jc harges were without foundation and 11 their imprecations were but the result of the hallucination that false prophets had conjured up and which a distressed people had in part accepted as an avenue of escape from the miseries that attached to democracy not in platform but in closeted conference admits the blunder of tour years ago but in effect baya we have blundered many times but just listen to us now and we promise to blunder no more please dear peo w pie vote us into office tor we are heavy burdened and cannot keep up this struggle of denunciation of the republican party much longer without ing up the ghost and falling by tho wayside |