Excerpt from Campaign d104-Book of the National Democratic Party: 1896 The preservation of Democratic principles and of the Democratic party demands the rejection Of the platforms adopted by the Silver party at Chicago and St. Louis and of the candidates there put in nomination, whose victory would mean defeat to the Democratic party and disaster to the country which it was organized to serve. This motive has caused the great uprising which the National Demo cratic organization represents. The Populist Democratic representatives of the Chicago and St. Louis platforms can make successful appeal to their hearers only by dis regard of facts, figures and human experiences. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.